10 Years Old

Ten years ago today I held my first miracle...









And within a blink of an eye he grew into a handsome young man.

Micah's First Year

Here are some of my favorite pictures of Micah's first year. He was so small and incredibly cute! I loved his gummy smiles!

Devine Pumpkin Dessert

I had the most scrumptious pumpkin dessert the other night at my Women's group. I got the recipe and thought I would share it with my blogging friends. She served the dessert warm and it literally melts in your mouth. I'm drooling just thinking about it. ENJOY!!!

PUMPKIN SURPRISE
Printed from COOKS.COM
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4 c. cooked pumpkin (29 oz. can)
1 c. sugar
1 lg. can evaporated milk (12 oz. can)
3 eggs
1 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ginger
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. salt
1 box yellow cake mix (dry)
1 c. chopped nuts
1 1/2 sticks butter (melted)
Mix pumpkin, sugar, evaporated milk, eggs and spices together well. Pour into a 9"x13" pan. Sprinkle dry cake mix over the top. Sprinkle chopped nuts over the top. Pour melted butter over the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

OUR SWEET GIRL IS TWO!!!

Today our beautiful daughter turned two! What a gift Amanda is to our family and how blessed we are to have her in our lives. She is an amazing little girl that has brought so much joy and laughter to our family. Amanda is God's happiest child and she has a wonderful charm about her. I could go on and gush about her forever, but I'll spare you all and stop now!

This day didn't turn out exactly as planned because Amanda has been running a fever all day. :0( She didn't seem to be in a celebratory mood being sick and all, so we stayed home for dinner and opened her presents shortly after. She was fading fast and we didn't think she would even make it past dinner. Amazingly enough Amanda perked up quite quickly once she saw her birthday balloon! She could care less about anything else once she saw that darn balloon. Micah helped Amanda open her presents while Soowan and I took pictures and manned the video camera. She took very little interest in her presents and kept a tight grip onto her balloon the entire time.

Note to self: Amanda prefers balloons over presents/toys. Great!!! Christmas will be easy and inexpensive this year! YAHOO!!! ;0)

After we were able to get the balloon out of Amanda's hand and got through the drama of her tiara breaking, we did cake. We sang 'happy birthday' and when Micah told her to blow out her candles, she took a deep breath in and blew both of them out! Amanda instantly perked up and with all smiles she exclaimed, "Again! Again!" How could we resist such a request? We ended up re-lighting the candles numerous times, so she could blow them out and we could see her smiling face. Have I mentioned what a JOY our sweet girl is?!?!

Amanda ate some cake, but once again she began to fade and we knew she was just about done for the night. Hopefully tomorrow she'll be feeling better and back to her spunky, little self.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMANDA!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!

MOM, DAD AND MICAH

(Aunt Maggie, I specifically chose this song for your listening enjoyment.) ;0)

THE GOOD NEWS!

21 In him our hearts rejoice,
for we trust in his holy name.

22 May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD,
even as we put our hope in you.
~Psalm 33:21-22

10 PREDICTIONS NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION

1. The Bible will still have all the answers.

2. Prayer will still work.

3. The Holy Spirit will still move.

4. God will still inhabit the praises of His people.

5. There will still be God-anointed teaching and healing.

6. There will still be singing of praise to God.

7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people.

8. There will still be room at the Cross.

9. Jesus will still love you.

10. Jesus will still save the lost.

ISN'T IT GREAT TO KNOW WHO IS REALLY IN CONTROL!

Beautiful Day!

We had a beautiful day here in Dallas on this first day of November. The sun was bright and the weather was perfect. Here are some pictures of Micah's soccer game from this morning, and more pics of our time spent at the Arboretum where we had an early, picnic dinner.

(you may notice a huge blue-green mark on Micah's left cheek. This is not left over face paint from Halloween, it's the HUGE bruise from getting kicked in the face while playing touch football on Wednesday night with his buddies.)





I had to add this one of my sweet girl!