Innocence of a 5 year old

We had the opportunity today to take our students to Stadium Fest at Samford Univeristy. It was an awesome time of worship led by Chris Tomlin, Kevin Derryberry, Rush of Fools, and Jeremy Camp. The Word was definitely brought too by Rick Burgess, Bill "Bubba" Bussey (both from the Rick & Bubba Show), Louie Giglio, and Scott Dawson. Many people came to Christ and I just have to say...I was challenged incredibly by the Holy Spirit! However, the thing that hit me the most was after the concert during the Fireworks show. Our five year old, Chastity, was sitting in my lap as I was holding her tight because of the loud, booming sound of the fireworks. While her little eyes just kept watching the fireworks go up into the night sky, her mind must have been at work because what was about to come out of her mouth was amazing. She said "Daddy, do you think God is okay up there?" She was concerned about the fireworks hurting Him. Since that moment that her mind was at work, my mind has been at work. Although the colorful fireworks that we see light up the night sky do not hurt God, it has caused me to stop and wonder... "How many times do we allow the 'fireworks' of our lives to hurt God? You know, those times when we just blow it! As much as it bothers me when I fail the Lord, it must bother Him so much more. When we blow it, it's about like that firework that has just been lit and all you see is a little blur of light going up into the sky. Once it peaks, it makes a loud boom, and totally explodes. I hate when that "boom" happens in our lives. But what blows my mind is this... although we mess up and "blow it" at times with the Lord, his mercy and grace is sure to follow. It's as if once we "hurt" God, He can't wait for us to repent of that sin and learn from it so that He can lavish us with the beauty of His love. It's amazing that God can take what we have made a mess of and "blown up" and shower us with the beauty and magnificence of Who He is! Is that a license to sin...surely not. The book of Romans says, "Shall we continue in sin so that grace may much more abound? May it never be!" However, I do want to say this..."Thank You so much, Lord, for pouring out Your love on a sinner such as me! Forgive me for when I hurt You. Thank You for the reminder from the innocence of my precious five year old daughter! May I constantly remember this incredible reminder that You have given to me tonight! I love You, Father!"
-Clay

Easter

My Beautiful girls heading to church to celebrate Easter!

Chas would tell us that Easter is all about Jesus dying on the cross and now He is alive again after 3 days!

Cute Cherish!

Chastity with her basket from the Easter Bunny!

Cherish Baby with her basket the Easter Bunny brought her!

The girls getting into their Easter Baskets!

Granddaddy surprised the girls with Real Bunnies for Easter! Chas so excited to hold her bunny for the first time!!!

Sweet Cherish and her bunny!

Petting her bunny.

Feeding her bunny a little carrot and lettuce.

The girls enjoying the bunnies! Cherish named hers Alice (after one of her favorite people...Mrs Alice) and Cherish named hers Zoey!

On the way to the lake!

Cherish was actually great at casting her little rod! Although we kept it safe by not adding any hook to hers- she just caught her purple fish EVERY time! Miss Independent!

Cute fishin' girls!

Clay got a bite and called Chas over there to fish with his pole and "She caught one!!!"

She was so proud of her 1st fish!

Daddy was proud too!

Church Egg Hunt

Chas and Gracey havin' a blast together on the slide!

The girls woke up a little under the weather but still insisted on going to the Church Egg & Jelly Bean Hunt and they had such a blast!!!

Girl's Preschool Easter Party

Our Sweeties...

Chas was an Egg finding Machine! She would run and find tons of them! Her Daddy taught her some good strategy!;) She had a blast!!! Below is a picture of Chas and her best little friend in her class at school, Grace.

Okay so Cher found about 5 eggs then lost interest... so I found a pretty place to get some cute pictures of her. She started singing Chastity's little Dance song and doing the motions and this was just some of my favorites I snapped... although I must admit I have about 20 shots! She was melting this Momma's heart!
Cherish's latest trick is doing I Love You with her fingers! Too cute!

Getting into her song and dance! I love her sweet expression. My BABY!
Blowing kisses at the end of her song!

Chas & Daddy

Chas dressed up one afternoon and wanted to take some pictures with her Daddy (Cher was napping). Here is my Sweet girl and her handsome Daddy!

Fun Girl

Cherish has such a way about her that there is never a dull day with her! She finds a wonderful way of making life so much fun. Cutie TOO!

Chas' New Bible & Bag

Clay got the girls a new Bible Study (age appropriate) and they love to have that time each night before bed learning more about God and His word. We decided that Chas needed a special Bible as she is learning to read a little and can understand a lot more. She was so excited to go shopping & pick it out! She kept asking me if she could take it with her -everywhere she went, so I decided we would go shopping for some matching material to her Bible and I would make her a little bag to help protect it and her carry it easier. This was the end results. A cute bag for a sweet girl, who is very proud of her own copy of God's word. I pray she always has a love for God and HIS word above all else!

Beach Trip

A beautiful cross made out of driftwood down on the shore... My Crazy, Sweet, Fun girls! They love the beach and get it honestly.

Momma with her babies!

Maw Maw and the girls!

Okay so I know I'm a little late on posting these but here they are anyway. Life has been so CRAZY that Ive got way behind on blogging but hey better late than never (My MOTTO)!

A couple months ago the girls and I went to the beach with Mom for the weekend. It was a nice get away while Clay was out of town and so peaceful. The beauty of the beach always amazes me. Thank you LORD for sharing a glimpse of you with us through it.