Picture Over Load

Ok so I'm not really sure what pictures go with what day so I'm going to just post them as I think they went through the week. Then the end will be a ton of pictures of our AMAZING weekend in Tulsa and the Winter Jam concert. So I hope you stay with till the end.

Here is the nail polish that I mentioned in my post last week. I'm LOVEING it! Michael got me a gift certificate to get my nails and toes done so I'm gonna take the polish in and have them do a French manicure with dots.

Whitnee loves getting present is the mail, well one of her Great Aunts sent her this present and she was so so excited!!

I've been on the hunt for some good supportive sandals that aren't flip flops for a long time. Well my fav flip flops are Teva brand and I really like the chaco sandals but don't like the price of them. So I figured I would get me some Teva brand ones. Well I have a high arch so I like to get shoes that either form to my feet or that have a good support in them. Well the sandals that I got are amazing! Great support, and soo comfy! Makes me ready for some warm weather and some walking around Silver Dollar City!

Ok so here is the mass amounts of pictures from this weekend. Michael and I went to Tulsa, Ok to the Winter Jam concert. It's 10 Christian artists for $10. The big names this year were people like Sidewalk Prophets, Jamie Grace, Matthew West... and oh my fav TOBY MAC!!! Michael and I have been planning this trip for about a month now, so we didn't do anything for Valentines Day and drove to Tulsa Friday, here is a pic of me and my handsome hubby on the way, it was weird because I drove their so he could study since he got to preach Sunday Morning.

 We got to stay with my brother, his wife and Hannah, so we drove to their house first let traffic die down, they live right outside of Tulsa ad then did dinner at the Cheesecake Factory.. it was AMAZING! The food was fab as was the service! Here is a picture of our yummy cheese cake, it was a German Chocolate Cheese cake.

 The concert was on Saturday it's basically a first come first serve type of a thing so we decided to get up early and head out and just wait. First we stopped and had some breakfast, and of course I had to snap a picture of Hannah and I. Sure do love this kid!

After like 5 hours of waiting we made it inside! Woot!!

They started the concert off with a group called Capital Kings, they were really good! Then they called all the youth leaders into a room to meet some of the artist! Oh yeah!!

The first guy we got to meet is from the band RED, they aren't my type of music but Michael likes them, and I've heard a lot of good stuff about them.

Then Toby Mac's drummer got up and told his testimony and how he was selling drugs by at 15, then not long after that ended up having 3 kids by 3 different baby mommas. He then went on to talk about how Toby Mac asked him to be his drummer and loved him through everything instead of judging him.

Next was Matthew West, I can't wait to get his book, he put out a thing last year asking people to send him stories of their life and he thought he would get a couple hundred and ended up getting a couple thousand. He then took those stories ad put them in a book and the also wrote some songs about the stories. He told us a couple of the stories and they are amazing. Go check him out!

 Last but not least guess who came and talked to us.. oh yes Toby him self! I remember growing up and listening to Dc Talk, didn't really follow them when they split up, well a couple of years back we took the youth to Dallas and saw Toby live, and he puts on such an amazing show! It was great to hear his testimony and encouragement to us who work with youth.

The next couple of pictures are just people from the tour singing from Jason Castro, to Jamie Grace, to Newsong, who by the way started Winter Jam. They were amazing as well!

 The next Pictures are of Toby Mac and then Hannah and I and then Michael and I with Hannah being silly

It was such an amazing time of worship! We had so much fun! I enjoyed being with the hubby and having some mommy and daddy time, I will say however I was so happy to get home and take a nap this afternoon with this sweet little girl! Sure did miss her!

Well I hope you were able to all stick around to the end. We really had a blast but are glad to be home in our comfy bed and with our Princess! Now it's time to catch up on some sleep!



Great weekend!

