Aloha!

Hau'oli lā hānau

(pronounced How-o-lee Laa Haa-now…Happy birthday)
to one of my favorite people in the whole wide world,
an incredible Wahine

(pronounced wah-HEE-nay…woman),
Laura, my friend and cousin!
To help her celebrate turning the big
3-0,
we threw a luau much to her surprise.
She was surrounded by many of her lovely friends and family from near and far that adore her.
Thank you Lord for Laura and the heart you gave her.
What a beautiful person she is in my life and to the world.
She is well worth making a fuss over!

Isn't this the sweetest photo of Laura and her sweetheart Kasey?

Gratituesday-Laura and something about Jon!

I am blessed with a very dear friend, Laura Marie Richardson. We talk often and can be transparent with one another with everything. We share many of the same hobbies and passions too. Laura and I co-lead our Live Laugh Love club together and now, by God’s doing, have our boys in kindergarten class together. Not only is she a wonderful friend I can count on for ANYTHING, she is my sweet cousin too! Laura, thank you for being one of my very best friends…I am so grateful for you and thought that it would be more than appropriate to put you as my entry for Gratituesday today, especially with it being your 29th birthday today. Happy birthday! I love you.


Also...I have to add one more thing. I typed "Laura" around midnight but didn't publish it because I wanted to find a photo of us together, so I saved it as a draft instead. But now I have one more thing I am super grateful for. Drum roll please...Jon accepted a job this afternoon! He'll start mid August working for a company in Scottsdale that sells software. Praise God for new possibilities and for listening to so many faithful prayer warriors!