Lindsay + Baby Harris on the way!

Just about every time I look at Lindsay's adorable baby bump I can't help but praise the Lord and smile, sometimes I tear up too. You are so faithful, Lord. 


The list of things I ask the Lord daily for is pretty short.  And it has changed over time.  But when Andy and Lindsay expressed their desire for a child and her uncertainty over whether she would be able to conceive,  this request moved to the top of my list.  Hardly a night would pass when Ben and I wouldn't ask the Lord to give Andy and Lindsay a baby right before we fell asleep.

We joined many others in praying for their family and rejoiced with them when we found out she was pregnant...and cried with them when that sweet baby went to be with Jesus before even being born.  After waiting many more months, the Lord gave Andy and Lindsay and sweet, healthy, BOY (another friend for Levi!) and we are so excited!

The Lord has been so good to answer so many prayers on their behalf, and we are all eagerly anticipating little Harris' arrival in a few short weeks!

Definitely one of my favorites...

Look at that face...what a sass :)

 We can't wait to meet you little Harris!

Liam - 3 months

When Christina asked me if I could do Liam's 3 month pictures, I was a little excited...mainly because I knew it meant I would get to snuggle, hold, and play with her chubby, blonde haired, feisty, precious little baby.  Have I mentioned before how much I love babies? I love them.  I told Ben the other day that I think I want ten.  Now I'm thinking twelve.  I'm only half kidding.
It's kind of surreal to grow up with people and then have babies together and know that our kids will probably grow up with each other too.
Anyways, the love in this little family of three is so sweet...enjoy!

One of my favorites...

I love how he's looking at his mommy in this one :)

6 Months

Sweet baby,

You turned 6 months old this week and I'm having a bit of a hard time with it.  6 months sounds much more like an "older" baby than a little newborn, at least to me it does.
I have to say though, you are getting a lot more fun, a lot more sweet, and your daddy and I always talk about how crazy it is that someone so small can be one of our very best friends.  We love you so much it hurts.

Here's what you've been up to lately :

- Almost always chewing on your toes.  It cracks me up how you can just lay on the floor in the living room, eating your toes, and talking to yourself for a really long time.  Totally content, perfectly relaxed.

- Teething. Yikes, this has not been fun.  Fevers, throwing up, and a little bit of grumpiness.  I don't blame ya one bit, buddy.  You're being a trooper.

- Laughing.  One of my favorite things is when you start laughing when you hear me laughing. You have no idea what's going on, but if momma's having a good time, so are you.  I love it.

I can't get enough of you, buddy.  You're the sweetest boy and I can't believe God gave ME the privilege of being your momma.


I love you!

Forsaken

In my Monday night Bible study we are doing a study on the Kings and Prophets of the Old Testament.  This morning I was in 2 Chronicles 12 reading about how Rehoboam and the people forsook God.  Turned their back on him.  Their hearts weren't set to obey him, so they turned to evil.

So God forsook them.
Oh.  It literatly makes my stomach drop to think about what it would be like to be forsaken by God.

Then they humbled themselves and God had mercy on them.  He is so unbelievably compassionate.  The God of a thousand chances.

Then I turned over to read a little bit in Isaiah 53 and this jumped out at me:

"He was despised and forsaken of men."

Forsaken.  Jesus was forsaken.  By us.
And since Jesus is God, it was like I was basically reading the 2 Chronicles story all over again.  There we go, turn our backs on God and rejecting the One who made us.
Man has been forsaking God since the beginning of time.  It's so humbling to be reminded that we love only because He loved first.  We have been going our own way, doing our own thing continuously and we are completely at His mercy to draw our hearts back.

We can't really appreciate the glory of the cross and the resurrection until we recognize how truly lost and depraved we are.

"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.  Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, 

even as the rest. 

But God,

being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus."

Ephesians 2:1-7