This past weekend was an amazing one! Saturday morning Michael had to work. So Whitnee and I watched the razorback game from home. We won!!!! It was such an amazing game! Then we headed out to do a little shopping with daddy. The weather all of a sudden got cold and poor Whitnee had no winter clothes. We had a good time! Daddy even enjoyed the shopping. ;) however I think Whintee enjoyed it a little to much. Ha he said mommy was creating a monster. :) I say it's the joy of having a little girl. The other day I had my holiday candle lit and it gave me the itch to put up my Christmas tree! Ha! If I could I would but I have a strict no Christmas stuff till the day after Thanksgiving. Maybe I'll go to Hobby Lobby and drool over the ornaments. :) so excited for this up coming weekend! My dad will be in town!! Woo hoo!! That and we are going to Apple Butter maken days in mo! This week can't go fast enough! Hope u have a blessed week!

Woo Pig Sooie!!

This is my fav time of year! The weather is getting cooler, and it's time to call those Hogs! I LOVE football season and I love being a Razorback fan! Michael and I got a chance to go to the first game this past weekend and had a blast! We went with Michael's brother an his wife.

We got invited to tail gate with some friends. It was a blast!

Mommy and Whitnee before we left for the game.

Love me some Tyler Wilson! We got there early enough to see the players walk in.

Paul walking in with his daughter how sweet!

Our new head coach. John L. Smith

OH Knile you make me happy! So glad he is well this season1

Yay for my sis in law! Loved our double date night!

The boys :D

My new fav cup!

The inside of the cup! :D

Hope I didn't over load you with pictures! I'm so looking forward to this season! I love game day Saturdays! Hope you all had a great holiday weekend! 

Blessed

So yesterday I as able to get my hair cute and get my eyebrows waxed. It's amazing how getting that done for a female can make her feel so much better and so much more human like. I ended up getting a couple of inches take off 'cause when I do it looks so much healthier. I always get nervous when I get it cut short 'cause I know Michael likes it long, well last night when I got home he kept kissing me and telling me he really likes my hair cut, so I think I scored. I tried to curl it last night with my straightener like I did when it was longer, well it didn't look to hot so I'm gonna go to the store and get stuff to naturally curl it and see how it turns out. Love being able to play with my hair and have fun with it.

So for all of you who may not know my Dad lives in Las Vegas, well once a year either we go out there or him and his wonderful wife come here. Well they will be here in a for short weeks, Tif Tif's daughter Desi is coming as well and I'm so excited! For those of you who have a dad close be so thankful! I try to not think about him not being close because it makes me sad. To think of him missing out on seeing Whitnee grow and then me missing out and spending time with Desi. What I wouldn't give to all live closer, yet I know God has a plan and there is a reason and a purpose for them being so far away. I'm thankful that he is still in my life and that I still have him to call if need be. When my mom and dad split I was 16 and choosing who I wanted to live with was an easy decision for be because it came down to who I thought was going to let me date. How sad is that. How ever telling my dad that I wanted to live with my mom was the hardest thing I've done. I was a very big daddies girl growing up and didn't want to hurt him. Then when I found out he was moving to Vegas with my sister, I'll be honest part of me hated him for leaving me, and taking my sister with him. Looking back now everything has worked for the best and if he hadn't moved there I don't know how Tif Tif would have became part of our lives, and how blessed we all would be by having her and 2 wonderful daughters part of our lives. If I had decided to live with my dad I don't know how I would have gone through the heart ache of loosing a boy and learning the awesomeness that is a real relationship with my now husband. It's crazy how God works sometimes, and I'm so blessed to have a relationship with my Lord. I'm blessed to have a wonderful husband who is an amazing father to my Princesses, and to have an awesome relationship with both of my parents and my brothers and sister. God truly has given me an amazing life, and I need to remember that when times get ruff, that this is the life He has given me and he won't give me anything that's to big, or that He can't help me through.

I hope you all had a blessed week and don't take anything or any one for granted!

