I'm 25.

I forgot I had a Birthday recently and forgot to post pictures. 25 is a pretty big birthday but I surprisingly didn't do anything really big. Sometimes I prefer that though. Birthday's don't need to be HUGE every year. When your a kid, yes, they should be big every year. I had a great birthday. I split up and had birthdays with each group at a different time.

#1 Party- Girls Day Out
On my actual birthday I got together and had brunch at La Madelines with all the girls in my family (grandma, cousins, sister, mom, mom in law, sis in law etc). We had a great time. The food was delicious. Afterwards we went to Sam Moons for a day of shopping! So much fun! Here is a pic.



That was the most delicious brunch.


My mom had just taken a bite of her brown sugar and rum crepe (sp). Yum!


#2 Party- Extended Family/Easter Sunday
On Easter Sunday when the extended family got together, my mom made me a strawberry cake with delicious fresh strawberries to celebrate my birthday. Can you tell she's a practical joker? or at least she tries to be....

Um, no mom, I'm not 52. I believe thats you.


I fixed it.


#3 Party - The Friends
We went out to Roadhouse with some of our best friends, Brandon and Lauren. The other 3 couples we hang out with on a usual basis were out of town. It stinks having a birthday over a holiday! Little did I know that Roadhouse makes you sit on a saddle in the middle of the restaurant while they sing to you. I would have picked a different restaurant....

I know it looks like I was having fun but lets just say I'm a good actress. FYI: That shirt definately makes me look maternity. I'm never wearing that again....





They bought me my first cake decorating book with utensils! One of my new hobbies.

Dillon/Barnard Wedding

I HAD to post a pic or two of Shane Barnard and Bethany Dillon's Wedding. They are two of my favorite christian music artist and they had the most awesome photographer. They got married on the 29th of March. I found these pictures on bethanydillon.org. Since I love photography so much I thought I'd share it with yall.

Here is the actual link you can cut and paste and see all the pictures yourself. Actually if you go the the very bottom of that page, you can click on the tab "more weddings" and it will take you to a slide show of more of their wedding pictures with one of Bethany's songs playing on the slide show. Really cool.

http://www.benharrisonphotography.com/news/index.php?link=34

Here are my two fav's:



Their pictures make me want to get married again! To the same person of course. It was so much fun getting dressed up and feeling like celebs for a day! It's sad that I will never be that dressed up again.

Newborn Baby's!!

Ok so two of my friends had their baby's in the past 24 hours. Every time this happens I want one. Like I always say, tomorrow I'll get over it (it's not time yet for us) but for today, I can't stay off the pottery barn baby web site looking at ideas for nursery's and baby names. How hilarious am I? I know, pathetic is more like it. These are my two favorite...

Love love love pink and chocolate.


Another favorite of mine would be to do pink and lime green! Don' t you just love the polka dots!


Light blue and Chocolate is so cute. My absolute favorite part of the room is the picture collage above the crib. Could you just die!!!! I am SOOOOOO doing that.

Lazy Bums

When I ask Matt to watch a movie (which is usually everyday after work), what I really mean is I want to snuggle with him on the couch and take a nap while a movie is on. It's like the ultimate relaxing thing for us to do in the afternoons. I am taking into consideration that in just a few years, our lives will be crazy with another human to take care of (wow!) and so I am trying to really enjoy this time in our lives when it's just us. We are busy three nights of the week with Young Life stuff but the rest of the nights we usually have friends over for dinner, go out to dinner or just hang out and do whatever we want (like surf the internet for hours or organize my sock drawer). I know, years from now, it will be hard to remember what we did with all the extra time we used to have.

I am thankful to be with a man that is so low maintence and independent. He doesn't expect me to cook dinner every night even though I usually want to. Also, today I had this horrble headache at work. I called Matt on the way home just to complain a little and to tell him I was going to be taking a nap when I got home. Well, the second I walk in the door Matt has the couch all ready for me with pillows and blankets along with some aspirin and a bottle of water! Then he said he ordered Jason's Deli for dinner! How amazing is he!? I love him! See how spoiled I am?

