My inspiration...

Happy anniversary to me and Shon! 9 years of marriage and 16 years together! It's been a wonderful adventure. Shon, you are my inspiration, my very best friend. I appreciate you and all you do for me. Thank you for everything. I look forward to many, many more memories. Love ya!

Congratulations!

My parents celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary Monday. WOW! That is a really long time. I just wanted to let them know how very honored I am to have them as my parents and how much of an impact their wonderful example of marriage has made on my life. They've never pretended that it's easy and I now know that it's not always easy - there are good days and bad, but they have remained faithful to each other and to the Lord for all these years and provided both me and Ashley with far more than we ever deserved, no matter what they had to sacrifice for themselves. I thank the Lord for them and for the love they have for one another. I know he has great things in store for both of you with many more wonderful years of marriage to come. I love you both very much!!

My Little Bookworm

Alex loves to read. He got that from me. Shon is not a reader, except for his car magazines. He's such a sweet little boy. I love this age because his personality is developing so much. His new words this week were 'hot', 'pop tart' and 'up'. He's also now saying all the time 'want dis' and we play a game in the car he says 'Mama' and I say back 'Alex' about 20 times on the way to daycare. It's so much fun watching him discover all the new things he can do.

Have a great weekend! Go TIGERS!!! =)

Sweet Dreams

I love this picture! John loves school but he comes home pretty tired and bedtime is no problem, pretty much as soon as his head hits the pillow he is out. He's starting to tell us more stories about school now. Little things here and there. There is a little girl in his class that sits with him at his table. Her name is Alyssa Dear. Anytime he tells us a story about her he uses both her first and last name, it's so cute...he'll say "Alyssa Dear did this, or Alyssa Dear did that." I don't know if they have 2 Alyssa's or if he just likes using her whole name or what but it's really funny to hear him talk about her. I just can't believe how fast he's growing up!!

September 11, 2001

My calendar for today (it was printed in 1994) says this...

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last." Marcus Aurelius

I think that is fitting as we remember this day.

I love you...

In Chapel on Tuesday the message was about saying I love you but not really meaning what God intended those words to mean. When we tell someone we love them we should be willing to die to ourselves and die for them. That really hit home with me. There are only a few people that we would really be willing to die for in our lives. I mean if we are really honest but there are lots of people that we say I love you to. Jesus loved us so much that he was willing to die for us - he proved it on the cross. Something to think about...

Where did the week go?!

Man this past week flew by! I never got a chance to post. Work is busy right now with the students back. Just trying to get organized and things set up is time consuming. Here are a couple of pictures from Bristol. We had an awesome time. It was great. The first picture is during the race and the 2nd is of the pre-race tribute to the USA. It was really cool. Definitely one I will want to go back to as often as possible!
Things are going well at work so far. There is a different spirit on our campus this year. You can feel it strongly. Especially in our Chapel services so far. I pray that it continues - we need it.
The boys are doing great! John has adjusted well to kindergarten. He still comes home pretty tired! Otherwise he seems to love it. Alex new words today were 'John stop' but he says it like this "Dohn, top" while pointing his finger at John during the stop part, it's just hilarious to watch them play together now. Alex loves for John to chase him around the house. And for John to let him 'chase' him around the house.
We saw Trey today, too. He's getting so big! He's crawling all over the place. Soon to be a year old...man that is unbelievable.
Promise to post more often this week!