So THAT'S what Faith was trying to tell me...

Apparently my washing machine shook a bit during the spin cycle.

Predictive Text FAIL

This made me laugh out loud - I had to take a picture of it the next day because I thought it was so funny. **side note: Superman is Darren**

Macskin FAIL

So I spent a while looking for just the right Macskin for my new MacBook Pro. I landed on a cool cloud design that was raining hearts - it made me think of God's love raining from Heaven. The background was blue and the cloud and rain green. Cool, right? Well it was - until...

I downloaded a Care Bears show off of Netflix for Faithy and came across Grumpy Bear, who has a belly that looked familiar.

You be the judge... did I just Grumpy-CareBear-ize my Mac?

Boy's best friend

This is one of Noah's favorite buddies. He sleeps with him every night (along with Porter, Cloosey, and Mr. Ray) and even takes him along when he spends the night at Jenny's. His name is Clifford, and he is Looo-oooved!

Noah somewhere around one year old when we bought Clifford

And now...

Business in the front, PART in the back

I asked Darren's permission to blog about this very humorous and strange phenomenon we like to call his "back part". I usually buzz Darren's hair every couple of months, but sometimes life happens and we just don't set out the time to do it. However, when we let it grow out, THIS is what happens. It's like our little pop-up turkey timer for hair - when we see it we know it's time to take action. Kudos to Darren for being such a good sport!!

what in the WORLD?!

Faith enjoying the playroom swing

She would swing in this ALL DAY if she could!

A new playroom!!

About 3 weeks ago, Jennifer had the idea to turn my office into a playroom... I am never in there and it had just become the "catch all" room of the house. The kids have always loved to play in the living room so why not give them their own space over there to play in!

As you can see from the first couple of pics, we had our work cut out for us! After many late nights, Jennifer and I were able to get my entire office cleared out. It was bittersweet for me because I was confronted with the reality that I am not preaching or studying anymore... and I don't need a bunch of my seminary books, and I don't need all of my folders full of my studies for old sermons, and I don't need my A+ Hebrew tests from 1999 - I think somehow I was still holding on to these things to validate me... But it was good. I am not in that season right now, I am a mom. A phenomenal stay-at-home mom. And I am blessed.

This was even after some clean up!

After clearing it out we had to sell my beautiful desk, and move bookcases, etc. Then let the painting begin! Unfortunately, the lady at Lowe's was particularly grumpy and mixed up a color quite a bit more neon than I had envisioned... Thanks to my dad's help, we were able to knock out two walls of white and two of this crazy green in just a few hours. We later returned to Lowe's to complain and received the correct color that just needed one coat to make everything right again.

You can see the subtle difference in greens. This pic was after Darren had hung the light in the center of the room and had hung up this amazing painting we bought by a worship artist at Bethel church many years ago. I love it and it fit my underwater theme perfectly!

I (heart) Ikea!

Typical Ikea. You see a cool lamp and then pick it up in a skinny box only to realize that it's "some assembly required" :)

Installing the awesome chair that the kids want to spin in ALL DAY.

New carpet is in! Shelving is up! Toys are in!

All the tubs even have a small picture of what's inside so there's no guesswork.

Underwater wall put up, cool decals in place! Ikea mattress ready to be jumped on! Darren even repurposed a white board into a cool chalkboard!

Just add some kids and let the fun begin!

Thanks dad, Jenny and Darren for helping to make this room happen!!