Life in full swing

Life is busy at the Bailey house. The girls' are back in school. AWANA and IMPACT have started back up. Jazz and gymnastics, small group, Performing Arts for Molly. M2M and Creative Escapes for me. My hubby is working hard to provide for his family. I helped for the first time in the concession stand at Lombard which was quite fun!!
Molly just finished a big project for science: Collecting and naming 20 bugs. We are both so glad it is over!!!
I love my life and wouldn't trade it for anything. I love sharing snippets with my cyber family.

New Addition

It has been an exciting time around the Bailey household. My BIL and SIL adopted a little boy from Ethiopia named Elijah. He is the cutest little guy ever. I know they have bragged but since I'm the aunt I think I have some bragging rights also!!! I'm so excited and happy for them. Eli is an awesome addition to the Bailey clan. The girls' have had a lot of fun playing with him. Can't wait to watch him grow up.

A few more pictures!!!

The Next Step

Last Sunday September 5th Ari was baptized. She woke up that day so very excited!!! She would look at me with a big grin and say: "I'm getting baptized" We are so very proud of her for wanting to take that next step in her walk with Jesus. The baptism was held at Faith Bible Camp in Yates City. Not far from Galesburg, about a 30 minute drive. Our annual church camp is held out there. We also have our church wide picnic there yearly. It was an awesome service with 13 people being baptized. Ari was too darn cute and the youngest one. I loved watching her give our senior pastor a huge hug afterwards. When she was all done she was sitting on the beach and she was crying. I said Ari what is wrong? She came over to me and said mom I'm just so happy that I'm baptized....that made me tear up. She is so tender hearted and I can tell her love for Jesus is genuine. Here of course are a few photos.

Back to School

Well the kiddos are back in school!! We started earlier this year. August 16th was the first day of school. The kids were not looking forward to starting until we registered....then they were excited. Which made me excited!! Molly started 7th grade and Ari started 2nd grade. Of course I always snap a few pictures. Unfortunately, I dropped my camera twice that day was able to get pictures of Ari at school but was unable to take any of Molly when she got home. Thankfully I have a phone on my camera. They are ready for an exciting year and I am excited also to see what they will learn and how they will grow. Ok will have to download Molly's photo at another time.

Bed Time Prayers

Tonight I was putting Ari to bed and we always pray before bed. I always ask do you want to pray sometimes she does and sometimes she doesn't. Well tonight she said yes. It was a pretty cute prayer. Asking Jesus to make her wrist, head, and ankle to feel better. When I had said my prayer she proceeds to say mom, I like to think of my prayers as being in a little box, they go up to heaven Jesus opens the box reads them and writes them on paper. I thought that was so cute. I love how her mind works. Thought I would share.

Virginia Beach

This summer we had the opportunity to go to Virgina Beach. The reason we had the opportunity is a dear friend of mine was getting married and we had been invited to the wedding. We were so excited we hadn't taken a long family vacation for quite awhile. So we made our hotel reservations. I found us a great place right on the beach, ocean view right on the boardwalk. Had fun hanging out on the beach, boogie boarding, looking for shells, walking on the boardwalk,going for a surrey ride. I think you get the idea we had fun. We also got to attend our very first destination wedding. The wedding took place at 7:00 right on the beach. It was awesome. I have so many photos that I took I did narrow it down but, I had a lot so I put them in a slide show for you. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did taking them.