Mighty to Save

This has to be my favorite song right now. The words are just incredible, as I am really needing God to be Mighty to Save in various situations in my life right now. Especially today as I seek closure to an ongoing conflict. We've been studying in Kings and Chronicles in Sunday School this quarter. Those are some really interesting stories, and contrary to what you may think, there's some serious lessons to learn in there. One major thing to me has been that when the people are humble and repentant, Jehovah God is truly Mighty to Save! Not only does God forgive them of their sins, but fights their battles! And I believe He's still in the saving business. I hope you do too!

Everyone needs compassion

A love that's never failing

Let mercy fall on me

Everyone needs forgiveness

The kindness of a Savior

The hope of nations

(Chorus:)SaviorHe can move the mountains

My God is mighty to save

He is mighty to save

Forever Author of Salvation

He rose & conquered the grave

Jesus conquered the grave

So take me as You find me

All my fears & failures

Fill my life again

I give my life to follow

Everything I believe in

Now I surrender

Then sing the chorus a few more times just for the good ol' greatness of it!

You can listen to the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYqogpLpC5Q The video isn't spectacular but the song and the SAVIOR is!

Happy Valentine's Day

Here's Lilian in her heart pajamas and a cool card made/given by Aunt Stacy and Nathaniel and Josie! It's wonderful and hanging on our fridge. Hope you all have been loved on this weekend!

7 Months

Lilian is now 7 months old. Wow, time is going by fast. I'm not wanting to rewind anything...in fact, I'm still looking forward to crawling, then walking, and talking, among other things. Although I'm trying to enjoy the ride along the way. Here's some super cute pics of Lilian on her 7 month birthday. oh, yeah, and she weighs 18 lbs now!!! CHUBBERS!!!!

Enjoying a bite!

Now that we have 2 teeth, we can try out different foods, right? Here's Lilian getting a taste of Graham Crackers with daddy. She just knawed and knawed on those things. It was too cute!

WIPEOUT!

We went sledding over the weekend. So I decided to take a video while Jeff and I went down together. I doubt this will work unless you are on high speed internet. But hopefully you can enjoy our little "Adventure". :)

Snow Day!

This is the second day I've had off from work! I guess you can tell, because I've finally got this blog caught up. Maybe I can do better now....here's hopin'!

I thought the drifts of the roof were interesting!

Anyways, we got lots of snow and sleet. Jeff measured 8" in the yard this morning. It's drifted some, so that may not be entirely accurate. We did get enough to cover the grass and even the fields, so it has been a substanial snow! Jeff even had trouble getting in and out of the driveway for work. On bad days like this, I like for him to call when he gets to work. And he's good about remembering to call me. This morning, he called to say that he'd made it to work, but his truck didn't! OH NO! But, it was only stuck 500 ft. from the school. Thanks to the Bluford guy who pushed him out!

A special thanks to Shannon for blading off our driveway, too! (i doubt he'll ever see this, but he is on the world wide web now!)

I love the snow. I wish with all my heart I could've gone outside to play in it. Lilian is definitely not ready for this however. Maybe next year! I did bundle her up in as many clothes as I could for a little photo time. You see, they don't make heavy winter coats for infants her size. At least, not that I know of. They all seem to start at 12 mo. So she's got on 2 pairs of pants, 2 shirts (although the top one is like a heavy jacket thing), 2 pair of socks +booties, a hat and a hood, and one more pair of socks on her hands. What a TRIP! hee hee...please forgive me baby.

Here's Lilian playing, which is what we do most of the day! I love being home to play with her! Too bad I can't do it all the time!

SO MUCH TO TELL-Part 3-first tooth!

If you look real close, you can see Lilian's first Tooth! (Click the picture to see it larger) This is quite a milestone here! And let me tell ya, she's been a crab. She was getting over her cold and she still has a runny nose. She's not sleeping good, spitting up more often, and drooling all over the place!

I ended up asking a lady I work with, Cheryl, whose daughter is 2, how her girl acted when she was getting teeth. She pretty much described Lilian! So we' d been keeping our eyes on her mouth. Jeff thought she had some pretty good bumps on her upper gums.

The next day, I went to St. Louis with mom, Stacy, and Lilian. I asked my sister, who is much experienced with her own children, to check out Lilian's mouth and give me her professional opinion. After sticking her finger in Lilian's mouth, she was like, "Yeah, hello! It's poking through!" You know, I may be a little green on the whole baby thing, but even I could've figured that one out! "Seriously", I said, "it was NOT like that last night!" And that's how we discovered Lilian's first tooth! She's still not done, there must be more on the way because we're still crabby, and drooly, and snotty. Be on the look-out for pics as soon as teeth are actually visible. :) In the meantime, here's some shots of our big girl!