Wordless Wednesday: ROCK STAR!

.easter eggs.

Aunt D asked one day last week if she could dye easter eggs with HattieJo, so she came over on Thursday after HJ's morning nap! It was so fun. I made some banana chocolate chip muffins for us to enjoy after we dyed our eggs. HattieJo wanted to grab at EVERYTHING, so she watched from her highchair. We did dye an egg with an "HJ" on it!

:POPPA:

Last weekend Poppa came in town to help Andrew get all the dogs moved from the old house here to the farm. Boy was it a job! They worked all day Sunday and half a day on Monday and finished! They were exhausted by the end of the day on Sunday. But the kennels look great and the dogs love it. Here they are:Before he left on Monday, we had a picnic on the front porch. HattieJo loved getting to see her Poppa for a couple of days!

::Happy Easter::

Happy Easter from our family to yours:
Daddy's girls:
PRECIOUS:(she was still all smiles after being at church for 6hours!)

We had a great service at SummitRDU. Pastor JD preached from Acts where Phillip encounters the Ethiopian eunich and shares the gospel with him and they immediately stop the chariot for the Ethiopian to be baptized. So after JD presented the gospel we had baptisms right after each service for those that had made decisions to follow Christ, or those who had a relationship and had never been baptized could be! It was awesome under the setting sun to see peoples lives transformed as they followed through with baptism.
Here are the lyrics to one of the songs that we sang. I LOVE this song. It is the COMPLETE Gospel.

"The power of death swallowed up in the hope of the Savior
All fear overcome in the light of Him
All of our sin covered up in the love of our Savior
Set free by Your grace made alive in Your righteousness.
At the cross where You took my place.
In Your power You abandoned the grave."

.the easter bunny came early.

On Friday my family came up to bring me this:My dad made this pantry for me! I LOVE it, he is awesome! What a special thing. He told me it "had to stay in the family"..oh no worries there, its going where we go!!
So they brought up LOTS of good Easter surprises for HattieJo; stuffed animals, cookies, clothes, and books. Andrew and I got a basket of candy as well!Then we, really I should say HattieJo, got a package from Florida on Friday too. It was FULL of great things from Gigi and Poppa. She got a bathing suit, a cover up, sunglasses, a sun hat, and a cute dress. I think they sent all the things she needs to go on a visit to Florida!! Then the "Collins 5" sent her a CUTE dress and Auntie Erin made her 3 bibs that are AWESOME. She got a sewing machine for her birthday and she is good at what she makes.
HattieJo says, "THANK YOU for all my Easter goodies."
We love you all and are so thankful for our families.

:little blue dress:

This blue dress was my mom's.. she wore it when she was 1 year old.. then I wore it when I was 6months old... Now HattieJo wore it at 7months old.. I had a hard time getting it on HJ.. She was only able to wear it for the picture, because it wouldn't button in the back and it was tight on her arms!

:our new house:

Here are pictures of our new house. A little back story about why we moved. Andrew graduated in December from SEBTS with his Masters. Back in the fall we really didn't know what the Lord had in store for us after graduation. We weren't sure if we would be staying around and continuing to serve at the Summit or moving on to serve somewhere else. So we began to pray... We decided to put our house on the market and in the terrible market time, we weren't sure how long it would take to sale, well the Lord totally worked and we had a contract on it within 2 weeks! The girl who bought it needed us to rent it back from her up until May because she couldn't break the lease that she was in! WOW.. the Lord totally knew and provided once again! So Andrew was offered a full time position at the Summit that began in January. We were SO THANKFUL for this awesome opportunity for us to continue to serve there. He is the Saturday Evening Campus Pastor/Young Professionals Pastor. So... since our house sold and we had until May to figure out where to go, we began the search! It was actually discouraging as we weren't finding anything, but once again I was reminded to just pray and trust the Lord; He has always taken care of us! So about a month ago we found "the farm" and came to look and I was in love- I LOVED the house and Andrew loved the fact that it was on 60acres. So we decided to let the guy know we would like to rent it...And we moved in about a week ago! It is a perfect place for our dogs as well!Thank you Lord for your faithfulness to Your children and how You provide! Thank you Father for the beauty of your creation and how it speaks of Your glory.
"I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds."Ps9:1
So here are some pictures: Here is the outside from the front and then the side standing in the driveway
Here is the kitchen and the HUGE laundry room:The dining room:The one and only bathroom..and the foyer(from the front door):Living room:Master bedroom:This is the little nook upstairs and the extra bedroom:HattieJo's Room: