Day 319 - Proverbs 31 Woman

I love this passage in Proverbs 31 about the excellent wife. It's been such a challenge and encouragement to me as I strive to serve God and love Roy to my best ability!

Day 318 - Birthday Weeks

I love birthday weeks! With all the busyness these days, it's more fun to spread things out over a week instead of just one day! This is Roy's birthday week. We kicked off by having cake and gifts with my mom and grandma. We've also had some us time, relaxing and playing Parcheesi! Looking forward to continuing to celebrate him throughout this week!

Day 317 - The Rodale Whole Foods Cookbook

In our efforts to eat more whole foods, we checked out this cookbook from the library. I'd taken a look at it online, and it looked promising. Over 1400 recipes! There's gotta be something good in there, right? Well, there is!

We've tried a few things from it so far, mostly with success. Tonight we tried Roasted Feta-stuffed Chicken Breasts. Oh. My. Yum. It was possibly the best chicken either of us had ever had. Roy had found these massive chicken breasts, so I saved half of mine for lunch tomorrow! I will be looking forward to it all morning :)

We're thankful for some great ideas for whole food cooking, and some definite "do-again's" as we call them!

Day 316 - Being Appreciated

Today the pastors of the church were called up to be recognized and thanked for all they do. They were each given a jar full of notes of encouragement from the church members as well as some nice gift cards! We got home from church and read through each note together. How awesome! We're so thankful for everyone's encouragement and kind words. I was pretty excited about the gift card to P.F. Chang's as well, because that's where we're going on Thursday for Roy's birthday! Now we don't even have to pay for it!! It just reminded me yet again how God's provision is so perfect. And Roy loved that their gift card bag comes with two fortune cookies, which of course we ate right then :) As if that weren't enough to remind me of God's goodness, my fortune even read, "The best times of your life have not yet been lived." Not that I put any stock in fortune cookies, but how true! So grateful to see my husband be appreciated and to get to serve along side him at this wonderful church!

50 days left to go!

Day 315 -Praise Orchestra Concert

Tonight, the praise orchestra I play with had a concert entitled "Water Music." We played the famous piece by Handel as well as many other pieces having to do with water, such as "Come Thou Fount," " The River is Here," "Shall We Gather at the River"... you get the idea!

I enjoy playing with this group a lot! I'm so grateful for an opportunity to use the musical gifts God's given me and play with an awesome group! The fact that the director is one whom I played under for many years as well as a good friend doesn't hurt either! :)

Day 314 - Engagement Photos

While we had seen some of our engagement pictures, I got the cd today with a bunch more on them! Amazing to see 3 1/2 years back and think how much we've changed since then. God's taught us so much!

This is one of my favorites:

Day 313 - Operation Christmas Child

Tonight we went shopping for our Operation Christmas Child box. We decided to do a boy between ages 5-9. It was fun shopping for him! I wish the boxes were bigger. That's the only sad part! But I stuffed it all in there, and a rubber band will do the trick :)

The best part about this ministry is these kids will get to hear the gospel in their language, possibly for the first time. They also have the option now to track your box if you pay online, which is so cool! Last year our box went to Mexico. I'm excited to see where it goes this year! And I pray that this little boy enjoys both his material gifts as well as understands and accepts the greatest gift of all - Jesus Christ.