Don't know what to title this...

Here's Avery yesterday before our trip to Layton. She was ready to see her friends but then she decided to be grumpy the whole time we were there. That's really unlike her. Usually when she's out and about and in her stroller she's happy as can be but yesterday she was grumpy off and on. Then when we got home she was fine. Guess she just wanted to be home.

She loves the computer. If it's on the floor and open, she will haul booty to get to it. I mean she LOVES it.

She also loves her sippy cup. When she sees you with it she'll start smiling and flapping her arms. She's even learned to tilt it. She's so smart :)

Yesterday she had her first true hand washing in the sink because she found the toilet bowl brush :( She has also discovered the springy door stopper on the wall. She likes to grab it and let go and let it move around. She's all over the place. It's fun to see her so mobile.

Love that girl.

new video

a clear video of my darling has been posted :0)

Free!

My baby is sleeping. Have I mentioned I love that girl???

I have through out the years bought Bible study books with great intentions but sadly, they sit on a shelf only half read. I've been really convicted lately of how I've been living my life not truly studying the word of God. I read it (not as much as I should) but I haven't been studying it. I've been reading The Passion of Jesus Christ. It's 50 reasons why Jesus came to die.

Today's reading: "Christ suffered and died to cancel the legal demands of the law against us." In the Old Testament, people had to live by the law and perform things like sacrifices because Jesus had not yet come. I can't even tell you how glad it makes me that I don't have to live my life practicing certain deeds to get to Heaven.

"The second reason it is folly to hope in good deeds is that this is not the way God saves. If we are saved from the consequences of our bad deeds, it will not be because they weighed less than our good deeds. It will be because the "record of [our] debt" in heaven has been nailed to the cross of Christ. God has a totally different way of saving sinners than by weighing their deeds. There is no hope in our deeds. There is only hope in the suffering and death of Christ."

The record of our deeds was nailed to the cross (Colossians 2:14). Christ became our damning record. He endured my damnation. He is my only hope and faith in Him is my only way to God.

I am ever thankful that there is nothing I can do to get to Heaven except believe in what Christ has done for me. There is no action or work that I can do that is going to get me any closer to heaven. Ephesians 2:8-9 says we are saved by grace through faith, not of works. Praise God because as a sinful human, there is no "works" I could do to make me worthy to enter the gates of Heaven.

What a relief! That takes some weight off our shoulders! Nothing we can do ourselves makes us worthy. Only the blood of Christ makes us worthy. That, my friends, makes me smile :0)

Package

If you look close, you can barely see her teeth.

We had some rain this morning along with some hail.

We got a package in the mail! We'll keep her!

Just Thinkin'

All this time I've been rather annoyed at the poor quality of video that my little camera takes. Well, today I hit some button and started to play with it and the video cleared up. Sheesh. Glad I figured it out at least. Now I'm going to force myself to not be ticked that I have 6 months of blurry video when I didn't have to...

I've been trying to upload a video since last night but of course, I can't get it so I'll wait because it's making me angry.

I've been thinking about something lately and I just want to put it out there. People always say that God will not give us more than we can handle. I think this provides a lot of hope to people who are suffering through different things. It gives us comfort to think that in our lives, we'll never experience hardship or pain that we can't handle. I've always gone along with this thought, though never really thinking about it. Sounds nice enough, doesn't it?

Then I read something that made me think about it more. Where in the Bible does it say that? I've thought about this and I think that there are things that we, sinful humans, can't handle. But the good news is that if you are a child of God, you can deal with what ever comes your way. By ourselves we can't deal with everything but with God helping us, we can.

So in a way, it's true that God will never bring us anything we can't handle but in another way I don't think it's true. I think that statement puts the emphasis on us and not God. Without Christ, we can do nothing. I like that. As a Christian, I can have comfort knowing that I can handle whatever comes my way because I have God on my side.

Well, that's my deep thought for the day.

I think God is going to be a more prominent topic on this blog. Just so you know.

New Video

Nothing exciting, just her moving around.

Loves Her Daddy!

Hangin' out with dad.

You can do a lot of things to Avery and she doesn't care. She left this blanket on her head forever, as if it wasn't even there.

This little girl makes my heart happy. She even slept the whole night through last night!! I'm doing a happy dance ;0)

She's been really chatty lately. I love to her her voice. I'm waiting for it to get warm enough to swim. We have a pool in the backyard but it was there when we moved in and I want to buy another one but David says we have one already. He says I just need to clean out the other one but I'd rather go buy a new one that hasn't been tainted with who knows what. (She keeps screaming as loud as she can while I'm typing this. A happy scream that is.) I think some people around here are swimming but it's still too cold for me. This weekend might have been ok.

I'm trying to upload a video but it'll probably take me about 5 tries. We'll see.