i am blessed

I am blessed.

Rodney and I often sit back and reflect upon the blessing of family. We both come from two loving families, and over the years we have witnessed and experienced grace, joy, forgiveness and blessing lived out everyday in our homes. Now we have the privilege to be the Gospel to our own little girl. And let me tell you, we need grace and forgiveness everyday.

Just this morning, I woke up annoyed at my hubby for hitting the snooze. And yet, the Lord was using my husbands sleepy head to get my sorry self out of bed. I have struggled in this lenten season to get out of bed. I have missed several days in the last 2 weeks, but am reminded about grace. I opened the Word this morning to Isaiah 52 and 53. The Lord took me to my Savior this morning and showed me His grace.

I sat down to share our week with you, but needed to get that out of the way first.

We had a GREAT time with my family! We went to the Houston Rodeo on Sunday, and Abigail enjoyed the animals, crowds and the fireworks at the end of the rodeo. On Monday, we went to a local microbrew, St. Arnold's, and took a gorgeous three mile walk in Memorial Park. Tuesday we lost Rodney to work, so we went shopping at the Outlet malls. And we finished their trip outside on Wednesday, taking walks in a local park, along a bayou and around our apartment complex. It was a great day, made even more enjoyable by fresh barbecue, Mexican food, chips and queso and Blue Bell Ice Cream.

Mom and Dad, I love you so much and am already looking forward to the next time we get to see you!

And of course, here are just a few of my favorite pictures from their visit.

here we are at the rodeo

at St. Arnold's...the microbrew

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

enjoying Houston sunshine

they LOVE being grandparents! isn't this a marvelous picture!

me and my girl:)