Proud of my girl!

Liz is playing JV Soccer this year.  Goalie and full-back.  It has been fun to watch her skills develop over the past 8 years.  She loves the game!

I love to watch her play.....

 

I can't believe she is a Freshman!  She has grown up way too fast.  They always say before you know it they are grown and gone... boy is the time flying by! 

We are loving each day and each new 'season' of our kids lives.

Thanks Lord for blessing our family with our independent, funny, strong-willed,

caring, beautiful, creative, helpful first born.

Liz, we love you!

Celebrating!

Birthdays...

September brings much celebrating in the Perkey house. Three birthdays in a row...Emma turned 8, Bret turned another year older, and Grandma just got sweeter! 



 Lots of fun for Emma and her girl friends as we had a 'girly glam' party! 

  

Thanks Jeanna and girls for all your help!

What fun!

 

Running...

Bret finished his first full MARATHON... yes, I mean 26.2 grueling miles of fun, sweat, and muscle cramps!  I am so proud of him.  What an accomplishment.  I don't think he is anxious to do that again anytime soon... sticking to the 1/2 Marathons for awhile!

It was a beautiful day!  Sunny, breezy and not a cloud in the sky!

(taking up shade under an airplane wing)

The kids waited anxiously for Bret to come down the final stretch.... they got HOT, tired and a little weary, but were so excited when he rounded the final turn!



United State Airforce Marathon ... check!

What a fun couple weeks of celebrating all kinds of VICTORIES in the Perkey house!  Thank you, Lord for reminding us of how YOU bless us in so many ways... every day!  Help us to never take for granted - each day - as a precious gift from YOU!

Tuned in to listen

It is amazing to me how God SPEAKS....

Through a song

Through my kids

Through someone's blog
Through scripture

Through a magazine in the mail
Through a passing comment from a friend

When I am willing to be FOCUSED on Him, and sensitive to His 'voice'.... it blows me away how He SPEAKS.  It is humbling to me to be reminded daily that the GOD OF THE UNIVERSE.... He knows, He hears, He cares, and oh how HE LOVES....me!

Psalm 95:3-7  For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods.  He holds in his hands the depths of the earth and the mightiest mountains.  The sea belongs to him, for he made it.  His hands formed the dry land, too.  Come let us worship and bow down.  Let us kneel before the Lord our maker, for he is our God.  We are the people he watches over, the flock under his care.

... what an amazing thought to know that WE are the people he WATCHES OVER! 

Look around you and 'listen' for HIS voice....

Rest for the 'weary'

God knew how badly we needed a long weekend!

After the first two weeks of school flying by at record speed...

 there needed to be 'rest' for our weary souls!

We spent Saturday at 3 back to back soccer games... but oh how fun to just sit and enjoy the incredibly beautiful day!  It was sunny, cool and crisp.

Fall is definitely here! 

This is Emma's birthday weekend... my baby is now 8!

Everyone told us that the time flies and they grow up way to fast,

but I didn't really understand that until this year.

Liz is now a freshman - yikes!

Ethan just turned 12.

And now my baby is truly no longer a 'baby'!

I love each and every stage.

(even though some are much more trying than others!) 

God has so been challenging me with resting in His faithfulness lately. 

I have heard a thousand times 

God is in control...

 but everywhere I look around me life seems to be spinning OUT of control.

Sometimes I have to remind myself to 'rest' in His open arms...

to 'rest' in the fact that He knows far better than I do what is best for me...

 and my family...

to 'rest' in His love and provision...

to 'rest' in His faithfulness. 

Because God is SO faithful!

The message at church today was about Abraham and how he lived a life of FAITH.

Faith is all about dying to ourselves and allowing Christ to live in us.

God asked Abraham to GO... and he OBEYED!

...not knowing WHERE he was going.

Sometimes God asks us to do things that make NO SENSE, yet...

When we OBEY and bring ourselves to the altar - facing our fear...

God WILL provide! (in ways that will blow our mind!)

Hebrews 11

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.  Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.  If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.  But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 

That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord.    

James 1:2-7

by faith....