With the start of this new year, I have a fresh passion to be a woman of prayer. The Power of a Praying Wife has such great prayer examples and I keep it and a small pamphlet with things to pray for your kids next to my Bible and have been working hard to make it a faithful habit in my life. Cooking and cleaning are great ways to bless my family, but I believe my prayers are the biggest way I can bless and impact my husband and kids!

With baby #2 coming soon, I thought I would try the whole potty training thing and see if we can get it over with before then so we wouldn't have two in diapers. So there is a lot of nudity around our house these days.  It's a blessing to live in a warm climate and let him run around naked and figure out what it means to potty. We haven't succeeded yet, but he is slowly getting the hang of it. I have to pray for patience as I find myself getting easily irritated at the mess it creates, but the Lord is helping me grow in that area as I learn to treat Duke as I would want to be treated if I was learning a new skill....with patience and acceptance, even when it takes a while to get the hang of it.

We love having family outings on the stand-up paddle boards and have gone quite a few times this winter when the waves get smaller!

We recently took a family vacation to Kauai and enjoyed EVERY minute of it! 

It was fun to hike, swim, explore and enjoy being together!

(6 months pregnant in Kauai, HI.)

Another boy on the way!!

 Wow. 6 months since I last blogged....oh well.

We found out the end of November that baby #2 is another boy! We are so so so excited and even though Duke is clueless, I know he has a future best friend in the making. 

He will be excited when the day comes that they can play together. :) 

Baby is due April 20th, 2013 and so far remains nameless. We are hoping something brilliant comes to us before the baby gets here! 

We stopped on our way home from the Dr. apt to get a blue shave ice to represent having a BOY!