Happy Birthday to my Moo!

My Sweet Lilly turned 4 last weekend on January 17th! I can't believe how big she is already. She has blessed our lives so much with her awesome personality. She wanted to go bowling with a couple of her friends, so that's what we did! Here are some pictures from her day!

The Big 4 year old! "Grandma Zoo" and Lilly have the same Birthday!

Ashlyn, Lilly, Cydney and Landon opening presents

Ashlyn and CydneyLilly and her cousin Emma eating cupcakes!Cydney won like 90 tickets on this thing! lolJohsnon won.... Court and Baby Girl! Just us girls :) Katie, Erin, Courtney and Me

Performances!

The girls were in our annual Christmas play at church again this year. The "Christmas County Spelling Bee" Sweet Pea had a main role and Solo and Moo was a cheerleader! They did exceptional and I think I have a couple star's on my hands! Here are a few pictures!

So Truly Blessed!!

Saturday I had my Baby Shower!! Bestie flew in Thursday night for the event! I feel so completely blessed to have such amazing people in my life. Bestie worked SO hard and I'm so grateful for everything she was willing to do from ARIZONA! I wish I could express to everyone involved how much I truly appreciate and am thankful for all that they did! It was just completely overwhelming! Anyways, I have LOTS of pictures to share so I'll make this short! Thanks again to everyone but Especially Kristi, Jill and Missa!! I love you!

32 Weeks!



Getting Ready for my 3-D Ultrasound!! We found a mobile service that CAME to the shower!

Baby Girl making her Big Screen Debut!

Trying to get the stubborn girl to move and stop sucking her thumb so we could SEE her face!!

Yay! Presents!

Sweet Pea- Big Sister #1

Moo- Big Sister #2!

Yay! "Skull Candy" Goodmama Diaper!

Stevie Lynn and I

We're Due 1 day apart!

Court and I

BESTIE and I!

Wifey and I

Jill and I

I LOVE my girls!

and I Love Him...



Our Family- The 5 of Us

I love my Family!

Sissy In Law and I!


AND Last but not Least.... Meet My Baby Girl!!


Thanks again to Everyone for Making this such an amazing experience for me!!

What the cool kids did August 1rst

On August 2nd.. The 4th book in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn came out. So in true book nerd fashion some friends and I decided to go to the midnight release at Barnes n Noble!

Hubby made us an awesome design that I ironed onto black t-shirts for the girls! All 8 of us met up at my house around 7:30 with our matching shirts and headed to Jack's Urban Eats for dinner. We immediately got comments on our shirts! lol The party didn't start until 10pm. So we killed some time at Nordstrom Rack and Starbucks.

The party was called "Midnight Prom"... needless to say we saw some INTERESTING people!! We had a blast hanging out, pestering a manager named Steve for buttons, stickers, and bracelets. Court and I painted our nails black in true "vampire" style. lol Around 11 we all got in line and laid around an aisle waiting for our turn to buy the book. We had alot of fun reading random books and just hanging out. At 12:01 the book went on sale. Court was the first to make her purchase! We were only about 5 people from the front so that was great! Everyone cheered and it was so much fun! We lined up outside for a picture with our books and then went home. People took turns reading the first chapter out loud in the car on the way home.

I only stayed up till about 2:15 am reading. Haha. I DID finish the book by Sunday night though. So bittersweet! I dont want it to end! I'm in the process of re-reading now! If you haven't read these books... They're highly addicting! Check them out! It was SO great to have a girls night! I had so much fun hanging out and being silly with my girlfriend! Love you guys!



Sarah, Court, Sydney, Amanda, Missa, Me, Katie and Emmy :)

Who is Jesus?

This might be a long one ;)

So as a background for some of you, Hubby is the Youth Pastor at our church. Every Thursday night we have a youth service called TNL (Thursday night live). Its basically for Jr. High-Whoever wants to come!

I haven't been going the last few weeks. Partly because I've felt horrible. Partly because I haven't had the energy or really the desire to. I wasn't really planning on going last night either. I'd been out all day with Nanelle, an old friend from where we used to live. It was was a really nice day. The girlies had a great time playing with her daughter. We went to Lunch and Target and then hung out. So even though it was a good day.. I was tired in the evening and knew that I didn't really "have" to go to TNL if I didn't want to. So next thing you know, Sweet Pea comes out and starts telling me how much she wants to go to TNL and how she misses going to TNL, "Can we PLEEEAASSEE go to TNL?". Sigh... Of course my child makes me feel guilty. So i pack them up and head over, fully intending not to stay for the whole time. Just stay for music and come home. Well I get over there and learn from Hubby that they aren't doing music this week. So the girlies were bummed and I 1/2 wanted to just come home. But somewhat against my will I decided to stay.

So we make our circle and the lesson was on "Who is Jesus?". A video was shown of a guy walking around the streets asking complete strangers "Who is Jesus?". Some of the answers were so sad. We are truly living in a world that does not accept Jesus for who he is. We were challenged by the same question. "Who is Jesus?". Not our typical "Sunday School", "Bible" answer... but who is Jesus TO US!
Matthew 16:13-17 (New Living Translation)
13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
14 “Well,” they replied, “some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say Jeremiah or one of the other prophets.”
15 Then he asked them, “But who do you say I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus replied, “You are blessed, Simon son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being.

Everyone started sharing their "Jesus Stories". Some said He was their saving grace, some said that He was their best friend. They all shared examples of their experiences. Hubby talked about how sometimes we really treat Him like the "Best Friend"... the one that sometimes we get too busy for.. but when something goes wrong we always know that He will be there for us.. no matter what.

Hubby shared his Jesus story, How Jesus was there for him to cry out to when his dad, Papa, was dying. Court shared her Jesus story. How He was her saving grace when her gpa was passing and was stuck in that moment where he would be better in God's care and she didn't understand. She quoted a song by Aaron Shust , "My Savior, My God". It Says: "I am not skilled to understand What God has willed, what God has planned". We sing this song allot at TNL. I have sang this song. I don't think I ever truly experienced the lyrics until she quoted them in tears last night.

It really made me start thinking.... What is my Jesus Story? WHO is Jesus to ME? I've grown up in church. I KNOW all the right answers. But the past year has been completely different for me because last year at church camp was when I truly accepted Christ as my Savior. Its been a year of learning more than I have in my entire life. Experiencing things from a completely different point of view. I don't know that I've ever TRULY experienced MY Jesus story. I know that He was there for me through many different things... but I don't know that I ever really grasped onto Him before. I think I probably said that I did.

There have been SO many things that have happened in the past few years that I've questioned God. That I DON'T understand WHY things have happened. Some are too personal to even mention on here. Its made me angry at God. Its made me question why things happen. I know my God is a God of Love, So why do these awful things happen? Why am I facing something horribly wrong with the Child I am carrying inside of me?! Why don't I understand all of this!?

Then last night as Court said those words.. it hit me... "I am not skilled to understand What God has willed, what God has planned". I may not understand why things happen, but that's okay.. It's what I do with it! Its how I trust in God. THIS will be my Jesus story. We don't always understand things when we are in the Midst of them. Its how I hold onto my BEST FRIEND... Even If I'm still learning how.... and I am.