Lavish Love

Sometimes the seemingly small blessings in life are when we feel the most lavishly loved!  The fact that the Lord orchestrated all of this for our family still blows me away.  As many of you know, we were quite in love with our home, church and community in Kalimpong.  Moving from there was one of the hardest journeys we have made so far.  Moving from a gorgeous, mountain village to a large plains city was hard for us.  God knew that!  He blessed us with a house that still has a yard and is actually in a Nepali village outside of the BIG city.  Other than the crazy weather, we feel so at home here.  Jared has been traveling a lot recently so the kids and I have had lots of time to just play.  Almost every day we go for a walk to the creek.  I thought you might enjoy a glimpse of what that is like for us. It is the highlight of our day right now.  Soon it will grow too hot and we will start swimming instead of walking.  For now, enjoy the beauty that He has surrounded us with!

This is an arbor over our front gate.  It is absolutely gorgeous!  By the time I finally took a picture the colors had begun to fade some, but it is still incredibly beautiful.  People stop as they are walking down our road to look at the flowers.

Anna Kate loves to go for walks.  She kicks her feet and just takes in the world!

They boys are just goof balls at this stage!  They crack up at each other constantly and say random nonsense to each other and just fall on the ground laughing.  I kept trying to get them to look at me for a picture but they were too involved in making faces at Anna Kate so she would laugh at them.

Most all of the plots of land out here in the village are separated by these short concrete walls.  The boys like to use them as their balance beams.  They think it is such a huge feat to balance on that short wall!

We go to the creek to throw in rocks.  A few weeks ago, they decided that they would find the biggest rocks along the way (we live on a gravel road) and put them in the stroller for me to take down to the creek for them...haha...thanks boys!

They love to show me how fast they can run!

Noah really likes to push the stroller himself.  He just isn't tall enough to guide it in a straight line.  So, he usually pushes it until he runs into something and then takes off again!

Would you ever believe that we live 10 minutes from a city of half a million people?!  See how God loves us?!  One million people would swallow me up and spit me out...yet he gave us open fields, cows grazing and creeks to throw rocks in!

Just relaxing and enjoy the breeze!  She would sit here and look out at the creek forever it seems.

Caleb always tries to find the biggest rocks to throw in the water.  One day he came up with a HUGE brick and I had to draw the line.  No bricks...just rocks and sticks.

This is in our front yard...I just couldn't resist though.  Is she not the most gorgeous little girl you have ever seen?!

***You can click on any of the pictures and they will enlarge.  Some of them seem hard to see...sorry...I am not a savvy blogger!