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The Saturday 7

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1. Last Sunday we got together for family lunch after church. Nash, Levi, and Brodie piled in this corner of beanbags/bears and said, "Take our picture!"  Then all the other kids had FOMO . . . The boys The girls! Minus Bella, plus Brodie - who was very sad when we tried to take him out of the picture.  2. I missed the Saturday 7 last week because I was busy finishing an amazing book: The Promise is His Presence  by Glenna Marshall. This is a concept I've been thinking about a lot over the past few years. It started with my anxiety, and the constant refrain that "God might let bad things happen to you, but He promises to be with you through them." In my heart of hearts that was never very comforting to me. I was still afraid of the pain. So I started to realize that I needed to focus on cultivating a relationship with God that would result in finding comfort in his presence. As I was considering this, I spent a year doing The Bible Recap with some friends, and e...
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The Saturday 7

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Well, well, well. I have a lot to catch up on. 1. We survived another year of labor day camping. It really does get easier and more enjoyable as the kids get older. The weather was perfect, I read a couple good books, and no one got eaten by a bear. #success Turtle race winners The prize is candy cigarettes. Haha Lucy has gotten really into playing cards, lately. She plays euchre with her friends at school, and finally got the hang of Wizard - the game Justin's family plays. She won three games over the course of our four day camping trip! I love this picture, because there's a joke in our family about how VanderKodde men love plain vanilla ice cream. A whole bunch of us ordered ice cream that night - none of these three boys heard what the other ordered, but they each ordered the exact same thing. 3 generations of plain vanilla lovers. This is the progression of trying to get a cute picture with Lena in it Nailed it! Speaking of cuties Hammock life Beach sunset No plain vanill...
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