Man in the mirror

Josiah is learning to explore his world. He is intrigued by his reflection. He looks so intently, trying to figure out the other baby who is moving and smiling. You can also see that his hair is thinning. I'm hoping he doesn't lose much more. Thankfully he has so much on the top, he can have a comb over and a comb down. I am thinking he'll need a hair cut way before his 1st birthday.

Eating Pasta

This is what happens when you leave an almost 2 year old alone to feed herself. I learned a long time ago that shirts and pants are optional when eating anything red.

Eden really loves being independent. She uses her fork almost as much as she uses her hands. Most of the time she picks up her pasta, puts it on the fork, then puts it in her mouth. She smiles so big at her accomplishment :) Can you imagine why we head to the bath tub right after eating? :)

These boots are made for walkin'

Our little girl is such a girly girl :) Here she is heading off to church in her new super cute pink boots and a little purse. She looked so grown as she pranced over to church.

These boots were made for running :)

Party Girl

Andrea took these photos of the kids at Anna's 5th Birthday party. We had a great time and made some new friends. This was one of the first times I took both kids out by myself. Thank you to everyone there who helped out.

My little artist
Hanging out with the big kids.
First time with markers

Swinging

A tired Josiah fighting a nap

Breakfast and rolling over

Here are a few shots from breakfast. Josiah is rolling over all by himself. His blue eyes are just amazing!

Blue eyes!
Rolling over

Eden eating yogurt.
Don't know where the spoon went, but her fingers seemed to work :)

Triple Coupons

Here is the results from a triple coupon sale at Harris Teeter yesterday. I can't remember the exact totals, but we spent about $30 on $120 worth of stuff. A lot of the things like the mustard, candy, rice, marinades and BBQ sauce were free. The wipes were about $5 ,but we needed them. Overall I'm really pleased with our deal. Andrea and I are planning on going back tomorrow to do one or two more shops. :)

Not so friendly visitor

We get visitor of all kinds here at the parsonage, Mostly the 2 legged kind..But yesterday we had this bold snapping turtle show up on our front walk. I don't know a whole lot about snapping turtles except they bite. After I shot this picture of our kitten Delilah and the turtle, I decided to put the camera down and shoo her away. I didn't want her to be bitten or the turtle to be eaten.

Thankfully, one of our favorite 2 legged visitors showed up and put the turtle in the corn field next door to us. And just as and FYI to all you city dwellers, turtles are not slow creatures. This little bugger took off when we tried to capture him. I was super surprised at how fast he was. And yes snapping turtles do snap. They kinda hiss too. Over all this is as close as I want to come to one :)

National Geographic about to happen!
One big snapping turtle

Our Wedding and Vows

This was one of the happiest days in my life :) Here are a few of our pictures and below is a copy of my favorite part of out wedding, our vows.

We laughed and smiled a lot through our wedding.
More smiling :)

This is the gazebo in front of Southeastern Chapel.

Remove the blindfold... this is when Larry 1st saw me in my wedding dress.

We had a time of prayer before the ceremony

Larry blindfolded and me coming up to meet him on the steps of Binkley Chapel at Southeastern Seminary. We had hours and hours of great talks about out hopes and desires for our lives sitting on these steps. This is when I first fell in love with Larry and knew I wanted to be his wife :)

I Loved my dress!

Sweet Kiss

We're really doing this.... We're getting married!

Our first dance

Wedding Vows
I Larry, before God and these witnesses make this covenant to you Angela.
It is my desire and commitment to love you as Jesus Christ loves His church.
It is my desire and commitment to lead you and to bring glory to God with your life
It is my desire and commitment to grant you honor, admiration and affection and to love you with all of the passion and fervency of my being.

As your husband, I will gladly seek to understand you and to provide for your spiritual, mental and physical well-being.
I will place your needs above my own and love you as I have loved myself.
I will be faithful to you and avoid all that is immoral, impure or unholy.
I will not keep a record of your wrongs.
I will cultivate tender affection for you, both in private and in public.
I will give you authority over my body in the union which we alone will enjoy.
I will never leave you, nor divorce you.

Above all, it is my desire and commitment to be the spiritual leader of our family and to be an example of Christ’s love, devotion and obedience to God and to treasure Christ above all else.

And if God blesses us with children,
I promise to lead our family in worship and prayer,
to be faithful and active in our local church
to teach our family the Bible and how to live a life that is pleasing to God
and to raise our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

This day I seal this covenant for as long as we both shall live.



