My God, with the riches of His mercy...

I sit here with my heart filled so deeply with gratitude, I must "count the ways", I must stack my rocks outside of MY Jordan so that I will never forget what The Lord has done....
Where do I begin...ok, I will start with the YMCA.  I have ALWAYS wanted and desired to be able to go to a gym and exercise and let my boys play in the children area.  Well, that has NEVER happened due to a) finances haven't lent themselves and b) my children cry the whole time and I can't do it.  Well, we get out here and God placed the home HE HAND PICKED for us 2 minutes down the road from my little Canaan, the Ryan Family YMCA :).  Not only can we afford it, but my kids have a SUPER BLAST in the kids area!!  They are surrounded by windows so I am constantly peaking at them and they are either running through this giant play gym or sitting and doing a craft, or having story time, or having a snack or outside doing an obstical course!!!  I KNOW!!!! Pretty unbelievable!!  AND I get to go exercise ANY time I want!!  I LOVE IT!!  The next beautiful thing about the Y, is that it has precious little kids classes that I will go to with Parker and Beckham for their "exercise" class...they think its the cats meow!  They love it!!!

Ok, so that alone was such a GIFT from my God, I am so grateful for.  The last thing I will highlight, though there are more is the pool.  Now, one of the things that broke my heart about leaving our home was that we would never have our amazing pool experiences anymore...there are NO pools up here............eeeeeeeexcept at the YMCA....LOOK AT THIS POOL!!!!  It's almost exactly what we had at home....God most preciously kissed me on the forehead and said..."here my sweet daughter, I want you to still enjoy your pool" 

Oh Father!!!!!  THANKYOU from the bottom of my unworthy heart!!!

The second massive blessing is this park. 

 One of my concerns about up here is there were not neighborhood parks on every corner....where was I going to take my crazy energetic boys to go crazy at???  Well, I never noticed this massive amazing park until we officially moved up here, but it's right down the street, it has covered picnic tables for picnics, soccer fields, tons and tons of play areas...my heart overflows...the boys love it and I am ECSTATIC!  It's so close to home and well...BLESSING my father...another kiss on my forehead from HIM!

Another sweet blessing that is kind of silly is HEB.  Everyone who knows me, knows I LOVED my Summerwood HEB.  Well, the nearest one is 30 minutes away here.  So I was kind of bummed, but God has filled my grocery cup with amazing farmers market type stores around here that I am loooving.  However, the other day I had to make the trip to what would be now known as my HEB...as I approached the store and walked in, I noticed it literally was a carbon copy of the Summerwood HEB!!!!!  I truly felt like I was in Summerwood doing what I did ever week, and it felt amazing...I looked up to heaven and said..."Father, THANKYOU for bringing me home, for an hour or two....you blessed me with this"...It was so much like my HEB, that I had a guy ask me if I knew where the peanut butter was...yep!  Isle 2!!!  Oh HEB, it was so good to see you again :). 

 
Days are so so fun....just enjoying my boys, playing at our house is so so fun...it is such a fantastic home, yard, driveway and street!!!  So cool!!!  However, I'm starting to feel the finality of leaving
Houston...my family, my church family....it's starting to hurt!!!  However, my God has been so kind,
so gracious so AMAZINGLY GOOD to me, I cannot help but just praise and thank Him.  Father, though my heart aches for the people that filled my Houston life....I am so so so grateful for your kindness here...I am so at peace that I am where you want me and THAT alone makes it easier.   Oh Father...it is well!

Trucks!!

Today had sooooooo many blessings!!! One of the blessings was figuring out a route for the boys to drive their power wheel trucks on.  You see, one of our absolute JOYS back in Houston was going over to a cul-de-sac close by and them driving their trucks around while I sat in my lawn chair and blissfully watched.  Well, here there is NO cul-de-sac and it was wearing me out walking/running after them constantly looking over my shoulder for cars!  It was getting to be a dread instead if excitement for me.  Well, God took care of it!  I realized the street our driveway is on is super slow...and it's a PERFECT truck route for the boys to drive up and down.  I just sit on my driveway and once again blissfully watch my boys drive up and down our little cross street!!!  Isn't God so good?!?!?? 

Wish I had a picture...

Yesterday we woke up to my precious little boys crawling in bed with us in our new house.  Parker snuggling in my arms and Beckham snuggled up to my back with his arm wrapped around my neck.  Praising God for that morning.  That was such a beautiful time and I wished I had a picture of it :), but that would have meant that one of us would have had to move...and THAT wasn't going to happen :).

My replacement fruit...

Just sitting here in my back yard of the new house in Ft. Worth praising and thanking God for all of the blessings.  One in particular that I am filled with appreciation for is in this picture.  

One thing I was so sad about leaving our old house was our incredible peach tree that for the first time ever was COVERED in peaches...I could have walked up anytime grabbed a peach and eaten it right off the tree....however, we left the house before they were ripe.  :(. Then I get up here and see that I have THREE fig trees that are covered in figs that I can just walk up to at any given time, pick one off and eat it!!!!  God is soooooo good to give me a replacement.

JOY!!

One if our little joys in life is the splash pad and the swimming pool!!!  Here are some pics of the boys joyously playing with each other at the splash pad... I sit and just RELISH in watching them play with such JOY!!!

 
 

Fun day at the mall with Gigi and mommy!

Hugging it out in the dressing room

 They got to ride the carousel too!

Wave at Gigi boys!!!

 

 

 

Am I boasting in what is right?

Jeremiah 9:23-24 talks about how it pleases The Lord for us to boast, not about our wisdom or riches, but about knowing HIM!  

As a mother, and a wife and a daughter of God, what am I boasting about?  Hmmm...something to think about!