She's a Big Girl

The hubby has been off work this week. So I have been doing a lot around the house that I usually don't get to get done when he is working. Well one of those was when Whitnee was at MeMaw and Pa's house I went through her clothes and her toys. Well I got the crazy idea of changing her crib to a toddler bed/daybed. Whitnee has never tried to climb out of her crib, or climb in it. I feel that she probably would have stayed in it forever if we would have let her. Well in the midst of cleaning her room it seemed like it would give us more room if we moved it and bad it her "big girl bed". Well thankfully Michael didn't fight it and well my little Princess is no longer so little. :( Thankfully she has done really well sleeping in it, we haven't had to put her back in it at night yet. She does her normal fight sleep act that she did when she was in her crib. We however haven't taken a nap in it yet. I feel that will be the hardest one. She will probably get up and play. Mommy and Daddy will just have to be strong and help her remember who is boss. :D Oh yeah, it was the sweetest thing, when I showed her the picture of her big girl bed she said "So I can get in it all myself" I said "yes ma'am" and she said "oh mommy thank you" It was the sweetest thing ever and just melted my heart! Here is a picture of her sleeping in her big girl bed the first night, as well as the secound night.

Sorry the pictures look so bad. I'm amazed every day by how big she is. She is so smart and such a blessing to Michael and I.

Today we got the pleasure of going to the mall with my brother, Bailey Grace, and Brittany. It was so much fun and I look forward to many more outings with them especially as Bailey Grace gets older and when my sister has her little girl.

With Thanksgiving comeing up I have become more aware of the many blessing God has give my family. I am truely blessed and don't thank Him enough for what He has done. I can't wait to spend the day with my side of the family, and then spend Friday putting up our Christmas tree. I say this all the time, this really is my favorite time of the year. I don't like the cold but I LOVE Christmas. I enjoy it even more now that Whitnee is getting older and gets so excited about the little things. I look forward to seeing her face on Christmas morning.

Hope you all have a great weekend! We will spend it cheering on our Hogs! Woo Pig Sooie!

Busy Life

Well it's been a long time since I have actually made time to type out a real blog. So here goes.

Life is been so busy for us here recently. Monday, Tuesday, and Friday nights are the down nights for us. Wednesday and Thursday we have church things going on. Tuesday nights we dont have Whitnee so that's usually Michaels night to mow and then we try and go on a date, but money has been tight here recently due to my sister's wedding getting moved up. They found out a couple weeks ago that Maiks dad had cancer agian. They havn't given him long so to make sure he gets to see his son get married they moved the wedding from Nov to Aug! WOW! So I had to buy shoes, and the right undergarments sooner then I thought. On top of that my brother and sister in law are due in September and I get to throw them a shower. With the help of Chas's sister. Then I also get to be in Stevie's weddingg in Oct. So life is crazy for us!

Whitnee and I have been enjoying our summer life. She loves to be outside go swimming. We try and go outside every afternoon when she gets up from her nap, some days it's to hot and we have to wait for Michael to get home. She could care less how hot it is, but I however do not want her to get to hot. :D I love how she comes in and her cheeks are all rosey. it makes me smile :D However I do not like the stinky kid smell. HAHA

I never new how much I would enjoy having another couple that we can hang out with all the time. I've talked alot about Stevie and Brian, since they don't have a kid yet, it's easy for them to come over and hang out. Also Whitnee LOVES them both, so we usually see them every weekend if not more. It's so nice for my soul to have a good couple who is on the same life path and have the same beliefs that I do to just hang out and be silly with. Most of the time we just hang at the house and just talk and be silly it's great. I dont know if I have mentioned how long I have known Stevie I moved here when I was in the 4th grade in 1996 (geez that seems like such a long time ago :D) well she was my first real friend up here, we had the same 5 grade teacher, and then no joke I spent all summer at her house, those are some AMAZING memories! Any ways Stevie and I have always been friends through out high school, we may no have been super close all the time but I always considered her a friend. Any ways about 2 yrs ago, we started hanging out agian, and it's just been up hill from there. We always have such a blast with them, and I look forward to seeing her walk down the isle and I'm so thrilled to be apart of that! I then look forward to seeing there family grow, we have already decided if they have a little boy Whitnee will have an arranged marriage, and if it's a little girl they will be bff's and have amazing memories like Stevie and I do. There for a while I was struggling with the fact that I dont have any good girl friends any more 'cause we have all grown up and have kids and a life LOL well i'm so thankful that I know of Stevie, and Michael know has Brian. We are so lucky and God has truely blessed us with a good Christian friendship!

