What A Fabulous Life!

Life is FABULOUS!!

Take a peek….

This beautiful weather = outside play!

#notgettinathingdoneinside

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Things I dreamed of when it was so cold = dreams come true!

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Planting greens and strawberries = good eatin’ all summer long!

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Selling the old = blessed with the new!

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Starting foster care for horses = full pastures and loads of fun for the kids!

(Lord willing, the horses will arrive on Wednesday!)

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Beautiful weather = never wanting to go inside again!

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Just too fabulous for words!!!

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The farm is coming alive, and we are having a blast!!

Have a happy Sunday, everyone!!!

My Dad

Today would have been my Dad’s 75th birthday.

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I miss you, Dad.

“Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Cor 15:54,55,57

How Can It Be?

I have astonishing news.

Lane Stevan has lost his first tooth.

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Which must be impossible, because yesterday he looked like this –

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Don’t believe me? Well, here is another one.

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And here, he was melting my heart with those eye lashes.

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And here he was picking and eating strawberries in all of his cuteness. Yesterday.

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Here is some more cuteness, since I am on a roll.

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And then I found out that we were already crazy. Yesterday, that is.

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Mr. Lane, you are not allowed to get any more grown up. Okay?

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Thanks, buddy.

Love, Mom

Our Favorite Gathering Spot

There is nothing more refreshing than a night around a fire.

After an amazing lunch and afternoon at David and Kayla’s, we had our first fire of the season yesterday evening.

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Sitting around our dinner table every night, and around the fire in the summers are where we have listened to, learned, and captured the hearts of our children!

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It was not very warm last night, so Blake enjoyed keeping the fire roaring which burned almost of all the debris the boys had cleaned up.

Eating snacks and running around kept some little people warm too.

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We could hardly pull ourselves away to go to bed!

It was such a gorgeous sunset.

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Tate, I know you can see the same sun and moon that we see here.

Soon, little man, we will be looking at them together.

And we will be listening to your hopes, your dreams, and capturing your heart as well.

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Soon.