.this man.

I am so thankful for his love and the way that he leads our family! We are blessed! 

Community Group Leader Retreat

 So thankful for this group of leaders that the Lord has blessed our church with! This is the group of our community group leaders. We spent the weekend at a mountain house together in the Word, worshipping, hiking, playing, eating, dreaming, and praying great things for this next year at Mercy Hill. The amazing thing is that 2 years ago we took our launch team (30 people) to this same place. It was before we had moved to GSO and we spent the weekend dreaming and praying BIG things for GSO and MH. Last year, we took about 25 people that consisted of our 5 community group leaders, spouses, and then anyone we thought were potential leaders. I remember us praying that weekend that the Lord would double our number of community groups over the next year. We went this November and had 17 community groups leaders and their spouses!!!!!!!! So INCREDIBLE to see how the Lord totally blew our prayers!
So thankful to be a part of His mission! He is a good God!

(I think Andrew and I are the only couple not standing together!)

Love this friend! So thankful that God has placed her in my life to speak truth and to just live life alongside of!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Gmommy!

We love you!

.Special Guest.

On Veteran's Day, HattieJo had preschool, but my school was out so I thought it would be the perfect time to go and hang out in her classroom. I asked her teacher if I could come and read, so I went first thing that morning! HattieJo had picked the book, "We are Going on a Bear Hunt." Mrs. Pam let HJ introduce me to her class and this is what she said (Oh how I wish I had a video of her sweet self!), "Boys and girls, this is my mommy. Her name is Anna and you can call her Miss Anna. She is a teacher. She is going to read us a book and she is very good at reading books." So then I read and as you can see from the picture(that her preschool teacher snapped) she kept her hand on my shoulder the whole time! When I finished she leaned over to the kids and said, "boys and girls, were you scared? Did you think it was a real bear hunt?"
LOVE LOVE my sweet girl! I really enjoyed seeing her in her school room!

Introducing....

Snow White and Jake the Pirate

 .such a fun night with some of our dear friends!.

.Gmommy came to town.

Several weeks ago my mom came in town for the week! It was great having her here. The kids enjoyed spending time with her, especially showing her "their park."