Life With Our Little Ladies

Friday, September 8, 2017

I'm Still Here

Ella loves to sing and the new Mandisa album has been playing in our house a lot this summer. I love hearing our sweet little girl belt out the encouraging lyrics that have been a theme song of mine this year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cAo-rFQSZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiWER1d_P0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58IHupiZfz0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xQ6crKIexE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mykl7cFS0cQ

I'm Still Here

by Mandisa

Yesterday

Had me knocked to the ground

Had me down for the count

My faith a million miles away

And I dropped outta sight

This overcomer, lost her

Will to fight

I know it's been a while since

Anybody see me smile and

Shame had me thinking it was

Game over

Thought my best days were gone, yeah

Turns out, that I was wrong 'cause

This is my comeback song, yeah

And by the grace of God

I'm still here

Hope is rising, waking up my soul

I'm still here

All my broken, turning beautiful

'Cause I feel my heartbeat beating

And my lungs breathe breathing

Guess my God's not done with me yet

I'm still here

All my yesterdays are gone

And the best is yet to come

Now I see

There's a reason I survived

There's a story still to write

His grace is working everything

Everything for my good

In a way that, only

He could

I know it's been a while since

Anybody's seen me smile and

Shame had me thinking it was

Game over

Thought my best days were gone, yeah

Turns out, that I was wrong 'cause

This is my comeback song

I'm still here (I'm still here)

Hope is rising, waking up my soul

I'm still here (I'm still here)

All my broken, turning beautiful

'Cause I feel my heart beat beating

And my lungs breathe breathing

Guess my God's not done with me yet (done with me yet)

I'm still here (I'm still here)

All my yesterdays are gone

And the best is yet to come

He lifted me up (He lifted me up)

Out of the pit

All glory to God

I will sing it again

He lifted me up (yeah)

Out of the pit

All glory to God

And the best is yet to come

The best is yet to come

I'm still here (I'm still here)

Hope is rising, waking up my soul (waking up my soul)

I'm still here (I'm still here)

All my broken, turning beautiful

'Cause I feel my heart beat beating

And my lungs breathe breathing

Guess my God's not done with me yet (done with me yet)

'Cause I'm still here (I'm still here)

All my yesterdays are gone

And the best is yet to come

The best is yet to come

July Snapshots

School supply shopping in style

Our girls could seriously be in the bedhead hall of fame!

Juliet was all smiles when she woke up from her nap because her big sisters crawled right into her crib with her.

A journal entry Abby wrote about her trip to Florida

There were a million post vacation/pre birthday party things that needed to get done (like unpacking suitcases or doing those dishes), but then Abby asked me to sit with her and read my book while she read hers. I'm so thankful for these sweet moments.

The look of an excited birthday girl who just got a special birthday surprise in the mail from Grammy and G-Diddy: a whole box of French Macarons!!

Summer afternoons at the library...

Juliet learned how to return the library books.

We jumped on the slime wagon and made our own!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvJ26POVQQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssKyrYbd8X8

Juliet invited over her neighborhood friends over for a pool party.

She kept crawling up on the bench with me and asking me to pray. 😍

babies pushing babies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ecL4GHneo

Abby posed with Alvin before her doctor's appointment.

Everything is perfect when you get to eat a blue popsicle before 8 am.

Abby proudly eating her first gluten free pizza on a lunch date with Daddy!

Juliet's favorite summer activity was letting herself (and Oliver) out the screen door all by herself and hanging out on the deck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY3jdZmh0oA

Abby and Ella had another great year at VBS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg1N_fDPbHU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_56TDv3XWA

Calling Nagymama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szT9TqNTSC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u4cYZugeow

Thursday, September 7, 2017

June Snapshots

It's always a good time when Mr. David comes to visit. The only thing missing was Ms. Anne! Joe and I even enjoyed a date night while the girls played chalk and introduced Mr. David to High School Musical.

Abby had her end of year field day and Joe volunteered!

Abby and Christine were twins.

Juliet is feeling "SO BIG" in her new front facing car seat.

It's a total blessing to have a husband who knows what you need more than you do sometimes. That was the case on my birthday this year. Joe knew I needed to celebrate more than I did. With the trials and adjustments I had been facing in the weeks leading up to my birthday, I was in the mood to let this one slide under the radar, which isn't really like me. But Joe gathered some of our good friends and Cory came up for dinner. I'm still amazed at how everyone rallied like that last minute to make my birthday extra special. I rounded out 31 with some very tangible reminders of just how precious life really is and we celebrated!

Morning walks with Mommy and Ms. Megan

Afternoon chalk and smoothies

First swim and popsicles of the season with friends

Abby had her end of the year Pioneer Girl award ceremony.

After the girls learned that I was the spider in the fifth grade play of Little Miss Muffet, they recreated their own version. 😎

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr7tnqAwKLo

Summer nights were filled with falling asleep in Mom and Dad's bed while reading Magic School Bus chapter books and memorizing facts about U.S. Presidents. I love this sweet sight.