Fall...Winter

Fall brought on a plague of leaves in our yard. You couldn't even tell we had grass under it all, but Hannah had fun playing in them! Luke did NOT have fun cleaning it all up (and the gutters were full too).

Last Saturday we went to the Muskogee Christmas parade-it was fun! This week Hannah & I have both been sick (go figure).
Christmas is just around the corner and we are excited about it! Christmas is my favorite time of year & I always think it's over too early. I think Thanksgiving should be in October-let's cancel Halloween:)

Hannah is talking up a storm & she is so much fun. She is such a sweet girl & so beautiful. We are having fun watching her grow. Tonight we hope to go caroling with our church (weather permitting) at the nursing home. I'm trying to get all of my Christmas card & presents in the mail today, so I'd better run!

We had a Fall Festival at the church last Saturday. Hannah had so much fun-I mean, winning candy and stuffed animals is right up her ally:) She is jibber jabbering like crazy-we can make out a lot of it, but occasionally we have no earthly idea what she is saying! This week Luke & I are going to a conference in OKC and Hannah is staying with MiMi, Gee & Ashy (Misty, Gary, & Ashley) Nonnie and Pa are coming up to get her Friday night and she'll stay with them until Thanksgiving Day. Luke and I hope to get a way and relax a bit next week. We will also see April & Isreal AND Kristen & Jeremy.....we are excited to see everyone! The holidays are my favorite time of the year. They always pass too quickly. I think we should have Thanksgiving at the beginning of November.....Luke has told me I can't listen to Christmas music until after Thanksgiving.....so, he'd better be ready for Christmas music 24/7 after that :)
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you get to spend quality time with your family & friends!

Halloween

The Halloween Goblin brought Hannah a princess tricycle. She had a lot of fun playing outside & learning how to "drive" the tricycle. We went trick or treating early because we had an away football game Friday. We went to visit some of the homes of church people. We also stopped by the Fire station-Hannah loved to look at the truck with the lights flashing-she wasn't to sure about the firemen :) Her favorite candy was a tie between M&M's & Twizzlers. We went to watch our Warner Eagles beat Porum Friday-Go EAGLES!

New Pics...Finally

Here are a few pictures from September & October. Luke's family came to our house for Labor Day @ all of the kids had a great time playing together. I'll be posting new pictures of her Trick Or Treating soon!

Long Time...

Well, I haven't posted in so long-now I have a ton of pictures I need to upload:)

The last few months have been really busy for us. We had some beautiful flowers around the house and Luke took some great pictures of them. We have a Tulip tree that bloomed, a fig tree (that actually produced figs) & a ton of roses.

Hannah LOVES her baby doll, she plays with it all the time. She even wants to hold it while she's going to sleep at night...so Luke and I rock her & the baby. The baby has to always have her "blankie" too. She is pretty cute, though:)

She loves playing outside too, when it's not too terribly hot. Luke took the picture on the right, I thought it was so cute!

We have been busy the past few weeks. Last night we had a Back 2 School Party for the youth. We rented a bunch of blow up games-it was fun. Hannah loved jumping in the bounce house & playing on the velcro wall. I just wanted to share some recent pictures. Hope everyone is doing well!

It's been raining here since Saturday afternoon-Yesterday we went outside and Hannah played in the rain-she had a blast! Daddy taught her how to splash in the puddles.

Summer Fun...

Thursday we went to OKC to see the Holmes'. We stopped by Granny Holmes' to play for a little bit, then we went up to Edmond to see Mammy, Pop, Caleb, Abby, Sarah, Jolie & Summer-it was a busy day. Hannah had a great time playing with everyone!

Friday we worked outside & played in the sprinkler-Hannah loved it. She kept trying to get a drink out of it, but it kept going up her nose!

Greenleaf State Park

Yesterday afternoon we decided to head to the lake for a bit. We went to Greenleaf State Park. I'll admit I'm not crazy about swimming in water if I can't see the bottom right off the shore. I think we stayed in for about 15 minutes. We then got out & sat around eating goldfish & feeding the geese-they were MEAN to each other (pulling out each other's feathers & such-you'd have thought you were in a baptist business meeting)! They really like Wheat Thins. Lake Eufala was better last week-we will go there next time:) We figure since we live up here we should enjoy summer at the lakes.

Weekend in Texas

Well, my best friend from high school got married this weekend. We went down for a weekend full of wedding stuff:) I had a great time & I'm so happy for Susan. This is a picture of us at the wedding-it was Hannah's first wedding.


