tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27328446524467729502024-02-01T22:13:58.524-08:00Live Love MatterJennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-18741512860598444462013-05-10T09:33:00.000-07:002013-05-10T09:33:37.811-07:00Learning to love myself....I have been silent on my blog for quite a while. Time just seems to be zipping by, and by the time I have taken care of my children, my husband, my clients and my house (on occasion...lol...lets keep it real!) I am just too spent to sit and write. However, my mind hasn't stopped swirling. The nonstop movement of thoughts racing around in my mind is what drove me to blog in the first place, andJennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-7511159960794585902013-03-23T06:15:00.002-07:002013-03-23T06:43:34.973-07:00Love With Abandon ProjectWow! My poor blog has been so neglected!! I am trying to get back to blogging (both here and on the children's blog) because I love to not only share things, but I love the ability to have a record of what was important to me at the time. Hopefully I still have some readers out there in BloggyLand! :)
I wanted to share with you what a dear bloggy friend is doing over on her blog, Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-39974259985821359032012-08-23T15:23:00.000-07:002012-08-23T15:23:18.179-07:00Totally late to this party, BUT.......I am so far behind these days still, and therefore I am super late posting about this fundraising party, but hey.... better late than never!
My wonderful bloggy friend Lara, over at The Farmer's Wife Tells All, is in the process of adopting a 9 yr old girl named Mary. This week (and the week ends on Friday) they are being featured over on Give 1 Save 1. Why don't you head on over Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-79159757283187116422012-05-20T18:39:00.001-07:002012-05-20T18:39:50.885-07:00MIAYes, I have been MIA. For what seems like forever. But it's not without good reason. :) For the last few months I had been distracted getting ready for our newest little bundle to arrive....getting projects done I wanted done before she got here, and also doing projects I knew I wouldn't be able to do once she arrived. And, I might add, she has long since made her debut. But I have been busyJennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-14171095549289011242012-03-10T08:45:00.000-08:002012-03-10T08:45:12.008-08:00I know I have been quiet for a while, but I'll be back to blogging soon!! Until then, check out what the hubs (& I when I can) have been up to in any spare time! :)
Lenny's Refinishing
Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-43287192383894684332011-12-13T08:21:00.000-08:002011-12-13T09:50:41.474-08:00Let's be the Hands and FeetI stumbled upon a blog a couple weeks ago that tugged at my heart. (First off, they are in WA, and well, lets face it....having been born and raised there it is "local" to me still.) The Buoniconti family just adopted an HIV+ child a few months back. It's been a hard road, but they are a close knit family, and they are leaning on God and following His calling to take Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-24826486846464497562011-11-29T15:23:00.000-08:002011-11-29T15:23:45.491-08:00Shop with a PURPOSE!!This year it looks like we are off on a record-breaking-money-spending holiday season. Retailers took in $7 BILLION in additional revenue over last year, for a whopping $52 billion for the weekend. WOW. Those numbers are staggering.
There are other numbers just as staggering..... the fact that there are around 147 million orphans in the world. The fact that 1 billion Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-42784255424227681542011-10-12T09:40:00.000-07:002011-10-12T09:40:07.372-07:00RedeemerGod has been crazy at work in my family's life. So many things I just still can't put into words, though I will keep trying. Plus other things that aren't my story to tell. Not yet, anyway. But there is something that has been in my heart the last couple weeks, and God reinforced it loud and clear with a message from a dear friend, and I just had to share.
Without too Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-81237939968168320892011-09-17T17:19:00.000-07:002011-09-17T17:19:25.321-07:00Consumed with GuiltGuilt is overtaking me. It is a tangible presence right now. For brief moments I can escape it, but then it slowly creeps back up to overtake me.
Some people know, some do not, for I have not made a big official announcement, but we are expecting another child. There is part of me that (after the shock wore off) wants to shout it from the mountaintops. We were not Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-28583310836689985042011-08-12T07:10:00.000-07:002011-08-12T07:10:03.124-07:00It's a Blog Shower!!!I LOVE Lara over at the Farmers Wife Tells All!! Her dear friends hijacked her blog to throw her a Blog Shower since they are anxiously awaiting a court date in Ug*nda for their adoption of a sweet little boy. The Shower/Giveaway is to raise the last needed funds for plane tickets, lawyer fees, and in-country living expenses while awaiting adoption finalization. There is a Grand Prize for the Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-3232484718514446172011-08-06T18:12:00.000-07:002011-08-06T18:12:14.380-07:00Autism Speaks FundraiserCan you imagine hearing the words "your child has autism"? In a split second, life - as you know it - has changed. For a different family every 15 minutes, tomorrow will never be the same.
