Mason is 5! The Kindness Edition...

As is our new tradition, we set out recently to do some acts of kindness for Mason's birthday!

I had things all mapped out in my head prior to his birthday, but as mentioned in my prior post, Mason changed all that with his much-bigger-than-mine heart! So after a couple of weeks of gathering supplies and reworking plans, we had our big day! Here are the details on how my boy blessed others this time (my apologies for the lack of awesome pictures)!

Mason is 5! The Celebration Edition...

Mason loves Angry Birds. He plays it any chance he's got.

Mason loves Star Wars (he literally came into my room after waking up this morning walking like C-3PO - cutest.boy.ever).

Herego, Mason loves Angry Birds Star Wars. So for his 5th birthday, we threw him the party he wanted!

For the record, I can't believe that my baby boy is 5 already. It's bizarre and completely crazy. I can still feel the morning sickness from my pregnancy with him like it was yesterday ;)

Playing Catch Up....Again...

I am horrid about blogging things as they happen. Now that Fall is upon us, here's my attempt at catching you up on our happenings this Spring and Summer! We had beautiful weather these last few months. Not too hot, and a good amount of rain. It was a lovely Kansas summer. We got to spend lots of time doing things like this:

Journey to Joyful...

Confession: I have not been joyful.

Sure, I'm usually pretty peppy. But joyful - the deep down kind of joyful that swells inside of you from a place you didn't know you had - I lost that somewhere along the way.

My joy became shallow. It was affected by my circumstances. I let my daily life infect my joy when it should have been the other way around.

I knew it had to change. So I started hunting.