Congrats Micah & Amber!

We had fun attending our friends Micah and Amber's wedding Saturday!

Seth's Graduation!

We are so proud of you Seth!!




Since I am a teacher at Westminster, I got to walk at graduation!


Hudson having fun with Uncle John!! They had matching shirts!!

So Proud Of The Liberty Grads!!!

This past weekend we headed up to Lynchburg, VA to see my sister, Lindsey, and cousins Katie, Jake and Leigh Anna graduate from Liberty University!! We had such a fun weekend! We are so proud of you all!!

Getting ready to march in! They got great seats!


The Sisters


John and Graham


Us with the happy grad!!


Linds and Joyce!


Friends...


Linds with the shirt we got her!


So excited for your next step!!

While The Power Was Out...

After the terrible tornados came through Huntsville on Wednesday, the power in the entire city was off. Ours came back on today around 11:00 AM! It was really interesting learning to live without power for 5 days!!! We made do though--grilled out and used lots of candles!! And most everyone else around us was doing the same things! I've never seen so many of our neighbors outside before! It was very very dark at night and very quiet. The city has been on a strictly enforced curfew of 8:00. Because of having no power, many people struggled to find food. Also, people struggled to find gas- if their car wasn't full before the tornados, they were looking at having to drive at least an hour to find any gas. Our church has a gas stove, so we served the community by handing out hot meals on Friday, Saturday and Sunday- it was such a blessing to be a part of that!!




Here is a picture of some trees down outside our neighbrohood.




Here are a few other pictures I got of us grilling out and me washing dishes with a flashlight on my head :).




While we tried to make the best out of our situation, I can not shake the images we saw yesterday of the devastation 10 minutes away from our house in an area called Harvest. John, Seth, Emily and I went up there to help a family who has lost everything. The father was killed during the storm. Here is a picture of their home. What you see still standing is the 2nd story of the home that was carried several feet from the foundation. The bottom floor of the home was completely destroyed.



Please please pray for this family. I can not imagine going through any thing like this. I have never seen devastation like that. We were helping the daughter look through all of the debris for anything she could salvage. From where we were standing at their house, as far as the eye could see, all of the houses were demolished. Cars were crushed. Debris was everywhere. All of these people's possessions were destroyed. It was an unbelievable sight. Please keep all of the families in your prayers that have lost everything. The work that needs to be done will take months. So many people have to start their lives over again. I am praying that our family is used to do whatever God would have us do in these situations to further the Gospel and to minister to those in need.

Tornado Pictures

Can't describe how thankful we are to be alive and to still have a home. Praying so much for those who have lost everything.

The storm after it passed our house. You can see our neighbors tree down.

Baseball Dinner

We had the Westminster baseball team over for dinner at our house last night. The state baseball playoffs start today. I had so much fun having them over and cooking for them....10 pounds of hamburger meat and 70 taco shells later...I hope they had fun, too!




They had an intense game of wiffle ball in the back yard :)

Seth's Senior Prom

Seth is only a few weeks away from graduating High School!!! Crazy!!! Here are some pics from his prom :) He let John and I come and take some pics...thanks Seth!

We have a nest!!

A little robin built a beautiful nest in the wreath on our front door! There are two blue-speckled robin eggs inside! The coolest part is that the nest is right in front of the peep-hole on our door and we can watch the bird in the nest without scaring her away!

The nest is right on top...



Can you see the two eggs??

I'm not sure if you can tell what this is, but I took a picture out the peep-hole. The nest is on the bottom right.

The Kitchen Table

A few weeks ago, I found a guy on craigslist who builds custom farm tables for an incredible price! He is in Nashville, TN. After emailing him, and talking it over with John, we decided to go ahead and get a table with a matching bench! I could not be more happy with it! This is just want I wanted in our kitchen nook. Emily drove with me to Nashville to get the table a few weekends ago----the trip was not without its adventures :) Here it is in the kitchen!!

The bench is on the window side of the table. I decided to accent with black chairs...found these at Dirt Cheap! They are on Target's website for $180 and I got them for $40! Praise the Lord!! Still on the hunt for two more...

This old milk carrier I got from a lady's home at church. These bottles were old Starbucks Frappachino bottles. I painted the inside of them white!


The bench!

I really love this table! The guy whom we bought it from said "enjoy making history around that table"! We will!!

The Dining Room Shelves

A couple weeks ago, Emily came over to help me hang some shelves in the dining room....she also painted something for my bathroom which is amazing and I will post about later...back to the shelves. She had some extra wood she didn't need, so we made them in to some shelves. After some trial and error :)...we finally got them up! And I love how they look!!



This centerpiece was very easy...the sticks I got from the yard. Then I got some streamer from Hobby Lobby, and hot glued it on to the edges. I think it gives it a more spring look.




Emily also found this neat shutter...we found the perfect place for it! She also came up with the idea of stacking the baskets filled with burlap which I love!




Thanks Em for coming over to help me!! I had so much fun!!