The Envy of Eve by Melissa Kruger

I just finished reading The Envy of Eve by Melissa Kruger.  I highly recommend this book as it speaks directly to the fact that our hearts are deceptive and so easily swayed.  "The more we seek our treasure outside of Christ, the more we falsely believe that God is lacking in His goodness to us.  Essentially, our coveting accuses God of a failure to reign well over the events in our lives."

This book has encouraged me to take a deeper look at the affections of my heart.  What do I run to in order to find happiness or peace and joy.  I was recently on Facebook and a friend had posted pictures of her brand new beautiful house and the thought that crossed my mind was, "wow, when I get a new house then I will really be happy, or my kids will be less annoying because they will have more space to run around and be loud and ...(fill in the blank).  Facebook, blogs, Instagram are great things and i enjoy using them,  but I find if I am not careful even those fun ways of sharing our lives with one another can become deceiving when I start to look around and pick out all the great things I see other people doing via snapshots on Facebook and wonder why my life is not adding up to a bunch of perfect snapshots! The enemy can lie to us using all kinds of good things and cause us to be discontent with where the Lord has us.  I am learning I need to be on my guard and be ever so THANKFUL for how the Lord has blessed me way beyond what we deserve!  

Read it for yourself and see what the Lord may want to reveal in your own heart!

Super Hero GIrl

She's a super hero as of late (always wanting to be just like her  brother)

Little super hero girl got tired while she watched her brother do his cool new math book.

I am glad to see February go, it's always my least favorite month with what seems like endless, cold dark days and Spring is just around the corner teasing us. Every year I wonder if we will ever see Spring

Smile

Hannah in the Day girl dress

Hannah got to wear the Day Girl Dress that all us Day girls have worn at three months.  I sent some of these to Kelli and she made them look Beautiful (but I can't copy them off shutterfly so you get these) and now Grace and Hannah have a pic of them in it hanging in their room, sweet girls

http://lisaulrich.blogspot.com/2010/11/3-months-old.html

I'm Back

Well let's see, December came and went and January is about over. So i figured it's about time to catch up and blog again. I think I got a bit overwhelmed with all the pictures we have taken and the activities going on, I didn't know what to share so I just stayed away.  Here's some of our latest...

 Hannah is a four month old doll. Her and I have gotten on a good schedule and she's sleeping through the night which has dramatically changed our lives for the better! :)  She's just been a blessing to have and snuggle up with this winter

Here she is snacking on chips with dad.  

Speaking of Brian has continued to work hard. How thankful I am for this man!

 Sweet Gracie girl, she is our beautiful mess and can often be found playing quietly by herself. 

Saturday morning eggs and pancakes has become a regular thing as of late. They get to eat their breakfast and watch the HooplaKidz nursery rhyme playlist on youtube.  Check it out. I like it too!

My oldest little superhero.  Four years old and very smart, ALWAYS eager to learn and try new things.  I'm trying to keep up with him.  He and I play at least 4 games of Memory, Trouble, Candyland and Chutes and Ladders daily and then theres Go Fish and Checkers....I'm thankful I enjoy games as well. My family probably remembers me walking around the house trying to get someone, anyone to play some game with me! Thank you mom, you were usually the only one who would almost always say YES to me :) Your willingness to play with me when I was young has helped me say "yes" more often to Josiah. 

I am one blessed Mamma trying hard to enjoy this season of young children at home and soak in their little years as much as I possibly can.  I'm thankful for this stage of life and the friends I have been given in Spokane, although I can't say enough how terribly sad it is for me to live far away from my family.

Winter Skills

Joey learns some valuable skills

so that we can sit around and enjoy fires like this.

Gracie Girl

Gracie is two and she is quite the talker. Often she's just chatting and we have no idea what she's saying   She's a little smartie girl too and actually can name all the letters.  Here's her cute little voice saying some letters.