Advent Calendar

This year I finally got around to making an Advent Calendar. It was fun to make new traditions now that our family has grown a little bit, and have things that Elijah is excited to look foreward to in the Christmas Season. An Advent Calendar is a count down to Christmas. There are a lot of different things that you can do with it. Here is ours....

I went to Michael's for my supplies and decided on these little bags. I got some some glue and glitter out and had some fun glittering the numbers. I found out that I really like to glitter!! Then I punched a hole in all of the bags and tied string on them, then hung them up.

Then I put a verse in each of the bags to read each night during the month of advent. The scripture starts in the Old Testament and ends with the Birth of Christ on Christmas Eve. It shows how the entire Bible points to Jesus.

Latest Pics....

Daddy and Elijah on our first snow fall as a family of 3!

Elijah very intently "working" on his laptop

Taking a break to cheese it for mommy :)

Growing up....

Elijah is almost 6 months old! He is starting to sit up and is really into eating baby food. His favorite right now is squash, apples and bananas. He could go without carrots and peas but they are good for him so he will just have to truck through them!

Nothing But The Blood

This is such a beautiful hymn that we are memorizing as

a small group.

Nothing But The Blood

What can wash away my sin?

Nothing but the blood of Jesus;

What can make me whole again?

Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Oh! Precious is the flow

That makes me white as snow;

No other fount I know,

Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

For my pardon, this I see,

Nothing but the blood of Jesus;

For my cleansing, this my plea,

Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Nothing can for sin atone,

Nothing but the blood of Jesus

Naught of good that I have done,

Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

This is all my hope and peace,

Nothing but the blood of Jesus;

This is all my righteousness,

Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Only Jesus can wash away our sin. Thank you God for sending

Christ

on the cross for my sin,

it is only through you that I am

reconciled

and made right before you. Thank you for your

grace!

It has been awhile

Oh my goodness, I cannot believe it has been 6 weeks since I last updated. So much has been going on that I cannot recall all of it so here are some pics instead:)

Bryan and I dedicated Elijah on Sunday. It was a very surreal and amazing thing. I plan to post about more on that when I get the pics from Bryan's Dad. Here is some of the prep work....

I was making cupcakes and Elijah was eyeballing them I never guessed he would get close to them or really have any interest in them, I was wrong....

He got one! Of course I did not let him eat it or his hands until there were clean of all traces of chocolate but it was very sweet. Instead we gave him rice cereal and bananas. We are starting to feed him solids on a more regular bases now, and he loves to eat it. I think today we will venture squash:)

Elijah is teething. Nothing has poked through yet but he is drooling and chewing everything! My little boy is growing up much too fast.

First Haircut

I know it seems early to get Elijah's first haircut, but he lost most of his hair so we decided to cut it all evenly so it can grow evenly. I was looking back from when he was first born to now and the difference in his hair. It was dark brown when he was born and now it is blonde!

I think he was about 3 weeks old at this picture

Almost 4 months in this pic

Here we go, Bryan giving him his first haircut....

Elijah checking out his new cut!

" Mommy, I am not so sure about this..."

Life's busy.....

I am not sure why it is hard to find time to blog, but it is!

My precious little boy is 4 months old now! I cannot even believe it. He is so much fun and I would love him to stay this age forever. Here are a few pics I took in the last few weeks.

Guess what.... I am on the move !!! I can roll over from my stomach to my back!

More pics to follow....