Just wanted to share a cute picture of Maleigha. This is my favorite outfit!

She is growing up so much. She can say Mama, Dada, Nana, cracker and duck...and she also quacks. She is also starting to try to repeat everything that we say. It's cute when she sings along with David as he plays the guitar or when she tries to say car or dog or kitty and can't quite get it, but it's not so cute when she mocks her cousin,Bryce, when he cries or she shakes her head no and mimics us by saying "na, na, na, na".

I finally got a good video of her dancing today...and if our internet weren't so slow I would share it with you. But, it took 20 minutes just to get this little picture on here...so I'd rather not attempt a video right now. I will just tell you that it is very cute. Mia is the best dancer that I know.

Rainy Day Fun

Since the rain has trapped us indoors today I am getting to see my daughter's many tricks as she attempts to overcome boredom...and in doing so, she is making things a little less tedious for me as well.

We have rolled the ball back and forth for awhile. She would hold the ball in her hand and flail her arms around until the ball slipped out of her hands and rolled across the floor. Occasionally the ball rolled to me as I sat only a couple feet away...but the game wasn't really being played for accuracy, we were just having fun. And from the squeals and giggles that escaped from Maleigha I could tell our goal had been reached.

I have also seen her repertoire of goofy faces. She finds it facinating to grind her teeth together which makes a horrible noise and contorts her face into an awkward but cute grin. She also loves to blink at me and blow spit out of the side of her mouth.

But most of our time was spent today dancing with the music turned up loud. My little Mia loves to dance and she's pretty good at it too. She shimmies her shoulders back and forth and rocks back and forth on her bottom. When she stands up she bounces with her knees bent and cocks her head to one side and then the other with a big grin on her face. With as much fun as we had today, I would wish for rainy days everyday!

God is in control

I had a taken a little break from posting because I wasn't enjoying it anymore and I really didn't think that anyone was reading my blog. But after a few comments from people that they were still checking my blog everyday and even printing off some of my old stuff I decided to give it another try.

I've been a little frustrated lately because I feel after all we've been through to move back to Scioto county and all the ways that God has led us to be here I just thought that ministry here would be so obvious and available. We felt called to start a college ministry at Bigelow as soon as we got here but lately it has seemed nearly impossible for it to work. After other obligations have piled up and another, much larger church has developed a very similar ministry with many of the same ideas I just find myself wanting to give up. But...

The good news is that God is in control. He knows what is best for us and what He really wants us to focus on. He can make a great ministry out of seemingly impossible circumstances. And as I read the book of John this week I was reminded that Jesus didn't have a big group of people to back him up, he didn't have a band and loud music and he didn't have parties and exciting speakers...it was just him and people were drawn to that. As long as we are focused on the truth and sharing Jesus with others that is really all we are supposed to do. We shouldn't compare our ministry to the one down the street, we should just look to God as our "audience of one". What we are seeking is to make true believers not to have a big group of people who only think they might be going to heaven.