6 Months...

Brooks is 6 months old! I can't believe that in another 6 months he will be 1 year old! WOW. We are so incredibly blessed by the amazing gift of Brooks. We thank God constantly for him, he is the sweetest blessing. He is such a good boy - smiling all the time. His deep laughs crack us up! We can't wait to hear what his voice sounds like and for us to hear his deep little voice say "mama" or "dada". My heart will just melt all over again and again. As it does every single day. The doctor advised us to go ahead and start Brooks on some baby food! Yay! As I'm posting this, he's already had his first bites, but that will be in a blog all by itself.

Enjoy some pictures of his 6 month checkup...17lbs and 27 1/4 inches long...

Brooks didn't take his eye off of the nurse while on the scale!

Sitting in daddy's lap while the dr listens to his lungs


Brooks & Mommy waiting for the doctor

Go Irish!

As many of you Notre Dame fans know, today ND plays Michigan and daddy & Brooks are way too excited. We had to take a picture of the two of them this morning before our walk to the bakery. I'm sure today's game will be the first of many more games to come that they will watch together! Brooks' ND onesie was a gift from Tim & Sondra last year before he was even born. For those of you that don't remember, I did a blog about his first ever outfit with a picture of it. It was hard to imagine our little one in it, and is so special to actually see him in it now. Go Irish!

P.S. Daddy didn't want me to post this until ND won today, but I disagreed - this picture is way too cute for words! :)

How He Loves

Recently I heard a song on the radio that brought so much emotion up inside of me. You know how you can hear something one day and you don't think a whole lot about it, but then the next day, it touches you so differently or more intensely? Scripture will jump out at me one day and the next I can read the same exact Scripture and have it mean so much more. Holy Spirit, I'm sure. Well, while I was driving along my merry way the other day, I heard this song and started crying - very unexpectedly since it wasn't the first time I had heard this song.

Since I was a young girl, I have wanted to become a mommy. My mom had always told me that the love you have for your children will be indescribable and like nothing you have ever imagined. She was right. The love I have for Brooks is so amazingly wonderful, beautiful, abundant - words cannot express my love for him.

And when I heard this song, it made me really think much deeper about the love God has for us. He loves us much more than we can imagine - much more than I could ever possibly love Brooks. We will never be able to know the depth of His love here on earth. This is something I have always known, but don't always take the time to really reflect on God's love. Sad, but true. This song is so special to me - yes because the Holy Spirit spoke to me through it, but also because it describes so eloquently the depth of God's love.

I hope you are able to feel the words of this song as I did. After reading below, if you haven't heard the song, I encourage you to click on the link below to hear it. Beautiful, beautiful, song.


He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

Oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

Yeah, He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.

We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.

And Heaven meets earth like an unforseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…

He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AIF_ieVre0