Advent

Wreath making with friends. Hank was much more interested in collecting the greenery than making the wreaths.
First Christmas owning a house. You better believe there is green in every room. Tis the season!
Our third year making homemade beeswax candles and my favorite kids craft that you can actually use and are pretty to look at.
Yes, snapped a shot with Hank peeing on a tree. More importantly, the greenery/mossy trees in Oregon are too die for beautiful.
So fun to see the name Amos written on a package. With Simon and Hank we did not fully decide on their names until they were born. With this third baby it seemed important to call him by name when we pray for him.

“When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be.”

-Sue Monk Kidd

We have entered the season of advent—the holy days leading up to Christmas. This year the waiting feels heavier, brighter, more full of hope, peace, joy, and love than years before. We are enjoying our new life on the west coast. We have been busy crafting, watching holiday movies, and wrapping presents for under our tree.