Caeden's officially 5!

He had been looking forward to this day for months and as you can see the fact it arrived put a smile on his face! What an artistic cake too huh? :)
Here we are the am of his 5th birthday with his 5 balloons. :) It was an extra exciting morning too because he lost his first tooth the night before while eating a burrito at dinner. So we have a new grin for age 5 too! He really is growing up!
This sweet monkey was blessed with parties this year! Here we are at the Murphy family party, and once all the toys had been opened all 6 Murphy men had a toy in hand and were all trying them out, it was quite cute!
This was a little friend party Jay and I hosted in our backyard. We pretty much let Caeden choose what happened and it involved lots of eating, playing star wars and duck duck goose.

Well Caeden, we sure love you! You are surrounded by so many family members and friends that think you are super special! We have loved these first 5 years and are so excited that we will share in your days to come.

Happy October from our home to yours

Too cute for words!
Fishing in the street after a huge rain. :)
Our families first "punkin" patch experience in Show Low.
Daddy can get the cutest little laugh out of our youngest.

Fun with Sassy

My aunt Sassy is in town from Australia and we have been enjoying our time with her! We got to spend a few days showing her Show Low and experiencing real fall weather. :)
Brother and Sister. :)
Happy Birthday cuddles for Caeden. This is the first of 4 parties this week for our bud. :)
Kels, Sassy and I on her first night back "home," at K and J's new house. Yeah for family times!

10-10-10

10-10-10.... what a fun day yesterday was. I woke up and just felt excited by it, I am sure there are things that it probably stood for but for me I just liked the look of it. :) However, it ended up being a significant day for me when all was said and done.

I struggle with letting go of control in my life. :) The God who made me deserves all of me and sometimes I am able to do that better than others. The other days I really have a plan, an idea, something I want to see work out and it is almost as though I beg and plead with the Lord for my way to work.

Yesterday, Jay was on call for work AND he was supposed to lead worship for our 9 am and 11 am services at church. Well what do you know? He got called at 8:30am and had to leave church to go to a hospital about 45 minutes away to pick up things necessary for a surgery at another hospital. Now this is something that would normally stress me out but yesterday I was able to thank God for taking care of everything necessary. Our brother in law Nick was able to move off the electric guitar and lead the 9 am worship and Jay made it back to the 11 am service. It all flowed beautifully and God you get the praise.

Then I attended the 2nd service and really felt strongly that I should go tell one of our pastors that I felt the Holy Spirit guiding our congregation to pray for another pastor of ours that was home sick. I was able to let go of the part that was not wanting to come across bossy and I just followed God's voice and our congregation prayed and I got report today that our Pastor's fever broke last night and he is feeling a lot better today. Again, Lord we give you praise!!

Jay and I had a few moments of quiet conversation yesterday while the boys napped and as we talked about life I realized I was being allowed to let go of other areas of control in my life too. It really makes me wonder why I ever want to "be in charge" when the Lord's ways are so good and so perfect!!

So, 10-10-10 became a significant day for me and I am feeling a new freedom in it. I release all my plans and purposes to you Lord and I ask that you would help still me, to hear your voice and follow your plans all the days of my life. AMEN!