Happy Monday friends! We are coming off of an awesome weekend here on the homestead. We celebrated our favorite little girls' birthday on Saturday. Of course it was Barbie themed! Makena did a great job on the banner. A bounce house and Barbie themed...Yes please! Obviously, this was her pose of the day! Wrenley and her bestie, John Robert I love this little smile! I love her! Two pretty girls On Sunday, Trey got to preach a Sunday Morning service at our church. He was pretty nervous but did amazing and had improved since his last sermon. I am proud of him. He is definitely not ready to be a pastor but already has another engagement set up on the 27th of September. He even did a good job of dressing himself today! This was also our 5th Sunday, so we had potluck with singing after that. It was such a sweet time to come together as a church family. During our singing we had all of the men get up and sing (Trey played the guitar) and then we had all of the ladies get up and sing (my ...
Getting older is a funny thing. When you're younger, you think 40 sounds old. Then you get 40 and you realize you were clearly very confused. And somewhere along the way, birthdays start coming around a whole lot faster than they used to. There are definitely things about aging that I could do without. The random aches and pains, needing reading glasses to see a menu, and realizing that staying up too late and requires a recovery period all come to mind. But there are also some really good things about getting older. You know yourself better. You care a little less about what everybody else thinks. You start figuring out what-- and who -- is actually worth your time. And hopefully, you begin to realize that aging well isn't really about trying to stay young. It's about taking care of this life you have right now. So instead of talking about wrinkle creams, gray hairs, or trying to turn back the clock, I thought I'd share four ways we can age well-- body, mind, heart, ...