Our family is growing!!

There are three things that I’ve wanted for awhile…

1. To adopt
2. Twins
3. A dog

Today, I’m getting all three wishes fulfilled at once!

But first, let me back up a bit…

On Thursday, I unplugged for the weekend, and our family spent some quality time together. Jenny requested that we go to Burger King for lunch and then to the local shelter to play with the animals (we like to visit and get our pet fix), and since we were going to be sans kids for the weekend, we decided that going to lunch and the shelter together would be fun.

If you remember last week, I talked about how I wasn’t allowed to have a dog because I struggle with cleaning the house? Well, I’d been really diligent about cleaning last week, and my husband had noticed.

We had seen that the shelter had gotten a litter of puppies that had been dropped off the day before, so we were excited to get to play with some puppies. However, we had no idea that these “puppies” (only 12wks old, mind you) were already 30+ pounds!

It was too late. We fell in love.

And being the crazy people we are, we adopted two of the puppies – a brother and sister.

{Meet Noah and Nellie}

So in one afternoon, all three wishes were fulfilled: we adopted, we got twins, and we got a dog.

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Well folks, it’s the end of another month. Thanks to Pix-O-Sphere for sponsoring the month of February!!

WOW! It flew by, and we have loved every moment of getting to know each of you, finding new blogs to follow, the encouragement, and the fun Twitter party we had last week! All that to say, it’s time to post our Closing Comments for February and link up our Goals for March.

What are your “Closing Comments”?

• What is your overall reaction to this month?
• Did you tackle the three goals you had listed in the beginning of the month?
• What would you have done differently?

Looking Ahead:

• What are your three goals for March? {If you’re still in limbo, consider these ideas: #3in30 March Goal Suggestions}
• How do you plan to tackle them?
• Have you suggested joining 3 in 30 to someone?

Our February #3in30 Sponsor, Pix-O-Sphere, is giving away one Advanced Membership to someone who was successful in meeting their goals for this month.

Did you succeed? Let us know in the comments below to be entered for a chance to win this great giveaway! {Winner will be chosen at random on or after March 1, 2011, and will be notified via email.}

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Though some in our culture still practice idol worship, it is not common. If you walked into my home, you would not expect to see any shrines or carved idols as a part of my decor.

And yet, if we fully examine our lives, we may find that we too are guilty of worshipping idols.

Idol: that on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored. {Source}

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John 3.16 says that “whoever believes in [Christ] shall not perish but have eternal life.”

“Belief is trusting your eternal destiny to the work of Christ and realizing that you have no other back-up (good works, sacrifices, sincerity) should that redemptive work fail.” {Source}

Anything I trust in (whether acknowledged or simply realized through action) apart from the finished work of Christ on the cross is an idol. Only when I allow the Holy Spirit to reveal these idols to me and rid my life of them am I fully trusting in Christ.

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