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We had a nice, but as always, quick visit down south over the weekend.  It's always great seeing family!  Hubby had some business to attend to while there which was stressful but the Lord was gracious and everything seems to be working great now.  We also attended the funeral of a long time church friend of the family.  This week we will be getting together with a missionary family that we have been supporting for awhile now.  This will be the first time to meet them.  They will also get the chance to go through the Creation Museum.   And a happy anniversary to my parents!  Forty one years...love you both.  Other than that, we are doing well and look forward to the week ahead!

Memories!

Does this ever bring back memories....reminds me of our Sunday afternoons when Mom and Dad put the record player on (yes! a record player!!)

Jesus We Just want to Thank You!


Hallelujah Square

The Train Song

Our bunting is back

Look who has been visiting the feeder that past few days :)  Our indigo bunting!!

Blue eyes

Nothing really exciting going on here so I  thought I would post a pic of my girl at 13 months...

Praise

I thought it was about time that we recognized a huge praise on this blog.  Many of you already know that hubby was scheduled for another surgery but he has since cancelled it with no intentions of rescheduling any time soon.
Hubby's trachea continually closes up about every 8 months and he needs to go for surgery to reopen it so he can breath once again.  This has been going on for over 6 years.  Through some research I did, I wanted hubby to start detoxing his body through a fresh juice diet.  It seemed to be helping as the 8 month mark came and went without surgery!  As the one year mark approached since his last surgery (February) he could feel that he was tightening up a bit, so we scheduled a checkup with the doctor.  During that visit, the doctor mentioned about gluten sensitivity and we decided to give a gluten-free (and gmo-free) diet a chance to see if that would help.  We also scheduled a surgery date for April.  Well, after being on a strictly fresh fruit/vegetable, nuts and seeds diet (with a little meat).....April came and went and we cancelled surgery!!!  A bonus was hubby is down 30 lbs as well :)   His inflammation has decreased and he can breath better than he did back in February!
We are sooooo very thankful for this answer to prayer!  I don't know if hubby is completely healed of this yet or not, but to know that the steps we are taking right now has prolonged his surgery date is so wonderful!  I thank God for His goodness to us and pray that this may be the end of his battle with subglottic stenosis for good!!

New bird!

Our new bird at the feeder!  This is a Common Grackle.  This type rarely comes around and when it does, they don't stick around for very long.  My pics aren't very clear because I had to snap pics real quick and couldn't focus properly.  Neat though huh!!!

Presidents from memory

We have been studying the presidents for the past couple weeks.  The kids have finally memorized all of them!  Here they each are, reciting the names.  Our 7 yr old did it with his eyes closed to show that no one received any 'helps' or 'hints' while reciting.   The 2 older ones recite complete names while our 5 yr old recites just last names. (Even our 3 yr old has most of them down pat!!)
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New birds for today

Here are some new birds from today.  Their names are under their pictures.

Male Eastern Towhee

Female Eastern Towhee

Northern Mockingbird - Tennessee State bird

Downy Woodpecker

Brown-headed Cowbird

Here is a fight I captured at the birdfeeder

Giveaway and birds

Great giveaway going on over at Jill's Home Remedies  Go enter!!!

With the beautiful weather, we have had quite a few birds to the feeder.  Here are some of them!  Our Indigo Bunting is back....yeah!!!!!!!!!!

One year pictures

We took our girl to have her one year photos done today and here they are!  Number one is the one we bought.

Toothy smile

look at those teeth!

Happy Birthday to Mama-(Me)a

Here is a birthday song for me today from my kiddos

Here is a song my daughter made for me yesterday too....so funny

My girls

Here are my 3 matching beauties :)

Funny

My 7 year old is outside play fighting with a much larger neighbor boy.  I'm keeping a close eye by the opened window.  My son pipes up and tells the boy "if you kill me, my mom will never forgive you!"
Too funny!

Birthday girl

Our baby girl turned one year old today.  We had a big fish cake and what fun she had playing with it!!  None ever made it to her mouth but she sure made a mess :)  Thank you for all the cards and gifts for her.  What a blessing she is to us!!
...and check out those top 2 teeth coming in!!!