Love hurts!

It is amazing how much room your heart has to love.  Over the past few months I have felt like the Grinch,  not for anything negative but because my heart has grown 3 sizes.  The best part about it is that while you feel like you can't possibly love something this much, what you find is that you start to love everything increasingly more!  The love between you and your wife grows.  Your love and appreciation for your family grows and most important the love for God and his Grace grows.  All of these are good things but occasionally, when you think about how deep your love for these things are... it HURTS!  Leaving Sofia every morning hurts! Thinking about her growing up... hurts! Thinking about disciplining her... hurts!  Thinking about your family and seperation, hurts.  Thinking about Jesus and what seperation from everything good, his Father, truly meant... HURTS! The major take away for me in the past 4+ months is, when God says to "Multiply" he said it so that we experience even more of his Glory by growing in Love! A Love that, even though it may hurt sometimes, grows!

- Justin

The Joy of Grandparents

So, after many lectures from my husband about my need to blog and me coming up with a million plus excuses, I am going to attempt to get back in the swing of things. It is just amazing how fast and busy each and every day is and sitting down for any decent amount of time to blog just hasn't been on my radar. So here is catch up of our past month....
We had not one but both grandparents visit! Justin's parents came the first weekend of March.

They had not seen Sofia (except on Skype of course) since she was 3 days old! At 3 months, she was quite different and they absolutely loved every second of playing, holding, changing, bathing, rocking, etc. her.

We had an eventful yet relaxing weekend with adventures to Fort Worth, grandpa Jack helping with tons of yardwork, UK basketball and hanging at White Rock Lake. We loved every second of watching them love on Sofia, we are counting down until May when we head to Kentucky for the first time to meet all the Smith family (especially Sofia's bff Talen!)

Not a week later my parents were back! My mom has a very hard time staying away and has been trying to convice my daddy to get an apt here (with very little success). Mom and I have been plotting to get the little one here when she returns from Spain. Angie claims she is applying to schools in Dallas but between jetting off to Paris, Dublin, Milan, Athens, and Santorini, I have a feeling the real world of work is falling low on her to-do lists. Hopefully she will come to her senses soon and realize Dallas is her next stop :)

My rents were here for a full week yet it still didn't feel like enough time to me (although Justin may have been singing a different toon, he is all too patient and generous to allow the in-laws so much time with us.) We did lots of the same, eating delicious brunches out, watching more Kentucky basketball, white rock lake and enjoying my momma's delicious cooking!