Whitnee has started the new no and mine phase and it's no fun! She is still a very sweet little girl, and I'm so blessed to call her mine! I couldnt' imagine my life with out her in it every day!

Winter Wonderland... Not So Much

As I type up this blog we are surrounded by around 8 in of snow if not more. We have been snowed in since Tuesday the 1st. I'm so beyond sick of the snow! The snow is pretty but it's soo annoying! Michael has been home since Tuesday as well, and as much as I love him being home it's not been that fun. Whitnee was sick on Tuesday but the doc office was closed so we had to wait till Wednesday to take her, so Michael wasn't able to make it to work. I started feeling bad Tuesday afternoon, and then in the middle of the night Michael was sick as well. So here were are stuck at home and should be able to hang out and have fun and we are both sick and trying to take care of a Whitnee. Well thankfully it was only a couple of day thing. We are both on the mend. I had some kinda sinus juck so we went out to go shopping and got a Netty Pot... I will say it's the best thing EVER! I feel sooo much better when I use one! Back to the weather.. thankfully the sun is out in full force today so some of the snow will melt but just in time to get more tomorrow, and then get more later on this week. I'm so read for Spring. You know it's one thing to staying at home with Whitnee when I have the option to go somewhere, but not being to get up and go when ever I want is driving me and Whitnee insaine! I'm so ready to be able to go to the park and let her run off some of her engergy. Oh yeah on the plus side to being sick I've lost 4 lbs. LOL I pray that after this week the snow will be gone for good! I need some sunshine time as well!

There's really not any big news going on around here other then that... oh and the fact that my brother and his wife are prego! They have been trying FOREVER and it finally stuck! YAY!! They are going to be AMAZING parents! I can't wait to hold there little bundle of joy!! I know first hand out awesome it is to have a little one and I look forward to seeing them enjoy that great experiance.

Well I guess that's all for now.. gotta get back to cleaning the house. Hope everyone has an amzaing weekend!

Great Weekend...Must Monday Come?

Well we had a very good weekend! I will start where I left off on my last blog.

FRIDAY

Friday Michaels mom came and got Whitnee since she wasn't able to get her on Tuesday. I'm really thankful that they are able to keep her once a week. It gives mommy some time to clean, or just sit in silence if she so chooses. More importantly it gives mommy and daddy a chance to go on a date, or even just sit at home and enjoy each others company. Well Friday we went on a date. I'm so thankful that I have an amazing hubby who wants to take me out and show me off. He's such an amazing man and such an amazing supporter! He works so hard! We ended up going to dinner and then a movie. It was a blast to show off my hubby! I'm so glad he is mine!

SATURDAY

Cleaning day! Since I didn't have the princess I cleaned our bedroom and Whitnee's bedroom. I actually got all of my laundry done! Laundry is one of the things that I just do not enjoy doing! Well I dont mind doing it it's the putting it up part that is no fun!! It usually gets put in pile of clean in the floor. Well I got it all done! Michael was very impressed heck I even organized my shoes! WOW! I did deep cleaning in Whitnee's room. I ended up taking her bumper off of her bed in hopes that it'll keep her from climbing out. She hasn't started yet but I'm hoping that'll prolong it a litte more. Oh yeah something I forgot to mention about our date on Friday was we went paint shopping! YAY! I'm so ready to paint our house, I think painting the house will make it feel more like a home. I can't wait!

SUNDAY

I feel as if my Sunday posts are always the same. Church. Why well becuase that what our Sunday is. I think everone's Sunday should be church. It always starts me week off on the right foot! I'm so thankful for all the people in our church who love not only Michael and I but love our Princess as well! There are some great people in our lives!

MONDAY

This was a busy day! Kids didn't have school and Hailey came over, she actually spent the night with us Sunday night. Whitnee loves her so much! It was funny to watch them play. When Whitnee wanted Hailey to play Hailey didnt want to play but when Hailey wanted to play Whitnee didn't want to play. It was all kinda fun! I felt like I had two kids and was playing refere all day. It was fun! Shows me what I have to look forward to.

