Kaitlyn Mae is 4!!

My sweet, baby girl turned 4 today! She is such a sweet and silly little girl, and I am so thankful for her! We celebrated her birthday by having a friend spend the night Friday night. This is Kaitlyn and Lydia or as Kaitlyn calls her "Wydia:"




We had a little party for her Saturday morning with a couple of her friends. Today at church she had so many people tell her happy birthday. It was so sweet, and she is so loved! This is Kaitlyn waiting for her nails to dry last night in her new dress up clothes. She also got some "makeup" and she did her own:


Lord please help me to raise her to be a godly woman who loves you and finds her true worth and beauty in you! Thank you for 4 wonderful years with my girl!

What I find in my washer....

That would be change, a pen, guitar picks, legos, spider ring, and a batman clip. All in one week. :-)

- Jarod and I have started watching 'Lost.' Our friends have the entire series on DVD, and we finished season 1 this week. It's actually pretty good. I wasn't sure if I would like it b/c I don't do well with scary movies or shows. My imagination runs too wild sometimes. But this show is just bizarre and has great characters. So we will see how season 2 is.

- Sean had his first cavity filled this week. He did a great job and let them use the "sucker thing" on him. So he goes back next month for filling number 2. Yesterday I went and finished getting my teeth cleaned and go back next month as well for the first of many cavity fillings. The office is just wonderful! It is run by a couple from our church, and they are just fantastic people.

- Only 22 months until Jarod and I have paid off a huge chunk of debt. We did Dave Ramsey's "Financial Peace University" program 3.5 years ago. We've worked really hard to pay things off and get to where we owe only money on our home. I feel like we are 1/2 way there. In 2 years we will finish paying on some things that take up a good chunk of our income. It will be great! I love seeing the total come down every month and know that we are one step closer. I can't wait to be out of debt so we can give a lot more money away!

- Have I said how much I love Jarod? He is amazing, and I am so blessed to be his wife!

- The new church website will be up and running in a couple of weeks. Jarod has been working with an outside company to redo the entire website. Yesterday he went and got his picture taken for the website. The whole staff is getting their picture taken so we have matching and current pictures of them.

- I'm really looking forward to tonight. The ministerial staff is getting together tonight and Rob and Sandy's to eat dessert and play games. We even have babysitting for all the kids! I think it's important to be close as a staff so we can encourage each other through the ups and downs of ministry. Plus these people are a blast to be with and are some pretty incredible people.

- I love days I don't have to go anywhere. The boys were out of school today, and I am still in my pj's at 1:30pm! I do plan on taking a shower sometime before we go out tonight! :-)

We made it!

We survived the ice storm last week. Thankfully the storm kind of weakened up as it approached Tulsa, so instead of 1.5" of ice we got about 1/4". It sleeted and rained freezing rain on Thursday. Friday it snowed all day and night, and we ended up with about 5" of snow. The kids were out of school and the church offices were closed, so we had a long weekend together at home. This is after the snow and after Jarod cleared off the driveway, right before our family snowball fight:


The kids were kind of crazy on Friday being all cooped up inside. Sean woke up grumpy and kind of carried that with him all day. He and Ethan fought most the day, but when it was bed time they wanted to both sleep in Ethan's bed. I found them sleeping like this all snuggled up:



Even after fighting all day, they really do love each other! :-)