"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. {He has made everything beautiful in its time.} He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it."
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

Thursday, January 13, 2011

My Niece













From the moment our little Reese Lanae (now almost ten months!) entered our lives, she has been nothing but pure joy (granted we aunties and uncles and grandparents have had the easier job, but even with all the sleepless nights, mom and dad agree wholeheartedly!) Judging by the mound of presents she got from her family this Christmas, she has us all wrapped around her tiny fingers. :)

It has been so fun to watch my sweet little niece grow up each month and to observe all of her cute phases (currently she is in the "I love my yogurt" phase and the "wiggling my toes/waving my hands excitedly up and down" phase and the "crawling after whichever parent is not in the room" phase; she also has an adorable growing little mullet hairdo :) ).

We cannot wait for this joy to be multiplied with the arrival of her sister Allie in July! "Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him," (Psalm 127:3).

Below is a video of Reese's reaction when I crawl on the floor like a lion:

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