Walking On Water

Last week, our cell leader, Greg, talked about what God had spoken to him about the story of Peter walking on the water with Jesus in Matthew 14:22-33. It was stormy when this took place. When we are walking through life's storms, we need to be careful to keep our eyes on Jesus. When Peter saw the wind, he began to sink. Likewise, when we take our eyes off Jesus, or when we sin, we start to sink. We don't go immediately plunging all the way under the water, but that's when the sinking begins. Then Greg asked a question that has stuck with me, "Where is the water level in your life?" Am I ankle-deep, waist-deep, or up to my neck in sin? A Christian speaker, John Piper, said, "Resolve to find every known sin in your life. When we have darkness (sin) we're not walking in the light." When Peter began to sink, he cried out and Jesus immediately came into his situation. The wind was still blowing until they got back into the boat. Jesus will come to us, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the storm is immediately over...we just may not notice it as much with our eyes on Him. Hebrews 12:2 "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith..." Just some thoughts and encouragement for you all as you start a new week!

New York Freeze

I would LOVE to do something like this!

Wordless Wednesday: America's Next Top Model

Rice Cereal Attempt #1

Yesterday, at 5 1/2 months old, Kiera tried rice cereal for the first time. I was really looking forward to it because then I'm not the one who always has to feed her. Unfortunately, she really didn't like it. I guess it doesn't taste like breast milk. I will keep trying and hopefully she will acquire a taste for it. I can't breast feed her forever, so she's going to have to like other foods eventually. In the meantime, we got a hilarious video and some pictures that wonderfully captured her disgust.



You're going to try to make me eat WHAT?!


















Yuck, this is awful!


















Mommy, what are you doing to me?

Lots of Giggles

This is Kiera with her Grandpa G (my dad)...he's such a great grandpa! He turns into a big pile of mush when she's around! :)

Week-end Update

Hi! I'm back. Last week, nothing extremely exciting happened, so I didn't really have anything to post about. Our week-end was very busy, so I finally have time to post again today. On Saturday night, we had a couple over (Ken + Kathy) from our church for a barbecue. They brought oreo cheesecake which Ken had made and it was delicious! They also brought their Nintendo Wii which was a lot of fun! My arms were still quite sore 2 days later from "boxing" with Jared. He kicked my butt, although I did knock him down a couple of times. He said it was the only time he could ever get away with beating me up (ha ha). On Sunday was Kiera's baby dedication at our church and we were very blessed to have a bunch of family come to that. We had a big pizza party at our house after church which was great. I made a butter pecan cake with cream cheese icing (mmmm) and thankfully it turned out well. I tried to post videos of her dedication, but for some reason it's not working, so I may try again another day. Here's a picture of Kiera with her granny (June, Jared's stepmom)



















She looks sad, but she was actually just sleepy because she had just woken up from a nap. She missed most of the party and the yummy pizza, but I don't think she realized that, so she was none the worse. It was a wonderful week-end!

Basically Wordless Wednesday

This is a picture I took of one of the flowers in a bouquet that Jared gave me when we were dating