Reminicsing :)

Posting these so I have them handy.  They're on my facebook info page, but I come and go from there, so I wanted them here!  :)  YouTube videos of the montage my cousin made for us that we played at the reception after our wedding, then two he put together afterwards to our songs.  Love watching these, as it's been EIGHT years almost since that day.  Weird, since I'm the same age and all!  :) 

Casey and Tara Growing Up 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc5eJxsBRN0

Casey and Tara Growing Up 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGzj8dZBGYU

Casey and Tara Growing Up 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6htQOYIpXxw

Wedding Montage 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ao1iry8dxg

Wedding Montage 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jPbqrAKpxg

Not sure who loves watching the videos more, us or the girls. :) 

Truth from the mouth of Kamry Kate :)

It has been over a year since I've blogged!  We've had a really crazy, and really amazing year!  Not too long after my last post Casey and I were completely convicted that God wanted us to homeschool our soon to be kindergartener.  Since I had said less than two months before that, "I could NEVER homeschool!  Great for some people, but NOT FOR US!", this was quite the change.  It took a little getting used to (for me and some family) but a year later, things are going great!  Do I have my days?  Yes.  Some days Casey comes home from work and I tell him I'm headed to work the next day.  Where?  Who knows.  I just know I'm not staying home another day! :)  It lasts a few hours.  Then I'm okay.  Jacie is thriving...reading really well, math is pretty easy for her (hoping it picks up for first grade!), hates copywork, you know, typical kindergartener. :)  We've read some great books, finishing up the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and have read almost all of Thornton Burgess' books.  She loves to read!  Wonder where she gets that from?  Ask Jenny....

So why blog after not blogging for such a long time? 

Today at lunch we had something really cool happen, and I need to document it.  (Casey's orders.) 

This morning we made Resurrection Rolls...there are several recipes floating around, google it and you'll see how they fit with Easter week.  We read John 19 while the oven was preheating, so the girls were hearing about Jesus dying on the cross.  We finished up, and the girls went to their room to play "kids" (i.e. house) while Eden and I made lunch.  When they came back, their food was on the table, but I was still getting mine and Eden's ready, so they prayed on their own.  That spurred this conversation:

Kamry: "I was praying last night in my head so I didn't wake up Jacie, and I told Jesus thank you for dying on the cross. And you know what he said?"

Me: "What did he say?"

Kamry:

"He said he would do it over and over again."

At this point I was speechless, a mess of goosebumps, and almost in tears.  I guess I don't know how to explain it, other than I knew God had spoken to Kamry in a way that she could articulate in that specific sentence, and I knew he had spoken to me through her.  You teach your kids to pray in hopes that they make it a regular habit, but man how I don't understand the amazingness of God, because I was floored that she'd heard a response from Him.  Where's MY faith?

Do any of us realize the cost of Jesus' death on the cross?  How many of us would line up to sacrifice OUR children to save other people?  Sorry, people.  Not this girl.  But God sacrificed his son, Jesus, for us.  For you!  And He'd do it OVER and OVER again. 

Thanks, Kamry, for reminding me of this Truth!