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I am Jessica Lynette Morris.

I have been married to my best friend for 6 years and we are joyfully discovering that marriage gets better with age.
Hard work? Most definitely. But developing mutual enjoyments, tackling projects together, praying together and for each other and putting aside time for weekly at home dates once the kids are in bed have all contributed in building the beautiful bond of marriage.

My grandparents play a nightly game of Skip-Bo, and have for at least the past seven years, and we have adopted this habit. Sometimes the game varies. Chess or Speed Scrabble are popular here too. But the point is that every day we take a little bit of time to connect and enjoy each other.

In early 2007 our first born entered the world. Judah is a thinker, a dreamer and a super hero. He plans on marrying me when he gets older.
He has an incredible memory and is cheerful and thoughtful.

Wesley arrived 17 months later in the summer of 2008. He is a little bit dare devil, a little bit mad scientist, a whole lotta giggle and unbelievably curious.
He loves to make people smile and will go through great lengths and feats to get someone to crack a smile.

Despite the fact that they are commonly mistaken as girls we let them keep their hair long.
They like making each others curls go ‘boing.’

Our family mission statement is adopted from a quote by Anthony Norris Groves

This is our hearts desire as individuals and for our family.

I appreciate Paul encouraging my desire for me to be a stay at home wife and mom and am content and challenged with my family being my mission field.
There are days where the dishes pile up, the laundry doesn’t get done and the beds don’t get made.
There are days that they wear mismatched socks, go days without a bath or eat popcorn for lunch.
Sometimes those days seem to string together, never ending.

But as everyone with children out of the house seems to say; These are the best days of my life.

I am thankful for the moments I get to share with my boys.
Thankful for their forgiving, loving hearts when I mess up.
And thankful that God’s mercies are new every morning.

I am passionate about photography and shoot with a Nikon D90 and primarily use my 50mm 1.8 lens.
I have owned my camera since the Fall of ’08 and have use it just about every single day.
I named it Frank in honor of the salesman that sold it to me.

I enjoy reading thought provoking books and love a good recommendation! I love it even more if you’re able to loan me the book so I don’t have to hunt it down on my own.
I enjoy cooking international foods as I have a family that will eat it and other countries are so interesting!
I love having friends over for dinner and games because once you have children it’s a lot easier to do those things in your own home than wrangle a babysitter or hope your children stay away from the breakables in others homes.

My goal for this blog is to encourage intentional living, enjoyment of your family and a healthy lifestyle.

Thanks for visiting!

-Jessica

All of the precious moments of our family life in this ABOUT section were captured with love, attention to detail and a great deal of running around by the creative mind of Jessica Villemain from Jessica V Photography.

Want to learn a little bit more? Check on the images for a recent post about each of my favorite guys!