Go Frogs!

Just for the record...

-The new clock tower on campus is purple...

-The Chesapeake Energy building down town is purple...

-The mayor named today as "Wear Purple Day"...and rumor has it that this was on the national news this morning...

-The meteorologist on the morning news, was wearing purple this morning...

-The campus is buzzing with media...visitors and tons of purple and the trees along University are adorned with purple and white (and pink) ribbons...

-Houses around the campus have flags hung, signs hung on windows, streamers in front yards...

-C wore his game day shirt to the office today...

-I wore a purple sweater and purple scarf to school today...

But most noteworthy...

-B wore his game day shirt to school today...along with almost his entire school!

You have to love the fall, football and of course the FROGS!!!!

Here is a video of that little guy that is celebrating Christmas early this year...

www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/11/13/boy.early.christmas.wdiv

Three Sweet Years

Yesterday, C and I celebrated our third anniversary...at times if feels like the time has flown by, and other times if feels like time has stood still since November 11, 2006! We celebrated by taking a walk with B and Ella. We walked through a park that we walked through countless times while we dated in college and then later got engaged in. It was so sweet to walk through the park together as a family last night, we found our conversation to be flooded with memories...it was pretty surreal to think of the journey that the Lord has and continues to take us on...

Our first date at Bass Hall, walks around the park, the park bench, the bridge, time at the ball park, Reunion Tower, time spent with family, the cabin, skiing, Patagonia, Mesa, being together, being apart, our engagement, planning our wedding, Saint John, our first house, Ella, our precious church, our Bible study, learning about B, meeting B, becoming parents....

I can't wait for whatever is around the corner...it has been and continues to be such an honor to be on this journey together...

Special Request

Below is an email that I received at work today...I thought I might post it in effort to get as many Christmas cards to this sweet little guy as possible...but even more, in effort to rally prayers for this precious little one and his family. It is hard to understand things like this...praise God for being bigger and greater than cancer!

***Special Request***
Diana Harrison Biorkman has a 5 year old son in his last stages of a 2 1/2 year battle with Neuroblastoma cancer. They are celebrating Christmas next weekend and Noah loves Christmas card. Please take a minute to send a card to:
Noah Biorkman
1141 Fountain View Circle
South Lyon, MI 48178
Thank you! Please post on your wall...let's get a truck load!!!

A side note that seems appropriate to share...
Today the kids in my classes sang "My God is so Big" as we have been learning about the story of Abraham...the lyrics go like this...
"My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God can not do...for you!
My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God can not do.
The mountains are His, the valleys are His, the stars are His handiwork too...
My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, t"here's nothing my God can not do!"

These lyrics are so true...so simple...yet so hard to grasp...

Father, thank You for being so big, so great and so mighty! Please be big, great and mighty in Noah and his family's life!

Thankful

We have been a little cooped up recently in effort to stay well...so...I have had a little extra time on my hands during B's naps... I saw this idea for center piece in photo in a magazine...I changed it a little and put it on our living room mantle to serve as a reminder for us this month as we anticipate thanksgiving of all of our blessings ...
Below are some of the little blessings that I have been able to capture recently...


B & C love to watch football (well really any kind of ball games) together...B usually sits with C right before bedtime...I love those precious little sleepy eyes...Thankful for rest!

B is hysterical when he eats...he continues to grunt...this particular evening C fed him on the floor and B sat on his own...Thankful for B's milestones!

B's new swing has given all of us a new lease on life...he continues to love to be outside and this provides another avenue for us to enjoy being outside on the porch...Thankful for outside!

It's even fun to swing in the Synchilla fleece when it is "chilly" outside...Thankful for the cool weather!

Another game...Thankful for more rest!

B & C taking a "self take" while I was away at Bible study one evening...Thankful for special C & B time!

B's new face...just imagine him making a grunting type noise through his mouth and nose as he is making this face...it is hysterical...Thankful for giggles!

Exploring with his little hands...he seemed to be enamored by our green pumpkin...Thankful for learning!

And finally...how can you not love the baby Carhart overalls and cowboy boots? Thankful for laughs!

Happy Fall

I get pretty nostalgic in the fall...how can you not love pumpkins, the blue sky, leaves that are changing, a breeze and walking with crunching leaves under my feet...I am the first to admit that I may romanticize the thought of fall just a "little"...but I do love the fall and am so grateful that we have had a relatively "cool" fall this year!

Go Frogs!

We enjoyed celebrating homecoming with some dear friends this year...The "Greene Girls" enjoyed a reunion at the Greene house...it was so fun to walk through the house and sort of relive some precious time that we all shared together in college...this photo is on the new porch swing...the original porch swing is now hanging on our front porch...these sweet friends asked the owner of the house if they could purchase the swing as a gift for C and I when we got married...C and I spent countless hours on the swing when we were dating...it is such a gift to have...we will treasure it always and be sure to have it hanging where ever we are living!

B enjoyed getting to meet Kate, another dear friend of mine, for the first time... Our visits are few and far between these days...but always SO sweet!

B was quite a trooper during the game..he seemed to enjoy the game until about the third quarter...then he was ready to call it quits! He really did seem to be enthralled by all the people and sounds...with the exception of the Frog Horn...tears ensued after each touch down...maybe it was his way of empathizing with the other team?

It was fun to get a photo with Super Frog...I think the costume is a little bit scary, if I were a little kid I may be intimidated so this may be the last photo we get for a couple years!

We watched the parade with some friends on Friday night...it was fun to listen to the band march by and fun to see all of the floats that the different organizations worked to put together...it took me back to college when we were required to put in a certain number of "pomping" hours on the float that we were working on...oh, were those the days!

This was my favorite banner...

Who knew that the campus police have Segway bikes now? Maybe this was their big debut at the parade...needless to say, I was impressed...and left wondering..."Do they give students their infamous parking tickets while on Segways now?"