This is Sitting, This is Standing......

.......Just like Bob the Tomato (sorry for those of you who are not Veggie Tales fans.....you should really watch them at least once). Ok...and a little crawling in between.

I thought I would share some pictures of Sadie Beth in all of her most recent positions. She is not staying in one place for very long these days (which is making it difficult on Mommy to pack and move in less than a week).

Locked up in the hall with Mili while Mommy is hard at work (ok....taking pictures but what did you expect.....the camera is always ready to be used and abused).



Always cheering on big sis!!!

Our next to last visit to the play yard at the mall (we will probably eat there one last time on Friday night before we leave on Saturday morning EARLY to drive to Arkansas).

More hallway time.

Sadie laughs the whole time Mili is calling her to come to her. It is so sweet! Music to my ears!

Mili is making Sadie chase her. Too Cute!!

We have some really big drum fans in our house. When we house hunt maybe we should go ahead and request a sound proof room. (Thanks Mr. Mike...the drummer at our church.....our girls LOVE him).

This looks more like a surfer. That is a hog on her shirt for you Razorback fans.

Let me OUT!!!

My girls with glass between them. They had so much fun laughing at each other through the glass at the play yard at the mall.


I hope to post pictures of Mili "helping" us pack soon.

Love to ALL and will see many of you SOON (one week).

WALK the TALK!!!

Tom Davis is an author of several books (Red Letters, I am reading now and you will hear more about later) and CEO of Children's HopeChest. I have mentioned him many times on this blog. He wrote an article on beliefnet that is something that could have come straight out of my mouth in fact, I have said some similar things to friends and on my blog recently. You see, I was one of those Christians that SUCK (you read that right). We are SO hypocritical in the churches today. I am very sad to say that this article described me perfectly just a few months ago. I hope that now I am starting to live a life that matters to my "neighbors" and to Jesus. We are so good at the TALK but very seldom follow through with the WALK. Let us make our ACTIONS show the world we LOVE Jesus AND our neighbors who are hurting, lonely and sick, instead of just using our words that never really amount to much in the end! Jesus SHOWED people He cared, He didn't just talk to them or at them.

Please read the article above and visit Tom Davis' website often to see how you can help.

Sadie's Baby Dedication

We don't believe in baptizing babies, however we do believe in dedicating them or us as parents to raise them to LOVE the Lord with all their hearts. We dedicated Sadie on June 29, 2008. It was a bittersweet day for us since we know we have to leave this wonderful church family. We know that our church will still be praying for our family way after we have gone from here. I can't even express in words what these people mean to us. I am tearing up right now thinking about it. It is going to be extremely difficult to leave our only "family" we have had here.




Mili couldn't wait to stand with Mommy and Daddy on the Big Stage.



The church body recites what is on the screen in this picture.


I am a blubbering mess after a hug and kiss on the cheek from PT (Pastor Tim). He is going to be out of town on our last Sunday and so I had to say goodbye to him this last Sunday. NOT EASY at all!!!! Mili didn't want to leave the stage, she wanted to stay and clap with everyone else. She was amazing on stage....the best three year old I could ask for.

We hope to raise both of our girls to LOVE Jesus with every ounce in them. We hope to model that for them but fail so many times. I hope that we can let them know when we fail so that they know not to follow that path and learn from our mistakes. My prayer is always that they would love Jesus more than we do and their children will love Jesus more than they do.

We LOVE LOVE LOVE our sweet church family who has been our FAMILY here. You will see another post about this family at some point when I have more time and am maybe not so emotional (yeah right).

For the Soldiers

Dear Soldiers (in the US and over seas),

You don't know me nor do I know you but I LOVE YOU!!! Thank you for putting your lives in danger (and many of you losing your lives) so my family can be free. Thank you for putting your lives in harms way so I can worship my Heavenly Father with freedom. Thank you for making the United States of America the best place in the world to grow up and raise my family. Thank you for the freedom to stand for what I believe is right. Thank you for the safety I feel when I am out taking care of my daily tasks. Thank you for leaving your spouses, children, parents, girlfriends or boyfriends to fight for freedoms that are definitely not FREE, not knowing if you will return. Your bravery inspires me!!!

I am grateful for your sacrifice and wanted you to know it. Again I LOVE YOU and I don't even know you!!! THANK YOU!!!

Love,
Alice

What will you do about this......?????

I saw this video on Angel's blog and thought it was worthy of watching. Please take a moment and watch this video, it will make you think but please don't let it JUST make you think. Let's take some action....