Princess Party!

Princess with her Princess Cake

She LOVED opening her presents!

A random picture of Cason's first haircut--a buzz!

Silly kids..

LOVE this pic!! Love my mama!

Princess Pinata!

Caedmon took his job of handing out presents very seriously!

The Royal Spread

Let the Waters Rise...

I've been wanting to blog about this song for a few weeks now, but sometimes it's hard to put the depth of what you're feeling into words. I'll try.

A few weeks ago on a Sunday morning I heard a new song by MikesChair. Here are the lyrics:

Don't know where to begin
Its like my world's caving in
And I try but I can't control my fear
Where do I go from here?

Sometimes its so hard to pray
When You feel so far away
But I am willing to go
Where you want me to
God, I trust You

There's a raging sea
Right in front of me
Wants to pull me in
Bring me to my knees
So let the waters rise
If You want them to
I will follow You
I will follow You

I will swim in the deep
'Cuz You'll be next to me
You're in the eye of the storm
And the calm of the sea
You'll never out of reach

God, You know where I've been
You were there with me then
You were faithful before
You'll be faithful again
I'm holding Your hand

There's a raging sea
Right in front of me
Wants to pull me in
Bring me to my knees
So let the waters rise
If You want them to
I will follow You
I will follow You

God Your love is enough
You will pull me through
I'm holding onto You
God Your love is enough
I will follow You
I will follow You

Ok so it's the chorus that really hits me. "There's a raging sea right in front of me, wants to pull me in, bring me to my knees." I feel that way a lot preparing for our move/life in Zambia. Sometimes the sea changes--it is usually a sea of fear, sometimes a sea of doubt, sometimes a sea of panic. And it does want to pull me in and bring me to my knees. But God is already in that sea, and I'm going to follow Him through. So let the waters rise, God. I will follow You.

Halloween 2009

Cambree giving it all she's got throwing the ball!

We went and saw Big Maw's play, Willy Wonka!

My Boys at the Fall Festival

Pretty Cambree

Case in the recycled pumpkin outfit! We can finally retire it!

Shade, Caity, and Andie Lyn

Big Maw and two of her boys, Blu and Shade

Princess Cake

Cambree is having a "pink and purple princess party" for her 3rd birthday! I finished her cake today!

To Infinity...and Beyond!

A weekend back home!

We spent last weekend in Alvarado!! It was great to be back at our home church and with our close friends. We spoke at two different churches so it was pretty exhausting but we still had an awesome weekend!!
We took the kids to the Waco Zoo on Saturday on our way to Alvarado. I was pleasantly surprised--what a nice zoo!

This was the end of the zoo trip--everyone was so tired!


Caedmon checking out a snake up close!

In Alvarado, we stayed with "Ms. Telly" (Mrs. Kelly) and the rest of the Baxter family. The kids took hikes, cooked mac n' cheese, baked and decorated cookies, watched movies, and had an awesome weekend getting spoiled!

Lauren, Lindsay, Jessica, and me :)

This is what we did when we got bored..

Lauren and Baby Cason

Lindsay being crazy!

Me and Jess :)

Vampires or Jesus??

The kids have a new "Jesus movie" that they've been watching lately. It is not at all unusual for us to hear Caedmon (who is an up and coming movie quoter) yelling through the house "It is written!!!" "Where is your God now?!"

Last weekend, my mom told me that Caedmon told her "If you don't stop that, I'm going to make you drink my blood!" I was shocked and furious and asked Caedmon, "Where did you hear that?! Who says that??" assuming he had seen a vampire movie or something.

Caedmon just looked at me real confused and said "Jesus. He holds out his hand and says this is my blood. Drink it."

:)

October Happenings

We enjoyed the weekend with Grandpa and Mama Dee in Temple! We went to a pumpkin patch and the kids loved it! We also celebrated a little early my 29th birthday! And I got a haircut!

Things that make me smile...

My almost 3 year old daughter climbing a tree

Me, Whitney, and Bethany--we've been friends since me and Whit were 9 and Beth was 2!

Whitney hugging a tree

Caedmon's future wife Hannah

Caedmon sliding backwards down a slide

Happy Birthday to Blu!

Blu turned 28 on Sept 27th! We had a fun football party for him and watched the Colts/Cardinals game. He got lots of neat presents (a leatherman, toolbox, TONS of new tools, a Cowboys shirt, and from me--tickets to the Dallas Cowboys Monday Night Football game!!!) We had a blast!

Busy...

Well, our internet has been down for almost 2 weeks, so it's been hard to keep track of everything!!! Here are some things that have been keeping us busy!
Blu took some amazing sunset pictures in Zambia! He's quite the photog!


So innocent looking...

Or not...

10 months old!