working hard or hardly working?

Hmm ... where did last week go? 


I worked Monday -Wednesday and then i spent Wednesday night - Sunday night with these two monkeys

love them :)

their mama and daddy went to Las Vegas for a few days and i was happy to love on these babies!

big brother jacob stayed with a friend so i had lots of girl time and fixing their hair twice a day and wardrobe changes :) these kids have a better wardrobe than i do! they were perfect angel babies of course:) i have another weekend planned with them in a couple of weeks! that was my excitement for the month. 

this guy below ... I sure have been missing him :(       only 7 1/2 more weeks till he comes home! and then he will be here for i think 3 weeks and then out again till the first of Nov. probably. this is definitely the most time i have been alone in my life lol. but believe it or not you do adjust to all the time apart. not that its fun or anything but it did get better. and knowing that he is happy with this job makes it easier. when he comes home in july we hope to take a 3 day weekend trip to Galveston, not as cool as last years vacation to Cozumel but ill take it :)

This week i'm hoping passes quickly, im anxious for saturday when we pour concrete at mama and daddy's house site. its going to be fun:) daddy says i get to rake it smooth ... or i could just supervise and take pictures. he has threatened us NOT to write our name anywhere ... im so doing it somewhere. and my brother in law seth will be in houston that day doing the Iron Man competition! wish i could be two places at once! that would be so cool to see, if you dont know exactly what that is google it. he is crazy.

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I have been thinking a lot lately about what we (I) want to do when its time to finally move out on our own again ( which hopefully will be within the next 3-5 months) and i can't decide on -House, Apartment or Building one on dads land maybe. i did find a house several months ago at Pratt that i fell in love with thats affordable and seriously gorgeous inside. and i know if we tried to buy a house in town that im going to be so picky because i dont want a house thats just old and outdated inside and needs lots of work ... and im not buying an expensive one that empties my wallet every month just to have it. and i'd rather not go back to an apartment and and waste that money in rent but then again the apartment is the simplest thing to do for now maybe. buying a house would be so scary!  ahh! see? stressful. what to do what to do..... I shall continue to ponder these thoughts...

Hope everyone has a great week! spend time with the ones you love!

JwF

Happy Mother's Day to my 3 Moms

HaPpY MoThEr'S DaY!!

to my 3 mama's that I love :)

      Yep thats me! baby #5 wasn't i Cute :)

    Mom and all her girls :) i love old pictures . . . what was up with my hair? haha

                      Happy Mothers day Mom!

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My Red Headed Mama:)

      Michelle hasn't changed at all lol. I was so little :)

           Christmas 2010 - Happy Mothers Day *Ant* Michelle

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My Wonderful Mother In Law LeaAnn

          My wedding shower in 2009 :)

Its hard to get a picture with her so all i have are old ones on my computer! 

April 2011

Happy Mothers Day LeaAnn!!!!

I am who i am because of these women! yep, thats right - ITS ALL YOUR FAULT :)

I'm totally blaming my attitude on Michelle haha!!  :D

I Love You all!

JwF

Pictures!! :D

Sunday we had our pictures done by Jordan @

 AmericanClassic Photogrpahy (FB) 

I think they came out great! very pleased with them. 

we haven't had any done in 2 years! 

i love this picture, i have learned to love my one dimple! i blew this one up to 8x10 and put it in 

daddy's office haha! he will find it monday morning

        the rose garden was beautiful! everything was blooming and so bright and colorful!

 i love this black and white one :) looks like we love each other! haha

 my husband is so silly!

 i look like a little kid in this picture! lol

 we get a lot of blooper photos during shoots

 sweetness :)

almost a flasher here!  

 this is the real us lol

 oh yeah this one too ....

 love this pose!

WARNING:

one of the following 4 pictures was NOT put on FB because 
its a little much but it was really funny and since not a lot 
of people know about this blog anyway then i think 
its safe to put it on here!   :)








               1: i knew he was up to something

                                                  2: wait for it .....

