Oh Joyful Night!

There's a party going on in heaven tonight! Why may you ask..cause my Abby got baptized! And her daddy got to baptize her. Steven baptized Ashlyn too. I think it is so neat that our church allows the dads to do this. It makes it so special.
And her friends came to celebrate with her.
We started this tradition with Ashlyn and now Abby. We gave Abby her very own Bible with her name inscribed on it. ....and well the color..purple of course for Abby!

Another awesome thing about tonight is that Abby got to be baptized with her friend Mackenzie. She has known Mackenzie since she was 2 years old. What a neat thing to share with a friend!


After each baptism at our church we let balloons go because like I said there is a party going on in heaven cause each one of these people gave their life to Christ and that's something to celebrate! So if you see a balloon floating around, you never know, that may be from a person whose life is now changed because they have come to Christ. And there just might be a party going on in heaven with God and His angels. Have you joined the party?

Christmas Already?

Really? Do we already have to be playing Christmas music and putting lights on our houses? Can we just enjoy Thanksgiving before the Christmas chaos starts? Don't get me wrong. I love Christmas, but we start celebrating Christmas in July around here and that is too early! So let's all slow down and enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday.

A Little Funny

Steven and I have been using an app called myfitnesspal.com. It measures your calories of what you eat every day and helps you maintain or lose weight. I got a little chuckle today when I saw this from one of my friends on facebook. All of us who are female will appreciate this...ok...well at least some of us. :)

Halloween Tipton Style

This was a different Halloween for us this year. What do you mean by different...Well, this is the first time my kids didn't want to do my very favorite things that we have always done as a family. First, my youngest didn't want to go to the pumpkin patch. Then both girls didn't want to watch "It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" They told me it was the same show every year so it was boring! How can they not want to watch Charlie Brown???

I guess it's not all about me is it on holidays. It's not supposed to be right? So Sunday we went out to the pumpkin patch. I did finally convince them. :) I had to really convince Abby that we had to have her picture taken in this fake jail. She was thrilled as you can tell by the picture. I have a picture of the girls taken in this "jail" every year since they were 2 and I wanted to keep going. My youngest had other plans, but she finally slowly shuffled her way into the jail and let me take her photo. Ahhh the joys of having a strong willed child.


However, the patch got better when we spotted their favorite characters, Phineus and Pherb.
And see it's great when your kids are older and they can take the pictures of you and your spouse! What fun!
However, they still wanted to trick or treat of course! They weren't going to give that up! I say though when they hit puberty...we are done!

Hope everyone had a happy Halloween whatever your family decided to do. And thank you to the Bourlands who let us tag along in their neighborhood for trick or treating! We had a blast!

We Got Friends

So I was inspired again to update my blog by a friend of mine today. :) So I thought I would start off with some pictures from about a month ago from our girls weekend. One of friends that inspired me is in this photo above. ;) Thank you Susan! When you got friends, old friends you can pick up just where you left off and it's like nothing has changed...
Wellllll...except some things....This time we found ourselves talking about body ailments. Yes...I know TMI right? LOL! I still think it's funny though. Now that we are in our 40's..(wait I think I am the only one our group who is 40), we talk about how our bodies have aged. After all, it has been 20 plus years since we have all been out of high school. Personally, I think we look great!
Now the purpose of our weekend was not only to have a girls weekend, but to volunteer to do check in for the Southwest High School Class of 91 20 year reunion.
Here are some of our old friends from Class of 91! :)
And a couple of more from my class! :) We had a great weekend! As always I wished it had lasted longer.
So we had to say our good-byes until our next Girls Weekend. Hope we won't have to wait long. :)

Baylor Football

I guess I'm a little sad cause they are talking about the break up of the Big 12. Yes I know Baylor doesn't bring anything to the table in football, but I still think the Texas teams should stay together. Anyway, that's my little soap box for today. And I know there are many of you out there thinking Baylor just needs to go some little conference, but just don't think they should be left out in the cold. Ok..I'm done.

What A Year!

So I know I haven't written in a while...Ok...for a looooong while, but I've been inspired again to write again, so I'll try to sum up the past year. I think I last told you Steven was looking for a job and in the meantime starting his own business. Well, I'm so happy to tell you that as of Februrary 2010, Steven has been employed as a Senior Consultant with AccuData Systems. God truly got us through this past year. We feel blessed that He took care of us through that time. He was growing us. And during this time, Steven received his MBA, he had to have an emergency appendectomy (all of which was paid for by a fund from the hospital), we would just receive money in the mail from someone who remained anonymous and my daughters school still continues to grow AND we have even added a new building in the process! God is so good! So here's a recap of our year.........................in a nutshell anyway...
Daddy taking Ashlyn and Abby to the Daddy Daughter dance.
We got to serve with our church by going to the fire station and making breakfast for them.
We enjoyed ICE at the Gaylord Texan....part of our Christmas present.
And here is our TCU graduate! I'm so proud of Steven for hanging in there and getting his MBA while he was looking for a job at the same time. What an accomplishment!

So that's what's been going on....I know I've missed telling you some things, but hopefully we will be able to catch up. I know God has to take us through some storms to grow and that's exactly what He did. I just don't ever want to forget what God did for us this past year!