snow snow and more snow!


Well it wasn't over after our miraculous white Christmas!!
We got LOTS more snow on Friday!!
it snowed for like 4 hours...
which, when you are from Texas, and live in Oklahoma...is a BIG deal. :)

Parker came home at lunch time to play with his girls in the snow...
we had so much fun.
COLD fun!
brrrrr..

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(getting warmed up...)

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hope y'all are having a beautiful and cozy weekend!

PS.
I cannot wait for the New Year.
Lots of desires, prayers and goals that I am looking forward to...
so so excited and cant wait to be sharing more on this blog.
come back on the 1st for a few changes around here!


a glimpse from our celebrations!


Abigail's birthday (on Christmas Eve), and Christmas came and left so quickly.
Feels even more that way with little ones I think...it's just all over too fast!
But we had a fantastic and special few days...
thought I'd share our holiday in pictures!!

starting with celebrating our girl turning 3 on Christmas Eve...

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Christmas!
(Bethany's first!)

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and guess what? It SNOWED on Christmas!
truly Christmas miracle here in Oklahoma! :)

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We also got to go have Christmas dinner with Parker's extended family here in Oklahoma...
about 25 people there and it was so much fun!

Hope y'all had a blessed time celebrating the birth of our Savior and spending time
with family and friends!
Thankful for y'all!!

touching Jesus

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My wish for you today is that you would touch Jesus.

Touching is an intimate thing, an act that requires close contact.
It requires that you be in near vicinity as the other person.
It means that you are actively reaching for something or someone.
That you are desiring for your sense of touch to be activated...
to feel something.

To feel how it moves, it's texture, it's depth.
To feel the closeness of it to you.

I pray today that you would touch and feel the closeness of Jesus.

He is why I am here.
He is why we are here.
He is why we have love.
He is why we are forgiven.
He is why we can live in freedom.
He is perfection personified, so that we don't have to be perfect.
He is REAL.

And He feels real when you touch Him.
He feels soft and gentle and intimately involved with you.
He feels so loving and powerful all at once.
I have felt this grace, this love, this power.
And will not ever forget that feeling.

These things are not just talk,
they are power.
They are beautifully true and real.

Touching Jesus doesn't have anything to do with duty or performance or religion.
It flows simply out of your heart's desire to be close to someone.
So I pray today that you would realize that there is someone who desires to touch you.
To feel close to you.
To know you intimately.

That's why He came...
To love YOU.

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Merry Christmas friends,
Blessings to you and yours today!



three!

Abigail Joy.
You are three today, which takes my breath away.
YOU take my breath away, sweet girl.
I can't believe it's been three years since that snowy Christmas Eve, 
when we got to welcome you into this world. 
That was my favorite day ever.

All 6 pounds and 13 ounces of you was already just full of life.
Full of compassion, of creativity, of sass, of sweetness, of spunkiness, of drama, and of love.
You changed my life that day when you made me a Mama.

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I can't believe that the tiny baby who it seems I was just swaddling and nursing constantly,
I am now having conversations with (funny ones sometimes), 
and am watching you grow daily into a beautiful little girl.
While you consider yourself such a "big girl", and you are my dear, 
You will always be my baby.
My precious Bug.

I delight in you, Abigail. You bring me so much joy. 
Your name is so perfect for you, as it means "the Father's Joy"...which you truly ARE.
and YOU are full of joy.
What a gift that is to witness.

I am honored to be your Mama.
I am SO excited you are THREE today!
what a big day.

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Happy Birthday Bug!!!!

nails did

this morning,
we got our nails did.

well, mama did our nails.

I love spending girly time with this one, while the baby sleeps.
I am seriously in love with being a girl mommy!

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Hope y'all have a fantastic Friday and weekend before Christmas!
Remember to try and take deep breaths this weekend amidst the last minute hustle and bustle.
Maybe just stop and get your nails did...it'll do you good I promise. :)