Special Presents for the Girls

In preparing for baby brother’s arrival, I picked out 3 different dress-up/role playing outfits for the girls to have someone give them when we were in the hospital. Well, Oma had thoughtfully bought the girls new flip flops and Great Aunt Susan had some special gifts of notepads and stickers for them, so they got […]

Baby Boy’s Birth Story and the Few Days Before

I always like to write down the experience I have in childbirth, mostly for the sake of my own memory. If others are interested, I am happy to share, so here I go. I love to give the back story, so this will be lengthy. 🙂 Over the couple weeks prior to our son’s birth, […]

The Naming Process Unveiled

  *Azrelius – pronunciation (as-rely-us) Naming our children is something Trevor and I take very seriously and take our time doing. Below is a bit of the story of how we got to our son’s name. It is lengthy because I, Tawnya, am writing this. If you prefer an abbreviated version, just give Trevor a […]

Baby Brother Is Here

More info to come, but for now the basic details … Baby Boy Smith was born this morning at 7:17am. He weighed in at 7lbs. 4oz. and measured 19in. long. We are doing well. My mom (“Grammie”), dad (“Papa”), sister (“Auntie Tiff”), & of course Trevor were my delivery support team. We then had visitors […]

Family of Five – Portraits

We had pictures taken at church on August 24th for our new church directory, and I just received the images yesterday. I thought some of them were pretty good. We haven’t taken professional family portraits yet, if memory serves me correctly, so I wanted to have these. Please feel free to select any of the […]

Colossians 3:18- bible view of the family

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not […]

Colossians 4 Sermon 9-2-12

“Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. Be wise in the way you act toward […]