Thing Thursday

Squeaker shoes... Not only are these adorable shoes they fill whichever room you enter with smiles and giggles! Every step makes a little squeak that your kids will love and your audience will eat up! It's so fun! A must have for little walkers :)

Listen carefully :) Your heart will squeak along with every step :)

Enough said. Squeak Shoes are a must!

Plain Tuesday Fun

So I love it when you find the simplest - and cheapest - things to be SO fun for the girls!
Plastic Pool = $9.48
Seal Spray = $7.82
Hours of fun TWO days in a row = SO WORTH IT :)

Plus, it's so fun to have our cousin come over to play with us!

Monday Zoo Day!

We got to go to the zoo today! A little warm, but so fun!! We pet goats, babies and adults, and a chicken and cow.  The girls were not so sure about touching the animals, but they would try with daddy close :)

The penguins are our favorite.  Why? Well for several reasons... First they are amazing and swim at our face as we say "Whoa!" Second, strollers are not allowed in the exhibit, so we get to walk all over and giggle :) So much fun!

We got to go with our friends Lily and Emma.  We love making friends now that we are old enough to recognize other people and play :) It's so fun to see the girls light up with different people that they have a fancy towards... Emma is one of them :)  Thanks so much Emma for playing with us today!

 My girls and Me!!

The girls had so much fun they cashed out in the car :) It was so fun today! I love being a mom, I love seeing their faces light up at new things, I love being able to show them all the creativity of their amazing God who created it all!  It was pretty hot today.... but worth the sweat and craziness for the smiles that I got to see all day long :)

Framed Fridays

Long Lost Friend!

So I met a long lost friend at camp last week.  What I mean by long lost is not that we have known or established a friendship in the past, but instead that we should have been best friends all our lives but happened to just live too far away :) I met one at camp! My husband says that she's a soul mate friend even though we only had a few days together. 

Here's the funny story... As we arrived at camp, there were several other church plants there that had brought their youth groups. Kristin and I met eyes and got confused looks on our faces... We were sure in both of our heads that we knew each other but were too embarrassed to approach each other and not know how. Long story short.... We don't have any connections. We are pretty sure we've never even been in the same city before...till now! 

Anyways we had a lot of fun getting to know each other and wish we lived closer... But we are working on a visit already :) I'm not sure why God introduces people like this sometimes, but it was a huge encouragement in ministry life for me...so maybe that's just it, the Lord just wants to remind me that we are one big family in Jesus- all over the world :) What an awesome God we serve!

Oh how God works :)

So.. As most of you have noticed, I have been out for about two weeks.  Vacation, and then camp.  I'm sure I will give you an update about our Chicago trip in the near future-- let me tell you, it was so fun!

But first I want to share a little about this most recent week.

Calvin and I and Chris took our high school students to Harvest Camp last week.  It was amazing! It is so well run and incredibly focused on Jesus! Really, completely life changing... in many ways... friends, our physical appearance (good and bad... I'll leave it vague :) ), our energy level, and most importantly our spiritual lives.  It as an incredible week of challenging each other in our faiths, being convicted of sin and selfishness, surrendering it all to Jesus our amazing Savior, and rejoicing in the salvation and life that we get to live in Him! Seriously incredible!

Going to camp as a leader makes you expect to be used to change your students lives, but the truth is... Jesus wants to focus on my life as well! What an awesome and holy savior we serve! Grace. Period! 

So I know that that was a little vague, but let's be honest... 1. You get my point. 2. I am so physically and mentally exhausted that I barely can function in normality, thus making blog world nearly impossible :) So bear with me :)

On a overall note... I am finally back to a place of Internet, so my blogging should return to normal soon! Thanks for the slight vacation...back to the keyboard!

Guess who's liking the water?!

Oh dear blog readers... how I have missed you! I am in week two of my crazy 3 week stretch, so hopefully I will be able to blog at least 3 times this week :)

To bring you all back in to our joyful life of twins, here are the cutest pictures of the girls at the beach of Grandma and Pop Pop!

Oh how I love the excitement and smirks they both have because they get to play together in the water! Love it!

So here's the longer story... The girls have only begun to start liking the water.  Cal and I tried to bring them in the water last fall in a indoor pool, then on vacation, and then in Florida... only to be greeted with whines and grumpiness.  But now, the girls faces really speak for themselves :) I think they like it! So far, they enjoy ridiculously warm water... and since Michigan has been SO WARM, the water that they have learned to now love has been roughly around 90 :) I'll be curious to see the faces of the girls as the water returns to a normal degree :) I love Michigan Summers!!