Tuesday's Activities

My parents have lived in the same house for 23 yrs. Although it is full of wonderful memories, it needed a face-lift. This is the before picture of our living room taken at Christmas....


This is the after picture from this weekend.....


This is a pic of Lacie and I at work yesterday. She was my college roommate and we now work together! I love seing her face everyday!

When it rain's it pours.

It is currently raining outside. It's almost 11pm and I really should get to bed. Sometimes I just don't want the weekend to be over and I prolong it as much as I can. (I will of course, regret my decision tomorrow at 4:45am.) I love the rain. I really should move to Seattle. It's so romantic and soothing. (The rain, not Seattle).

Hobby Lobby has to be my favorite decorating store. They always have some sort of 50% off sale going on. This weekend I went and got this huge collage frame and one other frame for half off! Amazing! Since I am a major picture taker now I figure I'd better start putting some pictures I have taken into some frames. The only problem is, when I got them home I noticed there is no way to hang the picture on the wall. I will have to find an attatchment I can put on the back somehow.
I also got 3 more crosses to add to my cross wall! They too were 50% off. I'm tellin' you people... rarely am I a big spender, but if I find something I like AND it's on sale, babe watch out!!! Of course our apartment is pretty old and I am dying without the ability to paint my walls so I am trying to do as much as I can to make it feel like a home.

PS:
VENT SESSION- An adult said something very judgmental and rude to my husband at church today, right to his face. We were both really surprised at what he said and hurt by it. I am sure he wasn't thinking but it made me want to call him up after we got home and chew him out, especially since he is a leader in our church. I am sure in my lifetime I, as a Christian have said something hurtful to another Christian and that makes me think. I really need to watch the words that come out of my mouth. Christians aren't perfect, believe me I know, but it is very important that we choose our words carefully. They can have a lasting impact on another person, whether good or bad.


Set a guard, O Lord, before my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips. - Psalm 141:3

Why I love Saturdays

This is why I love Saturdays. I slept in till 0730 this morning (yes thats sleeping in, I usually get up at 0445!) Matt and I went to IHOP for breakfast. We split a huge cheese and meat filled omelet, hash browns and pancakes!! Then we saw 10,000 BC at like 10:00 in the morning!! It was a new release and no one was there! We got our favorite seats. Matt even stretched out over 4 seats for part of the movie!! It was great, that never happens, especially at the Parks theater. After the movie Matt came home and fell right into bed. (He had played World of Warcraft all night long and had not gone to bed yet. ) I on the other hand, prepared to catch up on all of my taped shows for the past two weeks. ( Lost, America's next top Model, etc) I snuggled up on the couch with a couple pillows and a fleece blanket and vegged out for a few hours. Very nice and peaceful. I like not sleeping in till noon cause I fell like my one day without anything to do is over too quickly. Matt on the other hand is nocturnal and hardly ever sleeps at night. I however can not sleep when it's light out, funny how God brings people together who are opposites.


On another note, I am happy to announce that after much prayer, Matt will begin Pilot training on May 5th. It costs a great deal of money but the Lord has allowed our bank loan to be fully approved. In my opinion, an education is priceless. Flight school will last till sometime in September. Then our big prayer will be for him to find a job so he can build up his flying hours and be able to fly commercially. Maybe by this time next year we will be in a house!! I pray an early prayer that the Lord direct and guide us in such a big decision! Here is a picture of a house in Dallas that I've had my eye on. It's a tad out of our price range but my fingers are crossed.... (It's only 1.3 million!)


Young Life is going awesome. Matt and I have been involved in helping lead the Mansfield YL Club for 8 months now! It has been such a blessing and a great opportunity for us to grow and be missionaries in our own community. The reason we decided to do YL is primarily because all of our best friends from high school are involved in it so it made getting involved doubly fun! Here are some pictures from last weeks club. We all work together really well together!

Practicing our Hula Hoop skills before the kids arrive

Before club Worship:
The Mathletes