Majestic

Here I go with two posts in one day. I'm been trying to focus more on God's greatness and I wanted to share these pictures, which I think are a pretty fantastic representation of that.

A look-out point about fifteen minutes from my parents house. It has the most amazing view of Mt. Hood and you can see the river cutting through the valley.


The sunrise at Washington Family Ranch, taken this summer at YL camp.

Strength from above

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13

Repeated over and over and over....

Broken

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." -Jeremiah 29:11

I wish I knew the plans God has for me. Living blindly is hard. Making decisions that you know are right often times hurt. Right now I'm realizing both of these things and feel tragically broken...

Its official...

...a broken heart sucks.

Inspiration

Over Christmas break I watched "Julie and Julia" and got inspired. Not to cook, that would be a miracle, but to be more proactive in my blogging. I'm definitely not going to commit to blogging every day, but I would like to try to blog a few days a week. I'm sure that many of them will be short rather than long, but at least I'm trying! I would like to focus on things that I'm thankful for and this little love bug gets the first entry! I had so much fun with Bek over Christmas and am praying that they move here at some point so I can love on her all the time. :)

Charlie Rose

He's here! Charles Whitney Rose was born last Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 520pm, weighing 8lbs and measuring 21in long. He is beautiful!! Claudia is so excited to be a big sister and I am excited to be able to take care of both of these precious treasures.

Chloe Tyler Crain

Today the anticipation over my best friend Stacy's baby being born was over!! Chloe Tyler decided to grace us with her presence at 12:57pm weighing 7lbs 8oz. She is twenty inches long and is perfect! She has a mouth like her mama's and looks like she may have red hair like her daddy! Stacy was induced this morning, started having contractions around 830am, her water broke at 1145am and Chloe was born a little over an hour later. Stacy said that the labor was intense and the epidural didn't numb all the way because of how fast Chloe came. Lucky for Stacy it was only four pushes and then the little love bug was out! :)Chloe is doing fantastic with breast feeding. She has a calm demeaner, hardly cried when she got her shots, slept through most of her bath and is just perfect! I'm so HAPPY she's here!! (And so is her mama, even though she crapped on her as soon as they put Chloe on Stacy's chest! Too funny.)