Just A Little of Everything

I haven't blogged in awhile. We have been extremely busy the last couple of weeks and I am not sure what happened. Brian and I were talking yesterday about how we make a commitment to go to a financial class every Sunday at our church because we were always open on Sunday afternoons. We would usually go out for lunch and then go home and rest the whole day. Well, since we made a commitment to attend this class, everything starts popping up!!!

We were supposed to go for the first class last week. If you know Brian and his family, they are avid Cowboys fans and like we were going to miss seeing the game for the financial class, heck no!!! Plus, we were having them over to celebrate Brian's birthday too.

Brian picked out this cake and decided that we should have a themed birthday party for him & since we were watching the game, we decided to go with the Cowboys. It was really fun and we were laughing in the store the night before because it was like we were 4 years old again picking out all the decorations and things for a birthday party. :-)

Sometime during that week we had the Brandt kids over for 2 nights while mommy and daddy had to work and go to the academy. We enjoyed having them at our house and I know Brooklyn did too. She actually adopted Lucas as her "bubba" too. She would hear Hallie call him bubba and so Brooklyn just followed along. Lucas on the other hand would tell Brooklyn, "I am not your bubba, I am LUCAS!!!!" hahahahahahahaha. It was so funny and Brooklyn would call him Lucas for about 2 minutes and then she was right back calling him bubba.

Lucas cleaned and vaccumed the whole time he was at my house. I am not sure if he thought my house needed to be clean or if his mommy and daddy make him clean all the time....hahahahaha just kidding Rakel and Justin. :-) No, Brooklyn got a vaccumm for Christmas and it actually vaccums. So he loved it.

Hallie enjoying her popsicle.

One night during the time that we had the Brandt kids, was on a Friday night and it was the Friday after Brian's birthday and we have a tradition in our family that we go to Cheesecake Factory on the weekend following your birthday. We thought about waiting till that Saturday night to go since the Brandt kids wouldn't be here (plus, Chuck and Blaine Elliott and their two boys were going with us so that would be 5 little toddlers eating at Cheesecake) but seeing that the Brandt kids were not trouble for me at all, we decided that we would take them with us. I mean, we are planning on having 3 kids one day, is that going to stop us from going out to eat? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Little did we know we were going to have to wait for 2 hours, my dad talking to the manager about how ridiculous it was, & it was 8 and the kids were all hungry. Lots of fun, huh? So we sat them all down on the floor and ate snacks and played little games with them to try and pass the time. Didn't bother Lucas, he was still trying to love on the girls.

We decided on the last morning that I had the kids, we would take them to the Ft. Worth stockyard parade that is non-motorized. It is all done with horses. It was a lot of fun but it was very cold!!!!!!!! The A&M Corp of Cadets were even there!!!!

We tried to get to the rodea Sunday but it was all sold out. We were up there with my little sister, Molly, stockshow. She shows cows for the FFA and was up there doing all of her FFA stuff and we just thought we would make a day of it and go to the rodeo that night, didn't quite work out that way. So we are going to try for another weekend to do that.

Brian is doing really good at his new office. He loves the area and seems to be having more success with door knocking than what he was in Cedar Hill. He hates the drive though. I wish there was a solution to this problem but unfortunately we have to wait till we sale our house to be able to move over there. But he loves it!

Also, I know I sent out an email last week asking for prayers for the Gerwer Quads. They are still needing your prayers. If you look at our links on the right, their's is the one named Gerwer Quads. This family had a lot of trouble getting pregnant and had to go through some tough times with this pregnancy. She delivered and the babies are doing really good and fighting on their own but mom and dad have to leave the hospital without their miracles. Mom went through some trauma after giving birth as well. You can read all about it in their blog. I just wanted to reach out to everyone who checks on us to ask you to send some prayers up for them. They will need it for awhile until the babies have the strength to be on their own and get to go home. So please pray for them.