40th Anniversary and Homecoming at Swift Creek Baptist

 Several weeks ago, Brent got a message that Swift Creek Baptist, where we first served in ministry in Virginia, was celebrating its 40th Anniversary and Homecoming on this last Sunday in March. On this Anniversary Sunday, SCBC was having both an 11 am and a 2 pm service with lunch in between and Pastor Steve invited Brent to preach the afternoon service. We were serving at Swift Creek during 30th anniversary, we were invited back for the 35th anniversary and now, we were honored to be back to be a part of the 40th Anniversary celebration!

It was a blessing to see and hear Pastor Ron speak in the morning service

 The music by the praise team, Timmy and the choir was so beautiful in all the services.

 We enjoyed hearing Pastor Steve preach in the morning service!

 After the morning service, we had lunch in the Family Life Center.

 Allie loved her first trip to SCBC. Martha has loved on each of our girls while we served there and even now as we come back to visit!

 I didn't get a picture before the cake was cut but it was pretty awesome to see and celebrate!

It was good to see Pastor Steve and Brent back together again.

 We filled almost a whole pew of girls and friends for the 2 pm service!

Brent did a wonderful job preaching in the afternoon service!

 The girls loved seeing old friends and making new friends today!

 It was so good to catch up with a lot of our youth from our time at SCBC! They will still be our youth to us even when they get married and start having little ones of their own!

I could have taken pictures all day and not gotten a picture of everyone at SCBC who is special to us. I just needed a big group picture!

 We even had chance to have supper and visit a little longer before we headed out of Colonial Heights.

 What a blessed and encouraging day to be back at Swift Creek Baptist Church! We so enjoyed being back and visiting with everyone!

 There were just two of us in our family when ww began at Swift Creek in 2005. We had two of our babies while we served at Swift Creek and both of their first Sundays in church were at Swift Creek. Now we come back to visit Swift Creek with all 4 of our girls, and they love to visit as much as we do! Thank you Swift Creek Family for such a wonderful day! We are thankful to be in God's family together with you all!

Happy 11 Months, Allie!

We can't believe it has almost been a year since God gave us this precious girl!

 She is full of personality and loves to play with her sisters. She is pulling up everywhere and with 4 teeth now, she is loving to try new foods! She is crawling and waving and dancing.

 Allie Grace, we are so blessed to have you in our family. You bring smiles and sunshine and snuggles and laughter and joy to us every single day. We love you!

Valentine's Day 2018

We started celebrating Valentine's day on Monday and celebrated all the way through Wednesday.

We did mini beach balls that said "Have a ball, Valentine" for their friends this year.

This little Valentine love was excited about turning 10 months old the day before Valentine's Day!

We decorated their door for Valentine's week

 We had Valentine's cinnamon rolls for breakfast and then the girls worked on their schoolwork. Nana met us for lunch at Burney's.

There was an awesome classic car decorated for Valentine's Day right beside where we ate lunch.

In the afternoon, we made Brent's favorite, banana pudding, to surprise him after supper.

The girls also decorated Valentine's Day cookies. They turned out so cute!

Brent brought me home some absolutely beautiful flowers!

These little Valentine's had a fun Valentine's week.

Brent was pleased with his snack stash from the girls and it should easily last him until it's time for Easter candy!

We had a fun week celebrating Valentine's Day and we are thankful for the love we can give and receive and most of all, for God's love for us!