I will be 27 at approximately 5:41am Friday, November 21st. In otherwords, from starting this, less than two hours haha.

I couldn’t really sleep, because my honey is out of town and I’m
way too excited, about my life. I guess as my new year approaches here I just wanted to share my gratefulness and joy in life. I am so amazingly blessed and on my birthday I wanted to just praise the Lord for what He has taken (a wretch like me) and turned into a growing beauty in my heart! So much has changed in my past year of life, for more details read my other blog on beautiful change.

But I guess I just praise God for the people He has graciously added to my life. I am blessed so much by my family and friends!

First I will start with my wonderful husband. Wow. Baby it’s been almost 9 years! Even though it’s only been less than a decade of my life, these past years have been amazing! I take joy in everyday drawing closer to our Jesus with you! Its such a blessing to have a husband that seriously gets hotter the closer he gets to Jesus ;) haha. Seriously. Thank you for being so supportive of me and my dreams in life. From my first home biz with creative memories to now mark and the craziness of Avon LOL you continue to bless me as my creative juices and many different ventures in life fail. Thank you for standing firm in your belief that I am created with a beautiful purpose. That God does seek to use me outside our family and you help me to maintain balance in that. Thank you for listening to me talk about the different fashions through centuries and describe clothing stlyes and random facts! You bless me by listening and nodding. :) but I know you truly are excited to see where God is taking me! Thank you for praying for me daily and lifting me up. For always pointing me back to Jesus and what He has already done for me. Thank you for always telling me I am beautiful, even when I don’t think I am. Thank you for loving our beautiful babies. I love watching you be daddy in their lives. We are blessed beyond words. I look forward to many more years shared with you and our precious children!!! As a new year dawns I am just so excited about the things God continues to do in our lives. He’s amazing. Never did I think my life would be this good! I just can’t express how awesome it is and just how grateful I am for His amazing and overwhelming Grace! I love you Jeffrey!!!

To my babies, who obviously aren’t on wordpress reading blogs, haha, but are still on my heart! I thank you for loving mommy unconditionally! The Lord uses those precious smiles just at the right moments, to encourage my spirits and remind me just how awesome He is! When I look at each of you, I see bits and pieces of mommy and daddy, your grandparents and even uncles and aunts. But ultimately I see beautiful little people, made in the image of our Almighty God!!! Mommy is so grateful for each of you, your different gifts and looks. I love that each of you show your love differently so I get it in so many ways!!! I am so blessed to watch you begin to grow in Jesus’ grace and take steps towards His love. Our prayer is that you just keep drawing closer to Jesus as you grow up. That you would experience just the awesome power and LOVE of our amazing Saviour! That you would see how much He loves you and begin to understand that He had already done it all for you!! Mei, your soft heart is beginning to be molded in even more love for your siblings and it excites me to watch you take care of them and love on them! You are beautiful and creative and I’m excited to see you enjoy documenting things by writing and art! You follow the footsteps of an amazing artist and inspiration to the most amazing book ever written (Bible) and His name is Jesus! Leia, your passion for life and always thinking outside of the box encourages me that your faith in God will always be that He is big and He is NOT in a box! I watch you as you preach to your dolls and toys and love when you randomly burst into songs of praise to Jesus! He also hears those and I know His heart takes joy in them! I praise Him for healing in your life, and you can drink milk now!!! Yay!! He is a mighty God and your health. Always remember that! Keiki, mama’s littlest girl! Thank you for reminding mommy the need to touch and be close. You come at the most needed times for hugs and love, which reminds me of Jesus and His desire to be close to us every moment. I look forward to watching you grow in Him even more! You girls each add a special spice to our lives and we are so blessed. Kai and Juju, our Boys you are little energizer bunnies! Sometimes more like little puppies who just love to play and be held ;) mommy loves to sit back and just watch you two wrestle and have fun! I pray your passion for life and fun continues over to your spiritual walks as you grow up! It’s so fun being close to Jesus and knowing He takes pleasure in us and wants to see us living life to Its fullest in His name!!! I love you my precious little
W’s. God has blessed me with an amazing family!

