Baptism in the River

If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.  As Scripture says, "Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame."  For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile-the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

Romans 10:9-13

Our sweet Hannah girl has called on the name of the Lord our God and has been saved.  Praise our Father in heaven!!  So the next step was baptism.

Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.  For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 

Romans 6:3-5
 (I could really post this whole chapter but I'll leave it at those three scriptures...)

So we went to the river behind my parents house.  My Mom & Dad joined us.  Bobby and Hannah got into the freezing cold water.  Bobby prayed and then baptized our baby girl.  It was so beautiful and sweet.  
I wish there were better pictures to share.  I only took a few pics and a video because I wanted to really see what was happening rather than worrying about angles & photos.

{ Salvation experience March 30th, 2012 -- Baptism July 27th, 2013 }

I don't have pictures of the actual baptism because I did a video instead. I've attempted to load it but I think it's too long so I may edit it a little and attempt to post it again.  Keep checking back.

Birthday Fun

I had a Brown Bear, Brown Bear party for Amos.  Well, the invites were Brown Bear but that's as far as the theme went.  I had planned to have chocolate teddy grahams & goldfish for snacks but I ran out of time.  We had a low key party with mainly family and a few good friends.  We grilled hamburgers & hotdogs, enjoyed cupcakes & ice cream and spent the evening chatting as Amos enjoyed his new toys.  Low key and fun!

 We're singing Happy Birthday to Amos in this picture.  I think he was starting to get a little overwhelmed.

 But a little chocolate & cream cheese makes everything better!

Love

Hannah had her "cheesy face."
Samuel had his "squinty face."
And Amos just has "the face."

He started making this face for some reason but it is so cute!!  So now we spend a lot of our time saying, "Make the face Amos.  Make the face!"  Sometimes he shakes his head "no" and sometimes he'll perform for us.  Amos is such a cutie patootie!!

-- One --

Our sweet Amos James is one year old.  I'm not sure how it happened.  One minute I was nursing him constantly and sleeping little, all the while wishing he was a year old.  Next thing I know it's July and Amos is crawling and talking and turning one!  

He is just the sweetest little guy.  He loves to snuggle and gives great open mouthed slobbery kisses.  He follows Hannah & Samuel around everywhere they go.  He's very happy and laid back.  

Amos sleeps through the night - going to bed at 8 or 8:30pm and sleeping until 8:30 or 9:00am.  He goes to sleep so easily too.  I just lay him down with his paci & snuggle blanket and he's out.

Amos has become very verbal and his list of words grows daily:  Da Da, Ma Ma, Na Na (for Hannah), doggy, cat, duck and chicken.

He's very stubborn and independent.  He loves to crawl around but would rather be walking around.  He gets very angry (then ignored) when you won't help him walk.

He's got 6 of the cutest little teeth and the cheesiest little grin!  Love love love this little guy!!

4th of July

Or the day of the torrential downpour.  Or the day that the river -near my parents house- kissed the bottom of the bridge because it rained so much that day.  Seriously people.  

My Mom decided she wanted to make Low Country Boil instead of grilling out this year.  It was our first time making it and it turned out great.  I think Hannah ate all of the crab legs all by herself.  

Despite the deluge we managed to shoot some fireworks.  We had some bottle rockets and roman candles.  Amos & my sister started out with us on the porch.

But after this started --

and this --

Amos retreated to the house to watch the rest of the show.

I hope your 4th was as delicious and fun as ours was!

Summer Time

... and the livin' is easy.

Now that VBS is over we haven't had much of a schedule.  We've just been sleeping late, occasionally heading to the lake with friends and having fun.  The only thing that we have going on is Hannah's weekly drama class which will end with a production on the 13th.  It's going to be cute. 

Here are a few pics of what we've been up to lately.

-- We've been swimming at OSP with friends we made during Upward.  Rhett was on Sammy's basketball team and I went to school with his aunt and one of his uncles.

--Our local Frozen Yogurt store has been hosting free outdoor movies bi-monthly.  They have balloon animals, bounce houses, pizza, popcorn, frozen yogurt of course and much more.  All you have to do is show up with blankets & camping chairs and just enjoy the fun.
We've been with some friends from church.

 My Mom & Amos

 Austin (above) and Logan (below) are brothers.  They are such sweet sweet boys too.  Logan & Sammy have been having a blast together this summer.

 Nathaniel "loves" Hannah.  Do you remember those days of kindergarten love?

--Hannah made a little friend during Upward.  Madison & her Dad have also been coming to BLBC too.  This past weekend was Madison's birthday party and it was so much fun.  I wish I had taken more (and better) pictures.  Madison's two aunts hosted her party and made it so formal and fancy.  Hannah has still been talking about it.

 Madison is the cutie pie in the middle.

 Apparently Hannah was too busy with the blower to take a decent picture.

 We bought Madison a Madame Alexander doll for her birthday.  She & Hannah are so excited to have twin dolls.

Today it's rainy so we've popped popcorn and are having a "movie theater."  Oh and making home made chocolate chip cookies.  Delicious!

Our Life in Pictures

{ unedited and with captions }

-- AWANA --

I taught the T&T's - here are two of the four girls in my group.

 Sammy was in the Cubbies class with Ms. Andrea and Miss Robin.

  

Hannah was in Sparks with Miss Diann, Ms. Nancy and Mr. Nate (obviously not pictured.)

And Amos was the only one in Puggles with Ms. Betty.

-- VBS --

The kids & I just love Ms. Betty.  She normally watches Amos in the nursery during service.  She's the only one he reaches for at church.

Sammy & Summer

 Hannah S. - Summer M. - Sammy - Madison B. - and Addie D.

 I was the craft coordinator for VBS and lovely Ms. Grace was one of my helpers.

-- Amos --

Amos loves crawling over to the key board and patting the keys.  Sometimes he "dances' while he "plays."

 This is the way Amos crawls.  He keeps that right leg over to the side.

And last of all, Hannah and Sammy love swimming at South Cove with the Underwood boys.