We did our duty today and headed to Granbury to vote!  We missed a big crowd by minutes!  I’m so glad.  All in all it took us about 5 minutes.  Not too bad!!  I’m glad I could avoid the big voting day crowds!!On the way home Brennan wanted to...

Brennan is quite the car enthusiast.  It’s actually getting a little ridiculous!! He received a new car this weekend (thanks Mr. Tom) while in San Antonio.  We had put it in the back of the van and forgotten about it until last night.  I pulled it out and gave it to Brennan...

Such a magical place!!  I've only been to SeaWorld once before, but every Summer I enjoyed my very own sea world when we went fishing in Homer, Alaska (In case you didn't know, I grew up in Alaska).  I have such fond memories of going halibut fishing.  We would get up early in the morning...

 We have the “The Beginner Bible” that we read each night before going to bed.  Throughout the day they will grab it off the table and flip through the pages and look at the pictures. This morning Brennan sat down next to me, opened it up and saw a little girl and says “Mama, she prayin’.” To...

 Last summer at our annual meeting in Greece for the colleagues in our region of Central and Eastern Europe we had a Lifeway representative come with a variety of books, studies and Bibles.  I was perusing the selection when a particular study jumped out at me. “The Frazzled Female” by...

Think back to 1997. That’s the year that the movie “My Best Friend’s Wedding” came out!!!  I remember watching it on video and right as you think the movie is about to begin comes on the song Wishing and Hopingwith a bride and 3 bridesmaids singing this song as they...

 At the end of dinner, a conversation with Karis went like this. “Mama, you are the maker.” (I guess she was talking about dinner?) I laughed a little and said “Well really, God is the maker.” Again she says “Mama, YOU are the maker.” I said “God is the maker, but He does help me...

It’s always fun to go to these missions conferences.  We always have a great time, meet great people and make some new friends (look at our ministry blog for more).  But it’s always nice to come home too.  Especially when there are 3 littles that run to...

 We wanted to give you a little glimpse of what we do at Southwestern Seminary.  This week the Seminary is having a focus on East Asia.  Each semester they feature an area of the world.  They bring in colleagues that work in that part of the world, they set up booths, speak...

Saturday Jerry & I left the kids behind with the grandparents and made our way to West Monroe, LA for a conference put on by Mt Vernon BC, Cedar Crest BC, FBC Calhoun & FBC Bastrop.  There were about 10-12 units (a unit is a couple or a single person) that participated. We started out...

....on this day, we brought home a beautiful, five and a half month old baby girl from an orphanage in As, Czech Republic.  We met her just 4 days prior to bringing her home and our lives have never been the same since.It’s amazing to think back on that day 3...

 I had to look up the word “arboretum,” because all I knew of it was the name used in Dallas.  An arboretum is a collection of trees. More commonly today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of primarily woody plants.  So there ya go in case...

The other day I had my last check up for my lasik eye surgery that I had in June.  So glad that drive is over, except Jerry had to have his eyes done at two different times, so he has a few more drives over to Plano from Fort Worth (over an hours drive one way, longer in traffic). ...