My friend Lacy is walking in honor of her son in the Autism Speaks walk in Portland at the end of this month. Her teams goal to raise for the walk is $1000 and they are at $60. In an effort to Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-82913940921192591452011-06-22T09:24:00.000-07:002011-06-22T09:24:42.887-07:00Beautiful ThingsTwo posts in three days?? REALLY?!?! Am I sick? Nope! I just have FABULOUS people and events to write about!! <3
I have said it before, and forewarning, I will say it again, I love the people I meet doing what I do! One of them is Mitzi. I just gave Mitzi's blog a makeover, and in the process started getting to know a wonderful woman with a Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-56791055048659703082011-06-20T16:31:00.000-07:002011-06-20T16:31:48.477-07:00On Distant ShoresOne of my favorite things in bloggy world has been the people I have been blessed enough to "meet". Some of them have just been through finding each others blogs, and others have been through my designing blogs. The following family I met when I did their blog. Robert and Darbi are a wonderful couple in the beginning stages of a domestic adoption. They just finished their Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-78896650604987242372011-05-31T06:28:00.000-07:002011-05-31T06:28:57.723-07:00Visible GraceToday I wanted to inform you about a fabulous non-profit and my even more fabulous friend who started and runs it. Ashby Rauch started Visible Grace a few years ago. In Ashby's own words, Visible Grace is "a non-profit organization committed to providing faith-based education to children in need. Our goal is to help alleviate poverty by empowering children through education. With a Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-54806307131106013242011-05-20T07:28:00.000-07:002011-05-20T07:28:37.558-07:00Lots of stuff going on!!I have been absent from blogging for over a month again, and it's from lack of time to just sit and write! Things are kind of crazy around here with lots of different things going on, which I'll update on later. For now I would like to point out two very very important things happening that are near and dear to my heart from two non-profits that I work with.
First off is the Love Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-6207002681758873052011-04-12T08:57:00.000-07:002011-04-12T08:57:13.146-07:00No two are alikeWhen I was pregnant with Jazmine, I was tiny and petite, no one even realized I was 7 months pregnant if I had a sweatshirt on, I wore my regular jeans the entire pregnancy, she kicked and kicked and kicked for hours upon hours every single day, I was never sick, never tired, and honestly, minus the fact that she was competing to be an Olympic Soccer player in my tummy and actually bruised me Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-10754670421263535642011-04-10T08:05:00.000-07:002011-04-10T08:05:55.109-07:00Wasting my giftI am not a boastful person, so these couple paragraphs are going to be uncomfortable for me to write in a way. I usually underplay most of my accomplishments. Truth be told, I feel guilty about them most days. I am by no means anyone that people would consider "gifted" but I have been blessed enough to be successful at pretty much whatever I set my mind on.
Sports came easy to me. Softball, Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-369413569603162192011-03-30T17:52:00.000-07:002011-03-30T17:54:43.571-07:00Love FeedsWOW! It's been a month and a half since my last post. Might be my longest hiatus thus far. February was crazy crazy crazy busy, and well, March...just haven't been able to put my thoughts into any sort of organization when I had something to share. So I have tons of drafts and no postings. LOL. Maybe I will work on editing some of those into readable posts Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-86653734804990771512011-02-14T08:21:00.000-08:002011-02-14T08:21:25.571-08:00Happy Valentines Day!Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-86213473940651027592011-02-09T07:22:00.000-08:002011-02-09T07:25:55.007-08:00Well I mentioned the other day that I had someone new to introduce you to....so without further delay I'd like you to meet Amy. She blogs over at feet 2 our faith. Amy and her family are in the middle of adopting two children from Uganda. Currently there is a fundraiser going on to help Amy's family through Uppercase Living. Let me tell you....I have never heard of Uppercase Living until thisJennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-29275481975566911632011-02-05T05:59:00.000-08:002011-02-05T05:59:10.193-08:005/28Okay, I am cheating! Yes, I pulled this pic from one of my older favorites. But this so perfectly is the love that my children share for each other which makes this mama's heart overflow with more LOVE than I even know what to do with!...... (I'll try to not cheat tomorrow...hahaha!)
Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-32322002107343189622011-02-05T05:46:00.001-08:002011-02-05T05:46:56.939-08:004/28Hello! Okay, yesterday was just one of those busy days. Basically left the house at 6:15am and not home until around 9:30pm. So I am just now posting yesterdays pic....and I see LOVE in the beauty that God gives us everywhere we look.
Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-29835750925104564432011-02-03T21:09:00.000-08:002011-02-03T21:09:55.759-08:003/28Tomorrow I will have an actual post introducing you to a wonderful new friend! Today, I just have my Love Strand Challenge Photo. This one is about my love of quiet time to just be......Every morning I wake up before everyone else, grab my coffee, and relax to prepare for the day. I'll read, pray, listen to worship music.... It starts my day off on the right foot. And honestlyJennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-14362155096722125362011-02-02T19:35:00.000-08:002011-02-02T19:36:20.345-08:002/28I have to say this is one of my fav new pictures....my dear husband riding a pink bike down the street just in order to show his precious princess girl how to ride without training wheels. I love how he adores his daughter!
Jennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732844652446772950.post-41910456733547615512011-02-02T08:16:00.000-08:002011-02-02T08:16:46.885-08:001/28I am terrible about blogging and totally sporadic. I might post daily for weeks and weeks at a time, and then nothing....for a month at a time. So to challenge myself to post something every day, I joined up with Amy over at feet 2 our faith (you'll hear more about her another day!) to do her Love Strand challenge. The goal is to post one picture a day for the month of February, with the themeJennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08002584051402203659noreply@blogger.com0