themarcandrecifamily: August & September 2012

I am writing on Election day, so in other not so important news here is what the Marc and Reci Smith family has been up to!!

August: August was a rough month for me. We came back from Texas and I was extremely homesick. Marc was the constant rock and encourager that he always is! I am so thankful to be married to an amazing man who knows how to love me and encourage me so well!!

I was so homesick that towards the end of August, I flew back to TX and looked at some houses. Marc and I decided to put an offer on a house that needed to be completely remodeled. We were essentially going to buy a shell and fix the entire thing. I absolutely LOVED this house because it had such character and charm, and I thought I was willing to do all of the work. After much debating and bringing several specialists to the home, Marc and I decided to back out of the contract.

GOD IS SOVEREIGN. I know the Lord doesn't promise us an easy life, but Marc and I had prayed and prayed about this house. We both knew the Lord was telling us no, and in retrospect I am SO thankful we decided not to buy the house. I am not a fixer upper kind of gal... I spray paint things to make them look better... I don't build things. (I'd love to but that's just not me and being honest here, I'm not going to take the time to learn :)).

September:
We learned that we'd be staying in AZ for a while (no house in TX and we won't be back til Christmas). God finally spoke to me and helped me to focus on Him and not being so homesick.

For Labor Day weekend, we decided to take a trip to San Diego and go to the beach! The twins experienced sand for the first time and LOVED it!! Shiloh had a blast playing in the ocean!! The trip was a great success!

The twins turned 1!!!! They both began walking and by the end of the month... running. You'll see in pictures that it's near impossible to get all three girls in a picture now :/. For this picture obsessed Momma, that has been quite the challenge.

Pops (Frank) came to visit us to celebrate the M&M's birthday!! It was wonderful to have him here and super encouraging for my heart!! Shiloh loves her Pops dearly, so I know she felt energized by his trip!

My dad and Molli also threw a birthday party for all three girls!! One of the many reasons I had been so sad was that we didn't have anyone to celebrate my girls birthdays with. I know they will never remember this birthday, BUT birthdays are really special to me and it just broke my heart that we didn't have anyone to celebrate with. They invited lots of their friends over and had a party for all three girls! I am grateful they did that!

Here are pictures from August and September:

August:
Most of the pictures are on my other post.

Here are the girls 11 month pictures