Little Men and Little Ladies

Psalm 127:3
Lo, Children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

My oh My, what a difference it is to raise a little boy compared to the girls. Joshua and I did not think that we would be able to tell this young. I mean Titus is only eight months old. But what a difference there is.
He is such a little conquer. No matter what it is he is beating on it, trying to tear it a part :) especially the girls baby dolls. LOL... He grunts all the time and just does funny stuff that Tatum and Elyssa did NOT do.
The girls even when they were little were loving and nurturing to their dolls. But not Titus as long as he can put it in his mouth and use something to make noise on its head he is a happy, happy little guy.
It has been so fun thus far watching the difference between girls vs boys. What a true blessing Children really are!!!

(The picture at the top of this post is from august.)

Cabin Fever!!!

Hello all,
We are in the middle of winter and I think we all have cabin fever...LOL!!! It warmed up this week for a change. And by warm I mean 25* to 35*. I know to all of you in California you can laugh :) But to us up here that is warm now. HAHAHA... Some of the snow has started to melt, we were thinking that we were almost done. And then we received a few more inches of fresh snow today. So I guess maybe we are not as close to ending this winter as we thought.
The kids are doing great. Titus has starting pulling himself up on the furniture and slowly walking around it. Elyssa is sweet as ever and Tatum is going to be getting her first pair of glasses. She picked out a cute pair the other day. Now we just have to wait for them to come in.
The kid's are getting excited for spring. They talk about going to Grandma and Grandpa's cabin all the time. I don't think we are going to spend one day in the house this summer. Well we just wanted to give y'all a little up-date from our neck of the woods with a few new pictures. Hope all is well...

The Brown Family

Next Step up!!! Ssgt Promotion...

"Giving Thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ;" Ephesians 5:20

Yesterday we got a pleasant surprise. Joshua found out that he was getting promoted today. He was supposed to be picking up Staff next month. But much to our surprise he was promoted today. Yeah!!!!!! I just want to say the LORD is so big, so strong and so mighty, there is nothing my God can not do. Joshua has been in the Marine Corp for six and a half years almost. This promotion is huge for his time and grade. Way to go Joshua :)

Thank the LORD!!! Even in the economic turmoil our country seems to be going through our God is still in control, of all. Every time we have had a child the Lord has always provided a promotion shortly before the arrival of the little miracle or there shortly after. We Thank him first and foremost for everything he had given this family.

Congrats Ssgt Brown!!!

"Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness." Psalm 30:4

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year to y'all...
Our family started off the new year giving praise to our LORD and thanking him for a tremendous 08'. Now we are looking forward to what he has in store for the up coming year of 09'. We heard amazing preaching on New Years Eve. We are ready to face what ever may be in store.

The Children are doing well. Titus is now crawling and today he decided that he was going to pull him self up on a small table. That little boy wants to keep up with his two big sisters so bad. I am sure he will probably be walking with in the next couple months.

Of course now that he is on the move Tatum and Elyssa see what it is like to have a little brother. He puts all their dolls and girlie stuff right into his mouth. They are not big fans of that. Although they love him, and want to hold him all the time, they don't want him messing up their "little peoples" when they are playing. Joshua and I just laugh. They are so fun to watch. Children truly are a blessing from the LORD.

We hope that y'all had a wonderful Christmas and a Very Happy New Year.

Love In Christ,
The Brown Family, in the frozen tundra :)

Winter Wonderland

Yesterday was a mighty interesting Sunday. We welcomed our first and hopefully last blizzard of the season. LOL... Both of the major freeways IN and Out of town were closed. Therefor Church was closed, the mall was closed, the whole city was closed. We were Trapped in Fargo. How funny Joshua and I were joking about something like this happening when we found out that we were going to be stationed here. The measured snow fall from yesterdays storm measured up to 10.1 inches. Crazy we have moved from one extreme to the other. Beautiful 70* weather year round to blizzards....LOL...We saw temps at -17 and that was without the windchill. With the wind chills at time between -25 to -50. Crazy. Defiantly should not be outside. The snow drifts were as tall as Joshua and a little taller.

This morning it looks beautiful out. The sun is reflecting off of all the fresh powdered snow. But it is deceitful. We still should not be out side. There is a windchill advisory meaning that if you are outside frost bite and hypothermia could set in very quickly. We are supposed to have a record low tonight of 30 below zero. With out windchill.

Joshua got to go into work late today. That was fun. We really enjoyed our morning. We also had one of Joshua's co-workers and his wife and two little boys get stuck at our house. They left this morning when the freeways opened back up. But praise the LORD that we never lost power and that no trees went down. And we got to enjoy some family time.

Fargo, HAHAHA!!! What a Winter Wonderland....

Our First Christmas Play...

Last night was our girls (Tatum and Elyssa) First Christmas play. How exciting. They looked so sweet up there singing their songs. And I must say they worked really hard on memorizing them. They new all the songs they were singing. We were so proud. And of course I (Mommy) think that they looked adorable.

Grandma Victoria was able to make it. We had a very fun time with her this weekend. I (Mommy) know the girls enjoyed having her there. It was such a special event. Thank you Grandma Victoria for coming up!!!

We are now your typical parent sitting in the front pew at the Church (Fargo Baptist) with our camcorder. Note: We were not alone in this department. Even Pastor made a comment that "of course everyone wants to sit down front when the kids are up there, but what about the preacher." LOL!!!

We have got a ton of snow from last night to this evening. We were under a server weather warning. LOL... Welcome back to the mid-west. I have to say the weather has been nice building up to the holidays. But I must be honest I think after January first we will be missing our nice Southern California view of the Ocean......... The LORD knows all.

Praise the LORD for his goodness to this family.

"Blessed be the LORD GOD of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,"
Luke 1: 68

"To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,"
Luke 1:77

In his Service,
The Brown Family

Welcome Christmas!!!

Well, Christmas is finally around the corner and here at the Brown home we Love this time of year. Not just because of all the giving that goes on but for the one true reason. This is the time of year when we really pause and think of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ coming to earth, to save us from our sins. What a blessed day. And what a loving God we serve...

Our Christmas tree represents something special. We wanted the kids to have a symbol for everything that we put on it. So that they can be reminded of the real reason for the season. After all it is so easy to get side tracked with everything else going on.
On our Tree we use Gold ornaments to represent Christ our King, Red ornaments to represent the Blood that he shed on Calvary for our sins, and the candy canes to represent that Christ is our Shepard. And of course represents the cross. We like it to have a little meaning. And I like the traditional look.

The kids and I (Mommy) have been very busy spreading the Christmas cheer. We have been going out caroling with our Church. The Girls (Tatum and Elyssa) are especially enjoying it. You know they LOVE to sing. Little Man (Titus) on the other hand could really care less. Although he likes to be carried from place to place.

As you can see we have welcomed the first real snow of the year here in Fargo North Dakota!!! The Girls like it at first until they realized that it is not going away. They asked me (Mommy) yesterday if it was going to stay and how long it was going to be cold for. Then Tatum said that she wanted to go back to the ocean. So when they were taking their bath the girls were playing that they were swimming in the ocean. They are so funny. It is going to be a long winter. We defiantly have little southern girls. he he he...

We are praying that y'all have a very blessed Christmas season, and that we would stop and remember the real reason for Christmas is our Savior left his throne on high to be born in a lowly manager. All for the love of his creation and to save us from our sins... Praise the Lord for his Mercy and his goodness!!!

"For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord."
Luke 2:11