November 24, 2008
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Last week I had more than one person point out to me that I am sick a lot. I hadn't really thought about it, but I guess I am. In all honesty it has been that way most of my life. I had lots of allergy problems when I was younger and then as I got older I just seemed to get everything that went around plus a few weird things thrown in. Now, since my last pregnancy I feel like I have had one thing after another. Severe joint pain, mono, stomach bugs, a lupus scare, and most recently a sinus infection. All of this is to just say I am really sick of being sick! I have upped my dosage of vitamin C and I am exercising more but I want to know what everyone else does to stay healthy? I do not want to keep getting the "your sick all the time" comment. So I really do want to know from everyone how you keep yourself healthy, because apparently I am doing something wrong.
November 18, 2008
WTGC and other occurences
On Wednesday I went to the airport to pick up Peggy from her world travels. I took David with me because he refused to go to bed. We arrived at the airport around 10:40 and David found it fascinating, especially the luggage carousel. Then he was still wide awake when we got home around 11:30, and I do mean wide awake!
We took the kids to the Dallas zoo on Friday. It is no where near as good as the Ft. Worth zoo. Not as many animals and most of the habitats were pretty pathetic. They had a fun children's area though and Alex and David both got to ride a horse. Peggy and I decided it was not worth the money so we will not be going back.
Jenelle and I went to the Rapha House open house at Karen's. There is some really great jewelry so if you get a chance you should check it out. Then we went to eat dinner and discovered two of our favs are now open... Jason's Deli and FIREHOUSE!!!!!!! We were SO dissappointed that Firehouse was already closed for the night but we ate at Jason's Deli and it was very yummy!
Saturday I headed to Abilene for the West Texas Girl's Conference. There were 5 middle school girls and another sponser. It was fun getting to know Sharon (the other sponsor), we talked the whole way there and back. The conference was really good! The girls had a lot of fun going to classes and worshiping together. The theme this year was "Love me for me" and it was a great reminder that God created each of us with a purpose and that he loves us just the way he created us. Christa Black performed on Saturday night and she was fabulous! I had never heard of her before, but I left a fan.
Sunday night was a special night. I had my girl's small group over and my friend Wendy came and brought Ancsa. She is from Hungary and has had a lot of hardship in her 15 years. She became a Christian over the summer and she is getting to visit the US for 3 weeks. It was really neat watching the girls talk to her and include her. We brought her gifts and took pictures so she would have a memorable experience and hopefully we can stay in contact with her once she goes home.
While I was hanging out with youth group girls all weekend, Jon started hanging Christmas lights. I was able to get out of it because Brock volunteered to take my place (THANK YOU!) Grandma and Grandpa kept the kids all weekend and apparently found a great new playground! I missed the kids a ton and this made me realize how hard it is going to be to leave them for 10 days!! I know we will be having a blast in Breckenridge, but I am sure I will miss my babies terribly.
Here are pictures from the week. Blessings!
David with all of my scarves
Girl's Small Group with Wendy and Ancsa
WTGC - The girls with Christa Black
Sliding at the zoo
Riding the horse (she looks precarious, but there are people on each side of the horse) She hated the ride btw...
Toothy smile!
David and Grandma
David loved the horse!
We took the kids to the Dallas zoo on Friday. It is no where near as good as the Ft. Worth zoo. Not as many animals and most of the habitats were pretty pathetic. They had a fun children's area though and Alex and David both got to ride a horse. Peggy and I decided it was not worth the money so we will not be going back.
Jenelle and I went to the Rapha House open house at Karen's. There is some really great jewelry so if you get a chance you should check it out. Then we went to eat dinner and discovered two of our favs are now open... Jason's Deli and FIREHOUSE!!!!!!! We were SO dissappointed that Firehouse was already closed for the night but we ate at Jason's Deli and it was very yummy!
Saturday I headed to Abilene for the West Texas Girl's Conference. There were 5 middle school girls and another sponser. It was fun getting to know Sharon (the other sponsor), we talked the whole way there and back. The conference was really good! The girls had a lot of fun going to classes and worshiping together. The theme this year was "Love me for me" and it was a great reminder that God created each of us with a purpose and that he loves us just the way he created us. Christa Black performed on Saturday night and she was fabulous! I had never heard of her before, but I left a fan.
Sunday night was a special night. I had my girl's small group over and my friend Wendy came and brought Ancsa. She is from Hungary and has had a lot of hardship in her 15 years. She became a Christian over the summer and she is getting to visit the US for 3 weeks. It was really neat watching the girls talk to her and include her. We brought her gifts and took pictures so she would have a memorable experience and hopefully we can stay in contact with her once she goes home.
While I was hanging out with youth group girls all weekend, Jon started hanging Christmas lights. I was able to get out of it because Brock volunteered to take my place (THANK YOU!) Grandma and Grandpa kept the kids all weekend and apparently found a great new playground! I missed the kids a ton and this made me realize how hard it is going to be to leave them for 10 days!! I know we will be having a blast in Breckenridge, but I am sure I will miss my babies terribly.
Here are pictures from the week. Blessings!
David with all of my scarves
Girl's Small Group with Wendy and Ancsa
WTGC - The girls with Christa Black
Sliding at the zoo
Riding the horse (she looks precarious, but there are people on each side of the horse) She hated the ride btw...
