Happy Birthday Kelley!

Happy Birthday to our wonderful Kelley! We miss you so much and hope you have a wonderful day filled with EVERYTHING you love! We can't wait to see you!

"Yeah, my seashell!"

We were outside playing basketball after dinner and Samuel crouched down, grabbed his side and said "ouch!" I said, "Oh bud, do you have a cramp?" And he said, "yeah, my seashell!" He thought I had said crab, so we had a little lesson on cramps and how they are completely unrelated to sea life...he keeps us laughing!

Happy Birthday Danica!

We hope you have a wonderful day today Danica! We are so thankful for you and the love you give to ALL of us. We are blessed being closer to you and can't wait to see you soon!

Now here is your silly birthday greeting:

"Thanksgiving Meal Concert"

Samuel had a Harvest Program at his school the other night which he was calling the Thanksgiving Meal Concert. It was a lot of fun watching 220 preschoolers and kindergartners singing and doing the hand motions. It took a couple of songs for Samuel to warm up to it but as you can see in the video below he got into it.

It has been a struggle to get anything on Samuel that isn't "comfortable" or "hard" or "tight" or "jeans" for the last few months but I was determined to get him into something decent for the program. He came home with a little note from his teacher reminding us of the program and I added in my two cents that it said that he had to wear nice clothes for the stage. I laid out three different outfits for him to choose from and he chose a shirt from one and pants from another, not too bad. Then he remembered he has a few ties from his uncles in a box under his bed. I wasn't too excited about it at first but then I thought it would make for great pictures and a great memory, and at least it somewhat matched. He did still wear his crocs, I didn't want to ruin how well it was going. Anyway, in our opinion he was adorable and he had a lot of fun!

Merideth, Isabella, and Samuel after their rock star performance.

Pig Tails and All

When I first saw this picture of Merideth I immediately thought of the picture below of me when I was about Merideth's age. I don't often notice that we look similar, but this made it happen!

Happy Birthday Uncle Robert!

Happy Birthday Robert! We are thankful to God for you and hope you have a wonderful day!

Crossings Community Church

We have found a great church here in OK. We can't quite say we found the church we will go to forever due to the fact that this is only the second church we have gone to, but it feels right. The pastor is very geniune, we enjoy the music, there is a large range of ages, lots of families, great children's program (according to numerous sources), Samuel and Merideth feel comfortable there (it is also where they go to preschool), it feels good. I felt led to even tell you about the church because I/we have really been touched by the sermon series; and the notes, video and audio of the sermons are available at: http://www.crossingsokc.org/resources/archive/index.html
The series is going through the beattitudes from Matthew 5. We have all heard these, read them, seen them on various gifts, but Pastor Grubbs is great at making them real. Check them out if you feel the need!