Here are some cute pics of the twins in their baby bumbo sitters. Yes, I know they were recalled, but we are ever careful to not place them on the concrete floor and to be close by when they are in them . That said, I think they look darn cute sitting in them! The other one is of Evie again on her dedication day, and Elle is trying to get her to pay attention to her so that she will smile. What is it about siblings and how they are most often able to get a giggle and more out of their younger siblings? I mean Elle can rough them up and they love it. She will get right in their face and they light up. Its just sweet. I also happen to think that my husband looks so handsome in that blue shirt, I just had to point that out. Forget it ladies, He's mine. I know that's what you were thinking anyway!

I just wanted to say thanks to all who have written me a little email or even taken the step to figure out how to respond on the post. Like I said to my sister who wrote, an encouragement can go a long way. I have to say I have had a little time in between the laundry loads, feedings, baths, homework, dishes and choir practice to think a little today. Do you ever feel like your are drowning? I was listening to the radio and a song by casting crowns came on that spoke of that feeling and I could so relate. I found myself just crying to that phrase and thinking yes, I am. In a few ways...mentally, emotionally, financially, spiritually. Like I said in yesterday's blog I feel consumed. Quickly that word brings to mind the verse in Lamentations 3:21-25,"Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed for His com passions never fail, they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, the Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him. The Lord is good to those whose Hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him." I can remember writing that passage on a little sticky in college and posting it on my steering wheel so that when I went off to school or work, I would remember and be encouraged. I brought that same little sticky out when Greg and I went through the nasty years in our marriage, and it was hope instilling. Now I find myself clinging to it once again, however in a new way. That's the nice thing about the word, its message is always relevant. It doesn't change, though we do. As I change it becomes richer. So the encouragement is that we are not totally drowning. We may feel like we are and the waves are so high, but the reality we don't understand is that the rescue ship is a mile away on the horizon steaming toward us and it has us on its radar. We are not consumed, or swallowed by it, just riding it until the help becomes visible to our naked eyes. What a life preserver Jesus can be. So in my anxiety attack today, I am going to just try to breathe deeply in these truths that I know and can rely on. Even when I can't feel it. Love to you peeps.