Tyson Luke and Hunter Wells

Last Tuesday I became an AUNT!!  I am so incredibly excited to be an aunt to TWIN BOYS!!  My brother and his wife welcomed their twin boys into the world on Tuesday at 2PM and 2:03 PM.  They were ready to get into this world because they came when she was only 26 weeks!!

That day was an emotional day but we were thrilled to get to welcome these two boys!  They are beautiful and perfect!  Tiny but will grow to be strong men of the Lord just as their names describe!  They were both born weighing 1 pound 12 ounces and were 13.5 inches long!  Olivia is doing well and she and TJ are champs!  

Tyson and Hunter will be in the NICU for a while- so I would ask for prayers for these sweet boys!  

Tyson is at Forsyth NICU and has been doing well.  He is stable and has had some ups and downs but is doing well for where he is.  Hunter was transferred to Brenners Children's Hospital because he is in need of a surgery because their is a missing link between his small and large intestine.  He is doing well now even without this link!  He has to gain more than double his weight before the surgery so PLEASE PRAY!!  

Olivia and Tj created a caringbridge site to keep everyone updated if you would like to follow it!

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/tysonhunterberoth

Hunter Wells

Tyson Luke

It has been real sweet to see the community of Christ come around TJ and Olivia!  They have had phone call after phone call of people wanting to show them love and care of Jesus!  It has been amazing to see!
It has also been the sweetest thing to see the Lord provide scripture after scripture of encouragement that HE IS GOD!  Jesus calling on the day of their birth started with:

I am a Mighty God, Nothing is too difficult for Me!  

WOW!!  I read this with my family in the waiting room as Olivia was getting ready to have the babies! Assurance.

Also, TJ and Olivia's devotionals both led them to Luke 1:80 which says, "The child continued to grow and be strong in spirit!"  

I am so thankful that we have a God that knows our hearts and provides encouragement for our souls.  Assurance that he has it under control.  We are safe with Him.  

He has Tyson and Hunter in His control- they are cared for far beyond what we could ever ask and imagine because He is their God their creator and their Father!  

"And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  You may ask me for anything in my name, and will do it!" John 14:12-14

Join with me in asking our Father for Tyson and Hunter to continue to grow healthy and strong.  For their to be no complications and for Olivia and TJ to have strength and peace from our God!

Meet Jalyn!

Meet my friend Jalyn!  I met Jalyn four years ago when she was a freshman in high school through Young Life and I have LOVED every minute I have gotten to spend with her.  Jalyn not only has a contagious joy about her (you will see it through her sweet laugh in these pictures) but she also loves Jesus in a beautiful way.  Jalyn has decided to follow Jesus and give up all else.  For anybody that is difficult not to mention a high school student.  She has taken the verse where Paul describes being set apart for the sake of the gospel to heart and is living it out!  I am encouraged by seeing how she loves Jesus.  I just loved getting to take some photos of her and she put up with me literally taking 1000 photos of her!  I just couldn't stop she was so easy to photograph and the location was my FAVE ever!!  I am sorry for the massive amount of photos I just couldn't decide!

Enjoy!

  

 

I just love this laugh!!

 

Welcome Haddie Jo

My dear friend Meg just had her baby Haddie Jo.  I saw her at the hospital and was just snapping away with my camera.  I just love getting to capture these beginning moments of Haddie Jo's life and the sweetness of this family.  Seriously one of my favorite families ever!
Just seeing a new life makes me see how obvious it is that Jesus is in charge of creation.  He knit Haddie Jo together, grew her to the perfect moment and gifted her to Meg and Brett for her time on Earth!  What a beautiful thing!  Jesus is so good, so intricate and so on purpose! 

For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 

 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 

 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

Meg's reaction to some LuLu pants :)!!

My Favorite!

I love the Hokies

For the second year in a row I have gotten to take some of my high school friends to visit Virginia Tech.  It makes me so happy to get to share this wonderful place with some of my Young Life friends.  The fact that they can see the place where I developed these amazing friendships and learned how to walk with Jesus is such a gift!  Andddd not to mention they are considering going to tech so I get to talk about its amazingness all weekend long!!!
We went in the fall but it was an absolutely beautiful day and the pictures were so sweet I had to share them!