Busy!!!

My baby brother is graduating this week. We are having a party for him and two of his really good friends that go to our church this weekend. We have worked pretty hard on it and I hope that it turns out ok and they will enjoy it.
Chris is working on my brother's senior video for our church's senior sunday and let me just say it's great. (but it makes me cry) I will write a post about my brother some other time along with the video...
Other than that same 'ol same 'ol. In the next few weeks we are going to be SOOOO busy!

Our Schedule
This weekend-Andrew's party, and graduation!!! Congrats brother!
June 8-11 Chris has work camp with the youth group
June 10- Our two year Anniversary! (won't have time to do anything) I hope I will even get to see him....Summer's for youth ministers are super busy.
June 19-My dad's birthday!!!
June 19-25-Chris and I, My mom and Dad, four other adults and a whole bunch of our teens from church are going to Yellowstone!!!!!
June 27-Going to my Dad's homecoming where he grew up! Small town, huge deal to them!
July 1st- Chris, Andrew, and others from church leave for Africa for a month!!!! So far I am not freaking out about Chris being gone for a month but we will see later.
Thats all I have time for right now but I will try to post pictures of this upcoming weekend next week.

A post about Suz!

This past weekend was so wonderful. We were invited to spend the evening with some really good friends on Saturday! It was Suzanne's birthday and we went to Joe T. Garcia's in downtown Ft. Worth. Let me tell you about her for a sec. I don't really even know where to start about this woman.

Sorry this might be a long post.

First off for those of you that do not know Suz, she and her husband have quads!!!! One day at our church they announced that there was a family that was needing some help with their quads. They were about to bring them home from the hospital and were needing help right away. I thought about it for a while and thought "no, I hold enough babies already" . Time went on and I actually forgot about the whole thing. Another Sunday they brought it up again, I thought the same thing again. However this time I kept thinking about and it kept weighing on me that I should at least go to the meeting. So I did and thought well I will at least go and help for a while. The first time I went I was actually kind of nervous to meet this new family. People that know me know that I hate when people don't like me, so I was worried they wouldn't. I remember walking up to the 2nd floor and seeing FOUR crying babies laying there. I picked up a few and instantly fell in love. I talked with Suz and instantly felt like we were friends. I hope that we will be friends for a long time. The only thing I wish is that I would have met her earlier.






I admire Suz so much that words can't even express. She is such a loving person and a wonderful friend. I am blessed by having her as a friend and I thank God for putting her family in our lives. I watch her being a mom to her precious babies and I hope that I can be half the mom she is. I have learned so much just from being her friend and watching her. Also I totally scammed these pictures from her blog. Chris's camera is broken so I can't get my picures.

I love you Suz!!!!

I will post pictures and a post about Barkley when we get a new camera!

Barkley

My childhood dog died this week. I can't bring my self to post about it yet but I will try later with pictures. We had him since he was a puppy till he was almost 13. It was beyond hard!

Updating

Well, life....Not a lot has happened since I updated last. I did start a new job...a night nanny! I have to admit that the first few weeks it was hard to adjust to not sleeping. I am starting to get my own groove and figured out what worked for me. They are two month old quads. Check out their blog! Gerwerbabies.blogspot.com
Other than that our life is basically the same. Chris and I babysat the Steece's quads last weekend while Joe and Suz went out for a much needed break. I thought it would be good practice for when we have kids! Here is what you don't do to your husband who isn't completely sure about kids....take him to watch quads. J/K It was actually not bad at all because they are such good babies. Chris did however manage to make two of them cry!! No I am not joking. We also got to hang with Joe and Suz and ended up staying till 2 in the morning. Sorry guys but it was nice to hang out with people our own age! Not that we don't completely love our youth group.


I have been reminded lately how much I love my life! Chris and I may not have the biggest house or a house for that matter. We don't make the most money, we don't have everything that we ever wanted but we are totally blessed by the people in our lives. I will try to post pictures next time.

No time to write...

I have started a new job on Monday and Tuesday nights. I am a night nanny for two month old quads. We had a really busy easter weekend. More later...

UPDATE FROM THE HOME OF THE TARRANT'S

If you find yourself wondering what is going on with the Tarrant's, you have come to the right place. We have kept ourselves pretty busy but we are having a good time. As most of you we love the camera so I am going to use pictures to explain what's going on.


He actually did it, he jumped out of an airplane! His brother turned 30 and this is how they celebrated. We drove down to Austin on Saturday morning and spent time with Chris's family. Then Sunday morning we, I mean they went skydiving!!!!! Here are some pictures from the weekend!






We always go eat here when we are in Austin.







Chris Signing his life away. No really that piece of paper said I know that I could die! He still did it, crazy boy!
















The Walk of death.



Chris and his brother practicing, I think!








Chris had a funny landing.

He made me do that! I am just glad that he is still alive! HA
We took my brother, sorry mom! He wants to skydive now. It did look like a lot of fun actually.

Ok, to the rest of our lives. Chris has been really busy at church with LTC stuff. The youth group made a short film and actually their film was chosen as a semi-finalist at a film festival we are going to tomorrow. I will have to post a link if anyone wants to watch it. Chris had a lot of fun working on it with them, that kind of stuff is right up his ally. (I mean like he has a degree in it) haha! Other then that it has been normal day to day stuff keeping us busy. Chris is going to Africa this summer for a month so he has been sending out fund raising letters. Thanks to everyone who has contributed and to everyone that will keep him in their prayers while he is gone. Ok, me too--a whole month.

I'm still getting to go and see the quads once a week. I absolutely love that I get to go there. I love the Steece family so much and love that I get to be a part of their lives. I thought I would post some pictures I took of them. They are so cute and joys to be around! I took these last week while I was there. Hope you enjoy.



The twin boys. Andrew in strips and Drew in the Transformer outfit. (hope I am right) I just love the picture of Drew. He was making faces at his brother.

SING SONG!!!

This last weekend My mom, aunt, brother and I went to ACU SING SONG!! I was not looking forward to driving in the freezing weather but I was so glad we went! We did get up way too early because we had to be there at 9 for Elayna's (my cousin) club breakfast. It was good and really good to spend time with Elayna.

My mom, me, Elayna, Aunt Cathy

For lunch, (we were not hungry) we met My grandfather, Kay, Chris, and Brooke for lunch! It was nice to see everyone there.

The Grand kids that were there and my grandad.

We went to Sing Song and Elayna's group was great! I thought that Sing Song was better this year over all than last year. I got to see some old friends that I have not seen in a while.

Becca and Me!

On our way back we had Smokestack! One of the best restaurants ever! That's it for now, I know that's not everything but a quick update on me. This weekend we are going to Austin for Chris's brothers birthday. Where, drum roll please.....Chris is jumping out of an airplane. I promise I will

post pictures after. He is crazy!

I just took this picture of Lynlee (little girl I watch) today and thought I would post it!!!