Friday Night "Lights" Week 1

My sister-in-law, Lindsay, had this cool idea to record highlights from our summer on Friday in a post called Friday Night "Lights"...I love it! Go to her blog and join in on the fun. :) We'll see if I keep this up. This week I'm doing it on a Sunday...ha! Here's what we were up to last week.

*Enjoyed a weekend of youth events and celebrating our anniversary in Ft. Wayne. Biaggi's is the best!

*Meanwhile, Caleb spent the weekend and part of the week with his cousins and grandparents in Indy. He definitely mourned being back home and has been quite grouchy...ha!


*On Wednesday we celebrated Caleb's birthday with our Life Group and had an Elmo DQ cake. Caleb was pretty unenthused but enjoyed the cake. :) He kept saying, "more ikeem!"





*On Thursday Anna, Aubrey, Aunt Rachel, and Mawmaw came to see our town and go to the zoo on Friday. The weather was beautiful once it stopped raining on both days! I enjoyed spending time with the girls! Caleb had a lot of discipline issues at the zoo but seemed to enjoy it some! It's hard not to be let down when your child doesn't act the way you "expect" or doesn't enjoy something as much as you've built up in your mind. I'm learning:) Marc and I sure loved the zoo...it's the Ft. Wayne Children's one...highly recommend it! You get so close to the animals!!








*We have had a nice quiet weekend. Marc and I watched Tangled last night....cute movie!! We are celebrating Caleb's birthday today as a little family...love it! He is obsessed with the Llama Llama books, and we found him a stuffed Llama at Kohl's....I am so excited to see his reaction when he wakes up from his nap!


On a side note, with all this joy seeing Caleb start a new year of life, there is sadness as his sin nature becomes more obvious. It is humbling to no end that the Lord has entrusted us with him. It is our role to point him to the Lord, all the time, but especially in discipline. Marc and I had a moment last night when Caleb was refusing to say, "Please." He was yelling at us and demanding milk, and that is not acceptable at our house. ;) He gave the most pitiful pouty face and was messing with his food, and then he looked at us and gave this little smirk. Oh, it broke my heart! Marc and I both teared up....I think it was in that moment we realized the heaviness of the issue at hand. Our child is a sinner and will need to answer to God one day. W.O.W. May the Lord guide us as his parents!

Have a good week, all, and seek to see the Lord in everything!