My parents also have a kitten that has wandered up to their house. She is so cute & Hannah just loved her. I think the kitten was fearing for her sweet little life, but Hannah just couldn't squeeze that little baby enough :)

Lake Eufala

We took our students to Lake Eufala last night for a cookout. It was overcast and it did rain on us a little bit (but we were already wet:).
This was Hannah's first time to be in a lake...she loved it! She didn't like her float so much-but she liked playing in the water.

Potty Time

Yea-Hannah's first time using the potty on July 5th---I won't go into any details:)

Georgia...

We went to Georgia on a trip with our youth handbell choir. We had a great time-here are a few photos from the trip. They played 6 different concerts, went to 6 Flags, a Braves game, & white water rafting down the Ocoee River (the '96 Olympic Course-yikes!?!). I fell out of the raft twice during crazy rapids. The first time we all fell out except our guide, the 2nd time the guide & I were the only ones to fall out. I came up crying the first time-the 2nd time I was just mad that I fell out again. I lost my oar & I just sat in the boat the rest of the trip, ha. It was pretty fun! We have 17 handbell player & we took 15 sponsors. We had a great time getting to know the kids and the sponsors....

Pancake Saturday

Hannah loves pancakes...and syrup!

Crazy Summer...

Well, we are officially in Warner & we have everything unpacked (mostly). We still have a few things to do, but we will wait until summer is over. Here are some pictures of the move and some that I've taken since we've been here.

We are here...

Well, we are finally in Warner. We are in our first new house and we are trying to unpack. Things are SO busy this summer with VBS, youth trips, children's camp & youth camp. I have a full calendar already until August:)

I had some pictures of Hannah that we had taken for her 1 year pictures, but I'm just now getting a chance to post them. I hope everyone is doing well. I will try to write more soon.

Moving & Buying & Packing...Oh my

Life is officially crazy at this moment. We went in view of a call to FBC Warner on April 20th & they offered Luke the job of Associate/Student Pastor. We put a contract on a house the next day (yikes!) and we close on the house May 23rd. We have a lot going on right now, but we are very excited to move to Warner. We love the pastor and his gorgeous wife-we are really feeling blessed that God has put us together with them! Pray for us as we are going through this transition! I'll keep updates on here...

Hannah is ONE!!

Can you believe my sweet little baby is ONE?!?! We had a party last night and she had so much fun! She got lots of clothes and toys-she has been enjoying them this morning. I had my first go at making birthday cakes...it was interesting! Hannah is so sweet & growing up so fast-I just can't believe it!

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Wisdom

I was talking to Kristen yesterday and we were talking about wisdom-which I feel like I'm lacking at the moment. So, after we got off the phone I was doing some reading in James 1, Proverbs 3, Proverbs 31.....Right now in this place we're in I feel so lost. Luke said yesterday it's like being in a cave just feeling around in the dark-that is exactly how I feel. It's so hard to be in this time of waiting and not know exactly what God is doing. I told Luke for the past few years he'd been preaching his central theme was "God, I trust you."....well, now that's all we can do.

"If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ad God, who give generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts i like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does."
James 1:5-8

So we just have to ask for it and He gives us wisdom-novel idea, huh?

I truly just want to be in a place where we can minister to people who are hurting and who are in need of a Savior. I want to build lasting relationship and make a difference in people's lives-not spend all of my time trying to squelch gossip and rumors, but teaching people who are hungry for the Word. When I was in high school and I surrendered to the ministry I didn't picture it like it's been-if that makes sense. I thought I'd be in a place giving showing people the gift of salvation-showing people who really were hungry for the Word-possibly being a missionary to people who've never head of Christ.....In reality serving at a church has been so full of sinful Christians who think because they are a "christian" they are always right and know God and don't need to be closer to Him. Most of the time instead of feeding hungry people I'm wishing I could shake people until they snapped out of what ever dream world they're living in. It has made me sad to realize that most churches are full of people who think they are doing the "right" thing, being "good" people-when they don't realize that they are still in need of a Savior-it's a continual thing. Just because we walk down the isle or get saved at youth camp doesn't mean it's over and done with. I want to show people that. Some of the people who are most in need of a Savior sit in a pew every Sunday singing "Have Thine Own Way" or "Change My Heart O God".

"God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another , and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin."
1 John 1:5-7

Christmas 2007

Now that Hannah is (apparently) an expert crawler my life has changed dramatically. My brother told me I'd wish she was still just a little baby laying in the floor-man, was he right. She pulls up on EVERYTHING (regardless of whether it will hold her or not) and she is even standing by herself (not holding on to anything)-which is a sign that she'll soon be walking........can it be that my sweet baby is closing in on her first year of life-I can't believe it! Be sure to bring me some Kleenex to her First Birthday party :^) Nothing else is going on-we are just waiting for God to show us what He is doing & praying that He'll do so soon! I hope everyone is having a great start to the New Year! Love y'all