Showing posts with label one thousand gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label one thousand gifts. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2011

Spring is Springing!

Well, I almost titled this entry Spring Has Sprung, but given the dreary, wet, nasty, and cold day we are having today, I changed my mind.  This past weekend however, was GORGEOUS! 

We were able to get out and enjoy it yesterday after a busy day on Saturday.

Saturday we cheered our Rangers on to their Regional victories!  Can't wait until Semi-State this weekend.  The kids have really enjoyed following them this year.  So proud to be a part of Ranger Nation!  Jacob talks about a few of the players as if they're his school friends.  He was outside shooting baskets yesterday and told me that he'd made SO MANY 3-pointers.  I asked him how he does that and he said, "I guess I am just really good!"  He's modest too, can you tell?

Took the kids to the State Forest on Sunday... the kids on their bikes and Anden in his stroller. 



We spent Sunday afternoon picking up limbs out of the yard and the field behind the house from the dozer-work we had done late last fall.  The grass is beginning to green up, the spring flowers are peaking out from the soil, and some have even started blooming!  Such a pretty day!


Here's Kaylee & Jacob having a little 4-wheeler fun in the field behind the house.


Jesse & Anden in the tractor.  Anden loves it so much...
Gets to ride in a tractor AND hang out with dad. 


Looking forward to Spring Break next week!

16.  Seeing the first red robin each year.
20.  First Communion dress shopping with Kaylee.
23.  Birthday parties.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

One Thousand Gifts

I've started reading a new book:

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are.



It's written by Ann Voskamp. She challenges her readers to make a Gift List... not of the gifts we want, but of the gifts we already have... and not just a few, but a thousand!  I'm just beginning to embark on this quest of finding 1,000 God-Given Gifts.  I'm excited to see what sorts of things I come up with that I would normally overlook and pass by without a second thought.  For now, I'm keeping my list in a separate journal, but I'm sure I'll share a few here as I go.  So for example, if you see something such as,

#267~ Disposable diapers

with no other explanation, you'll know what it is.  Can disposable diapers be considered a God-Given Gift?  Hmmm... whether they are or not, I'm sure thankful for them!