Our land

 We've been praying about how we want to pray over our land and some prophetic act we could do as a family before we break ground.  This was Brian talking to the kids about what we are getting ready to do.  We bought some wild flower seeds to sew on our land as we pray.

We decided to be intentional about where we would pray...

We started where our front door will be and Brian prayed dedicating this home to the Lord.

Next we walked the four corners of the lot and let each of the kids pray and sprinkle seeds.  It was so fun hearing what they wanted to release...

Port felt like the Lord said He would be our Protector

Ella released a spirit of dance

Haynes chose JOY

We are so excited to break ground this week and start this new adventure!

Crew is 4!!

 Crew turned 4 on Sunday!  

They have an amazing backyard, perfect for a spring birthday party.  I love all these kids gathered around the turtle...especially that cute Harper Florence:-)

Crew had a construction birthday party so I bought him some building blocks.  When Ella saw the gift she was SO disappointed in my choice.  She thought it was a baby gift.  She really LOVES Crew and wanted something different, next time I'll let her pick out his gift!

Birds

We spend most time outside lately, and the boys saw two birds fly into our basketball goal!  They were both scissortail fly-catchers.  One died immediately but the other seemed to be stunned.  I honestly had NO idea what to do, so I called Brian:-)  Brian's suggestion was to let the boys figure it out...they wanted to kill it!  I said "guys, i don't know what to do!"  Ella said "Mommy we need to pray!"  Ella started praying and then trying to show the bird how to fly...notice her flapping her wings:-)

After about 15 minutes the bird just flew away!  We had a small burial for the other one....

I love that her response was to pray...even if it was for a bird:-)

Monroe

We've been praying over the last few months to hear what God has for Port next year as a 1st grader!

We went on Friday to enroll him at Monroe Elementary School.  We are so excited for what God has for this mighty warrior.  A few months ago I heard the Lord say that Port will be a Joshua at Monroe next year.  We are thankful that God has a powerful plan for this mighty man!

*I sent Brian this picture at work and he said, "Wow!  I think my mom has a picture of me standing in that same location!"

Silly girls

I love these SILLY girls!

I got to hang out with them during soccer practice this week.  

This was their silly faces:-)

Crazy hair!!

Remember when this girl had hair that looked like this everyday!!  

For some reason her cradle cap has seemed to come back?!?  The positive thing is we can get our hair to do CRAZY things:-)

Tiger Cage

Well...they delivered our pod last week!  Of course it's not called a "pod" in our house, Brian told the kids it's a "Tiger cage."  He built it up and told them a tiger lived inside...you should have seen their face when he opened the door:-)  We've had dessert nights in the pod, dance parties with neighbors, played inside the pod...but Sunday we finally packed the pod up:-(  Tomorrow they come to take our pod away and we move out of this house on Friday!  We will sure miss our neighbors...they are all not pleased to see this pod on our front porch.

*My favorite thing is that when we see ANY pod throughout the city my kids will say, "They have a tiger cage too?!?"