Cherish your Vows

I Jason, take you Brandie, to be my wedded wife. I promise in the presence of God my Savior and Lord and these witnesses to love you as Christ loves the Church. I promise to cherish, protect, honor, defend, and support you in sickness and in health, in prosperity and in adversity and through every change of condition.
I am accepting the command given to me by our Lord to be the spiritual leader of our household, and I will constantly strive to seek first His kingdom. I promise that I will lead our lives in strength and hope in Christ Jesus - ever honoring God's guidance by His spirit through His word. Brandie, I am from this day forward choosing to love you as an act of my will, with or without the presence of romantic feelings. I promise to forsake all others and commit myself fully to you, to be faithful to you and no other, cleaving only to you as long as we both shall live.

I Brandie, take you Jason, to be my wedded husband. I promise in the presence of God my Savior and Lord and these witnesses to love, cherish, respect and obey you in sickness and in health, in prosperity and in adversity, and through every change of condition.
I am accepting the command given to me by our Lord to trust your leadership in our household, and I will constantly strive to seek first His kingdom. I pledge to strengthen, help, comfort, and encourage you. Jason, I am from this day forward choosing to love you as an act of my will, with or without the presence of romantic feelings. I promise to forsake all others and commit myself to you, to be faithful to you and no other, cleaving only to you as long as we both shall live.

Although they are long, I wanted to type these out to be reminded of what a commitment marriage is. Not only to each other, but to the Lord who saved us. I love the part of our vows that say "I am choosing to love you as an act of my will, with or without the presence of romantic feelings." Marriage is not always easy, but we choose everyday to love that person whether or not we "feel" like it. It is also such a picture of the gospel. Everyday in our sin nature, we sin against God. However, if your are truly His child, he never stops pursuing you. Our marriages should be a reflection of such great love. I will end by saying that after 2 years of marriage, I have nothing figured out. But, I am so thankful to the Lord for giving me Jason. My love for him grows stronger with each day. God alone is the only one who knows how many years we will have together, and I pray that even in the hard times, I will never take a single moment for granted.

DIY

I have been staring at this boring wall for quite sometime, trying to think of a way to decorate it. I was "stalking" some blogs one day when I came across a very cute idea- fabric inside of wooden needlecraft hoops!

First, I picked out some coordinating fabrics (that I have now changed my mind about...oops).


Then, I stuck some fabric inside of the hoops and cut the excess fabric off.


Last, I just used some fabric glue and glued the excess fabric to the hoop.



And now there is a little more color and livelihood to our wall....(our wall that will one day get a new paint color :/ )


When we are not inside crafting it up, cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, washing bottles, constantly wiping snot from Jack's nose, the list goes on and on, we are outside enjoying a little fun in the sun!

on to the eighth month!

I was in the bathroom getting ready for church, when I peek outside to see Jack having a photo shoot with daddy. As you can tell by the pictures, I think they were having a lot of fun!













Jack LOVES food! I can not feed him enough. He gets SO mad when meal time is over.


What else does he love?? Chewing on everything! He is not particular. What ever you hand him will do.





He loves watching Praise Baby!


Now we just need to get this frustrated baby to crawl! We have some rocking with the result of a belly flop and tears. Poor guy, he will get it one of these days!

Thank you Lord for these eight months with our baby. He is your child, help us to train him in your ways. :)

Jack attends his first Birthday Party!

It seems like yesterday, we ran into our sweet friends Mandy and Murray at Babies R Us when we were carrying around our bundles of joy in our bellies. Jason actually knew them growing up and from college, but this was my first time to meet them. I remember getting in the car and saying "Jason we have got to hang out with them again." It took some months but we finally did. Now, we are having so much fun getting to know them, and sharing this parenthood adventure with them. Last Saturday was Sophia's First Birthday. Mandy did such a great job with her party. It was cost efficient (which I love), creative, and SUPER cute! Let me show you some pictures of the fun decor....

Smash Cake!


Yummy Cupcakes!


Pig Balloons Everywhere!


Last but certainly not least, the Beautiful Birthday Girl in her pretty pink dress! She was having so much fun and she was a quick one. It was hard for me to get a great picture because she running from toy to toy. But who could blame her! Happy Birthday Sophia! The Wolfes love you!

Jack's Baptism

"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" Matt 28:19

"I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you." Gen 17:7

Jack got baptised on January 16th, but since I didn't blog for six months, this will be my post. The morning started off with me in worry mode. I kept thinking if he doesn't get fed by this time and get a little nap in by the time of the service, he is going to cry during his entire baptism. Thankful to the Lord, that everything worked out and our precious covenant child smiled through the entire thing. I would show pictures of the actual baptism, but with all the hurrying, trying to get everyone ready on time we forgot the camera in the car and it was too late. I was and still am so sad. Atleast we got a couple pics in before we left.



It is such a blessed experience to have people walking with you in this life that love and serve our God. Not only do I think about my extended family and church family, but I also think about my sweet friends with children - who basically are family. Jason and I, by God's grace, have the priviledge of raising Jack around people who live to see all of our children (theirs included) grow to have a passion for our saviour and live it out in their everyday lives. If you are one of these people and are reading this, thank you.

Love this Land and Pass it on

If there is one thing that I pride myself on, it is my love for the South. There is nothing like southern traditions, southern recipes, and sweet southern love. The Lasseter family (Jason's Grandparents) have acres of farmland in Gadsden, AL. A southern tradition of theirs, is that every grandbaby and great grandbaby gets their picture taken with "grandaddy" on his tractor.....

this is Jason when he was a baby


and this is Jack




And nothing says southern love like celebrating "granmother" and "grandaddy's" 65th wedding anniversary in May!

Celebrating Six Months

The blogging world is new to me and I am trying to learn the ins and outs of it, so if anyone would like to help, in the words of Charlie Sheen, "Bring it."

On a completely different note, the talented Laura Rowe, with her beautiful baby bump, went with us to Leeds park to capture some photographs of us celebrating the first six months of Jack's life. Some pictures have been tagged to my facebook but here are a few more to share...