Our Name-This Photo

If you've read the side bar, you'll see our name means "Bridge Over a Ditch."

Recently, our family was BLESSED (okay-I considered it blessed-D and boys would've said "cursed!") by the A.MAAAAAZING. Mandie Joy, who so willingly did a photo-shoot of our crew at one of our favorite family spots-Rothenbach Park.

As we walked along one of the trails, looking for the "perfect spot"--we spotted this dry canal/ditch (sorta--depends on who you asked--D. man said it was all good.....my cowboy boots found it to be rather marshy and muddy like!) and she asked us to "hop down" so she could shoot some photos of us from that spot.  As we stood and "posed" it dawned on me the "irony" of it.....here we were--the Bridge Over a Ditch Crew--standing in a ditch as a family unit......

Amazing how beautiful something can be, when you step back and look at it from a different perspective than what it is by name.....I mean--it's just a muddy 'ole canal/ditch.  But, LOOK AT THIS SHOT-simply BEAUTIFUL!!!

The Ditch

The Bowditches-in the  Ditch.

The Boyditches in the Drain of the Ditch

My Baby. I wonder how long he'll be my baby?

Big Red. Just turned 9. Almost as tall as his Mama. Stop.It! 

Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. 

Pause. Not a bad thing....

Parts of our life have been put on "pause."  But, that's okay.  Dealing.  Processing.  God is pushing "play" in other areas.  We are growing.  Closer to each other.  To Him. To what He's calling us to do. To be.

"Pause" usually means, in my mind, rushing off to go pee in the middle of a movie--quickly--because, without fail, the urge occurs at a climax in the movie....you hurry through what needs to be done, so that you can quickly return to your cozy place on the couch and click "play" again.

In the "movie of life," it.just.ain't.so!  Sometimes, the pause is longer.  Sometimes it's shorter.

I'm happy for pause right now--because well--LIFE is still happening--boy's schedules have been hectic with Little League. Big Red has been asked to join a Travel Ball Team. (That's BIG stuff ya'll!).  Thanksgiving is tomorrow! (YEAH!!!). Christmas is just a month away.  And get this--the love.of.my.life.turns.FIFTY.in.a.month.too!  These are BIG things ya'll!  BIG!  Let's not forget about work and the amazing responsibilities I have between two amazing PT jobs. (PT=Ministry Jobs=FULL TIME DOUBLE TIME NEVER ENOUGH TIME!) ;)

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently on Him. ~ps. 37:7. love this. clinging to this.

Haiti Adoption Fundraiser!

Have you seen the fundraiser going on over at Facebook yet?

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Read about it here:

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and view it here: FACEBOOK FUNDRAISER! 

One awesome "HOPE" cuff donated for the auction: