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.)