We Love You Because...

Dawna

I Love your spunk, drive, and very Leslie-ness

I Love your beautiful way of seeing the world and sharing it through your photography

I Love the deep love you have and share for your husband and children

I Love the fact that you are real and honest

I Love your faith in the Lord

I Love your cheerful attitude in the face of difficult things

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Andi Mae

I Love so many things about you, Leslie:

I Love your ability to find joy + humor even in the midst of your trials.

I Love your faith. Always so inspiring and encouraging.

I Love your complete realness. No pretense- the person you meet on your blog is who you truly are in real life- or at least over the phone ;)

I Love your amazing eye for photography.

I Love your beautiful decorating style.

I Love your passion for Jesus, Nick, + your sweet kids. So obvious that they are what is most important to you in life.

I Love your creativity and willingness to try anything. You get inspired to make something and you just do it and don't worry about the outcome.

I Love your sweet little giggle.

I Love how you always look for ways that you can reach out to other people with the love of Christ, even in the midst of your own pain and struggles.

I Love the way you find beauty in the simplest things.

I Love your adorable Leslie-ness.

I Love you, dear friend!

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Fairlight

Your Love, for the Lord colors everything you do
I Love the love you have for your husband which inspires me to try a little harder

I Love your joy with Rylan that keeps you going, even when the days are tough

I Love your ability to stay upbeat and cheerful, when the rest of us would be a puddle of tears

I Love your amazing eye, you have taught me to look at the world a little differently

I Love that you are honest, you are real, there is no pretense

I Love that you love life and you live it to the fullest, squeezing out every smidgen of enjoy-able-ness from an experience

I Love your sweet spirit

I Love your spunkiness

I Love your ability to look on the bright side

I Love your smileI Love that you are just fun to be around :)

I Love how you are creative and artistic and you don’t mind sharing the knowledge that you have, with us.

I Love being your friend Leslie!

It's been so wonderful getting to know you and seeing your family grow and watching you grow and change as you go through mommy-hood and life. It's been an honor and a pleasure.Hugs to you friend!

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Jacy




I Love that in the short time I have known you, I have come to find how beautiful of a soul you have.
I Love witnessing the love you share for your family, for your children, husband and Jesus.
I Love how your portray such a Godliness about you always being Christ like, even in times when you are going through so much pain and frustration yourself.
I Love the song that plays in your heart when writing a post. I can always here it and smile when I read.
I Love how Jesus shines his light through you and how you share that light with everyone you come in contact with.
I Love how you are genuine, real, giddy and love life
I Love how you are able to find humor in the most humiliating of circumstances (referring to post office instance)
I Love how you find more joy in the simple things in life.
I Love your faith and hope in all things. It has been so encouraging to me.
I Love your ability to create and make beautiful out of anything you touch.
I Love your photographs.
I Love how I feel like I know you so well because you make it so easy to have a friend in you.
I Love that I am able to smile every time I “visit” you. You always bring sheer delight to my day.
I Love how you exclaim over Rylan.
Most of all I Love the fact that I get the opportunity to be apart, even a fraction of your life, and hope that maybe somewhere along the lines I am able to give back to you a little of all the things you have shared with us.
I just flat out Love you, Leslie.





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Mamachanga



Oh gosh, so many things about you I Love and cherish...

I Love your optimism and positive attitude (especially through the rough times)

I Love your honest words about your feelings and mommy-hood

I Love your tremendous FAITH and the fact that you share it with us

I Love the beautiful pictures you take which allow us to see your world through your eyes

I Love the strong love you have for Rylan, Nick and Cade and how it shines through in each and every post

I Love the fact that you are so creative and multi-talentedHow glad I am to have been blog hopping and found you!

Your words, positive thoughts, photos, love for your family and faith have kept me coming back daily! Hugs & Blessings!

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Chelle

Your fierce Love for Nick, Rylan, and Cade

I Love your amazing creative eye for any sort of design and photography

I Love the incredible way you express yourself in writing
I Love how stinking ambitious you are...taking on any task or craft with such energy and giftedness.
I Love how much you love to entertain and how open your home is to friends.
I Love your ability to laugh at yourself ( as you tell us about your skirt wearing post office, one year old in tow most recent embarrassing moment )
I Love your awesome recipes!
I Love that you are a money saving wizard!
I Love our, two, three or more always encouraging, often funny,email conversations

I Love getting to hear you laugh and tell stories and hearing your voice on the phone

I Love your passion for the Lord

I Love how much fun you are

I Love that you keep it real, while always keeping spirit of thankfulness about you

I Love your inability to be on bed rest ( i.e. sit still )

And I echo what Dawna said about your spunk and drive and Leslieness...

I Love and adore all those things about you!

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KT Mac

I Love the way you walk with God through trials and difficulties but continue to glorify and praise him

I Love your spunk that comes out through the words and pictures on your blog

I Love your photographs that inspire me so

I Love your crafts and scrap booking pages

I love your love for life and finding joy in the little things

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Wendi

I Love the love that is displayed in your family

I Love the awe that you express over life’s special things and life’s special moments

I Love the way that awe is contagious

I Love your love for the Lord

I Love the sweet relationship between you and NickI Love Rylan's amazing smile

I Love how you have hope through tough stuff

I Love your inspiring positive attitude

I Love your superb photos

I Love your amazing decorating and crafting

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Susan

I love your tenacious, fierce, yet thoughtful and intentional LOVE for your family.

l love that you praise Jesus through good times AND bad times.

I love your humor.

I love your creative eye! And the way you see/find beauty in the simplest stuff.

I love that your house is a HOME. And a welcoming one at that.

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Leslie

We love you because it is just one hundred and ten percent impossible to not love you.

With that said, dear friend may God bless you and keep you and continue to wrap his arms around you with his loving grace and mercies.

We love you, we pray for you, we think of you often, we wish you all the good things in this life. We hope that everything happy falls into yours and your family's path. That sunshine is always above your head.

We love you Leslie Autumn, and we always will.

All our love,

Dawna, Andi Mae, Fairlight, Chelle, Dalia, Susan, Katie, Wendi, Jacy

and all the girls who have put in a big roll in hopes to make this day the most special and cherished in your heart forever.