A Special Church

I know the tendency is to skip over long posts, but I hope you will read through this one. :)

I can hardly believe that in just one week I will be holding another tiny baby. I can hardly believe that I will have two children. It is so exciting to be welcoming my second child into this world and I  can only pray that I will be the godly mother that he deserves. Children are amazing little creatures that make just about everything more full and beautiful. This is a special time.

But I must admit it is also a difficult time. I have become decidedly more homesick. As I have begun preparing and pulling out our baby things to ready our home for this most anticipated arrival, I am reminded of how blessed we have been. I miss Belle Aire and our family there. I did not realize how secure we felt because of there love and support, for even the smallest details of our family. I did not realize that I loved them as deeply as I do and that God had truly knit them into the very fibers of my heart. 

This church family is the model, my model for what love, community and living out true Gospel teaching and fellowship in the church looks like. They are of course, not without flaw, but I know this only because of common spiritual sense and not from experience. We have been gone almost 9 months now, and even in our absence they remember us and support us. That is of great comfort in a place and city where we feel invisible most of the time. 

Thank you family for your love, attention and offerings for our family. I hope that we can be of equally great character and godliness as we are serving in new places.

Please take the time to read these verses in tribute to their faithfulness:

  'And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He who begun a good work in you will continue until the day of Christ Jesus, developing and perfecting and completing it to full completion in you.

  It is right and appropriate that I should have this confidence and feel this way about you all, because you have me in your heart and I hold you in my heart as partakers and sharers, one and all with me, of grace. This is true both when I am shut up in prison and when I am out in the defense and confirmation of the good news.

  For God is my witness how I long for and pursue you all with love, in the tender mercy of Christ Jesus Himself!"

Philippians 1:6-8 Amplified

We Love You~

The Nadeau's

Easter, Friends and Guitar Hero

We had a great Easter! Aslan got all dressed up in the cute little outfit Nana and Gramps got him for his birthday. Great style job Nana! He was so beautiful! We were walking through the church with our little handsome and very debonair boy and people were commenting on how adorable he was. :) Clint was very handsome as well in his suite and I was, well... just large :)

We also figured out a little too late that the batteries in our camera were dead :( So we didn't have a major photo shoot. But we did get some cute pictures. After church we went to our friends house, Lauren and Ryan Helfenbein, for lunch. Our dear friend Daniel Patterson was there as well. We had a great time!

Our family picture. Marvel at the largeness which has become my face...

My two handsome gentlemen. 

Then there was Guitar Hero. That is a game where you get cordless guitars and try to keep up with the TV screen that is prompting you to play certain tunes. It's kinda like karaoke except with guitars. They were mesmerized. 

Aslan was totally in too it! Of course he was!! He is such the musician :)

More Guitar Hero~

Here is my husband jamming out to the game, in his Easter duds. They did this for 2-3 hours, no kidding. Lauren and I had girl talk in the other room :) 

This is what happens to a person after 3 hours of Guitar Hero :) 

Daniel and Ryan~ can you see the intensity with which they are strumming their guitars? Very serious. 

Also, notice that all the boys were wearing light blue dress shirts. I think they were coordinating for there musical debut as Guitar Hero's  :0:0:0 

Hope everyone had a great Easter!!

Aslan's 2nd Birthday party

Last weekend we had Aslan's birthday party. It was so much fun and I had such a great time planning and preparing. For the last few months I've been planning and picking up things slowly. Also, I have to send a huge Thank You! to my Aunt Becky who generously donated some great party things! Also, my hard working husband and our friends Ben and lindsay who helped us set up. We met Ben and Lindsay when they visited our church a couple of months ago and immediately hit it off. We have been getting together regularly since then and I'm extremely grateful for their willingness to give up a sunday afternoon to help set up my son's party! They are fabulous!

This was the entrance welcome, it was a Cars theme :)

Thanks to my sweet dad for supplying the tires!

This was "Winners Circle"  :) where there were some fun games (on the right) and his "Victory" chair where he opened his presents. Notice the cool 'victory lane' sign my Aunt B sent. Loved it!

This was the "winner's circle" cake with the little cupcake cars surrounding the victory car :) Cheesy yes, but that is the fun of kid's birthday parties! Aslan loved it!

For snacks we also had:

 Luigi's Famous White Wall Tires (chocolate cookies with a ring of white icing)

Radiator Springs One Stop Snacks (Graham crackers w/ chocolate icing & M&M's to look like        traffic lights)

Filmore's Organic Fuel (Water)
This is my favorite picture! We were blowing out his candles, he loved the cake and the candles and was so excited. That made everything totally worth it!

more on next post :)

Aslan's party continued...

Opening presents

Our sweet friends: Daniel, Ben and Lindsay

(My parents were also there but somehow we missed a picture with them)

One of the games was 'Fishing with Tow Mater" where the kids would take a special Cars fishing pole and send it over the curtain to fish for surprises. This is crazy Ben hiding and putting the surprises in the little bucket. Thank you Ben!!

Another guest, our neighbor, Claudia and her daughter Sofia playing at the play dough table.

We had a coloring table with a huge color sheet of Lightening McQueen, play dough, little arcade games (found on clearance at Target!), cars to ride on and a little bulls-eye game.

Happy Birthday Aslan!

Party Weekend Part 2

We ate pizza, which was surprisingly, really good. Aslan sat right in the booth (no booster seat or high chair) and ate his pizza. Such a big boy!

These were fun drums and they made lots of sound, he loved it!!

The jet ski thing, not a big hit but I think Nana had fun.

This was a gun thing, again I think enjoyed more by the grandparent than the kid :) Love it!

It was so much fun watching him enjoy everything. Thank you Gramps and Nana for a fun night of pizza, games and kid chaos!

Party Weekend!!

First Let me say that... I AM DILATED!!! WOO-HOO!! For those readers not so much familiar with pregnancy lingo, this baby is getting ready to make his big entrance!!! But I do need him to wait until I get a few more things together :) I'm confident he will, but it is still exciting to know that my body is preparing and that will make the induction easier.

 

This past weekend my parents came up to finish Aslan's birthday celebrations and we had so much fun! Aslan asked for them all week and then when they arrived Saturday night, he was so excited. They took us to Chuck E. Cheese and we had so much fun. It was complete insanity with all sorts of kids and interesting types but, fun nonetheless.

The fun slide, please notice his cute new hair cut. 

Gramps helping him do the pound thingy.

He is riding the horse on Cinderella's carriage, not so much the ride but with Nana anything is possible.

The rocket ship, he wasn't real sure about this one.