Illustrations of Faith: Psalm 119:114

Official Seven Year Photo

Thunder is seven years old! I don't know where the time has gone, but this sweet baby is growing into a sweet boy. He is so loving, compassionate, empathetic and lively, funny, athletic and smart, thoughtful, did I mention loving?

He chose to have a swim party at our house and then the next day we celebrated with lunch at the Rain Forest Cafe and a trip to the Legoland Discovery Center. 

He is totally into Pokemon cards right now and had a Pokemon themed birthday party. I would guess that 75% of the gifts he received were Pokemon related! He also likes cars, Legos, dinosaurs... all of the usual boy stuff.

Happy Birthday, Thunder! You bring so much joy to Gramps and me💜

Illustrations of Faith: Romans 12:12

Illustrations of Faith: Psalm 116:2

Illustrations of Faith: Romans 5:1-4

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b]boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we[c] also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Happy Independence Day!

Fast forward to 2018... 242 years young and going strong!

Christmas in July!

Yippee! It's finally here, Christmas in July! 

Now, I know many of you groan when you see the Christmas merchandise appear in June at the craft stores. That's why I don't write CIJ posts for this blog... I don't want to lose readers! But for the rest of you, the people like me that rejoice when the Christmas items show up in the summer, I have a Christmas blog. This year's theme is The ABCs of Christmas. Come on over for a visit and a shot of Christmas cheer!

Update to Thank You...

Thank you, Gracie! And Jo! I knew I had read something about comments awhile back on someone's blog, but couldn't remember who, when, or if it was about this subject. It was Jo, and yes it contained a fix. I've now applied the fix to both of my blogs and we'll see if it really worked.

Woo-hoo! I've really missed you guys! Glad we're back in touch.

Thank you...

I had been wondering why I was not getting any comments on my blog posts, but I just assumed it was because they just weren't being commented on! haha I usually get an email notification when someone comments and haven't received any in weeks. So this weekend I decided to investigate and discovered that it's a problem with Blogger and not necessarily due to my boring posts. And when I looked back at my posts I saw that I've been comments all along.

So... Thank you to everyone who has posted a comment lately on my blog! I will pay better attention now that I know there's a problem. You guys are the greatest and I don't want to ignore you!

Illustrations of Faith: Psalm 51:12