Our First Child?

Meet our future little girl....

With two of our photos combined this is what

makemebabies.com predicted our first 'lil skins

to look like

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1 Corinthians 13:4-13

4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

8Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages^b and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!9Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

11When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.^c All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

13Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.

Happy St. Patty's Day!

I have never been one to celebrate this mysterious holiday (what are people even celebrating - the color green?!) but what I remember most from growing up is the breakfasts my sister and I would wake up to.  My Mom would make the weirdest stuff green - like bananas!  I chose to continue on the tradition this morning...

One thing I wish people would have told me before I got married was that it will be time to begin new traditions.  [Maybe that should be my #6 on my list in the previous blog].  We got married in July and had to wait alllllll the way until Thanksgiving to realize holidays were going to be a bit different.  We weren't able to make it home, which was a huge wake up call.  "What!  We can't go home!  It won't feel like Thanksgiving then!"  I came to realize that this feeling is a choice.  I could chose to dwell in past turkey day traditions or strike a pose and make my own (I mean...our own!).  It then came time for Christmas.  If Thanksgiving wasn't a slap in the face this holiday sure was.  Between our 4 combined jobs we were only able to get 72 hours off.  We traveled home, raced around like crazy people, and traveled back all before the weekend ended (did we even remember what the holiday was all about?)  I would lie in bed saddened that we weren't reading Christmas Bible stories together like Molly and I had growing up or that we didn't have an advent calendar to daily open up and find chocolates.  I found myself getting really upset at the holiday and Craig.  He tried so diligently to help me relive those traditions and it wasn't until after the holiday season that I came to realize we had the opportunity to start our own.  We have to find the "Haskins Way" of doing things.  It is exciting to think about our future children and to know we have the power in traditions - creating memorable and spiritual times for them around holidays, birthdays, etc.  Did I make green eggs and milk for Craig because my Mom did?  Yes!  But that is one I want to hang on to!!

Now go drink some green beer, er, I mean soda pop!!!

God's Plan for Marriage

We ordered this photo and haven't framed it yet, but we love how it captures the majesty of our special day.  Craig received me July 24, 2010....hmmm....shall we call him a "wife-receiver" as opposed to a wide receiver.  After all, I was always running full speed while we were dating, either towards him or away from him.  He caught me and is aiming to protect me all the way.  Don't wide receivers have to look at the ball all the way into their hands until they have it firmly grasped?  They quickly tuck it into the crook of their arm and they keep looking at it until it is fully tucked.  Finally, they look up and get set to run!  (that is if they are not already smashed into the ground).


My best friend is getting married in 3 months and I cannot wait for her to experience the pure joy that comes from the first few months of marriage.  Craig and I will always be newlyweds...I believe it's a feeling of choice and the idea of continually dating.  How neat is it that God designed a man and woman so perfectly that they may balance each other out!




"Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."  So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.  The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him.  So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.  Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."  Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh."  Genesis 2:18-24