Day 4: The call to Abram

"And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed." Genesis 12:3

God told Abraham to leave all the things that he was comfortable with behind and go to another country. And he was fully trusting and obedient in this calling. Because of this his family was forever blessed. This is a constant prayer for us as we want to strive to be obedient in the Lord's calling in our lives. In the moment it is so much easier to remain in the areas of our life that we are comfortable with but to listen to His call THEN we will be truly blessed.

Day 3: The Ark

"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23
We are so thankful for the Life that we have forever in Jesus because of His promises to Noah when he sent the rainbow after the flood.

This is actually Eli's favorite story in the Bible so far. Everytime we sit down to read he asks for Noah. This ornament was fun to do because everytime we asked Eli how many of a certain animal went on the boat he quickly responded, "TWO." He has learned this number well since we basically drilled him when he turned two years old. :)

Merry Christmas

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Jesse Tree

This Christmas season our family is spending some time doing a Jesse tree. It is a 25 day devotional that prepares us for the coming of Christ. Each day we place an ornament on the tree that goes along with some scripture and questions. There is more involved but we are keeping it simple with Eli this year since he is only 2. Some friends got together to split up making the ornaments and they all turned out so great!!

So far Eli has really enjoyed this time we have as a family. The next day, after we have put another symbol on the tree, he wants to look at it which allows us to continue to ask questions and see what he remembers.


The first night we talked about The Light in Creation and the symbol was the Earth.
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1

I was totally amazed after this night when we asked Eli who made the Earth and he replied, "Jesus."

The Second night was The first Sin and the symbol is an apple and a snake around it.
"We all like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turn to our own way." Isaiah 53:6

Just Because

Halloween

I spent some time searching for a costume for halloween but never found one worth spending the money on. So the day of Halloween we wrestled with what we were going to do and what Eli was going to dress up as. After we decided that it would be fun to try trick or treating we came up with the construction worker. He loved it!! We had all the tools, hat, belt, etc. from his birthday and we knew that he would love to hold on to them since he plays when them constantly at home. I think we went to about 6 houses and by the end he kept saying "more houses." He loved that his pumkin bucket was getting full of "something." (not knowing that it was full of delicious chocolate that mom and dad have enjoyed :) ) He did enjoy some smarties and dum dums.

Pictures from Eli's Birthday

We had a great time celebrating Eli's 2nd Birthday. We are so thankful to have such great family and friends bless Eli with their time with us.