after nap...

dazed and confused

media room

Erin is creative. She's industrious. She improvises.

Kameron and Brooke are down for their Sunday afternoon naps and Erin is enjoying free time. Kyle and I are resting, but we hear noise coming from the dining room. We check it out and get a good afternoon laugh :)

a little bit of hair showing and we know where she is...

Kyle lifts the skirt...

and we can see her watching a movie on an old iphone in her media room...

UPDATE: Brooke wakes up from nap...

and Erin gets to share her inspiration with sister...

You're Beautiful

I took pictures in my backyard last Saturday...the sky was glowing and a storm was coming...my heart was singing this song...

I see Your face in every sunrise

The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes

The world awakens in the light of the day

I look up to the sky and say

You're beautiful

I see Your power in the moonlit night

Where planets are in motion and galaxies are bright

We are amazed in the light of the stars

It's all proclaiming who You are

You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see you there hanging on a tree

You bled and then you died and then you rose again for me

Now you are sitting on Your heavenly throne

Soon we will be coming home

You're beautiful, you're beautiful

When we arrive at eternity's shore

Where death is just a memory and tears are no more

We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring

Your bride will come together and we'll sing

You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see Your face, I see Your face

I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

where....

have I been? Christian Rap :) Preach it, rap it, live it, just don't waste your life!

Montgomery County Youth

Our Sunday School class took on the 'transformation' of young teens and pre-teens rooms at MCYS on Saturday. Mark told the youth we weren't from the government, but from the body of Christ :) We believe in a big God, not a big government :)

Click here to see the before and after video.

Just listen to the song playing! Praising and Rejoicing in Christ alone this morning!! Happy Thursday!

In Christ alone

My hope is found

He is my life, my strength, my song

This Cornerstone , this solid Rock

Firm through the fierces, drought and storm

What heights of Love, what depths of Peace,

When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!

my Comforter, my all in all

Here in the love of Christ I stand.

In Christ alone who took on flesh

Fullness of God in helpless babe

This gift of love and righteousness,

scorned by the ones He came to save,

Till on that cross as Jesus died

The wrath of God was satisfied;

For every sin on him was laid

Here in the depth of Christ I live

There in the ground , His body lay,

Light of the world by darkness slain

Then bursting forth in glorious day

Up from the grave He rose again!

And as He stands in victory,

Sin's curse has lost its grip on me

For I am His and He is mine

Bought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death

This the pow'r of Christ in me,

From life's first cry, to final breath.

Jesus commands my destiny

No pow'r of hell, no scheme of man

Can ever pluck me from his hand

Till he returns or call me home

Here in the pow'r of Christ I'll stand .....

Big Tooth

I was sitting next to Erin the other day and I noticed something in her mouth while she was talking to me. It was a big tooth pushing through out of nowhere. I asked her how long she had noticed it and she said for a few days she thought she had some apple crust/seed stuck in her teeth (she meant apple skin that sometimes lodges itself between her bottom teeth). She said she had been licking it for a few days. I was laughing at how she was describing this new alien tooth in her mouth. Dr. Oakley, can you help us?? Enjoy the pic!

Erin's first big tooth!

Reunion

Mom and Dad got everyone together for our Tower Reunion...up in Cannon Beach, Oregon with breath taking views and the most beautiful weather....

My grandparents marriage began and ended on the Mckenzie River. They loved the river, enough to name their first born son, my dad, after it...Michael Mckenzie. They were married in Mckenzie Bridge, lived on the River for sixty years, and asked the family to spread their ashes there upon their passing...

standing outside our cabin in the woods...

Dad speaking at his parents memorial service on the Mckenzie River...

family gathering to remember their love story...

Dad, Mom, and my brother...

Allice and Don's ashes...spread over the Mckenzie

Kam and Kyle looking at the beautiful, loud, clear, and COLD Mckenzie River...

family picture :)

oh yes, our Brooke Mckenzie...she was so proud and absolutely loved seeing the river she was named after :)

Saddle Ridge Ranch!

Yee-haw!

The Show-deo :)

the carnival...Erin persevered through a long line and hot night to ride this bull :)

Wow, this VBS will not soon be forgotten. It started last week as we practiced our VBS songs and waited for Rachel's testing and results. Her results were good and quick...I'm so thankful for fast results even though our Beth Moore study had us write the words faith and wait and circle the common letters...then told us that 3/5 of faith is in the wait.

God so stretches me in these situations, but I'm thankful for them because He teaches me so much. I get to know and really believe that He is my everything...He is trustworthy, faithful, good, so full of mercy and grace, His Word is power, and that He not only loves us, but He cares for us too...

So, I will leave this post with this chorus from Saddle Ridge Ranch :)

I will cast my cares on the Lord

because He cares for me

I will trust in God no matter what

cause I know He will never stop

caring for me

happenings...

dance recital...

the SBC...

swim meet...

lake house...

submersion

Kyle went to check on the girls last night and this is what he found...

Brooke mummified in her sheets...

and then she woke up in the early morning hours, walked into our room, and submerged herself under pillows in the corner of our room to finish off her night's sleep...

SeaWorld

We had a great time in San Antonio :) minus my bad attitude which turned into a "nuclear explosion" when my girls wanted french fries for lunch...I decided that I need to relax on some things, especially during a vacation...thanks Cha Cha and D for a fun trip and good memories for the girls :)

the beginning...

the girls loved the sealions....

feeding the dolphins...

looking at the sharks with Cha Cha...

and seeing Shamu flip...

Brooke and her daddy....

Cha Cha, E and B watching a movie after smores :)