The Sammons Fam: Some Highlights from March

March was a wonderful and busy month for our family. As you can tell from my lack of blogging...I was busy in other ways! But that doesn't mean I didn't capture some great photos to give a little photo-journal of our month. I also have a lot of great/funny photos of the kids, but I decided I would add them separately. So, the photos below are in random order...but I'm sure you'll enjoy them regardless of the chronology!

I received this African Violet plant from my mother-in-law back in March 2007. It's a very special plant for me (especially because somehow I've managed to keep it alive). My violet only blooms about once each year and this year it started blooming on March 15th. Thank you Jesus for this special gift and your continual reminder of new life.

Here's what our African Violet looks like today (March 31st). It's blooming like crazy and the petals have this amazing sparkling/iridescent shimmer to them. So pretty. Also forgot to mention above that I think it's also cool that this AFRICAN violet finally bloomed the same week we had African guests staying here in our home!

Madelyn got her FIRST HAIR CUT this month. She begged and begged for it. And as we were driving there she suddenly got scared and thought it was going to hurt her. I explained that even tho they are "cutting" her hair, she wouldn't feel a thing. Well, I don't think she believed me, but she decided to be brave. Right when this sweet lady announced that she was about to make the first cut, Maddy reached out from under her cape and grabbed onto my hand. It was so precious that it made me start crying and I had to turn away so that no one would see me. She squeezed my hand for the remainder of the hair cut...and was so brave. I was very proud of her.

Here she is after the cut. So pretty.

My birthday celebration at the always wonderful Red Lobster (family tradition!)

We were so blessed to have Jonathan back for my birthday weekend. THANKS JONATHAN! Connor and Madelyn absolutely loved having time to love on their uncle!

Maddy eagerly helped me make my first smoothie with my new blender. THANKS GARY!

Hilarious photo moment on my birthday evening. Classic.

Here I am on my birthday morning...Thursday, March 4th. The day started out well with sunshine and a free Starbucks birthday latte. Yum!

Hands down, the biggest highlight of the whole month was getting the privilege and honor of hosting one of the touring Invisible Children teams. We had a group of 6 of them here from Mon. March 15 - Thursday March 18th...and savored every moment.

What an amazing opportunity to meet Boni (below) and Leo from Uganda. It was a treasure to hear their stories and see how God has such big plans for their futures.

Here's Boni being funny with his ex-3D glasses!