My forever Valentine

Jon and I will spend Valentine's Day apart...him with our boys in the crazy house on Hedgewood and me at school.  He will spend most of his time in circle about who stole $9 for the third day in a row...not too exciting.  In fact, the Domos above accurately portray what we feel on the inside.

But crazy times like this only remind me of how much my husband loves me...after all, the only reason we are in Philly working at the house of crazy is because of my grad school stop to achieving my dreams :)  I truly know everyday how much my husband loves me by watching him serve and work with these boys with integrity, compassion and love.

Jonathan Newlin...thank you for being my forever Valentine.

Much love,
Emily Elizabeth

dreaming about field semester

Hello friends!

Jon and I would like to ask you all to be praying for God's direction for the field semester that we will be spending abroad to complete my coursework.  SO many choices...and I really feel at this point that whatever we want, we can do.

But in my past experience with these things, I know God will use this experience in what He has in store for us next.  We aren't worried about ending up in a shack in Africa...because NOTHING can be harder than what we are doing now :)

We look forward to our next adventure, but are striving to stay focused on our task at hand:  loving the hard to love boys right in our reach.

Much love,
Emily Elizabeth

p.s. here is our awesome snow cupcake (with candle) we made after the crazy snow storm at the end of January!