Toothy smile!
David and Grandma
David loved the horse!
November 9, 2008
Busy Week
I packed a lot of things into the past 8 days so here goes...
Last Saturday Jon got outside and made a big stand that fits on top of our entertainment center and holds all of our snow villages. Then he brought it in and set the whole thing up. It looks fabulous! Then Kevin, Laura, and the boys came over for dinner. I didn't get any pictures of the kids playing together but they were cute. I tried a new twist to a cake recipe and Landon made my night by taking a bite and exclaiming, "Erin, this absolutely could never be a bad cake!"
Then on Sunday I brought my high school girls small group to our house. My kiddos loved them and the candy they brought with them!
Tuesday I went to the dermatologist again and he feels pretty confident now that he doesn't need to test for lupus and that I just have severe rosacia and dermatitis or something like that. Everything he has given me is making a huge difference with my face and I don't feel like I am sunburned all of the time. After the dr. I met Sarah and Brooks at Hobby Lobby and we went shopping for Laura's shower.
Wednesday night I went to Laura's to make more bows. We didn't get any made, but we did get several strands of korker ribbon made. Then on the way home from her house I was pulled over not once, but twice because Jon's tail light was out. He got that fixed on Thursday morning :).
Thursday night we had small group at the Woods house so we got all of their ski equipment to borrow for our trip. Yeah!! They are saving us tons! Thank You!
Friday morning I packed the kids up and met Heather, Karen, Matt, and Trish at the zoo with their kiddos. It was packed with kids on field trips and I realized I was out numbered with my two children. They both wanted out of the wagon but Alex just ran off and David didn't want to move from exhibit to exhibit, so we had several meltdowns! Karen tried to help but that made Jack really upset. So I learned that I still can't go anywhere by myself with the kids! Friday night all of the hostesses for Laura's shower met at my house and we made all of the food and decorations. It was so much fun!
Saturday morning Jon and I packed up the kids and went to Weatherford for a family reunion for my Grandmother's side of the family. I didn't really know anyone other than my immediate relatives but it was fun. There was a great playground there and the kids had a blast running around and especially sliding. Alex has NO fear! She climbed to the top of the big twisty slide by herself and then didn't even hesitate to slide down. It took David 10 minutes of climbing up and down the stairs to get up the courage to actually slide down.
Today was the shower and it was so pretty! Laura looked great and she got a lot of really cute things. Kallie and Kaitlyn will be the best dressed little girls around!
That pretty much sums up my week so I will post the visual aides. Blessings!
Girl's Small Group
David trying out my new snow boots
Seriously preggo goat!
Where's Alex?
There She is!
Grandmother and Alex
Papaw and me
Grammy and David
Starting to feed herself!
Diaper Cakes
Hostesses
Last Saturday Jon got outside and made a big stand that fits on top of our entertainment center and holds all of our snow villages. Then he brought it in and set the whole thing up. It looks fabulous! Then Kevin, Laura, and the boys came over for dinner. I didn't get any pictures of the kids playing together but they were cute. I tried a new twist to a cake recipe and Landon made my night by taking a bite and exclaiming, "Erin, this absolutely could never be a bad cake!"
Then on Sunday I brought my high school girls small group to our house. My kiddos loved them and the candy they brought with them!
Tuesday I went to the dermatologist again and he feels pretty confident now that he doesn't need to test for lupus and that I just have severe rosacia and dermatitis or something like that. Everything he has given me is making a huge difference with my face and I don't feel like I am sunburned all of the time. After the dr. I met Sarah and Brooks at Hobby Lobby and we went shopping for Laura's shower.
Wednesday night I went to Laura's to make more bows. We didn't get any made, but we did get several strands of korker ribbon made. Then on the way home from her house I was pulled over not once, but twice because Jon's tail light was out. He got that fixed on Thursday morning :).
Thursday night we had small group at the Woods house so we got all of their ski equipment to borrow for our trip. Yeah!! They are saving us tons! Thank You!
Friday morning I packed the kids up and met Heather, Karen, Matt, and Trish at the zoo with their kiddos. It was packed with kids on field trips and I realized I was out numbered with my two children. They both wanted out of the wagon but Alex just ran off and David didn't want to move from exhibit to exhibit, so we had several meltdowns! Karen tried to help but that made Jack really upset. So I learned that I still can't go anywhere by myself with the kids! Friday night all of the hostesses for Laura's shower met at my house and we made all of the food and decorations. It was so much fun!
Saturday morning Jon and I packed up the kids and went to Weatherford for a family reunion for my Grandmother's side of the family. I didn't really know anyone other than my immediate relatives but it was fun. There was a great playground there and the kids had a blast running around and especially sliding. Alex has NO fear! She climbed to the top of the big twisty slide by herself and then didn't even hesitate to slide down. It took David 10 minutes of climbing up and down the stairs to get up the courage to actually slide down.
Today was the shower and it was so pretty! Laura looked great and she got a lot of really cute things. Kallie and Kaitlyn will be the best dressed little girls around!
That pretty much sums up my week so I will post the visual aides. Blessings!
Girl's Small Group
David trying out my new snow boots
Seriously preggo goat!
Where's Alex?
There She is!
Grandmother and Alex
Papaw and me
Grammy and David
Starting to feed herself!
Diaper Cakes
Hostesses
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