This night was PERFECT! The weather, the sky, the family… all so amazing!

I was a little alarmed when I first pulled up to our location. Typically, the location is full of beautiful trees, long grass…

Erin and Cam are high school sweethearts and have been married for a little over a year. They are now expecting their first baby!!! It was such an honor to capture the little bump she has now, and I can’t WAIT to see it grow!!!

I think so often we forget that in the waiting, the Lord works in our hearts. We want to see how He works in our lives externally. Sure, we may know it in our heads, but are our lives proof that we believe that God is working in the waiting?

…I had taken dozens of these before over the last few years, even when we weren’t trying. I was very familiar with what one line looked like on those babies.

So I KNEW that the test looked completely different went I checked it. There were TWO lines clear as day!!!…

MOM (n): A provider. A caregiver. A source of wisdom, love, and forgiveness. And FUN. Can’t forget fun 😉

Examples of Mom in a sentence: I am going to be a mom!!!!!! To a little baby BOY!

…I BEG Him to keep wrestling me, just like He did Jacob, until all I see is His glory, majesty, and hope.

Here’s the thing about asking this. While I have more to celebrate as Christ delivers me, I also must wrestle with my own pride. Because the more I see Jesus, the more He opens my eyes to my sin. The more He makes me righteous, the more my unrighteousness stands out. It tempts me to crawl back to wallowing in “I am not enough”, instead of shouting from the rooftops “my GOD is enough!”…

…Now, the New Testament parallel in this passage is that we as believers are exiles here on this earth. The Lord calls us to saturate ourselves in the culture and live for Him on this earth well, waiting for when He will call us home. I am all about this. I ache for my home in Heaven…

My dear, old friend is a funny one.

She stays too long and leaves too fast. She has a way of making me enjoy her company, but at the same time wish she would hurry up and leave… But then I blink and she is gone. How could it be so? Where could she have gone?

…I read about my thoughts during my dad’s brain tumor.

I wrote, “Thank you for giving dad a brain tumor. You changed and grew me and my family SO MUCH through it. It taught me about how to go through something hard, how to cling to You, and how to comfort someone who is going through something hard.”…