is-real...

so i am not really writing this because anyone else will think it is funny (well besides mark and the grandmas), but because i don't want to forget it. so here it goes, just a little story about our sweet olivia and how her little brain makes sense of the world.
b and pop (mark's parents) left on sunday afternoon for a trip of a lifetime to israel. they are going with dr. denison and a group of people and going to be experiencing an "in HIS steps tour of israel". how incredible is that!! i want to go... that is beside the point. before they left town b and pop wanted to see the kids and give them a big hug before they left on their trip. mark took the kids over to their house last friday night. on the way to their house mark was explaining to olivia what b and pop would see on their trip and how neat it was that they were going to be in the same place that jesus was sooooo many years ago when he lived on the earth as a man. she sat in the backseat and took it all in and then said to mark, "daddy i know why that place is called israel. because jesus IS REAL!! he really is so that is why they call it israel!" :)

we hope that b and pop are having a great time on their trip. olivia has a million questions about israel and about the place where our REAL god did his ministry.