Ok, My daddy and mommy that have supported me and my every whim since I can ever remember! I was blessed. I am blessed. Thank you for continuing to faithfully lift me and my family up in prayer. For always seeking God’s will in our lives and understanding that He holds the key to our future :) thank you for setting that example of seeking
Truth and never being content to accept what people tell us about our Jesus but knowing Him on His terms and digging into His Word to find truth. II know mom sometimes we aren’t always on the right wavelength, but I praise Jesus that we continue to thrive in our relationship and there’s always reconciliation and we can always talk about anything, anytime. Thank you for loving my Jeffrey as your own son and my babies too! I thank God that my parents are firm in their foundation of Jesus Christ and pour His love into us. That overall their desire for my life is to live in the grace of Jesus. I love you both!!!! And I praise Him for you!!!

My baby brother CK and his wifey A :) oh and can’t forget my new nephew who I absolutely looooove! Growing up with you has been crazy! A wonderful crazy and even though it was just us, it was awesome! We had our fights and moments of horror haha I’m sure you’ll never look at a fork the same ;) But I love you Christopher and am so blessed and proud to call you my brother! You have grown up so much in just the past year alone! You are also now husband and daddy! I see your heart drawing closer to Jesus and its
Awesome! My heart smiles to see you love your newest calling to your family! It’s so awesome and I love that our kids will be buddies ;) Amanda. Wowser haha. I’m so grateful for a sister that loves me :) thank you for truly being that sister even before you guys were married. I praise Jesus for knitting our hearts together and that our relationship stands firm on Who Jesus is and continues to grow strong! Thank you for loving my brother and being a helpmate to him in his life. He is blessed! There’s so much I can write, and over the past year I’ve shared my heart with you already. So, thank you. I love you!!!

To my extended family, mom and dad’s sides, I am in gratitude to your love for me and my crew! My grandparents -Lolo and Lola, Grandmom and my late Grandad. I have such amazing heritage and that is by Gods doing. You can’t pick your family but I have been blessed. I’ve been encouraged all through life by my grandparents
And am always shown love and support. They trust God in knowing He provides for me and my family and also their own lives. They’ve set the example in marriage for us, loving each other and standing strong in the midst of storms. My auntie JaZ and uncle tim your continued support and love
Has never ceased and I am so blessed by you. It’s exciting to raise our kids
Together and be so close! Ninong and auntie angela you also have been blessings in my life ever since I can remember! I praise God that he has brought you two together and you have grown in deeper love with each other!! Uncle jeff you also encourage me and j thank you for that! Uncle jess I haven’t spent a ton of time with you in my older years, but with recent changes in life I have been able to do so. Thank you for the love and support you give! Auntie Neneng, even though you are no longer with us you encouraged me to see the bigger picture, and not boys haha. With your passing away my life has not been the same. I can’t question the reasoning for why God allowed it to happen but I know my spirit is stronger and my joy greater because of that trial. In my heaer He truly took the situation and brought peace and comfort. I miss you. But I look forward to seeing you and my Grandad again :)

My white family LOL. The walls. Wow. 9 years I’ve inherited a huge amount of family. I love it! Dad and Mom thank you also for your support in Jeff’s and my life. Thank you for loving us no matter what and always praying for us as well. We are blessed to have both sets of parents who seek the Lords will and truth in their lives. We are grateful for you and are excited to see all the things God is doing in hearts and lives. Thank you for loving me like a “real” daughter ;) and loving your mixed gradbabies haha. I love you!

On to the siblings ;) Alana & Luke- I love you both and am grateful for you. I know the past few months have been a little interesting sometimes ;) but we love you! A lot has changed and we don’t see each other as often as we could, so let’s change that! We are so excited to be where we are and are so blessed! There’s so much we want to share, and if you could only see our hearts and know we are doing good!! We are blessed to know you both lift us up in prayer and you are excited with us as God moves us and grows us! We love you and your little family ;) we need to get the kids together more often!

Jana Joy. I miss you. I am so excited and blessed to have watched you grow up in life but most importantly in spirit! Jesus has already done great things in your life but I look forward to many more!!! Continue to seek His face in all you do! I’m excited to watch you put your trust in Him and Him alone! We love you and are praying for and with you!!! Shake and bake baby ;) can’t wait to see you in a fewmonths!!! Keep the updates in Aussie land coming!!

Bethie! I love you! I smile when I see
You coming to hug me :) honestly sometimes I’m not feeling it but that’s my own fault. But you hug me anyway and that’s a reason to love you more! You are almost 18 and I can’t believe it! Wow. I can’t believe I used to babysit you and now you babysit for me haha ok now I feel a little old LOL I am excited to watch you draw closer Jesus! That you are seeing His goodness and grace and seeking Him. I encourage you to daily praise Him for His love. He created a beautiful you and you should take joy in being created in His image! I love you!! Even a million times better, He loves you :)

JoyJoy. My little drama queen haha. You know it’s true. But I love you and I am excited to see the Lord working and speaking love in your life. Your heart for the souls of your friends and your true desire to show love to our siblings blesses me. I have amazing little sisters and God gave them to me at the right time ;) cause I honestly
Could not have handled it when I was your age! He’s good like that ;) I love you!!!!!

