Reflecting on friends

Aaaah what do we do! She said smile.....um....okay......lets show them a Smile!
Silly boys is the name for his pic. Kids are so funny when you ask them to smile for the camera they become somebody possessed with some kind of enlongated neck disease while they cheese it up big time! Well this is it the last pic of the three of them together...Soren (left), Eli (middle), and Caedmon (right). Life is changing rapidly for everyone around here.........it is sad and exciting.......depressing and overwhelming. Soren is our preacher/friends son and Eli is mine and Caedmon is my dearest friends son. He is the youngest and Eli is the oldest. They enjoyed eachothers company tremendously and there will never be a friendship like this again.........Soren and Caedmon are unique young sweetlings and can and never will be replaced. Though we will see them again and hopefully often it is still sad for it will not be like this. There will be no more Friday night BBQ gatherings or meetings at the park no, now it will be long talks over the phone and quick visits here and there. Oh, how I cherish these times that we all had together.

























There is the whole clan of angels......ha ha devious angels. Look at them........so sweet and happy.........or at least for the picture. Usually in these gathering there is usually one little angel screaming. Look at all of them playing together for the last time...........it makes me sad. That room is no longer there.....well the room is but it is no longer Soren and Bradens room. They have a new room.........may I say a much bigger room! Ha ha, I am really going to miss all of these little God given blessings being together. I will miss Eli running in the room saying something like..."Momma, Soren hit me............" or Soren "Eli said Butt.......", Kaylee screaming not just a little scream a shrill heartwrenching very dramatic scream and Dena just rolling her eyes and say "She is okay". Ha Ha. Braden fumbling around the house, Cooper being so gentle and sweet just walking around talking like a foriegner and Caedmon scream and Jess jump up from wherever she is running to the room frantically...........crazy girl. I love ya. What a blessing God gave us all.........2 years of a wonderful friendship centered on Christ. Dena and Allen, Jessica and Jason, BJ and Rena and us..........this circle with its middle being Christ will always hold a very special place in my heart.

These two people came into our lives and many others lives and for us they turned our world around.........thank you. God worked through BJ to turn my husband around.........only BJ could do it I am sure of it and that is why He took him and his family out of China and brought them to little ol Natchitoches. I am forever thankful to BJ and Rena for all of their generous, loving, kind, carring, joyful, moving, inspirational, meek, quite, bold, sarcastic, silly and many other spirits. Just thankful to them for them being themselvs.........I enjoyed being apart of their lives......watching their children grow, watching them and learning from them, benifiting from their friendship and just being in their warm and always inviting home. Thank you God for BJ and Rena.......watch over them now as they are elsewhere in a new chapter in their lives. We love them and pray for them often. Guide their every thought and I ask that you bless this couple with an overwhelming abundance Lord. Fill them up with Your infinite indiscribable peace and joy. In your most Holy and precious name I pray..........amen. Love you guys.