Weekend Recap!

This weekend was jam packed and crazy fun! It was dnow weekend at our church and Adam and I along with James led worship for it. It was such a great time of teaching and worship as in I really felt the Lord there. You know He's ALWAYS with us but sometimes He allows us to "feel Him" more and it was like that for me this weekend!

On the last night I got some pictures with some of my friends. They all stayed over night with different groups of girls! I have so much respect for all of these ladies!

It reminded me of one of the last times I stayed over night with girls. This was YEARS ago when Adam was serving at a church in Mississippi and I was tan because I lived in the south ha! As consistent with d-nows you dress up on the last night with your group and we were "gangsters" that year. :)

The speaker was John Blackwell who Adam served on staff with in Mississippi. He loves the Lord so much and was the absolute perfect speaker for the topic of evangelism because he actually lives it out and shares his faith regularly. 

This was the group on Sunday. :)

The neat part about my role in the weekend was that I only had to be there from 5-9ish Thursday through Saturday night and so during the day I got to hang out with the girlies. We got to go to the park on Friday.

And me and the girls invited ourselves to eat with Adam, James, and John for lunch on Friday, we went to this little Mexican restaurant in town and Annabelle wanted her and baby to have their picture taken in this chair. :) She must have remembered that we have done that before. I thought it was cute.

Annabelle has this new obsession with her bathing suit...good thing tomorrow is "Bathing Suit Day" at school. She is going to LOVE that!

It was Earth Day on Saturday and we went to the library to do some crafts. They made butterflies and sun catchers.

And last night right before I left for the concert (which I will have to write about tomorrow) I took this one. Little Adelyn missed her daddy sooo much this weekend. I would say "You missed mommy last night?" and she would say, "No miss daddy." They two are two peas in a pod.

On Thursday night when I was walking into my house I saw the brightest light. It reminded me of the struggle of light and dark and how bright the light is when the dark is so dark. It applied in so many ways in my mind but it was a HUGE word from the Lord to me to pray for the "light to shine in darkness" for D-now weekend. I prayed that for people to see the light for the first time and for sin in people's lives to be exposed including my own and boy did God answer that prayer.

 {I have been studying Ephesians 5. Imitate God. Felt like I could stop and sit there for a week. God has MUCH work to do on my heart. I mean "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect." Wow.}

 {LOVED the message version of Ephesians 5 this week!}

{Such powerful scripture! What spoke to me this time I read it was when Stephen said, "Lord do not charge them with this sin." Are you serious? They were killing him?!}

 {I will show him how much he must suffer for my name. (Jesus speaking about Paul) Acts 9:16}

 {Again, Paul..."I count everything worthless...."}

 {I WILL rest in HOPE}

 {We will not fear}

{My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever. Those who desert him will perish for you destroy those who abandon you. But as for me, how good it is to be near God! I have made the Sovereign Lord my shelter, and I will tell everyone about the wonderful things you do. Psalm 73}

{An e-mail I got from a dear friend that I LOVED}

If the last part is confusing, don't let it be. This blog as always been for me to document what is going on with my family and I haven't had the liberty to always be extremely gut wrenching honest as I would like to be because honestly today I don't feel like it would please the Lord. I feel like sometimes we listen to the enemy tell us not to be honest because it makes us too vulnerable when that is the one things someone needs from us is to just be like "ya I have problems." I would love to explain all that is going on with us one day.....but today is just not the right time.

All that to say, I am in a healing process as I know someone out there is as well, and so how dare I not post what has been such an encouragement to my soul right now in this difficult time for me and my family. 

This past weekend was so wonderful for me in so many ways. Was it hard for the girls to have a different sitter every night and was it physically and emotionally exhausting? Yes!, BUT it was also spiritually uplifting in soooo many ways and I had a blast getting to hang out with the girls and sing my heart out to God this weekend. I literally felt like when I was standing up there singing that I was saying without saying, "MY GOD IS STILL GOD. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND ME! HE IS ENOUGH!" I am very blessed and thankful to have that kind of an opportunity and to serve such an amazing God!

This week we....

