Anna's 14th Birthday!!!

Today our Anna turns the big 1-4!
It seems like 1999 was just last year! 

8 lbs. 8 oz. ~ 19 1/2 in.
Born at 4:48 a.m.

1 Month Old

3 Months Old

6 Months Old

1 Year Old

Her First Birthday

2 Years Old

3 Years Old ~ Anna with her BFF Sissy!

4 Years Old

5 Years Old

6 Years Old

7 Years Old

8 Years Old

9 Years Old

10 Years Old

11 Years Old


12 Years Old


13 Years Old


14 Years Old

She is growing into such a precious young lady and we love and appreciate her sweet spirit!

HAPPY 14th BIRTHDAY Nu-Nu!!!

Happy Birthday Brian!

Today is my sweet hubby's birthday!  The girls and I are very blessed to call this man husband and father.

He is a hard working man that puts God before his family, the way it should be.  I appreciate him far more than I could ever show and I truly love him more each day.

I'll do a separate blog post about this at a later date, but after much prayer Brian has decided to run for Magistrate in our district!  This next year and a half will be filled with lots of hard work and we're looking forward to it!  Prayers are appreciated! :)

Happy Birthday Brian!!!

Our 17th Wedding Anniversary!

Today was our 17th wedding anniversary!  It seems like we just got married - I'm not kidding!

We can't believe how the years are flying by.  We were talking about how in 17 more years Anna will be 30 and Holly will be 28!  Yikes!

I'm very grateful for Brian and the hubby and father that he is.  I don't give him enough credit and I take him for granted, but I do praise God for the love He has give us for each other.  I can honestly say that I love this man more and more each day!

Brian had to work this weekend, so we celebrated early on Thursday evening!  We had a very informal date night. :)

Tonight I cooked meatloaf with all the fixin's for my honey since he had to work day shift.  When I opened an almost empty ketchup bottle that I had draining upside down, some squirted out onto the counter and it formed a heart!!! :)

Ephesians 5:22 

"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord."

Ephesians 5:25 

"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;"

Proverbs 5:18-19

"Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth."

Some Blog Posts

I've been trying to catch up our blog!  You can also find me on Instagram and Twitter - jenn5577!

Here are some links to the posts I've done tonight.  I have several more, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow night!

February Happenings
Aunt Lexie
Bella's Birthday and Mud
Watoto Children's Choir
Ashland - Henry Clay Estate
May Happenings
Jerry's Visitation and Funeral
Molly

Texas!

Molly Ray - Our Newest Family Member

The week after Jerry passed we added a new member to our family. :)  

The girls have always wanted a puppy and so we began to pray about it.

Brian's cousin's Scottie Terrier, Nellie, had some puppies that were too cute.  So the girls and I went to see them one afternoon while Brian was at work.  Needless to say that we fell in love immediately!  So when Brian got home from work we went to get our sweet little Molly.

She is actually half Mini Schnauzer and half Scottie!

We had to take her to Pet Smart after we picked her up to get her necessities!

Isn't she cute?!

The girls discovered that she can wear their Build-a-Bear clothes. :)

Poor Brian has another lady in the house!  I don't think he minds though.  He's pretty smitten with her too!

This was after her first puppy cut!  It wiped her out.

She turned 16 weeks old today and we feel like she has always been a part of our family!

Texas - Field Trips, Bethel Baptist Builders, and Sweet Family

Back in June we took a trip to the great state of Texas! :)  We went on a building mission trip with the Bethel Baptist Builders from Alabama to Pass Christian, MS in 2008.  We went again for just one night when they helped build a church in Betsy Layne, KY about 2 years ago.  This time we were able to go for most of the week and we were so excited!  We left out early Saturday morning on the 15th of June.  We had two sweet ladies from church to puppy sit for us. :) 

We drove straight through to Aubrey, Texas and it took us about 16-17 total hours.

Sunday after attending the church we were working on, New Hope Baptist, we decided to go exploring!

Our first stop was Southfork Ranch in Parker, TX!  Guilty confession - growing up I never really ever watched this show, but after Brian and I got married and when he worked 2nd shift I watched it almost every night for a while!  We didn't tour the house, but we drove by and visited the gift shop.

Next we headed downtown Dallas!

Had to get a picture of President G. Bush HWY sign!

We went to see where John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

This was the sign on the building where Lee Harvey Oswald was "allegedly"!

The famous Grassy Knoll.

The window on the middle right side is where Lee Harvey Oswald was supposed to have been.

We had an impromptu tour guide when we first arrived to the Grassy Knoll.  He was a nice guy and gave us a lot of information, but it was a little unsettling!  Our prayer is that we were a good witness to him!  

If you notice my feet in this picture I was ready to bolt if he decided to run with my camera!  Haha!

It was a very interesting place.

There were X's in the road where the shots where JFK's car was when the shots were fired.

The window again where Lee Harvey Oswald was located (allegedly.)  It's the 2nd from the top on the right.

Our last stop in Dallas was the George W. Bush Presidential Center.  It wasn't open, but we roamed around a little bit.

Then we went back to our hotel to get ready for a week of hard work!

The frame of the fellowship/family center building was already there and the BBB team built inside walls and flooring on the second level.

This awesome stain glass was in the foyer of the church.

Anna helping the youth with the flooring upstairs.

It rained some and made the weather actually nice.  There was a few pop up storms too.

There is a lady on the kitchen crew that makes these amazing handmade from scratch cinnamon rolls and they are SO good!

Yummy!

Holly and her sweet friend Mary Kate from Alabama.

Holly's artwork. :)

She helped Daddy with the nail gun (made me super nervous) and also helped to take scrap wood out.

Upstairs

Mary Kate and Holly handing out the afternoon snacks.

I love these next pictures!!!  A wall raising!

Isn't that neat!

The walkway from the church to the center.

My honey working hard!

Anna and her sweet buddy Morgan (MK's sister) from Alabama!

Wednesday night the youth sang a few songs!  See Anna on the front left side!

Brian and Mac, MK and Morgan's brother.

These stair step girls formed a very special friendship in Pass Christian, MS in 2008 and have remained pen pals all of these years.

2011 in Betsy Layne, KY.

Last year on our way back from Fort Walton we stopped by and stayed the night with their family.

This year's stair step pic!

Sweet friends saying their goodbyes.

We had a very blessed week and honestly this group of people is just like family to us.

On Thursday afternoon we headed south to Georgetown, TX to see these sweet boys and Gigge, Becky, Kati, Cori, Roni, David, Sandy, & Audrey.

Drake, my nephew David's little boy. :)

Sebastian, my niece Roni's little boy. :)

Miss Audrey, David's stepdaughter is on the right.  I think she would have come home with us! 

Sweet boys!

David and Drake

Papaw and Drake :)

Drake looks so much like David when he was little:

Love my nieces!  We loved seeing them and wished we could have stayed longer. :(

Cori and Kati!

Kati is a Senior this year - yikes!  We'll be heading back down that way next May!!!

Drake, Sebastian, and Audrey!

We were blessed with great traveling grace and wonderful fellowship!  Can't wait to go again!