#53 - Remembering Texas....

After talking about our Texas trip to see Gigge last year it got me to thinking that I had cell phone pics that I never posted. Since we've done nothing real special today - school, laundry, supper - I thought I'd just share some of our Texas pics!

At some point after we got into Texas we stopped at a DQ to eat and I was amazed at how they decorate Texas style!

They even had a special Texas menu :)

A rare event happened while we were down there - it snowed! My nieces were even featured on a news broadcast while playing in a friend's yard!

The hospital where he was at for many weeks.

My beautiful niece and sister!

My other beautiful niece and girlies!

And yes, Texas skies are beautiful!!!

I am just amazed at how last year at this time he was fighting for his life and now he is doing so well! We were blessed to see him at Christmas and I'm hoping to get to see him and his precious family again for my niece's wedding in AR next month! God is so good all the time and I praise Him for what has taken place in Gigge's life!!! So very blessed!

Psalm 72:18
"Praise be to the LORD God, the God of Israel,
who alone does marvelous deeds."

#52 - Day of Anniversaries

Today has been a good day :) The girls and I had a great time at co-op and afterwards we headed to Lexington with Brian. He had to get a couple of tools for work. The funny thing is that we went on a date almost exactly a year ago and did the same thing. Difference this time is we had the girls with us and instead of Red Lobster we ate at Chick-fil-A! :D

We went to "Sear!"

The temps have been nice this past week and tonight we also got some rain. I just love black and white rain pictures (even in a little traffic).

After a quick browse through Best Buy, some Chick-fil-A chicken sandwiches, and a grocery run to Wally World we headed home. When I was holding our screen door open while Brian carried the groceries in :) my cross hanging on the door made this HUGE shadow on our carport wall. Pretty neat!

The girls were impressed with the giant wrench!

Hehe!

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I think our family has an addiction to sweet tea!

I am proud to say that it has been a year since we've stopped drinking soft drinks. Other than a Pepsi we drank at a Pizza Hut (didn't want to drink the tap water) while we were in Panama and a few orange drinks there and maybe a Sprite one other time - we've exclusively drank water and tea (I can control the sugar) :P Sometimes my Mountain Dew cravings almost make me give in - but NO - I refuse!!!! Haha!

Also, yesterday was the one year anniversary that my brother, Gigge (Garland) went into the hospital and almost lost his life. I praise God that He healed him and is doing so well!!! I took a few pictures of him when we were down there last year and would love to do a post on the difference from then and now and how we serve an Awesome God - I'll have to ask my sis-in-law about posting that :o) (Love you, Becky!) I just realized exactly a year ago at this exact time my dad, the girls, and I were getting on the interstate headed south to see him!

Psalm 100:5
"For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations."

Our Last Christmas Gathering for 2010

We had our last Christmas gathering last night at Brian's grandparents and we went to my Dad's afterwards to see my brother and Kati! They had taken Kati (who btw is an awesome softball player :) to a softball seminar/camp at Tenn Tech a few hours away . The camp was Mon-Wed so they came home on Sunday and then left for TN early Monday morning and got back Wednesday. His youngest Cori, stayed with us for a couple of nights and our girls didn't want to turn her loose today! They've played and played and giggled and giggled! I'm praying that they might just move a bit closer to Kentucky....especially if Kati is going to college up here :D (Hint Hint to Becky (my SIL :) Wish you could of come with them :( Next time!)

I just love this pic of Gigge and his girls!

This was the girls opening their goodies at Brian's g-parents house.

Brian's cousin made this quilt for his Papaw. It was really neat! He LOVES pictures! They added on a family room many years ago and he has nothing but pictures lining the walls. Next time I go up there I'll have to snap a pic of it. He managed the sports equipment at Berea College for many years and still stays in contact with many of the athletes.

Neat story - Brian and I were flying back from Panama this summer and was going through customs in Atlanta and when the clerk saw what city we were from and our last name he said, "You by chance wouldn't know an Elvin ___ would you?" And when we told him that was Brian's grandfather you should have seen his face! It was really neat and needless to say, we sailed right through the customs checkpoint!

They were also celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary!

Most of the crowd had already left at this point.

It was kind of late when we got to my Dad's house, but these four didn't care. When people always comment on how good and reserved our girls are - I'm going to show them this picture of the girls wrestling Chris to the ground and taking his Nerf gun away! Haha!

It was such a blessing to see most of our family for Christmas this year! Fun times!