My sweet Abigail turned 6 a couple of weeks ago. I have no idea how these past years have flown by and we have  with a been blessed with a beautiful, spunky, full of life, sweet, caring, talkative, outgoing, and smart little girl.

She is the energy in our house. Whenever she is not home our house is quiet and things just do not flow as well. I can already tell she is going to love deep and love hard. As we help her navigate through life I pray we can turn that love to Jesus and all things for His glory. To funnel a love for life and people like Abigail has into a growing, exciting, and adventurous love for Christ can set our world on fire for Him. That's one of my prayers for our precious first born. Just being honest, it is a scary prayer. She already doesn't like to hear about people not knowing Jesus. "They just need to know. We need to go tell them," are a few phrases uttered from her sweet little lips when she hears of the depravity in this world. She has already asked me if she could be a missionary. I do not know where God will take her, but I pray we can diligently help her blossom and grow into the woman God created her to be.

She has out shined us this year. Our year has been tough to say the least and she bubbles and smiles over all the new people she gets to meet. Playing today she was thrilled to meet new people and make new friends. She sees everyone as a potential new friend and I love the innocence that is in her eyes and heart.

I have the privilege and enormous responsibility of homeschooling this beautiful girl.
She is extremely smart but has such a desire to please people that she never wants to be wrong. She will go as far as not answering in order not to be wrong. I am slowly trying to learn how to push her, help her grow, and not break her beautiful spirit.

I am not naive enough to think that in our fallen world this little beauty of mine does not come with quirks, attitude, and sin-problems, but this is a post celebrating the baby God has given us to raise. So, those delightful personality and parenting issues will have to wait for anther post.

 I pray she enjoys us as parents as much as we enjoy her as our little blessing. We love you Abigail Faith.