Adelyn used playdough as a hat



Annabelle became obsessed w zippers
And we took a walk together







We went to Urgency



Studyied the word.








Took one of our last trips to the water park












Got a new calendar, new pens!, and a new book to read!




Our hanging plant bloomed an orange flower




Wore my Memphis shirt in honor of me and the girls going on Monday!! So excited!




Played with playdough outside a lot!




Found an awesome prayer on pintrest.




Did some crafting



And ate and played at Mcdonalds of course!








Was comforted by God's Word and bible study!

And had an amazing visit with Gigi and GePaw!

Week in Review

 Well, it was just as I suspected... a crazy week. We all managed to make it and actually had lots of fun!!

 Adelyn spent most of the week pretty upset about some teeth she is getting in. It's some of her bottom molars. It looks pretty painful so I don't blame her a bit. I just try my hardest to be patient with the whining!

 I am going to try to do a recap the best I can. :) Monday, we went to the park to have a picnic. It was very hot but we really didn't mind at all. Monday night VBS started! The whole video for VBS can be found here.

 Tuesday, we went to the store after meeting the Kirby Woods team for lunch. This is what happened or I guess I should explain. Adelyn was having a major meltdown and all she wanted to do was to lay on the gross walmart floor so I gave up and I just stood there for what seemed like an eternity to wait for her to get up. It's funny now....not so much then though.

Tuesday night, I decided to take Annabelle with me to VBS because all she could talk about were the puppets all day long since she saw them on Sunday. She had a blast and so she came with me the rest of the week. So fun! I couldn't believe the forecast this past few weeks and especially this week. The weather has been wonderful. Just perfect in my opinion!

 Wednesday, we tried to chill at home and color. Annabelle is working hard on her "A's."

 And I just could not get over how big she looked in this outfit. I guess it was the jeans but she just looked so grown up!

I have been thinking about taking down our baby gate. The only problem is that our stairs are sooo tall, if one of the girls was to fall all the way down them they would most probably get really hurt. I took this video of them playing on the stairs. They just love it! Later in the week, Annabelle pushed Adelyn down the stairs so needless to say, the gate is back up.

 Again, Annabelle had the time of her life. I can't wait until she is really old enough to go!

  

Wednesday night after VBS, we had SUMMER JAM for the youth group. This was my view from the stage. I had the chance to lead worship again, something I haven't done since the Purity Event. 

I was overwhelmed with emotion and so thankful for the opportunity. I miss leading worship so much but I know I am doing the right things but not doing it right now. I cannot wait to sit and write about all the things I have learned from this season.

 Thursday was the last night of VBS and we were pooped but Friday was my birthday!! YAH!! I got this message from my dad on my birthday and it was so precious to me and I took a picture of it with my phone and had to post it to remember. Sweet memory and sweet birthday this year.

 On Saturday, I ran in the Marysville 5k for pediatric brain tumors. It was so fun. My friend Brandy has gotten me back into running and I am so thankful. I forgot how much I like it! I also thoroughly enjoyed the race setting. I so desire for my focus all to be on Him and it's hard for me with races. Idk. I looked up lots of verses on running that morning in the bible my favorite being Hebrews 12:, "Let us throw off everything that hinders us and the sin that so easily entangles us and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." I decided running is an awesome picture of perseverance in life. I'm still processing this...more to come...

 After the race we ran by the Westbrooks to look at their new beginnings to a patio and Adelyn decided to swing. She is still in her pjs (from daddy keeping her :) ) but she looked so adorable and big! How did my baby get so big so fast!!

 

This morning the girls actually walked into church by themselves and I had to snap a picture. This is a first ya'll!! After I looked at the picture, I realized it was hilarious. Annabelle insisted on having bows on both sides of her hair (which in my opinion look ridiculous but I was trying to not fight an unnecessary battle this morning.) Adelyn has two cereal bars in her hand because she simply cannot have just one of anything food wise. haha! The memories....

 

Tonight we spent some good time as a family soaking up the beautiful weather on our new patio (post to come I promise) and watching the girls swim! What a fun and busy week. This week is definitely more relaxed and I am so thankful for some rest.