Bubbalicious! Ha! Bubba you’re pretty laid back and always just chilling. But! I love when you excited about little things with me, like double blended white mocha frappuccinos! I have already shared with you how exciting it is to watch you grow up and mature this past year! Seeing you step up at home and seek the things of Jesus is awesome! Thank you for being a sweet little brother and for the most part not making fun of me… Usually. I look
Forward to watchinG you play some sports in college! We shall have our jerseys and signs! Continue to trust Jesus and seek Him in all you do! Love you!!

Josh, J-rod and Jordan. Ohmygosh you boys! I can’t believe you are teetering (josh) towards HS! And Jared you have your first sport coming up!!! Jordan your tender spirit and willingness to help out is awesome! You guys are growing so fast! I encourage you to trust Jesus and His best for you. I love you guys!!

Phew! That’s just family ;) haha. My
Dear friends. I gotta say there are
Too many I’ve been blessed by to mention so if you aren’t technically listed doesn’t mean you aren’t loved!!! Jesus loves you more and He knows you ;)

Melissa. We’ve been through it! I love you. I miss you. I’m praying for you! You are awesome and loved by our amazing Jesus. I know sometimes it’s hard to believe but it’s so true and overwhelming!!! I’m excited to spend time with you next week at Thanksgiving!!! You are one of my BFF haha and you are also always on my heart and in my prayers. I love you so much sister!!! May God’s blessings and love be poured into your life more every day!!!

DeeAhna. Augh! It’s been like 23 years since we’ve known each other?!!!! Wow. Time flies and I miss you! I don’t miss
Our crazy glasses and hair haha but I miss you. Thanks for being such a faithful friend in my life. For lifting me and my family up in prayer and just loving them! I’m excited to watch the Lord work in your life as well! He’s so good and it’s always in His time! I love you so much and look forward to hearing more testaments to how great our God is!

Joel! Bambaniggles. Enough said. Haha jk. You know we love you! You are growing more and more like Jesus! It’s so awesome to see that and see you life transformed into one full of His grace! Continue to seek His face and trust His will. Thank you for having such a serving spirit and allowing the Lord to use you!! Praying for you always and love you!!! Believe! ;)

Josh, Ange and beautiful family :) it’s only been a year that we’ve known you but seriously it’s been such an A-M-A-Z-I-N-G year! Thank you for being vessels that the Lord has used in our lives! We love you like family and wow are just blessed to grow with you guys in His grace! God brought us together and it’s kind of gnarly how He did it but we are so grateful for it! Thank you for always speaking such life into our lives and being friends that sharpen and love! Oh my goodness we love you guys so much and just praise the Lord for you! We lift you up as well and know the devil especially hates families with Great Purpose! We are excited to watch God move in Stockton, in your hearts and as well as ours!!! We love you!!!!

Joens and Simas crews :) you guys rock and we just love you! It’s exciting to see Jesus overflow into you and speak amazing things into your lives!!
Oh how awesome He is!!! Continue to allow Him to flood your spirits! You are
Sweet blessings in our lives!!

To old friends and new, each of you have in some way blessed me. I thank the Lord for each of you and the impression you’ve left in heart! I treasure crazy moments and times of joy, and even the tears we shed together have blessed me. I’ve never tried to define our friendship by circumstances but by each person and their desire to love and uplift through Jesus. Some of you I’m closer too and others we just have a few memories but good ones! Some we’ve had hurts and trials shake our friendships but regardless of where we are now, I am grateful for you all. I pray Gods blessings on each of you and your families. That you would take an everlasting joy in Jesus! And seek His will for your lives. Be open to receiving amazing things from a God that died for you.

So, on my birthday I say Thank you Jesus for my 27th year of life. I look forward to drawing even closer to You this year and being shown “great and mighty things” that I had no idea existed. I thank you for each person in my life and ask that you bless them and reveal your awesomeness in each of their lives!! I love you

May His Grace and peace be with you all. That said and done, let’s party! Today is my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blessings and Love,
Millie

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