Happy Birthday Mama Faye!!

Happy Birthday Mama Faye! Layla has always called her grandma Faye "Mama Faye." Why? I think it started because "Mama" was the closest she could come to saying "Grandma" when she was younger. But it has stuck and when you see the two of them together, you understand why. Mama Faye is like a really fun, indulgent, over-the-top loving mother. You have never seen grand kids so in love with their grandma as hers. When Mama Faye comes to visit, she sleeps in the other single bed in Layla's room and they talk forever.....or should I say Layla talks forever! On this day we celebrate one of the best gifts God gave us...Mama Faye. Mom, I pray that someday I can be half the believer, mother, wife and grandmother you are! This is a picture of Mama Faye holding Cooper the day he was born, 3-27-08. She was able to be in the delivery room with us.

The best way I know to describe my mom is this...
"She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all." Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate." -Proverbs 31: 25-31