Baby Shower

After months of planning with a great group of gals, my wonderful friend's baby shower was a beautiful success! A lot of work went into this special day for a special person. Tiffany's pregnant with their 3rd child and it's a GIRL! She's due the beginning of June and we are all so excited for her! She's so calm and such a great mom! We've been friends since our late teen years and it's been a great friendship! We've been through a lot together and I'm thankful God has preserved and blessed our friendship all these years!

When Tiffany called me some months ago, she was not super excited about her pregnancy. They weren't planning it and she had a  million concerns going through her mind! But God always has a plan so we know this was no accident!! She's now excited and ready for the arrival of Harper Reese!

Lemon-Lime Sugar Cookie Truffles

Cake Pops



Sweet Treat Party Favors

Sugar Scrub



Doughnut Tree



Yummy Pinwheels



My moms famous sausage balls!



My sweet Ella Beth



Yogurt bar! This was a huge hit!

Doily Lantern



The sweet mother-to-be, Tiffany!



Little Miss Bailee! Proud sister to be!!

I'm so thrilled the shower came together the way it did cause Tiffany's usually with me to help plan everything and she can see the finished plan in her mind before we begin but I cannot. I would love to have that gift but I just don't. I have to see something before I can put it into action! So, for everything to fall into place really warmed my heart and I know Tiffany was pleased as well!!

Can't wait to meet Miss Harper! I love you Tiff and I'm so thankful for our wonderful friendship! I know all the other girls who helped feel the same way!!

Relying on God's Strength

We've been busy....so busy. I sit and wonder how everyone gets everything done! And then I sit back and come to my senses that everything doesn't get done! What a lie I tell myself! ha! I have these unreachable expectations of how I feel I should run the household. I have to snap back to reality every now and again and laugh at my desire to have everything perfect!

It will never be perfect.

I'm too busy raising two, sweet, little girls, caring for a wonderful husband and too busy helping with our new family members.....2 bunnies and 4 baby chicks! The girls actually care for them much more than I have. They have fallen in love with our mini farm!

I'm very proud of the care they've been giving our furry friends!!

Sweet little bunny checking out the new chicks!  We also kept my niece the day we got the chicks from the farm supply! She loved them!

This week I have been crazier than normal cause with the help of some friends we've been planning a baby shower for one of my dearest friends! It's this Saturday! We've been planning it for months so I've been crafting it up! I love planning things and I love crafting and making things myself instead of buying them. Even though I love it, I still get overwhelmed cause I try and do too much. I just see so many things I would love to do and I get in over my head. Thankfully I have lots of other people working with me so it's not going to be as overwhelming!!

I've had to revamp my priorities a little in order to get everything worked in. My house has not been as picked up cause I've been sewing, painting, baking, making fabric flowers and paper flower punches for some extra little touches. And all this on top of school days with the girls and work at night. It's no wonder I feel a little crazy from time to time.... or daily!! ha!

But, I do sometimes find myself relying too much on my strength and not the strength God has for me. When I start to burn out and wonder why I'm falling apart I soon realize I'm trying to do life without God's power. I've come to know it's just impossible!  I'm thankful for His gentle reminders and nudges that I need to reach out for His help DAILY!!

Are you relying on God today or your own strength? It's easy to try and do it on our own but God's there to help you!! I hope you rely on Him today!!

And so, I'm off to fix breakfast and get our school day started!! Hopefully I will rely on God when I sit down to do math with my oldest!! I need all the Jesus I can get during that time!! :)

It's Easter!!!

It's Easter Sunday! One of my favorite times of year!

We did Easter baskets. Went to church. Had a great lunch with our awesome families! It was so nice! We got a bunny- look how cute-

But really, Easter is so much more than just another time to get candy or have everyone together for a family meal.

It's JESUS!!

My Savior..... He's so precious to me. He died a brutal death for no other reason than because He loves us!! How beautiful and humbling that is to know! But it's not just that He died for me but that He rose again!!! He did not stay in that grave! He's alive and He wants a relationship with us!!!

I honestly can't truly wrap my mind around the meaning of this day. To sit here and really think about it floors me. I look at my life and think how could someone love me, ME,  so much that He died for me? I'm not even worthy of that. I know the person I am. I know my heart and my thoughts and they aren't pretty most of the time. But Jesus loves me anyway- with all my imperfections.

Wow-

Thank you, Jesus. I just get all giddy thinking about how amazing the whole story is and that's its still being written!!

I think the words to "Oh Glorious Day" by Casting Crowns  speaks volumes about how great this  love story is!

One day when Heaven was filled with His praises
One day when sin was as black as could be
Jesus came forth to be born of a Virgin
Dwelt among men, my example is He

Word became flesh and the light shined among us
His glory revealed

Living He loved me, dying He saved me
And buried He carried my sins far away
Rising He justified freely forever
One day He's coming, oh, glorious day, oh, glorious day
One day they led Him up Calvary's mountain
One day they nailed Him to die on a tree
Suffering anguish, despised and rejected
Bearing our sins, my Redeemer is He

Hands that healed nations, stretched out on a tree
And took the nails for me

'Cause living He loved me, dying He saved me
And buried He carried my sins far away
Rising He justified freely forever
One day He's coming, oh, glorious day, oh, glorious day
One day the grave could conceal Him no longer
One day the stone rolled away from the door
Then He arose, over death He had conquered
Now He's ascended, my Lord evermore

Death could not hold Him
The grave could not keep Him from rising again

Living He loved me, dying He saved me
And buried He carried my sins far away
Rising He justified freely forever
One day He's coming, oh, glorious day, oh, glorious day
Glorious day

One day the trumpet will sound for His coming
One day the skies with His glories will shine
Wonderful day, my beloved one bringing
My Savior Jesus is mine
Living He loved me, dying He saved me
And buried He carried my sins far away
Rising He justified freely forever
One day He's coming, oh, glorious day, oh, glorious day
Glorious day, oh, glorious day

How great are the words to this song? Ahhhh!!! It gives me chills and makes me want to stand shout, "Praise God!!"  :) They sand it in church this morning and I could hardly contain myself!

God is just good. He is good, He is good, He is good!

On another note- we went to a friends farm last week and here are a few pictures of all the fun we had!! Makes me want a farm of our own!!