Girl's Luncheon

My friend Sandra, is a very inspiring person. She creates the most interesting greeting cards and invitations, the most unique presents (for every occassion), and the most fun group games at parties or for games to teach children, the most intelligent theme parties (along with Jessica).

One of these particular parties she hosted was on May 3, 2008. A luncheon for her friends.

Below are a few pictures:

(no, this is sparkling grape juices

Sunday Afternoon

I love Sunday afternoons! Today for instance, we went to eat at La Hacienda - the best mexican food in texas. then came home and went to Trinity Trails to walk and now Brent is taking a nap and I am listening to David Crowder while blogging. And we have some friends coming over after they get out of church. Our church only meets once a month on Sunday nights. Sundays are so much calmer and slower paced than the rest of the week. Also tomorrow is Memorial Day and we are off! These are the days when I wish we knew someone or had friends who had a boat and/or a lakehouse! I was daydreaming about being on a lake in a boat on the way home from church this morning and I could almost feel the smooth, cool water!!! So if Brent and I ever strike oil, we are so gonna have a lake house and boat that will hold 12 people, just for weekends like this!
Well that's all for now..........

The Graduate

Well here is the first picture of Brent, the Graduate! I have more, tons more. But this computer I am on does not corporate. At all. And the laptop cord broke, so we have no way to charge the laptop. Fortunately we live near the city where the only Dell's store in the world happens to be, so maybe one day we will get a cord, or better yet....we will get a new computer!! However, we will be getting MAC. YAY! They are the best! Love'em!

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Well as most of you know graduation has come and gone!!! May 9 was kind of surreal in some ways, I think b/c it seemed like the day would never actually come and then WHAM! here it is!!
Our families came out and we had good time celebrating with them. My little nephew, Destin, is so sweetly adorable. We also had a fabulous party Friday night! :)
I will post pictures from the weekend later. Right now, I don't have the patience for it.

So now comes the next phase of life..............................if only we knew what that was! HAHA! Waiting still seems to be the name of this phase. Personally, I'm kinda tired of it!
Brent has a part time job with Team Impact. Hopefully it will go full-time in the fall, but they can't guarntee that right now, b/c it 's not the fall! The part time stuff means that he MIGHT do a crusade in June and he MIGHT go to Austraila in July for a bit. So, I'm a little jealous about the Austraila part. Well except for the part about being on a plane for 24 hours......seriously that is not my cup o' tea!
Our lease this apartment in July, however we can't exactly get a house or a different place that could possibly be a tiny bit bigger, b/c we won't know if he goes full-time till August or maybe even September, so we only have what we make now to show wherever we live next! Also at some point we have to get a second car. But really this is okay. That part can wait till August or September b/c right now Brent and I still work at the same place, so it's easy. Well all that to say, who knows where we will wind up next!!

My office is having a major change over. People leaving, people coming, office space moving. Today Jenn, Rachel, and myself boxed up almost all the files in our office. It equaled to total of 77 boxes!! The good thing was it was manual labor - which I like - and we got to wear jeans and t-shirts! :) Tomorrow we will unbox all those files in another location!! So more jeans and t-shirts and manual labor! :)

Well I should go now. This place is a terrible mess. Thanks for reading!!

Just so you know......

Today is May 8.

In 24 hours Brent will an offical graduate of Southwestern Seminary!!!!

Just so you know......

TODAY IS APRIL 29.

It was the last day of classes.

The last day of chapel.

Forever.

(well at least until Brent decides to get his masters!!)

Happy Birthday, Jenn!

Today was my friend Jenn's birthday! Larry, her husband, is in Alaska in training, so Jenn and I spent the day together. We started out with lunch at PeiWei with a few other friends - YUM!! and then we went to a little town called Granbury. It's a cute little square with boutiques and shops and ice cream! :) We both got a few things. I got a great clock!! I love clocks! Jenn is a great friend!

Granbury...well part of it.....

We bought the most hilarious cards in one store!

We love ice cream!

This is my new clock!!

When the cat's away......

The mice re-arrange the living room!! haha!!

Well as most of you know Brent was out of town for the weekend. So when he's out of town, I like to do somethings that I might not do all in one day! On the menu for this weekend was cleaning, organizing and apparently re-arranging! Yesterday, I spent out and about getting some pictures printed, going to about 6 stores looking for good organizing stuff - which I finally found at Bed, Bath and Beyond. I also went to Danna's baby shower. So today after church and lunch I came in a thought about where to start - the house was a wreck - really you should have seen it!! So I start by making the bed. From there, I take all - and I mean ALL of our clothes in the closets and throw them on the bed or the couch to go through them and move something around in our room. But let me tell you moving Brent's suits is a feat within itself!!! So thus begins the mass cleaning and re-arranging epsiode at my house. I have just moved the bookshelves and taking the books off the shelves and moving the bookshelves and putting the books back on....well.....let's just say that THAT is why I am now taking a break. The picture above is the pile of books that I put on the floor to move the shelves!!

Now can you see why I do this when Brent is gone. He would have - pardon me for going back to 7th grade - had a COW (LOL) at all his books in the floor! Plus spending Sunday afternoon organizing and re-arranging is not exactly his cup o' tea. I thought I would just tell him that sometimes things have to get messier before the get better. Then I thought that kind of applied to my spiritual life. It's been a little messy since we've moved out here - it kinda started a few months before moving though. But now, I think it's getting better.

Our connection class is going through the minor prophets on Sunday mornings and today was the book of Amos. Amos is about God letting Israel and all surrounding nations know that they will judged for their sins. But you see that Israel has something the other nations to do not. They have a covenant with God. He will not destroy them completely, in fact at the end of the book He restores them! God sometimes takes and tears us completely down in order to rebuild us stronger for Him. I'm so thankful that He is on our side and He has such mercy and grace on us. I sometimes think that we do not even know the extent to which that grace and mercy is bestowed to us. Praise be to God of second chances (and third, fourth, fifth, etc.)!

Gala 2008

This is at the Gala. The seminary hosts this every year at Bass Performance Hall in downtown. It's fun night. The seminary's Oratorio chorus and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra perform for about 2 hours together. It's great!
What a smashing couple!!
This is my friend, Steffi!
She lives in Germany. Brent being silly

This is my friend, April. Don't you love the blue nametags!
Rachel and Thomas! I love these two!!!!

Photo Shoot with Abby

Here are some pictures of our photo shoot with Abby! We went to downtown FW in the stockyards. If you want to see the finished product, visit http://www.abbycaldwellphotography.com/ . Click on Gallery and then choose Portraits. I think we have about 3 pictures in there. Also click on her Blog on that website there are a few more!Enjoy