My boys

Casey Girl

It’s been forever since I’ve been on here!  I downloaded a few pics and wanted to share a few. We love our puppy!

Snow!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. We sure did! We have been enjoying snow.  Blizzard 2012, although it wasn’t as crazy as the boys hoped it would be!

Snow pics are the best, so here are some of my favorites!

I love being outside with them in the snow.  I also love being inside warm in cozy under blankets with hot chocolate.  Chad has been off all week, so it’s been a nice and lazy time together.

Have a lovely weekend!

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Boys at our co-op Christmas party

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Enjoying December

Bobby Pell preaching

Mom and Dad

I’m planning a 50th anniversary for these two special people.

Ninjas and Camping

My boys dressed up as Ninjas for Halloween.  Here they are outside the co-op party we had.  I kept teasing them to smile.

Here they are while we were camping.  I think it’s funny because the background looks fake!

This was definitely the most fun we’ve had on a Halloween camping trip.  Chad’s dad and several friends were there.  Many wonderful memories made there.

We shone the Light of Jesus with our sign Chad made, and also with tagged suckers and tracts.  Fun times.

Grace by Max Lucado

Grace. It’s God’s greatest idea.
It truly is more than I deserve. And it’s greater than I can imagine.

Let me say that I’m so very thankful I chose this book to review. Truly one I know was picked out, if not written just for me. It arrived right before we left for Virginia Beach. I never could read anything while traveling, but I read this entire book while on the road. Maybe it’s because I’m getting old. Or maybe because it was that good!

I think Chad heard two-thirds of the book because I repeated about everything I read. Max Lucado has a unique style of writing. He is very relaxed in his writing. It’s as if he and I were having a conversation over a cup of hot tea.

So grace. Did I really understand it? I don’t think I did quite like this. I’m not sure I still quite understand it all. But I accept it, and I have been changed by it. I’m changed every day by God’s grace. Although I could quote the whole book, here’s one example in the chapter “Heaven:Guaranteed”. Jesus is speaking to His disciples on the night before he died. This is Lucado’s translation:
Your fall will be great, buy my grace will be greater. Stumble, I will catch you. Scatter, I will gather you. Turn away from me, I will turn toward you. You’ll find me waiting for you in Galilee. (Matt. 26:31-32).
And this one because I had written “wow” beside it:
To live as God’s child is to know, at this very instant, that you are loved by Your Maker not because you try to please Him and succeed, or fail to please Him and apologize, but because He wants to be your Father. Nothing more. All your efforts to win His affection are unnecessary. All your fears of losing His affection are needless. You can no more make Him want you than you can convince Him to abandon you. The adoption is irreversible. You have a place at His table.

So yes, it’s a book you need to get and read. Today!

This book was provided to me free of charge from Booksneeze In exchange for an honest review.