moments from our weekend and then some...

from our weekend...

pismo beach walk.

i love their love. 

love this.

 beach walk at sunset.

 a morning of play. rainy day. no where to go. a favorite way to spend a morning.

 

d and i enjoyed a weekend just the two of us. i'm thankful we can do this every now and then. one night away makes a difference. we come back with more love to give. thanks for babysitting mom and dad ;) it was nice because we still saw the boys both days...we just had a 24 hour husband/wife escape. mommy and daddy were off duty for a day and it felt really good.

some favorite moments lately....
the boys and their play. brother language. rainy day. long beach walk at sunset with hubby (we haven't done that in sooo long and it was my most favorite part of the weekend for sure!) baking in the kitchen with little helpers. coming home on sunday to find nani and papa passed out on the couch...toys decorating the house...(yeah that was a highlight! lol. i wish i had snapped a picture!)....

2 Corinthians 12:9 My Grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.
 my scripture verse of the week...yesterday i wasn't as patient as i wish i could have been with caleb while he was mid melt down and i've been somewhat grumpy and not as loving of a wife as i set out to be each day...and work...to be completely honest is just taking me down. there are some things happening at work that my sup is aware of but quite frankly are upsetting to me and i'm really just not sure how much longer i can last on this case :( i want to be tough and hang in there and i feel as though i have to...hard things don't mean i should give up, and really i can't... but they are upsetting me and as much as i pray about it, i'm struggling to just give myself over to God completely. this is why i am reminding myself as i pray...that God gives us strength through our weakness! So those moments I feel less than a perfect mother, or wife, or 'worker' are moments where I need to be surrendering my burdens to God so that he can use my weakness for His Glory. But it is hard! I want things to be going my way and well they def. haven't been since I started working on this case in jan. I always have a hard time with change! It is yet another area of weakness that I struggle with :) So while I am struggling a lot right now with work, and just the day to days of meeting Caleb's needs...I feel hopeful that things will get better! It is just a hard season right now....not to mention I may have skipped running the past two days...and well that is never a good thing especially after having such a good 5miler run on saturday!!

To end on something good, the boys are just filling up my days with sweetness lately in the way they play together and talk together and how they just are around each other. I can't get over their love and brother bond. Caleb amazes me daily with his tender love for Lucas and Lucas brings such peace and silliness to our family. They both are such spirits of love and laughter. I want to hold on to these moments forever. They bring me such complete joy. I love them so much and feel so blessed to be their mama.

and again.  

you boys are so loved. watching you two together and your brother love, it amazes me daily. to the moon and back sweet baby boys.