Don't Worry, Be Happy!

I don't know about you guys, but we Bullock's are LOVING this weather!  We've been outside pretty much everyday :-D  Flowers are blooming, grass is turning green, sun is shining bright - can't get much better!  We have this beautiful purple tulip tree in our back yard.  Kylie keeps taking me over there saying, 'mell, mell!' (aka - smell, smell!).






Since it's so nice out, Toby thought it would be a great idea to go ahead and pull out Kylie's pool from last year.  Yes, we realize that it's not even April yet, but it's just so pretty and warm.  We drug it out and blew it up only to find that it had a few sketchy spots with holes.  My daddy taught me a philosophy when I was only knee high to a grasshopper - Duct Tape fixes just about anything.  So, I decided to implement the idea and it worked!


 Looks brand new!

Kylie frolicking in the sun :)

Gettin' a little sip sip

Well, all was fine and dandy until we peeked out there later that night.  We found that maybe Duct Tape can't fix everything.  Not only had some of the air leaked out, but a lot of the water too.  

womp, womp ...

Kylie was a little on the bummed-out side, so ... well, I'm sure you guys can guess what Toby did :)

A NEW POOL!

Complete with it's own basketball goal, Kylie's new pool will definitely show her some fun times this year.  She's already been playing in it and having a blast. 

 SLIDE!

Just hanging out in the water!

Summer will be here before we know it.  In just 10 weeks we'll be opening a brand new chapter in our lives.  We head for Springfield, MO on my final clinical rotation at the end of May.  Weird, exciting, scary, and bittersweet.  I can't believe how time has flown by.  I intend to enjoy these last few weeks here in Conway making memories and loving life.  This house is really the first place we've been that has felt like home.  This is where we brought Kylie home to and it's the only place she's ever known.  So, I'm sure that I'll cry when we leave, but until then - we'll laugh, sing, dance, play, and enjoy our sweet little home while we're here.  But, in all this anxiousness about what is to come - I can be still and know who holds tomorrow.  I am constantly preaching to myself not to worry, but yet I do it anyway.  Afterall, why should I worry?  God's hand has held and continues to hold me.  He'll never fail me.  He's been showing me more and more how to really appreciate and savor the present moment.  The following passage always comforts my anxious heart, and helps me to realize that there's no reason that it should have been anxious in the first place :)  

25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28 So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."

Matthew 6:25-34  

Worry free, never anxious Kylie :)

Comments

  1. JillMarch 24, 2011 at 8:03 PM

    Oh Paige,

    Every time I read that scripture I realize how weak my faith can be. I am so thankful that HE is faithful.

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