Earlier this month......

Ryder turned 2. He received ducks for his birthday from Brent and April. Seriously. Brent even made a duck house!

We had our 5 year anniversary. Now about that. When I was younger - I mean as in a teenager, I thought that when you had been married for 5 years that that was a very long time - in today's world it actually is a long time, but I apparently thought that you had a job or jobs that paid a lot of money and you could take a "second honeymoon" or travel to a very fancy place such as Hawaii, Europe if you were really lucky. I have no idea from who or where I got that idea, but it is so not true in our life. So our very fancy place turned out to be Nashville. We returned to the scene of the crime - the Parthanon on Vanderbilts' campus - this where Brent proposed to me. It was a bit crazy in Nashville. There was a came at Vandy later that day and the Celebration of Cultures festival was going on. It was pretty interesting. We had good time walking around the park and seeing the different cultures. We ate lunch at place Brent discovered when he and Tim went to Nashville for a youth minister's conference.

We will finish our homestudy on Tuesday! WHAT?!?! That's exciting! But there are probably going to be some changes in our adoption. The Lord has been doing somethings and I've been thinking and Brent and I have been talking. So we will see on Tuesday. Just pray. I am not the best deciphering what to do. I am as James describes as "a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind." But I'm pretty confident in these changes. So updates will come!

GivMusic: Bluetree - God of this City

Well just let me tell you that Depot Days was downright depressing. The one bright spot in the day came at 5:30 in the morning (and no, it was not the sun!), a former church member gave us enough money to finish our the cost of our homestudy. This was after he graciously helped us put up our tent in the pouring rain too! Other than that the whole day was a wash, literally. It rained all day long. We finally packed up at 2:30. We actually weren't supposed to pack up till 5 and not bring the truck in to get our stuff till 7, but seriously, some rules were meant to be broken. We desperately missed our friends in Texas that day too. So needless to say, I was very glad when it was time to go to bed at 8:45! (we got up at 4:15am!).
There a semi-funny part in that I'm pretty sure that the angels that were supposed to attract people to our tent got confused and stood by the tent in front of us, because the lady in front of us never had a dull moment, there was crowd at her tent even before 8:00 offically came! I think for about 30 minutes, during lunch, there might have been a small lull! So funny.


But this is the excitment of the week! Our friends have received their referral from Nepal! I think their baby boy will possibly be coming home with them around Christmas! You can read the excitment for yourself on her blog: www.achairtospare.blogspot.com
There is also an amazing detail that can only be worked out by the Lord in her blog. So check it out!

Our last homestudy visit is coming up in about three weeks. And then I don't know what to expect.

Coming up.....

Our second meeting for our home study is coming on Wednesday! And Brent and I are having a booth at Depot Days! haha!!! We might not make much money, I think it's going to be fun.

What if Starbucks marketed like a church?

I just saw this video. It's hilarious! It's called what if Starbucks marketed like a church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7_dZTrjw9I

Grocery Lists

So today Brent and I switched places. He has pink eye. So I am speaking tonight at church and came to his office to get some things in place and he went to Wal-Mart for me. And as I was making a list I though how funny the differences are when I make a list for me and this one for him. Now don't get me wrong Brent is a good grocery shopper, but you know you just like certain brands, right, so I wanted to make sure he got the same brands. Here is a sample similar to what I wrote:

List for me:

Milk
Water
Toilet paper
ALL
Meat
Juice
Light bulbs

List for Brent:
Milk
Water - 2 gallons, green label
Toilet paper - charmin, red
ALL - clothing detergent (white bottle)
Ground chuck beef or ground round
Apple juice
Peach-Mango V8 fusion juice (yellow)
Light bulbs - 4 pack

Maybe not as funny to you, but i kept writing all the specifics down! Haha!!

Latest Letters

These are the latest letters I have done:

Jodi is having Brittlee next week!

And of course Charleigh's were done earlier in the summer:

My new favorite song.....

We will sing, sing, sing
And make music with the heavens
We will sing, sing, sing Grateful that You hear us When we shout your praise
Lift high the name of Jesus

What's not to love about You?
Heaven and earth adore You
Kings and kingdoms bow down Son of God, You are the One You are the One
we're living for

You are the love that frees us
You are the light that leads us
Like a fire burning Son of God,
You are the one You are the one we're living for

We will sing, sing, sing
And make music with the heavens
We will sing, sing, sing
Grateful that You hear us When we shout your praise
Lift high the name of Jesus

By Chris Tomlin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzRNkPXH5V8


Also, today is one year and one day exactly that we have been back.

Here today....gone tomorrow!!

Do you see this little building? It has been in front of our house ever since we bought our house and now it's GONE!!!! Hooray!!! It looks amazing! The land looks so great!! I don't have a finished picture yet. I forgot to take one, but in the pics below, you can see the damage after it was taken down and how much better it looks!

Brent's 10 Year Reunion

Brent's 10 year high school reunion was August 1! A lot sure has happened in 10 years!
We had a good time. It was fun to meet some of friends pals in high school. Some of them I already know, so we had some good hang out time!