                    3: yep ... thats a little inappropriate lol

4: had to hold his hands down the rest of the time for this pose

               love love love this shot!!

                       i never realize just how little i am until i see us in pictures

         i see my sisters in this picture

look! a normal one of preston!!

 ahh .... there he is 

so there you go, we had so many done its hard to pick a favorite! I cant wait for the fall to do another shoot!

JwF

RaNgErS!!!

Saturday i went to my first rangers game of the season :) woohoo!

getting ready to leave tyler ;)

 before the game we hung out with cousin kaitlyn and went to Ikea and the mall;)

   ahhh!! yes i rode the carousel! so much fun.

                                                            at the stadium!

                                          packed house! over 45,500 people.

        my husband looks drugged :) what a fun night!

cant wait to buy tickets for May :) game every month? i think so!

I love making memories at the ranger games:)

JwF

Ladies Night Out!

Yesterday was Ladies Night Out in big ol' Tyler Tx! and i went just to meet the Kidd Kraddick in the morning cast! (Kidd wasn't there, sick) it was so much fun! i have listened to their show since i was like 12-13 years old. love them! and it was so exciting to get our photos done with them!

Kellie, J-Si, ME, Big Al & Jenna

Kellie is my favorite :) 

My boss caught one of the shirts they threw out into the crowd! and gave it to me :)

                                               My date Laura :) we had a blast!

Stay tuned for my adventures saturday!

JwF

Here Am I .. All of me... Take my Life ... It's all for thee

if you know me, you know im a little in love with Chris Tomlin ( i have his guitar pick!!) and as i'm laying here, wide awake at one in the morning i search youtube for music, and i came across this one from Tomlin, i have heard it live with him one time and it is such an amazingly powerful song, one of those that really brings you to your knees. the last minute and a half of the song is just the crowd and i close my eyes and listen with my headset as loud as it will go and all of the sudden you are there, in the middle of that crowd, praising Jesus. This song makes my heart beat fast, shed a few tears and really feel God's presence with me.

 I Listen to it over and over and have the same feeling every time. there is no other greater love, than the love of Christ Jesus. The routine of life often gets in the way and distracts you from Him,

 this song brings me to where i need to be, 

and releases the pressure thats been weighing heavily on my heart. 

this second song Pastor Mark used to do with us on Wednesday night church ( hello, also Tomlin) it's also one of my most favorite songs! and once again i just love the live versions, I actually know how to sing this song in the African Language of Setswana. seriously :) its on this version too so you can sing in Setswana too! this brings me back to being 14-16 and all the great times in the youth! Pastor Mark really helped to molded me into the person i am today. I miss their family like crazy! cant believe they have been gone for 2 years now. still makes me sad! 

so give each song a listen, close your eyes and get into this worship time.

He's waiting .....

O boitshepo, boitshepo
O boitshepo, boitshepo
O boitshepo, boitshepo

O kwana

JwF

Summer time has come!

Summer time has come and i love it! today i finally got my nephews and my sister emily and i took them to the zoo. i haven't been to the zoo in ...... well lets just say a long time, like before you had to pay to get in lol. it was a lot of fun but man i dont remember so many hills that you had to walk up! im definitely worn out! i think the boys had fun too :) 

yummy snowcones!

poor emily got to share a slobbery banana one with braylan

he LOVED the Giraffe's wouldn't take his eyes off of them

goofy boy

I'm so taking a nap this afternoon. it was so nice to do something outside today and 

not waste the day being in side. 

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In other news .... Preston put in his two weeks notice at the first of the week and I'm a little nervous about it but its the right thing for us. He has 2-3 jobs lined up ( around the Longview area) for when he comes home in a few weeks to choose from and get off the road all the time. He has been doing this over the road thing for about 4 months now almost so that's roughly 116 days and out of those 116 days we have been APART for 99 of them. that's not ok. the time he is gone is definitely not worth the money that's brought home so he has been looking for a little while for something more local that would keep him home most every night which will be great. We are not made for being apart all the time, guess that's why a lot of the truckers are single! So in mid April we will be starting a new chapter and i pray this one works out a lot better than the last. so maybe if you think about it you could put in a good word with the Man also :)  

JwF