All I Have Is Christ

I once was lost in darkest night

Yet thought I knew the way

The sin that promised joy and life

Had led me to the grave

I had no hope that You would own

A rebel to Your will

And if You had not loved me first

I would refuse You still

But as I ran my hell-bound race

Indifferent to the cost

You looked upon my helpless state 

And led me to the cross

And I beheld God's love displayed

You suffered in my place

You bore the wrath reserved for me

Now all I know is grace

Hallelujah! All I have is Christ

Hallelujah! Jesus is my life

Now, Lord, I would be Yours alone

And live so all might see

The strength to follow Your commands

Could never come from me

Oh Father, use my ransomed life

In any way You choose

And let my song forever be

My only boast is You

~Sovereign Grace Music

Topeka Date Night

Date Night

This past Saturday afternoon Matt and I were just lounging around trying to think of something fun to do in the evening and in a small town sometimes it is hard to think up something.  Well, Matt had the spontaneous idea at 4:45 in the afternoon that we should go to Topeka for a date night.  We hurried and got cute for each other (well, at least I did) and headed off for a fun evening of quality time.  We started off the evening splitting a Red Robin burger and shake and then snuggled up in the theatre and watched a movie.  After that Matt took me somewhere he knew I would love.........Starbucks!  We got some hot tea for the way home.  Topeka is the perfect distance for a date night because we got an hour on the way there and an hour on the way home to chat it up.  What a wonderful evening!     

Matt the Funny Babysitter

Last night Matt and I got to go babysit for some of our friends.  Well, usually when you put Matt with kids something funny is bound to happen.  And of course it did.  Here is what happened......

  "Squirt" had to go to the bathroom and of course went and got Matt to help him.  After that we all went outside to play and almost immediately "Squirt" fell down and scraped his knee.  Thankfully it was only a little scrape and he only murmured a little bit.  I helped him up and noticed that his pants seems to be half way down, so I gave them a good tug but they wouldn't go up very much.  I just thought that they must be a little small on him.  He ran off to play tag with Matt and "Moose", and I thought to myself that he was running really funny and awkward....maybe because he hurt his knee???  I watched him a little longer and realized that both of his legs were threw one pant hole!  I started to roll with laughter and told Matt to really watch "Squirt" and the way he was running.  Matt of course broke out in laughter and we both just had a great laugh.  Little "Squirt" was not going to let the fact that his legs were stuck together stop him from playing tag!  He was a pretty successful waddler, but once we unglued his legs he definitely improved on his speed. 

Here the poor guys is.......looking mighty uncomfortable yet really not noticing anything.  

Waddle Waddle Waddle

Dirt time!

We had a fun evening with them.  We even got to watch part of Cars2 where Matt and I had more fun watching the boys act out the movie and sing more than we enjoyed the actual movie.  =)

Tribute to Cailer

Our nephew Calier rode in our car the other week and had a little fun with our IPad.  

(Kim, show these to Cailer.  He will get a nice kick out of them!)   

Cailer going from double trouble to all ears..........................

So Handsome........

Champaign Shenanigans

For the past 2 months Matt and I have been wanting to go out to champaign, IL to meet our new nieces Kebe and Shena, and we got the opportunity to do that last week.  Matt also needed to go out to Cissna, IL for work, and I wanted to visit my older sister Ash in Champaign while her hubby Mark was out of town on a veterinarian rotation for school.  How perfect that it worked out that we could do all 3 in one week! 

I must say that I got the better end of the deal then Matt.  He got to go to work everyday while I spent my days hanging out with my sister Ash and sister-in-law Kim and my wonderful, beautiful neices and nephews.  One morning we all met up at a play place in a church in town.  Here are some pictures of our morning together. 

Loved getting to meet and spend time with my little nieces Kebe and Shena from Ethiopia, and what a great mommy they have! 

Jaci is such a big girl.  I am so used to her being the baby of the Kim and Neal's family, but she is transitioning to her role as a big sister quite well.  She was so helpful and loved taking care of Reuben at the playground. 

Mommy Ash taking Reuben down the slide.  Zoom zoom.....

The Princess 

(Kim, you can tell her it says this hehe!)

Kebe was a little timid of this frog thing, but everything was ok with mommy there.

Time to get dizzy!

Reuben made sure that Kebe was doing ok on the ride.....how sweet!

Lego Mania!  Reuben looks a little dazed at shock of huge legos.

Grabbing some lunch after all the playing that went on.

Someone is worn out!  Time to go home for a nap.

What a surprise for Reuben!  Nana was there to put him to bed. =)

More play time......

Reuben enjoyed having another guy around in the evenings after spending all day with us gals.  Seems like he is getting a kick out of Uncle Matt about something.

What a helper.  He seriously drove this thing around the living room and vacuumed.  Wow, I hope my children are like this!!!!

Matt and I spend a few evenings over at Kim and Neal's house.  Of course we had tons of fun.  Kim had these sugar scrubs that we used to made our hands smooth and silky!!!!!!!  We just couldn't stop touching our hands all night....haha!

Thankful that we get many opportunities to spend time with family!  We are so blessed!