The beautiful Cupcake set up.
View looking down at them.
Close up of one of them.
The proud Daddy.
The perfect photo of a Daddy and his youngest Daughter.
Thank God for a wonderful church family and neat care group. Our church threw Ellie a beautiful baby shower. It was after she was born because of my pre - term labor. But just the same wonderful. The care group asked me what I needed and tried to get those specific items. Ellie got several beautiful dresses and cute outfits. She got items for both summer and later on in the fall. I can't wait to see her in them. Almost everyone in the care group brought food and one of the Moultrie girls made the cutest cupcakes I've ever seen. Cindy Junket wrote a touching devotional. We had an awesome time and got tons of stuff for our little Ellie.
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Ellie's Devotional
He said to them, "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these" Mark 10:14
1.) Baby Blanket.
Be sure to wrap Ellie up in the love of Jesus to keep her warm. fill your home with the love for each other. The more the love of Christ is shown in your home, the less there will be of bickering, fighting, and arguing, which is something no child needs to grow up with.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7
2.) Baby Blocks.
Give your child the building blocks of character that she'll need throughout life. Teach her those traits that will develop her into a wonderful adult such as honesty, integrity, hard work, obedience, responsibility, and respect.
Train a child in the way she she should go and when she is old she will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6
3.) Baby Book.
Remember you are making memories every day. Write down things you want to remember in a baby book or journal, take pictures, but most of all keep all of these moments with your children in your heart. You will never get that time back so make the most of it because Ellie is a wonderful gift from the Lord.
Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him. Psalm 127:3
4.) Safeguards
Help safeguard Ellie not only physically by all the things you can do to make her safe, but for eternity. Teach her the way of salvation. Take her to Sunday school, Awana and church. Have family devotions. Do all you can to ensure that she is shown the way of salvation, so that when she is ready for that decision, she'll be able to make it.
And how from infancy you have known the Holy schriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:15
5.) Baby Clothing
Clothe Ellie in prayer. Pray daily for them. Nothing will fit better, be more in season, or be more suitable for your child to be clothed in than your prayers. There's so much to pray about concerning our children -- their salvation, their safety, their relationships with others, their virtue, their witness,their general welfare and the list could go on and on.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God.
Philippians 4:6
6.) Child's Bible
Make the word of God prominent in Ellie's life. Help her from the time she is little with memory verses. Have Bible sword drills with her. Quote verses with her and let her see that God's Word is important. Take her to Sunday school and enroll her in Awana and Bible study fellowship.
These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6:7
7.) Baby Rattle
From time to time just rattle yourself into remembering that you just can't do it alone. You need to rely on God to be good parents. Get close to the Lord in your daily devotions and prayer life. Make Christ your strength.
I can do everything through him who gives me strength. Philippians. 4:13
8.) Rubber Duck
Have fun parenting. Being a parent can sometimes be hard but enjoy your role as Mom and Dad. Thrust yourself wholeheartedly into it.
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:17
If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in it's place, I am a housekeeper, not a homemaker. If I only have time for waxing and polishing, my children will learn of cleanliness, not godliness. Love leaves the dust in search of a child's laugh. Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on the newly cleaned window. Love is the key that opens salvation's message to a child's heart. Before I became a mother, I took glory in my house of perfection; but now my priorities are different. I glory in God's perfection of my children.
Be sure to wrap Ellie up in the love of Jesus to keep her warm. fill your home with the love for each other. The more the love of Christ is shown in your home, the less there will be of bickering, fighting, and arguing, which is something no child needs to grow up with.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7
2.) Baby Blocks.
Give your child the building blocks of character that she'll need throughout life. Teach her those traits that will develop her into a wonderful adult such as honesty, integrity, hard work, obedience, responsibility, and respect.
Train a child in the way she she should go and when she is old she will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6
3.) Baby Book.
Remember you are making memories every day. Write down things you want to remember in a baby book or journal, take pictures, but most of all keep all of these moments with your children in your heart. You will never get that time back so make the most of it because Ellie is a wonderful gift from the Lord.
Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from him. Psalm 127:3
4.) Safeguards
Help safeguard Ellie not only physically by all the things you can do to make her safe, but for eternity. Teach her the way of salvation. Take her to Sunday school, Awana and church. Have family devotions. Do all you can to ensure that she is shown the way of salvation, so that when she is ready for that decision, she'll be able to make it.
And how from infancy you have known the Holy schriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:15
5.) Baby Clothing
Clothe Ellie in prayer. Pray daily for them. Nothing will fit better, be more in season, or be more suitable for your child to be clothed in than your prayers. There's so much to pray about concerning our children -- their salvation, their safety, their relationships with others, their virtue, their witness,their general welfare and the list could go on and on.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God.
Philippians 4:6
6.) Child's Bible
Make the word of God prominent in Ellie's life. Help her from the time she is little with memory verses. Have Bible sword drills with her. Quote verses with her and let her see that God's Word is important. Take her to Sunday school and enroll her in Awana and Bible study fellowship.
These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6:7
7.) Baby Rattle
From time to time just rattle yourself into remembering that you just can't do it alone. You need to rely on God to be good parents. Get close to the Lord in your daily devotions and prayer life. Make Christ your strength.
I can do everything through him who gives me strength. Philippians. 4:13
8.) Rubber Duck
Have fun parenting. Being a parent can sometimes be hard but enjoy your role as Mom and Dad. Thrust yourself wholeheartedly into it.
And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:17
If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in it's place, I am a housekeeper, not a homemaker. If I only have time for waxing and polishing, my children will learn of cleanliness, not godliness. Love leaves the dust in search of a child's laugh. Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on the newly cleaned window. Love is the key that opens salvation's message to a child's heart. Before I became a mother, I took glory in my house of perfection; but now my priorities are different. I glory in God's perfection of my children.
