Back from my hiatus

Alright, I finally found some time to sit down and get caught up on the blog.  We’ve been keeping pretty busy these past couple of weeks.  Before I begin, I have to put this picture of Tommy in first.  Peyton wanted Tommy to play with her one day…

Princess Tommy

 So, I went for my weekend Walk To Emmaus!  I can’t really share too many details with you about what happened there.  It was definitely an awesome experience and I would do it again if I could.  I can’t wait to be able to sponsor somebody to go and to also serve on a Walk.  I will share a couple of things that I got from the walk.  The first thing that I realized was that I had never really forgiven myself and accepted God’s grace for the past.  That was a big thing for me, and I feel a ton lighter these days now that I’ve dealt with it   I also finally learned what true agape love is (since I was pretty clueless about it before my walk).  The last thing that I learned was that Josh is quite capable of handling both girls for a weekend  

Like I said, we’ve been keeping pretty busy.  Amanda’s daughter, Abbie, had her first tee ball game a couple of weeks ago.  Here are a couple of pictures that I got of the girls.

Hanging out

 

Playing Catch with Brent

We decided to celebrate Lily’s birthday with Amanda and Dan, the Sunday before it actually happened.  We didn’t do too much.  I made a cake and we went over to their house for dinner and had some cake and ice cream afterwards.  Here are some pictures.

The Birthday Girl

 

 

hmm...this isn't my cake

I’m not exactly sure when this one was taken… I think some people (Daddy) were being pretty sneaky with the frosting.

Being sneaky...

Here is a picture of the cake.

Here is the before picture:

Waiting patiently...

The strategic move:

The aftermath:

That was yummy!

Then on her real birthday, I made some cupcakes to have after dinner.

I know what to do with this

Here is Lily enjoying her birthday gift from Grandma and Grandpa Bound:

I think that pretty much brings everybody up to speed on what we’ve been up to lately.  Now that things are getting back to normal around here, I should be updating the blog more regularly.