A Different Kind of Guest Book

Kehnley turned two last weekend and we were so amazed at how many friends and family were so willing to spend the day celebrating with us. We had a party for her in the morning and another for her in the evening. The morning was a pool party and a lot of our family and friends who had little ones came, and And & Terry of course because they are awesome! Then we had just extended family and close family friends come in the afternoon time. Luckily Kehnley had a good nap, but she was still overwhelmed by all the people. I know she had a blast though. Her favorite parts were of course the water because she wouldn't stop talking about it, and the balloons because she is STILL dragging them around even after they are deflated!


We decide to let our chalkboard walls in the Kitchen be our guest book and I am so glad we did, it was really fun to come back from the trip and see all the messages to our sweet baby on there. I took a pic of it for her memory box.

Here is what our kitchen USED to look like...

isn't it SO much better now?! Side note: If anyone wants to paint chalkboard paint or magnetic, we did both it takes 4 coats of magnetic and 2 of the chalkboard (at least! it may take three if you don't do magnetic).

I hope she loves her guest book as much as we did. My favorite was Jen and Cody's "it's been a great two years" lol.

It has been a great two years, this little darling has completely turned our lives upside down and it's so clear that it was all mixed up before you Kehnley. Bry and I hadn't been made fully alive til you. We are better people; more loving, more daring, more patient, more fearless, more kind, more fun, more hopeful and thankful than ever because of God's gift to us through you. You are one of a kind and it's been life changing to be your momma & dadda these past two years. I will never forget the moment I held you for the first time, so much wonder and fear and love and doubt all at once. We learned a lot those first few weeks; we cried a lot, we made mistakes and we got better, we have come such a long way and it's exciting to know that it's only the beginning. You have taught me God's sovereignty like no one else I know... I have a stronger trust in the things unseen because of your sweet presence in my life. I never knew someone so small could make such a huge impact in a persons life... in just a short time you have spoken volumes, even when you couldn't say a word, you were speaking to my heart. One of the most breath taking moments recently was when we were looking at pictures together and there was an image of Jesus on the cross at the bottom of the page, it was a rouged view of Christ as the storm clouds were gathering red behind his lifeless body. I was thinking i needed to quickly close the file because I didn't know if your eyes were ready to see that kind of image, you had only seen the blue eyed Jesus in the fields with sheep around Him shepherding his beloved! Nothing as gruesome as the cross had even been shown to you yet...but before I could close the screen out you pointed at the very image i was trying to avoid and said His name for the first time "Jesus!" It took my breath away, how did you know that was Jesus? I thought. You had never seen Him there on the cross before... the only explanation for it all on that quiet morning is God was teaching me that He had shown Himself to you in His way and in His time. I found comfort knowing it wouldn't be the last... Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

I am going to post more pics as I get them finished but here are our favorites for now...