Three !?!?!?!

I can remember my Mama always telling me, "When you get to be a Mama you'll understand!" I totally get it! Being a Mama is the hardest and yet most rewarding job on Earth! There are days {lots of days!} I think I'm going to pull my hair out and still all it takes is a sweet little kiss, or a tender little hug with "I love you Mama", or "Thanks Mama!" and I melt into a big fat puddle! I stayed up last night until 1:00 a.m. {the time John Luke was born} thinking back on that day---night---days! Amazingly after all that pain, the most vivid memory is how in that very moment I felt different. From the very instant he came into this world, I was a new person. I thought differently. I loved differently. I prayed differently. I even looked differently! {Ha,Ha!} I live in a different world! Consumed with my children and what is best for them. And crazy enough, I love that! My children melt my heart in less than a blink and I know they always will! I am blessed beyond measure! Thank you, Jesus!

Three whole years ago my sweet man {JuJu--the name he has given himself} was born. He arrived at 1:00 a.m., weighed 8lbs.6ozs. & 21 1/2 inches long.

He had an amazing head full of dark hair, and a very mishapen head. {Which worried his daddy tremendously!}

He was completely perfect and very much welcomed by me, his extremely exhausted Mama!

And his daddy was super proud!

Now he is sweet, caring, fun-loving, super funny, entirely too bossy, beautiful, generous, shy {sometimes}, hard-headed, determined, and silly! He keeps us laughing! He's John Luke. And I L-O-V-E him more than I could have ever imagined possible!

Good Morning Birthday Boy!


Party at "church-school" as he calls it---MDO...



We love you John Luke! Happy Birthday!!!

**Please stop growing up so fast!