cumpliendo years, trabajando and growing!

(that was a little Spanglish for ya)

here are a few updates to catch you up...

Kyle had a great bday, our baby and my "bump" are growing quickly and i got a J-O-B!

* we had a great bday celebration (for Kyle, Erick and Stuart) / Easter weekend out at Lake Travis...relaxing, eating, relaxing, hot tubbing and enjoy the beautiful views!

* we find out in a month if we are having a FraziercitO or FraziercitA! and don't worry, it won't be a secret...we will spread the news as soon as we know :) which do you think it will be?? praise God that everything has gone really well up to this point! it's all so exciting!

* last week i started my new job at Children of All Nations, a new division of Great Wall China Adoption. it's an international adoption agency/non-profit. currently we are placing children from Mexico, Ethiopia and Rwanda - and adding others soon! my title is Adoption Consultant but my job description is still a little unclear. i think i'll be doing a variety of things. so far i like it a lot! it's going to be awesome to be a part of growing international families :) i'm also getting to use Spanish quite a bit...and some of the business/marketing "skills" i learned from way back when.

if you haven't heard from me in awhile, sorry!...the new job is why. it has me pretty tired...oh, and i'm not allowed to check/send emails or use my phone during work hours, sooo...i'm a little separated from my personal/social life during the week :(

but i know i'll adjust to the schedule soon and hope to get to talk to and see lots of you!!! i miss all of you out there!

the infamous "bump"...and growing! Alex, our sweet nephew, in his Easter outfit :)

warning: this post is a little "heavier" than the previous ones; but just wanted to share some things we have been reading from a book about that mediates on the cross of Christ



"Jesus hath now many lovers of His heavenly kingdom...but few bearers of His cross.

Many He hath that are desirous of consolation...but few of tribulation.

Many He findeth that share His table...but few His fasting.

All desire to rejoice with Him...few are willing to endure any thing for Him.

Many follow Jesus unto the breaking of bread...but few to the drinking of the cup of His Passion.

Many reverence His miracles...few follow the shame of His cross." (Thomas a Kempis)

This book studies a verse a day for the 40 days leading up to Easter, all focused on the purpose of the Cross. I hope to study through it again and again because I have learned that there is so much depth and profound meaning in everything that was prophesied, fulfilled, suffered and said during those last few days of Jesus' life. And it is important that we not overlook the significance of it all. This is our faith. This is the love and grace we talk so much about. But it's intense, it's hard to sit and try to relate to. It's easier to focus on the resurrection and the 'after'.

I think when Paul talks about sharing in Christ's sufferings ("The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 1Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. Romans 8:16, 17) so that we might share in His glory, he is talking about the importance of knowing all of Christ. To know all of Christ includes meditating on all that He went through in His last days; to know the depth of the price He paid so that we can know (or seek to know) the depth of the salvation, righteousness and inheritance that He gives to us instead.

"For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed." 1 Peter 2:21-24