Birthday Blessings

Abigail's birthday is not for another couple of weeks, but we started her celebration this weekend!  She and a group of precious gals from church formed a "Dum Dum Club" to raise money for missions.  Before you start thinking blonde jokes...I'm talking dum dums as in those itsy bitsy lollipops! There's a family in our church who's adopting a teenager from the Ukraine, and they decided to surprise them with all of their proceeds going to this family's adoption fund.  OH,  how I LOVE their hearts!  On their own initiative they formed this club, prayed for this family, organized themselves, initiated selling at the GA's (Girls in Action), made "club" shirts, and are even leading their own bible study (Ab's went this week!).  Can I just tell you how thankful this momma's heart is!?!?!  I think my prayer for Abigaill's intiative and leadership is already starting to be answered.

They've been wanting to have a sleepover, but I think summer just got away from us all.  They were invited to sell their dum dums at a church member's estate sale this weekend so they gladly accepted. We just turned the whole thing into a birthday and Dum Dum Club celebration!  And you know what...they were up all night (ugh!), and didn't complain one time about having to get up early to make it over to the sale-impressive! They were BEYOND excited to do this for this family!

loving her gifts

David being...goofy!

LOVE these smiles!

Just simply thankful for good 'ol fun!

 

That's NOT blood!  Can we say cherry cheesecake topping?

Ruh-roh..

Daddy supervised some bottle rockets before he left on his flight...not just for boyz!  All our friends expect fireworks, bottle rockets and/or roman candles when visiting our house!

So fun!

Bright eyed and bushy tailed...off to the sale in a packed suv!

Dum Dum Club plus 1(Audrey An) but minus 1 (Hannah)..missed you Hannah!

Love you Abigail!  I'm thrilled you're my daughter and thankful for good friends who love the Lord.  Your daddy and I have prayed (and will continue!) to pray for those you surround yourself!

"Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity."  I Timothy 4:12