Easter 2011

"Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:4-5









It struck me this morning at church how ironic Easter Sunday is. Everyone is all dressed up fancier than normal - putting on the new Easter dress or shoes or bonnet...The ironic thing is that in Easter, we are celebrating Christ's death on our behalf and His resurrection. We are saying " I am so deep in sin that Jesus had to die for me." We rejoice that He loves us so deeply that He did die for us, but if we weren't so bad off we wouldn't have needed it. I have been thankful this weekend to know that He has in deed born our sin and He is in deed at work. We have been struggling quite a bit with Baxter and Owen the last few weeks. It's left us feeling so frustrated and helpless about their sin and ours. Today we celebrated that our hope is not in what we wore to church and how pretty or handsome we looked, but that God is at work in the deep junk in our hearts and He is making all things new. The Gospel changes everything is something our church talks about a lot and we are thankful that it is true!

Boys

The boys were not in the last post, here are a few of them. They have enjoyed each other more recently - which is huge!! I'll post some more thoughts soon, but here are the pics for now.

4 Months Old!

It's almost been a whole month since I have posted anything on our blog...yikes! I was telling Matt tonight, I feel like every day is so fast and I can't keep up with it! We are still partially in "survival" mode as we continue to learn what it is like to have THREE children (sometimes I am still amazed that we in fact DO have three kids. Yikes!). So I apologize for the lack of posting! This one will have LOTS of pictures of sweet Lucy to make up for that. She has changed so much in the last month, it's neat to see!

Lucy is now 13 lbs - she is in the 45% for her weight and 50th for her height. It's so great that she is growing so well - she started off at the 15% at her one month appointment. It is good for me to know she is healthy and growing! She is just a very sweet and content little girl. She is not quite sleeping through the night, but she's getting there! I look forward to a full nights sleep sometime in the not so distant future! She still LOVES her brothers very much and gives them many smiles throughout the day. She was just given the green light today to start on solid foods, so we gave her some rice cereal and sweet potatoes tonight - she loved it! She is rolling over from her tummy to her back and looks like she'll flip the other way soon too. We are so thankful for how she is growing and look forward to what the Lord has for her this month! Here is an array of pictures to enjoy!