Testing 1, 2..

Hello?  Is this thing on?  Oh HI!  I have been gone for quite sometime...last post...HOME.  We brought our sweet #3 home and the blog went bye bye.  Why?  Because, we brought #3 home!  Before Toby was born I often would ask mom's of 3 or more..."which was harder for you, 2 or 3?"  What will I now say when asked? Two was hard, forsure hard.  Lillie and Titus, my Irish twins (meaning they were only a year apart) was hard and exhausting...but 3 is just plane CRAZY!  Matter of fact, the only noise I hear right now is this keyboard and my tea pot warming up some water for some good ol' sweet tea...can't cut that sugar yet...anyway back on track...and I am praising God for the stillness in this home.  The days seem to fly, the nights fly even more.  Toby is now sleeping through the night and has been since before Thanksgiving.  We are very very blessed with babes that sleep through the night quickly. Anyhow, it seems that we lay our head on our pillows and the next noise is Toby or Titus waking us up...around 6 or 7.  December was insane...just so busy and jammed packed full and now the first week of January we are re-cooping.  I think we are going to be okay!  I meant to blog about it...but of course never got around to it but most of you know that Mark had a total switch of careers here recently.  He is now the Campus Pastor at Hope Church Mindframe.  A year ago he began the candidate process to become the new Campus Pastor of our quickly expanding church and today was our first LAUNCH!  I had tears in  my eyes and a crack in my voice singing those precious worship songs this morning.  "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty! Who was and IS and is to come!"  The EFree church here in Dubuque, Hope, was getting to big for the facility, with no more property room to expand this was the other option...expand into another building in a new location of town.  We are meeting in a theatre here ever Sunday morning at 930.  It seats around 300 and I just know we are not going to be there too long before we have to find a bigger location!  I am honored that God would see fit to use us in this...humbled....and daily...momentarily in prayer for strength and grace.  I am often overwhelmed at the broken lives we have seen healed by the power of Jesus.  I am overwhelmed at the worship and gratitude that comes from a broken life completely surrendered to Him.  I am so grateful to witness a sneak peak of all the beautiful healing that has taken place in lives here in Dubuque and I know this year will hold more!!  This year will be a year of learning and growing...I just may become that morning person I thought would NEVER happen.  I am so excited to see what this year will bring...and no doubt I will be praying my whole way through it!!