TUESDAY

Well so far so good! Whitnee is napping and I get to work out in a little bit. It's been a week since I joined Weight Watchers and so far so good. The weekends are just the hardest! I've just got to keep up with it and watch what I eat. I just love food so much and the good food is expensive so that makes it hard. Micahels mom will be picking up Whitnee later and then I think I'll call the hubby and see if he wants to meet at the store to buy paint and hopefully we can paint the kitchen and living room tonight! YAY!! I love to paint!

Well hope everyone if any one reads this is having a good week and hope the rest of it is blessed!

One of Those Days

It's been a day where I feel defeated. The yucky weather is making the girls very cranky. To add to that Ellie isn't sleeping well. She is rolling her self over and freaking out while she is sleeping. So I go in there to get her and she just wants me to hold her. Well my princess wants me to hold her too. I just feel as if I'm not good enough. I clearly know that I'm doing my best but I still feel as if it's not good enough.

After today I only have tomorrow left with Ellie. I'm gonna miss her, but as I've said before I'm going to enjoy it being Whitnee and I agian. Whitnee and I are gonna go on an adventure to find a cheap umbrella stroller. We are taking a trip in Nov to see my dad and dont want to take the bit stroller with us. Something light weight and little will be great! I've found some on the enternet but they are still like $30 for one that I'm looking for. I'm sure we can find one cheaper.

God is also working on my hubby right now. We really aren't sure how or what but something is going on in that that great big wonderful heart of his! I think I've finnaly convenced him to go back to school! YAY! Go me! He's been wanting me to go but I've been trying to tell him his degree is soo more important then mine 'cause if God moves us to another church they will be looking for that piece of paper. He will be more likely to get into full time ministry if he does have that paper.

Well I think that's all the random thoughts I have for now.. until next time..

Where To Start?

We have been soo busy that last month! I guess I start like I start when I think back in my head.. just random. :D So here goes

Well we are taking Whitnee to Branson for the first time this weekend! YAY! Missouri is having there tax fee weekend so Michael and I have set aside some money to try and get Whitnee her fall wordrobe. I'm excited! Then we are going to Silver Dollar City. There are actually a couple of rides that she will be able to ride! Woo Hoo I soo hope she is like her dad and loves to ride rides, and not a chicken like her mommy. I'm so excited! We are going with a family from our church so it should be a ton of fun!

Michael has been on vaca this weekend and it's been soo nice to have him home all day! Come Monday it'll be back to reality and I'm gonna miss him so much. It'll be weird to not have him here. While he was off we had planned a trip to the zoo... well that didn't get to happen. :( I some how messed my foot up agian. GRRR but it is feeling soo much better!

Well last weekend we had our youth trip. It was soo much fun! We have such a great group of young adults. I always look forward to haning out with them.

We also had our VBS a couple of weeks back. It was sooo much fun! This was the first year that I did music by myself and I will say I think I did really good! I was very proud of myself! I really enjoyed teaching the kids!

Whitnee has been so silly that last couple of weeks! OOO and she has a TON of teeth that have come in! One of her new things is drinking her bath water LOL why? I dunno but she really doesn't drink it she will lean over and take a "drink" and then say "aaahh" oh I love that child! Oh she will also say no no when I ask her for kisses.. :( so sad! She has also been doing really good with going to bed with out being rocked! She still has her bottle but we are working on breaking one habit at a time. She such a big girl, I'm so proud of her! She is also not really wanting a bottle during the day. Michael and I have starting making a big deal out of having a big girl Whitnee cup! I love being her mommy!

Well I think that's all of the info I have for now.. here are some good pics of Whitnee for your entertainment

The hubby and I on the youth trip

Whitnee enjoying some YUMMY sour cream!!

First time brushing Whitnee's teeth

Happy Birthday Hubby!

Today is Michael's birthday, so here is a little blog just for him! He turned 32 this year. :D Him and I are going to Abuelos for dinner and then going to come home for cake and have some people over to hang out. It should be fun!

I love my hubby!! I'm so lucky to have him in my life!