A Sacred Marriage

Brian and I took a marriage course last semester taught by our Sunday School teacher (who is also Brian's boss) and his wife. It was amazing! We went through the book "Intimate Encounters" by David and Teresa Ferguson and I strongly suggest everyone read it! It's a wonderful study!! Since the class, we have been going through this new book "Devotions for a Sacred Marriage". It is a really good book and it seems to follow in line with the study we did! It's just one devotion, each week, for a year. I know most of you probably don't have the time to go through a book, so I wanted to share with you each week what its about! These are also great principles for our relationships with people in general, not just our spouse! We just want to share our journey through this book with you-

WEEK ONE:

The God-Centered Spouse

Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. 2 Corinthians 7:1

This week talks about being a "God -centered spouse" vs. a "spouse- centered spouse". "A spouse- centered spouse acts nicely toward his/her spouse when they act nicely toward them. They will be romantic with each other as long as they are rewarded for doing so. They go out of their way for each other as long as they remain agreeable and affectionate. A God-centered spouse feels motivated by their commitment to God rather than by whatever response a spouse may give. We are called to love our spouses out of "reverence for God". Someone else's sin- even the sin of my spouse against me- never gives me the license to respond with sin."

"In one sense, what my spouse says or does or doesn't do is almost irrelevant. Every decision I make, every work I utter, every thought I think, is to flow out of one holy motivation : reverence for God."

"Everyone married a sinner and we need to love everyday in spite of the decisions made by those around us. Thankfully God has chosen to love us everyday in spite of our poor choices! "

Ask yourself, "Are you a God-centered spouse?" May we love the people God has placed in our lives as much as he loves us :)

Ridin' Dangerously

Henry has been very sick the last week with pneumonia!! :( It was a rough few days to get through but we are so happy that he is finally feeling much better!! Thank you Jesus for healing us!! So we had been locked up in our house for what seemed like forever, so I decided we needed a walk! We take Hen on walks now in his birthday car from NaNaw and PawPaw and he loves it! This time however he decided to drag his feet the whole way. I kept putting them back in the car, but he would get mad and stick them out again. He thinks it so funny to be able to touch the ground :)

The culprit... :)

He ripped a whole completely through his sock and made his food bleed!

He didn't even care, he just kept dragging it until we got home. Crazy boy!

Michael Phelps look out!!

We started swim lessons last week! He loves it!

Henry with his buddy Luke!
I like Henrys face in this pic...zoom in :)

We also went to music class on Friday for the first time!

He didn't really know what to think about it...little did I know he was starting to get sick :(

We watched Luke for Tam the other day while she was a little under the weather :)

They ate their snacks at his new table!!

a year later...

These are our family pictures from last January 2009!

It's amazing to see how fast the year has gone and how much Henry has changed!

These are our new family pictures!

They turned out great! We have such a beautiful boy!!

Book Worm :)

Henry has just started LOVING books!

He goes and gets them during the day and at night he brings them to the rocking chair :)

I was in the kitchen the other day and went in his room to find him and he was reading a book on the floor....too cute!

Our good friends!!!

I love the way Henry and Harper are looking at each other :)

His new thing is taking showers-He loves them!!

When Brian or I take a shower he has to get in too and if not, he hits the shower door and cries until you put him in!!

This is him deciding he needs one while mom is getting ready :)

The last few weeks......

It has been a few weeks since the last post. We were out of town for a while, and then our internet stopped working :( Anyway, there are a bunch of pictures to sum up the last few weeks for us. We had a wonderful Christmas in both Oklahoma and Colorado!! It was so great to get to spend time with our families!

These are the Christmas cookies Brian and I made for his co-workers!

Henry opening presents at NaNaw and Pawpaw's house!


Thanks so much for everything!
We had such a great time!!



Henry's first time to see snow in Denver!!

We took him to an indoor water park down the road from my grandma's house.

All bundled up to go outside!
We took him to the pet store this day to play with the puppies!
He loved it!! (almost as much as mom :)

He loves his Uncle Charlie!! He let him watch Christmas movies on his computer :)



Henry pushing his cousin Charlotte!

Such a gentleman :)

Henry & mom with Aunt Justine

In his Christmas p.j.'s

His 1st bubble bath at Maw Maws!

We finally got his 1 year plate in! We are going to try to do one every year-

Such a beautiful artist!

Helping dad put his toys together :)

We took him to see the lights last night with our friends and their kids. He LOVED it!!

Happy New Year!!