ATTENTION Readers of Our Lives:

As of next Monday, Daddy & Mama will be making this blog "private". So, because we appreciate you and hope that you will continue keeping up with us and our daily adventures, email Mama at kedragiddens@gmail.com so that she can make you one of our chosen readers.

Thanks everybody!

Abigail, Nathan, & Luke

He is not here, he has RISEN!!!

"He answered, ' A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.'"

Matthew 12:39-41

"Surely he has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows;

yet we esteemed him stricken,

smitten by God, and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions;

he was crushed for our iniquities;

upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,

and with his stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned-every one-to his own way;

and the Lord has laid on him

the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53: 4-6

Luke's First Haircut: Good-bye Mullet

Daddy-Daughter Date

Between "I CANNOT wait until my Daddy-Daughter date, Mommy, " and "I am going to miss Nathan so much," all day her evening was much anticipated.

I have to admit, the day was so fun though and I found myself laughing hystarically. We spent the day trimming her hair, painting her nails, picking out what she would wear (she suggested the necklaces and ring with a heart because "it was for her Daddy-Daughter date".) And she also helped Nathan decide what he and Mommy would do while she was gone. Hilarity!

Stunning.

Not ready to go without proper good-byes. (This shot may come back to bite Nathan in about 14 years. Sorry Bud, it is precious now.)

Her Mama's Girl: A Conversation with Grandma

Abigail: [Walking through the store, Abigail picks up an orange hat and hands it to Grandma.] "Here Grandma."

Grandma: Do you like this hat?

Abigail: Yes.

Grandma: Do you want me to get it for you?

Abigail: Yes.

Grandma: Should we ask Mom first?

Abigail: No, just put it in the basket.