You've got a Friend....

 Today we were riding to a park and Je-Je was lamenting that no friends were meeting us there to play.  I said, "Now that really hurts our feelings Je-je."  Cay chimes in without missing a beat, "you've got a friend sitting right behind you." 

I LOVED IT!  Amen!  They did go and make friends with EACH OTHER!!  I was amazed at how empty the park was and then I went by a karate studio (there was seriously nowhere to park) that was all packed out and had a realization that most kids are totally "programmed" after school. I am glad we just played together today. 

Our last spring babies came and we ended up with 5 boys and 5 girls.

Mr. Bo

Jeb and Copper

Jonas made a fun swing at the creek!

my happy boy

I was SO SORE AFTER THIS...I am getting old.

Uncle Jacob finally got up the nerve to trust our Wal-mart rope.

LOVES TO FISH!

These kids are living to fish!  They caught 51 minnows the other night while I was grading papers-wow!

sleeping in the big girl bed!  She is growing up fast!  Her pink and purple butterfly bedding is now in there and she is loving the freedom and the purple sheets!

 Seems like so many sad things are going on around us in the world.  I was reading Habakkuk this week and the prophet really has some complicated and tough questions for God.  I was glad to be in the company of someone asking questions...but I liked his final thoughts on God's answers:

Habakkuk 3

New International Version (NIV)

Habakkuk’s Prayer

3 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth.^[a]

² Lord, I have heard of your fame;
    I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord.
Repeat them in our day,
    in our time make them known;
    in wrath remember mercy.

³ God came from Teman,
    the Holy One from Mount Paran.^[b]
His glory covered the heavens
    and his praise filled the earth.
⁴ His splendor was like the sunrise;
    rays flashed from his hand,
    where his power was hidden.
⁵ Plague went before him;
    pestilence followed his steps.
⁶ He stood, and shook the earth;
    he looked, and made the nations tremble.
The ancient mountains crumbled
    and the age-old hills collapsed —
    but he marches on forever.
⁷ I saw the tents of Cushan in distress,
    the dwellings of Midian in anguish.

⁸ Were you angry with the rivers, Lord?
    Was your wrath against the streams?
Did you rage against the sea
    when you rode your horses
    and your chariots to victory?
⁹ You uncovered your bow,
    you called for many arrows.
You split the earth with rivers;
¹⁰     the mountains saw you and writhed.
Torrents of water swept by;
    the deep roared
    and lifted its waves on high.

¹¹ Sun and moon stood still in the heavens
    at the glint of your flying arrows,
    at the lightning of your flashing spear.
¹² In wrath you strode through the earth
    and in anger you threshed the nations.
¹³ You came out to deliver your people,
    to save your anointed one.
You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness,
    you stripped him from head to foot.
¹⁴ With his own spear you pierced his head
    when his warriors stormed out to scatter us,
gloating as though about to devour
    the wretched who were in hiding.
¹⁵ You trampled the sea with your horses,
    churning the great waters.

¹⁶ I heard and my heart pounded,
    my lips quivered at the sound;
decay crept into my bones,
    and my legs trembled.
Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity
    to come on the nation invading us.
¹⁷ Though the fig tree does not bud
    and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
    and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
    and no cattle in the stalls,
¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
    I will be joyful in God my Savior.

¹⁹ The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
    he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
    he enables me to tread on the heights.