More of Life Lately...

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Tomato firstfruits, hooray!

Irwin Garden Fresh Homemade Pizza!

Chicken Run Fun!

Enjoying Cousin Adam's fabulous pepper-coring creation! 

Sold at a Bed, Bath & Beyond near you!

Dehydrating garden herbs for an Irwin Herb creation! 

Coming to a kitchen near you soon!

Turning Thirty-Three! Thirties ARE the new Twenties, right?! I'm feelin' it already!

Shooting the girl and her "girls"...

A surprise birthday grown-ups-only trip to Enchanted Forest!

You'd have thought from the looks we got there, that it was illegal to be there without our child or something! ha!

A fabulous ultra-restorative getaway at a pastoral retreat center,

with a 4 mile hike and 10 waterfalls on boot!

As papa says most often at our house...Life is Good folks, Life is Good.

So is God, who makes it Good, for that matter! ;)

Life of Late...

learning deep hearty lessons about the REST of God available to us...

rejoicing over our first 2 Irwin Funny Farm free range chicken eggs...

family church camping with friends both old and new...


















feeding, chasing, kicking at to scare off attacks and playing rowdy with crazy Irwin chicks...

being SO richly blessed by gracious gifts from dear dear friends (we'll leave their reward treasures in heaven and let them remain nameless)...

surviving (quite well) our 2nd visit to the dentist...

birthday-call-skype'ing with mi Tica Familia in Costa Rica...

having crazy naked playdates...

enjoying new creations in the kitchen from our Bountiful Baskets weekly produce goods...

making super-instant-grow-a-friends Boggs Fam Extraordinaire!...

playing with lighting on the camera to determine if it's time to use techno savings on an upgrade...

stepping up into the 3's & 4's...

installing garage sale super-finds...

being sobered by the Traveling Wall of Veterans...

acting crazy with the neighbors...

family reunion'ing with Dutch visitors...

painting pretty piggies...

pedal boating often...

daily life'ing it...

celebrating Aunt Kitty's big 3-0!

need I say more...

What makes my heart sing in the wee late hours of this dark eve?!

The most beautiful, freshly discovered, hay covered, warm & squishy inside, first born ever, golden ticket, 

joy and pride producing

first fruits, free-range Irwin Funny Farm chicken egg, 

you ever did see.

Your literal labors have paid off girls.

We've done our job and now you've done yours.

Welcome home, to urban farmstead sustainable living, Irwin family, welcome home.

"...and bring your father and your families back to me.
I will give you the best of the land of Egypt
and you can enjoy the fat of the land."
-Genesis 45:18

Do you ever just stare at them in wonder?

I did that today. Stared at you in wonder.
I was lying by you, sweet sleepy thing, just staring at your deep breathing chest, your wholly peaceful face, your settled soul, fully at rest, all nooked up, under my arm, and I first I was in awe...that God gave you to me, gifted me your life in my womb, then brought your fullness into my arms.
And now almost 3 years later, you're still here, your fullness, still in my arms.
And it made me want to rest like that, all nooked up, under my Father's arm.
Finding deep breaths, sweet rest, soul settling and constant peace too.
I love you so my sweet, wild, joy-filled, crazy-when-you're-awake child.
I love our moments together, when you don't even know I'm watching, taking you all in.
I'll never stop.
-mama