Happy First Birthday to our sweet Hannah Joy

Our baby girl is one year old today

Love these three babies!

Photos taken by Christi Briggs

(we love her!)

Weekend at Hayden Lake

We left baby Hannah Bear with Grandpa and Nana for two nights while we took the older two and got away with our friends at their lake cabin.  So fun to have this time away to boat and swim before our weather starts to seriously cool down.

A visit from Grandpa and Nana

We just love having Grandpa and Nana come visit us!

What a great week...

Gracie even got another extension of her third birthday to celebrate with her Grandpa and Nana. 

Last Summer Days

Our last few days of summer are upon us, the last few days we can all sense a change in the air, Fall is quickly approaching, ready or not!  We are soaking up the warmth and Grandpa and Nana just arrived for a few days to play with us and then we head out to PA in September to visit family.

Hannah is learning to stand - it's rediculously cute!

These two are managing to get nice and dirty lately.  I love hot summer days when kids finally come inside for the night after a long and very fun day outside.  This has actually been a more sickly summer for us with fevers and strep throat illnesses, so here's to a healthy fall season!

 we'll be back in a month!

Gracie is 3 Years Old

Today we celebrated our Gracie Girl turning 3!  

What fun to see Grace grow, and really hard to believe it has been three years since this little beauty joined our family.  We Love You Gracie!!

It will be fun to look back and tell her about how she had 7 boys at her third birthday, no girls, just a bunch of  boys, she loved it!

We Went Camping Again

I LOVE camping in WA!!

overlook at Farrgut State Park in Idaho

Wine while camping is sure a fun idea (thanks for thinking of wine glasses Jessi!)

8 Years

Happy 8 Year Anniversary to us!

"God cares about the little moments of your life because life mostly consists of the 'little moments'; therefore, the character of your marriage will be defined by how you respond and make use of little moments." 

We are currently involved in a 10 week marriage class by Paul David Tripp and he shares (video format) from his book "What did you Expect" and it has been eye opening and humbling.  We are striving to take our cues in life from God's Word and not the world.  A major theme has been "I am my greatest marriage problem".  Thinking on that and learning that our marriage problems are most often first problems within our own hearts before they are behavior or communication problems has been a game changer for us.  We have been through a lot together, good and bad.  To think about what the next eight years may have in store for us is exciting.  We will continue to fight for our marriage and love one another all because Christ first loved us.

"For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised." 2 Corinthians 5:14,15