Programs, Recitals and new tricks

Ok, so these pictures are not in order...and there are a lot...but they are cute!

Reese had her performance at school...it was a circus and Reese was a white dancing horse!  She loved her little tail!  I did not get many pictures...but here are a few.

 The three cutest redheads at the ballet recital!

 I don't have a picture of the action...but Bryn has finally decided to start walking.  She is still a little wobbly, but she is cute!

 These three can finally all sit at the craft table together...Bryn can get in the chair... and 

stand up in it (unfortunately) and get back out!

Reese's dance recital was this weekend, the whole recital was the production of Noah's ark.  Every group was a different animal or theme of the story...the last group were the rainbows!  The whole thing was really cute...but the bunnies were the cutest in my unbiased opinion.

Little Miss Ballerina herself...wow can't believe how much she has grown since last year.

 Concentrating hard during the dance

 Bebe came to watch the big show

 Hadley had her performance at school this week as well!  This picture sums up how darn cute and excited she was to do hers.  She danced and smiled like the wild little monkey she is.

 Hadley and mommy...I could eat her up!

Something Great about Eight

Exactly eight years ago these young ones got married!  Seriously is it possible to think we look sooo much older in a mere 8 years!  Regardless of looks...I am still in love with this guy and I feel incredibly blessed to have him as my husband.  Our lives look much different than they did 8 years ago...

We used to have a house with tons of storage space...now we have the same house with tons of little feet and no storage space.
We used to plan our weekends around fun things going on...we still do fun things but we for sure plan our weekends around our little ones...2 year old birthday parties are fun!
We used to go to the movies quite a bit...we now have a family movie night about once a week...in our living room...with popcorn and a great Disney treat!
We used to stay up late....we now crash after the girls go down...seriously we crash.
We both used to workout at the gym quite a bit...now we workout running around the front yard playing freeze tag and chase with the littles!
We used to have way to much time to focus on ourselves...thank the Lord our children have given us so much including a perspective that is not just looking in the mirror.

I recently came across a quote that I love and that I think is so fitting for us:

"Someday someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else..." - anonymous.  Thank you Lord that Jason walked into to my life!

Update on J

So for all of you who have been so faithful to pray for my brother and sister-in-law (Jonathan and Caitlin) I have some good news.  Jonathan is doing better and they are just in the waiting stages now of finding a new donor and/or waiting to see if Caitlin's kidney is ok.

So, here is their new blog where they will continue to document what is going on!  Also, with the hopes that the transplant will be able to happen soon they have begun the process of trying to raise funds for the transplant.  All of the information is laid out on their blog!

Thank you again for your prayers!

Here is the link


http://www.helphopelive.org/find-a-patient/profile/index.cfm?patient=5231C8C0-0EC0-8550-37D061E60328558F#.T4scmPJXnfo.email

We're Still Here

As with everyone else...life has been busy here at the Beckner house! We have had a lot going on...some stuff to share another time...but for now we have really been enjoying the weather outside!

Our street is a fantastic walking street...people comes from both neighborhoods beside ours to walk. We almost always take at least one walk a day...here we are strolling! Bryn is in the big stroller...I just forgot to turn her around!

We died Easter eggs a few times...this was glitter eggs...very messy so outside we went! (and don't worry Hadley's hair is wild but she had just woken up so it doesn't normally look that crazy)

A few weeks ago during Spring Break here...we went park hoping. We went to a different area park each day! Bryn gets so much love from her sisters!

We have also been enjoying our swing in the backyard...Reese and Hadley love to swing Bryn...bless her heart!

A girl's best friend

It really doesn't matter what age you are...at least in our house...a girl's best friend...is always going to be her....SHOES!!! Ha! I will admit I love shoes...there was a time a few years back (5 years to be exact) where I loved to shop for shoes for myself and loved finding some! Alas, now my priorities have changed...thank the Lord for perspective! Now...I just love shopping for the girls! And well...so do they!

Example number 1...I had taken the girls shoe shopping for Reese (she really needs spring/summer shoes) and at one of our last stops for sandals...Target...Reese did not like anything I was showing her...so as you can see she found her own!

If pictures could talk...she was so excited about these...and she was just sure they would have her size and that I would buy them for her...wrong and wrong!

Oh and don't think little miss here was left out...oh no...she found some "sparkeleeee" ones that she liked!

And the leopard print of course...I will say they were so funny...and we cracked each other up trying these on! I did get a very "oh heavens" look from an older lady who probably thought I was buying these for myself....and I just might! Ok..no I won't. :)

Not to leave little Miss Bryn out...she did not try on shoes...but she is trying out her newest trick of trying to climb up on everything...stools, chairs, tables...here we go!

Good News, Sisterly love, Glamour shots

First things first...some really good news! Jonathan's red blood cell count has continued to go UP! Such a huge answer to prayer...thank you for all of the prayers. We continue to pray with Jonathan and Caitlin that his count will continue to go up, that he will stay healthy, that Caitlin will stay healthy and that her kidney will be healthy!

Now onto Jonathan's wild nieces! These two are going to be close for sure...they are funny.

Just hanging out having fun on the couch while Reese is at school

One laughing for now...one trying to pull some curly hair

Hadley "ouch..she pulled my hair!" - Brynlee "I didn't do anything...look my hand is up here!"

Of course we can't leave out Miss Reese...who now anytime I get the camera out she has to pose...giving her best shot!

Update

"You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord is the Rock eternal." Isaiah 26:3-4

I am so grateful for all of the emails, calls and texts to say that you were praying for Jonathan and Caitlin! In Jonathan and Caitlin's words "If this many people are praying and we know that our God is the God that hears, then He has to be up to something we just cannot see."

A big praise, Jonathan was able to come home from the hospital on Thursday! They ran a lot of tests and ended up doing a bone marrow biopsy (which is not fun at all...this is not his first go around that this), to try to find out why Jonathan's red blood cell count continued to go down even with the medication he was receiving to push it up!

On Thursday it had come up a little...not at all to the level it needs to be at...but it did come up. The doctors are continuing to give him the medications to boost the blood cell count and he will be checked again on Monday. They are also waiting on the final results of the bone marrow biopsy.

So, I am so glad that Jonathan and Caitlin get to be at home and sleep...rather than in the hospital...I am beyond grateful to see the way God's people are covering them with prayers...knowing God can do ANYTHING!

As for right now they are still able to hold off on a blood transfusion...and we are grateful for that.

Some prayers we are praying:

-Prayer for healing for Jonathan

-That his red and white counts would go way up!

-Caitlin's kidney would be healthy

-If there is a better match/donor out there we can find them

The verse that God has put in my head for so many things over the past year...and so much this week has been

"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more that all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us..." Ephesians 3:20

A great reminder that God can and does do more than we could ever ask for...that is great hope and a great promise! It does not always look like how we pictured things in our mind...but that is the great part!

Thank you so much for your prayers!