10 months

Yes, that's right... TEN months! Do you realize how close that is to one year? Oh. MY. Goodness. What a fast, furious, fabulous ten months it has been.
Honestly, I could take photos of Samuel all day. He's so happy. He's so cooperative.
At 10 months, he continues to be VERY picky with what he eats. It's now becoming annoying just to be honest. I mean really, eat that piece of pear with your fingers. Do I really have to mush it in the food processor EVERY time. Yes is that answer. Yes I do!
At ten months Samuel can:
Crawl like a champ. Man he's fast.
He cruises everywhere, but hasn't stepped away to make any real steps of his own.
He waves and says, "hi" and "bye."
He says, dada, mama, sister which is more like "tisder."
His favorite game is to have the big people fetch! He loves to drop and throw things and say "uh-oh" as someone brings it back to him!
He loves himself in the mirror and reading lift the flap peek-a-boo books.
He has 8 teeth, 4 on the top and 4 on the bottom. His bottom molars have started to push through. He's been constantly teething since 5 months. Poor kid. He chews on everything and I do mean everything. Oh the slobber... So much slobber! :-)
Here is little Mr. Samuel

 

 

 

Happy Easter

"But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed." Isaiah 53:5.

I am truly overwhelmed by the cross and the love of my Savior.

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This Easter was more emotional that any Easter before. Our church had a wonderful Good Friday service and communion that was very intimate and really focused on the cross and the sacrifice that Jesus made for me. Jesus' love was so strong on my heart with the blessings that he has poured out on our family in the last year, that I basically spent the service in tears of emotion.

His promise is truth. His grace is sufficient. His love is real.

I pray that the truth of the empty tomb is remembered in my life every day, not just on Easter.

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Our Eater weekend was super busy. We had egg hunts at pre-school on Thursday. Good Friday service on Friday, Church egg hunt on Saturday, and Easter on Sunday.

Madison and Samuel together were beyond precious. She was excited, he was happy and they both had eggs full of goodies to eat.

Really, these pictures are way cuter than my words, so here you go...

We started with matchy matchy outfits made by my friend Brandy, that were so stinkin' cute!

We had a great time hunting eggs at our church in Denton, Gracepointe.

Samuel is not quite walking yet, so we had to place him close enough to the eggs that he could get there without being trampled. He had no problem breaking those plastic eggs open!

Plus, we saw friends.. Can you ell that all they wanted to do was to get their candy out of their buckets? Really mom? Another photo?!

I really was impressed at how happy both kids were all weekend. No whines, no complaints, just fun.

Then we headed to Jason's parents house for the egg hunt from the Easter bunny and baskets from Mamma and Pappa. Jason's sister has a little girl, two months older than Samuel, so cousins are pretty fun right now!

It was Samuel's first Easter and I really have to say we enjoyed all 4 days of festivities. Looking back I don't know if we could have asked for a more perfect holiday with our family.

 

When it was time to pray, I asked Madison what Easter was all about and she proudly said, "Jesus."

I continue to marvel in God's love for us. What an amazing thing that Jesus would die on the cross for us. The tomb is empty... HE has risen indeed!

Happy Easter