Gunnar's 2 Year Pictures and Family Portrait

Here are the pictures! Enjoy! We are so thankful we could take these and that Gunnar smiled so well!

Love, Kyle and Paige

New Pictures Coming Tomorrow!

We got family pictures taken today and plan on receiving them via email in the next 24 hours. We are so excited to show them to everyone! Baby Rowan is getting large and so is the space he lives in! Less than 11 weeks to go, Mama is feeling the "organizing bug" lately and started working on preparations for the new boy! Thanks for all the birthday wishes everyone! The Lord is surely kind to us.

Check back tomorrow!

It's a Boy!

We are so honored to be entrusted with another boy for our family! God is so good to us and we are so excited to welcome another Patterson for life! Thanks for all your prayers and thanks for all of your encouragement. We love you all!

Worldliness

So Kyle and I just bought a few new books and received then in the mail today. A lot of them are your classics by Puritans including Jonathan Edwards and newer ones including one of our favorite Pastors, John Piper. One however seems overarching not in it's eloquent writing, but in its need to be read by all Christians. It is called 'Worldliness' by C.J. Mahaney and a couple other pastors involved in the Sovereign Grace Network.

This book covers a biblical critique on music, entertainment, clothes(including modesty), and things(as in the stuff we get or buy). It is very powerful in its exhortation to confessing Christians to leave or forsake the things of this world and what it so dangerously offers to all. As Christians, there are many things that are not beneficial to ones focus on, walk, or purity towards Christ.

We need to be making war against the flesh and or sinful desires to pacify ourselves and fit in with others. God does not call us to live our lives how we see fit, He calls us to be holy as He is Holy.

May we all contemplate and submit to His good and perfect will for our lives. It is in His Word!

Springtime

Well we are enjoying better weather and I am experiencing better days. I am starting to feel a little better these past couple days! Gunnar is getting more and more enjoyable and quite a little goofy boy. He fills our days with laughter and love. Kyle is in the middle of his semester at the Seminary and busy most days with preparing sermons for Sunday nights and meetings at church.
Here are some pictures from Christmastime...

He loves playing with Daddy's clothing.

Licking the plate after cookies...

Waiting for cookies to come...

Baby #2 is On Its Way!

We would love to announce that we are expecting our second baby this coming October 5th, 2009. We are very thrilled that the Lord has blessed us in this way and Gunnar is very glad to be a big brother. He laughes everytime I tell him that Mama is going to have a baby! He signs the word "baby" everytime he looks at my belly, although it is not quite "there" yet.

Keep the baby in your prayers and Praise the Lord with us for this immeasurable joy!

Merry Christmas! Once again we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior from our sin, Jesus Christ.

Two thousand eight has brought many opportunities for us to grow in the Grace and knowledge of God and we are very grateful! Kyle was given the priviledge and responsiblity of serving God through ministering to the youth of our church, has decided to further his education at Western Reformed Seminary, and has continued to lead our family as loving husband, father, and wrestling coach to Gunnar. We have all adjusted to our new hometown of Port Orchard and love our home and neighbors! God is so good to us!

Paige is at home raising Gunnar, our busy eighteen month old who has learned to communicate to us through sign language, and who loves to "play" his imaginary guitar. He loves to throw balls, "read" books, and push cars off the table so they "crash." He is all boy and loves the attention he receives from Mama, Dada, and the countless babysitters we have from church. We are persuing to train him up so that he might trust and obey God and be a humble servant who will love Him and His Word. Along with working at home, Paige loves helping out the church, visiting family and friends, and finding excuses to get lunch at Costco.

All in all, God has blessed us with wonderful family, friends in the faith, and opportunities to go beyond our comforts and trust the Lord in all things. What joy we have in serving the Sovereign God who cares for us and who became a helpless baby, so that we might be able to humbly worship Him. As we put up our tree, hang ornaments, and wrap presents, we are more aware every year that our traditions may have the capacity to edify our relationships, but ultimately can not awaken our hearts to the awe and worship of our King. Only God can give such a gift!
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6.

May the Prince of Peace reign in all our hearts this Christmas, and give Him glory!