Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Happy 4th Birthday, Kyla!


We celebrated Kyla's 4th birthday this past Saturday with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins! What a blessing Kyla has been to our family. She is becoming a very thoughtful, compassionate young girl who cares so much for her sister and loves her mommy, daddy, and God very much. She loves crafts and painting so that's what we did on this very unusually warm February day.


Little Picaso at work.


Cousin Ian is 7 months old!


Avery is enjoying some juice and smiling for the camera
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Aunt Charlotte playing with Kyla


Kicking back at her party


Look at the beautiful butterfly Aunt Charlotte painted for Kyla's room
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Grandpa Davis (Grey) gives Kyla a beautiful gold cross necklace for her birthday.


"Now I'm feeling the effects of no nap today!"


"Happy Birthday to you!"
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"Make a wish!"


Keep blowing...


...and blowing...
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...and blowing...(this must be a trick candle!)


Kyla said, "here Avery, you can open this one and I'll open this one."


Aunt Rosie and Uncle Jonathan gave Kyla a stamp set and a playdough set.
Thanks! Kyla has been playing with them a lot!


And Ian is crawling now!
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day, Peter!



Happy Valentine's Day to the love of my life..

You are the most amazing man in the world. You care about me and love me with such a deep, selfless love. Always putting me and the girls before yourself. Always loving, always patient and kind...always eager to listen. You have stretched me in ways I never thought I could stretch and you have encouraged me to run after my dreams.

I am so in love with you and attracted to you!
I'm so delighted that you asked me 10 years ago to go on a date!
What an adventurous 10 years it has been!

(Doesn't he look like a model? :-))

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Wednesday, February 13, 2008


Pete already beat me to posting this up, but I wanted to show off what he made me for Christmas! This is a jewelry box that he made all by himself for me and it is my most treasured gift yet from him.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Pete's photography


Pete took these gorgeous pictures of Kyla this afternoon with the sunset
rays coming in through the window in our bedroom. I thought these pictures
were so precious and they capture so much Kyla's sweet personality.
She is becoming quite a compassionate and thoughtful little girl these days :-)


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Saturday, February 02, 2008


kyla meets her baby sister, Avery Elizabeth, for the
first time.

I love this picture!
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AWE

We are just so in awe of how God is providing for us to move to the Philippines in order serve the women, infants, and people in Davao! He has provided over $160 in monthly pledges and over $2000 in special gifts for this mission. He is continuing to show us His amazing faithfulness through our church too! This month we will meet with a missions committee as they pray about the possibility of supporting us with $7,000 a year! The pastor we talked to told us it was very likely, and now we are just praying for God's will to happen.

Also, we have seen Avery go from being underweight with severe eczema, to growing well and having 95% of her eczema disappear. I remember praying and asking God that if He wanted us to move to the Philippines this summer, to please heal our little Avery. He answered that prayer and continues to give us all we need from day to day. His provision amazes me and I am in awe of His love for us. It makes me want to cry when I think about how good He is to us. I am very humbled through all of this because we have done absolutely nothing to deserve this type of provision. It is all because of His amazing love and incredible, unending grace.

Please pray for our church to support us and also pray for more pledges to come in so we will have a better idea by the end of February if we will be moving to the Philippines this summer or next summer. Thank you!