I Angela, before God and these witnesses make this covenant to you Larry.

It is my desire and commitment to joyfully submit myself to your headship as the church has submitted herself to Christ.
It is my desire and commitment to allow you to provide leadership in my life.
It is my desire and commitment to grant you honor, and respect as my husband and to love you with all of the passion and fervency of my being.

As your wife, I will seek to be your helper and companion and to care for your spiritual, mental and physical well-being.
I will place your needs above my own and love you as I have loved myself.
I will be faithful to you and avoid all that is immoral, impure or unholy.
I will not keep a record of your wrongs.
I will cultivate tender affection for you both in private and in public.
I will give you authority over my body in the union, which we alone will enjoy.
I will never leave you nor divorce you.

Above all, I will honor you as the spiritual leader of our home and become an example of Christ’s love, devotion and obedience to God and to treasure Christ above all else.

And if God blesses us with children,
I promise to gladly regard my role as wife and mother as my priority.
I will pray for you and encourage you as the spiritual leader of our home, and will honor you as the spiritual leader of our home.
I will make our home a place of peace, and comfort.

This day I seal this covenant for as long as we both shall live.

Happy Anniversary!

Three years ago today I married the most amazing man God ever made. I told Larry this morning I couldn't believe it had only been 3 years. It feels like so much longer than that :) I guess that's because we have had so many big challenges and adjustments in these three years that we have been married. Our marriage has been made strong because of it.

In addition to the 2 wonderful children that we have, we've gone through Eden's heart issues, job loss, odd jobs to make ends meet, graduating Seminary, ministry seeking, finding God's church for our family, moving and adjusting to the life in the country and being in full time ministry. Lots of big changes in such a short amount of time can be very trying on a marriage. Yet, we've done well. I credit that to God's blessing on our marriage and lots of good communication. These situations have grown us closer together and we love each other more today that we did 3 years ago. I can only imagine what the next 50 years are going to look like :

I waited a long time for you Larry Gilbreath, but I'm sure glad I did. You were well worth the wait! I am so proud to be your bride, your beloved, and I look forward to growing old and senile with you :)

Happy Anniversary!


Here are a few shots of us before marriage and children. I keep thinking Wow, I sure look well rested back then :)

Can't help but smile :)

I am incredibly thankful that I have such happy children. Their smiles and laughter bring a special joy to their Momma's heart. Here are a few smile I captures this weekend. I hope they make you smile too :)

OK Josiah isn't smiling in this picture, but I smiled when I thought about what he must be thinking.... Lady, Just take the picture, drool and all :)

More Sleepy Wraps

I went back to Andrea's place today to help her finish the Sleepywrap Shoots. There was a house full of kids! I think it was 8 kids under 4. Thankfully, they were all well behavied and there were no accidents.

This is a picture I took of Andrea. She's so beautiful and the baby looks like hers, but was borrowed. :)

Here is a shot of Josiah and Kenna. She's 2 weeks younger that Josiah. They were probally the easiest to keep up with during the shoot :)

Holding our breath!!

I just got off the phone with Embarq and we are set up to get high speed internet. WOHOOO! I am doing a happy dance!!! Of course there might be a problem, that's why I'm holding my breath But as of7:00pm next Thursday we should be up and running :)

BundleBoo

While I was on the baby wearing kick, I decided to post a few pictures of the BundleBoo Wrap that Andrea took of me a few months ago. I'm not exactually sure how long ago these were taken, I know it was in the fall. Josiah's baby bump is pretty big in some of these photos. The thing that gets me is how much Eden has changed since then. Her hair has grown so much. She's lost that baby look and now is such a big girl :) Oh my, how fast they grow!

The Explorer

For those of you asking, What was Eden doing while you were taking picture? Here she is exploring the box the sleepy wraps came in. Of course the best way to do that is to get into the box. Plus, she found one of the boy's Dinosaur that she carried around for a good while. She picked the dinosaur because she couldn't reach the monkey wearing the tutu. She had a blast playing with all the cool toys at Ms. Andrea's house.

More Sleepywrap Pictures

Here are a few more pictures Andrea took.

Thanks Andrea!

This is my Favorite. I love how peaceful Josiah looks... and those checks!!
Sassy Momma

A sweet kiss

Love the black wrap too :)

Thumb Sucker :)

Handsom Boy