Almost There

We have an official move in date and I am so excited! May 1st we will start moving everything and I'm sure that will be the quickest we will have ever moved as we are very ready and really excited to be there. It is a 1960's ranch, on a great lot at the end of a dead end street, so it will be really quiet with no traffic. Great for us now, even better for kiddos one day. One of our (especially Will's- what is it with men and good grass?!) favorite features is the yard. So much so, that I had to make sure that we weren't buying this house because of it's grass... ha! It has a flat front and back yard, and the back yard is fenced in and all ready for a dog- working on that one :). Also, it has a great finished basement, which will allow us plenty of extra space. Other than that, it is your typical ranch floor plan and a great house for this time of our lives! I am really excited to see what it will look like with green grass and blooming pretties!
In other news, I cannot decide what I want my blog to look like and keep changing it- much like my debates with paint colors and fabrics for the house. Ah, decisions!

More Channing Pics

You can barely see him smiling!

And finally, the new mom and her precious baby! I love this picture!

Channing!

Yesterday Will's sister, Brittan and her husband Stephen had their first baby- a sweet little boy named Channing Stephen Mullins. Will and I are going to Tennessee tomorrow to see them and I cannot wait!

How sweet is this face?! Congrats Brittan and Stephen! We are so excited for yall and can't wait to share in this precious boy's life!

Bed Bugs

Last night, I was in bed dozing off as Will watched tv. I felt a tickle on my face and just touched my forehead moving my hair out of my face. Insted of my forehead I touched a bug- yes a bug, crawling on my face, as I am trying to sleep. I sit up real quickly and completely freaked out- not knowing what kind of bug it was. Luckily it was only a light bug, and we had a window open, which would explain how it got in, but still, why did it have to choose my FACE to crawl on?! Now, you're probably thinking I would be a horrible candidate for a camping trip, and I might, but I have been before and enjoyed it. The reason I freaked out so much is because I had another encounter with a bug in my bed a year and a half ago except that time, it was... a roach. A sicknasty roach crawled in my bed, invading my sleeping space, and I didn't even know it until I woke up the next morning, got out of bed, turned around and saw a dead roach on my sheets that I had apparently crushed while I was sleeping. How sick is that?! So tell me you wouldn't be freaked out by bugs now. Gross. My windows are staying closed from now on.

Encouragement

A new favorite song of mine is this one by Big Daddy Weave- What Would Life Be Like. I am posting the lyrics below, which are pretty self explanatory. There is so much truth to the words of this song. I love the message of God performing major miracles and taking care of all of the "big stuff" going on in the world, "yet He knows our deepest desperate need." No matter what our status is in life, there is always something to trust God on, and eventhough I always know in my head that God knows my deepest need, it is never a bad thing to be reminded of, so that my heart truly knows as well. That in times of fear, worry, uncertainty, or joy, celebration, and new beginnings He does still care about our every desire and will come through for us. I think about struggles that I have- some on a daily basis, some situational, and wonder that if I did truly trust that God cared for my every desire, and if I "let Him live through me" like He so desires, what life really would be like. I bet I would be pleasantly surprised.
Another message that I love in this song: What if you could see yourself thru another pair of eyes, What if you could hear the truth, Instead of old familiar lies, What if you could feel inside, The power of the hand that made the universe, You'd realize...
We have no clue how many "lies" we live under on a daily basis. Something happened when we were young, that made us believe something negative about ourselves, and Satan took our discouragement and ran with it... leading us to believe today, that "lie" is who we really are. How freeing would it be to see ourselves as the person God created us to be. No, we wouldn't be perfect, but we would be able to see ourselves as forgiven for our sins and free of the grip of "what would others think", or "i'll never be enough", or "I have to succeed to be loved"... just FREE to be God's creation- however unique that might be. It makes me want to know what lies I have been believing so I can be more free to just love and live.

Sorry for the soapbox, I just love those messages that take us further on the pathway to freedom in Christ.

What Life Would Be Like- Big Daddy Weave
I wish I was more of a man
Have you ever felt that way
And if I had to tell you the truth
I'm afraid I'd have to say
That after all I've done and failed to do
I feel like less than I was meant to be
What if I could fix myself
Maybe then I could get free
I could try to be somebody else
Who's much better off than me
But I need to remember this
That it's when I'm at my weakest
I can clearly see

He made the lame walk and the dumb talk
And He opened blinded eyes to see
That the sun rises on His time
Yet He knows our deepest desperate need
And the world waits while His heart aches
To realize the dream
I wonder what life would be like if we let Jesus live thru you and me

What if you could see yourself thru another pair of eyes
What if you could hear the truth
Instead of old familiar lies
What if you could feel inside
The power of the hand that made the universe You'd realize

That He made the lame walk and the dumb talk
And He opened blinded eyes to see
That the sun rises on His timeYet He knows our deepest desperate need
And the world waits while His heart aches
To realize the dream
I wonder what life would be like if we let Jesus live thru you and me