Carpe Diem:: Seize the Day

Most of you probably have already read that sweet, young Cora passed away today after a very short battle with cancer. My heart is broken for this family. I'm so thankful to see that they have a relationship with the Lord and I pray that they will seek comfort and refuge in Him. I cannot imagine their grief. Our days are numbered and tomorrow is never guaranteed; makes me want to go wake my children from their beds, hug on them, tell them I love them, and remind them of Jesus' love for them... and that He made the ultimate sacrifice.

Would y'all please keep praying for Hannah Grace? And Annette too? Hannah Grace's billirubin has gone up again today and it's not a good thing... please pray that it will go down!

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I truly feel like we have made the most of our weekend, the unseasonably warm temps have certainly helped. The girls wanted to bust out their bathing suits yesterday... so I let them, but when they begged to swim I had to draw the line there.... it is only February!

Here are my 3 bathing beauties... {Raiger caked in sunscreen, Morgan eating candy, and JM... suckin' on his ole pass-a-roo}

Justin took Morgan on her first "camp out" last night. She was so excited you would have thought he was taking her to Disney World. She packed herself, wore her boots, slept in a tent, and had a blast. Since Paige didn't get to go on the outing we had one of our own at home... a "slumber party". We ate fresh baked cookies in bed, researched Valentine's ideas and she slept fairly well. I, on the other hand... well, you'll see. She spent some of the night fussin' for her paci that was somewhere in the covers but we couldn't find it and I spent most of the night trying to figure out how the child wound up where I would find her... here's a "visual aid" of how we she slept most of the night...

But guess what? If the opportunity arose again for another "slumber party" I'd do it all over again. She loved every minute of it. By the way, do you like my dreadlocks?

And... we found some SUPER COOL Valentine's in our research... more to come on that...

Y'all hug 'em closer, squeeze 'em tighter, and tell them you love them to the moon and back!! Because tomorrow is never guaranteed...

"Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."James 4:13-15

Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3