The Humphreys: November 2012

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

a New Heart

Every night after we pray with Amelia, I usually lay with her for a few minutes. We also talk about a bible story, her favorites being David and Goliath, Jesus calming the sea, and Daniel. A couple times she just wants to talk about Jesus. Last night, it was King David.

She mentioned the King David had a heart for God. Yes, Amelia. And we talked about what that meant. Confused, she then asked, "but don't we all have hearts of sin?" Yes, Amelia. We then talked about how we all sin but ... "Jesus can give us a clean heart, right mom?" Yes, Amelia. We talked about how since Jesus loves us, we can ask him to make us clean and give us a new heart. "Can I ask Jesus for a new heart?" Yes, Amelia.

Amelia prayed by herself last night, Thanking God for helping her have a happy heart, helping her to remember to use the potty, and asked for a new heart. I prayed with her thanking God for Amelia, and her desire to know and understand more ... Thank you, Jesus, for giving us new hearts!

He didn't just clean up our old self, but we are NEW creations! a NEW heart.

Amen and Amen.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Thanksgiving Week

Dad had the week off and we were looking forward to a relaxing fun week. It didn't start so good ...

Both Amelia and Jack had bad colds over the weekend and after a few days of Jack not getting better, we decided to take him to get checked out just to make sure it wasn't anything too serious. Dad took him while Amelia and I napped. I got a call from James around 430 saying Jack was being admitted to the hospital and possibly spending the night because of a low oxygen read. After rushing to get some things shoved in bag and Amelia shipped off, I raced to the hospital only to hear James tell me the Doctor's office didn't have a great system to read his ox level and Jack was kicking and screaming while they tried. Jack seemed perfectly healthy with a cough but not working to breath. Once he got all hooked up, his ox levels were perfect but he had to stay the night for precautionary reasons.

So Jack and I spent the night in what seemed like just a very expensive hotel. I am glad they wanted to make sure things were fine but it all felt a little overboard since he felt fine and looked fine.

Here's our monkey resting in his hospital crib and tiny gown.

The rest of the week wasn't that exciting and we decided to take things easy so the kids could fully get over their colds. We had some good family time, mommy got some much needed alone time, and we got the hallway and study repainted.

On Thursday, we headed to my parents for Thanksgiving. We had fun sitting around, eating lots of food, hot tubbing, sitting around a fire, and playing games.

Cousins by the fire. We had wonderful weather

Jack hanging out in his sweater vest. Handsome boy.

Laughing on the floor with Papa

Friday we went out to get our Christmas tree. The weather surprised us! The fierce wind made it seem much much colder than it really was!

Amelia waiting to catch the tractor ride out to the trees.

Ellie and Jack trying to keep warm

Cousins!

We found it!

We spent the rest of the day getting Christmas stuff all ready and set up. and Amelia was no way taking a nap, she was too excited for all the festivities.

Saturday we were able to relax and hang out again with no real agenda. And Sunday, after church, we spent all day over with James' family. It has been awhile since we all have been together and it was nice to see Michael and Luke and Laura.

Tomorrow things return to normal: Dad at work, piles of laundry I've avoided for too long, and regular dinners ...

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

1920s

In light of her 30th, my sister had a "saying Goodbye to my Roaring 20s" party on Saturday. The festivities included: costume contest, silly pictures, and a mystery dinner. She did the entire menu herself and the house was decorated in all 1920s decor.

me and Julia