My knee surgery

So today I had knee arthroscopic surgery to be exact.    the doctor needed to go in a clean up some torn cartilage I have had for quite some time.  Nothing like Cathi's hip, but a bit painful anyway.  The bad news is, the surgeon told me that in the next few years I'll probably need a partial replacement of my knee!  ACK!!

Karin's Birthday in North Carolina

Family Pictures in North Carolina

No time to breathe....

I apologize to those whom I haven't had an oppotunity to call recently. Our schedule has been extremely busy since school started.
I started back to work at full time hours from 8:30-5:00. Brandy and Jeremy have just enough time to get their homework done, chores and then we eat dinner and head out for whatever event is going on.
Monday's are Jeremy's gymnastics at the High School. (7-8 PM)
Tuesday's are FC Bible Studies in Downtown Fort Worth. (7-8:30 PM)
Wednesday is Brandy's Youth Group night at Downtown Fort Worth. Jeremy and I will be volunteering during that service too. (7- 8:30 PM)
Friday night's are the High School football games which Brandy has to attend every single game. She will soon have Saturday events too. (4pm-Midnight-ish-)
Sunday is Church day in which we volunteer as well. (9:30-11 AM)

I also still have Physical Therapy, so you know that on those days it's a bit rough. I really REALLY look forward to an early bedtime.
Thanks for understanding! I will talk to you soon!

Jeremy's new bike..

Jeremy had brought to our attention a couple things on his bike that needed to be tightened. Greg and Jeremy a couple weeks ago had a "maintenence bike day" together and basically dismantled the bike enough to spray paint the faded paint on the handlebars, replaced and tightened his chain, put a new tube in one of the tires, and tightened his loose bolts.
Well, one of the main bolts had shattered over time from the weather I am assuming. So, Greg and Jeremy went hunting for a new bike. Here's his new bike.

Greg and Jeremy's Baptism

Today was a very special day for both Greg and Jeremy. They both chose to be baptized! Jesus shows us by example and in many scripture that we are to be baptised once we accept Christ as our Lord and Savior as a symbol of our old man being submerged with Christ's death and the grave. When we come back up from the water it symbolizes we were raised with Christ and are a new person in our spirit. Greg accepted Jesus as a youth at a youth retreat years ago. Jeremy accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior this summer and chose to be baptized today. YAY!!!
Matthew 28:19-20
Mark 1:9-10
Acts 2:38

Brandy and Homecoming....

So Brandy Brandy Brandy.... Yes, it is time. It has come...
Brandy was wanting to attend the Homecoming event this year. I told her that it would be a perfect time to wear her dress she wore to the wedding. At first, she looked at me and told me that I was mistaken and she was just going to wear jeans and a nice shirt to the event. I had to prove to her that she couldn't dress that way to this type of event. SO, I pulled up some homecoming photo's on google. Then, I pulled up David's Bridal's line of homecoming and prom dresses. I convinced her a little. Mercedes sent a dress home with me for Brandy to try on that her mom bought for her graduation. What a sweetheart!! Brandy tried that dress on, then, the dress I wore for Mercedes wedding as well and neither of them fit. So, Friday, after she came home and told me she bought the ticket, I knew it was going to be difficult to convince her. Not the case at all, she said she would wear her dress. I was so excited!!
Anyway, she is actually there as we speak, and she went with her friend Megan. I am picking them up in 20 minutes. I figured 2 hours was enough time to have fun and not enough time to get into too much trouble!! HAHA!
Anyway, look at my princess!! She is definately not little anymore!!!! What a beautiful young lady!

Here she is primping!
Here is my princess! She looks like a barbie doll! Greg needed to get a pic too! Stunning!
Brandy and her friend Megan.

Anniversary

One year being married! We celebrated at Ruth Chris in downtown Fort Worth. Here is the before picture.
And here is right after dinner picture.
It was a wonderful time, fabulous food and yes, of course, we did talk about the kids (LOL)...

It's been a while...

It has been such a long time since I have had time to update the blog. Between kids starting school, going back to work full time, kids here kids there, church, bible study starting, laundry, dogs, etc... I just haven't had time to update. So lets start.

First and foremost, I have to share with you a very shocking situation to help others come into agreement with us for a complete healing. My sister in law Karin had been having back pain for quite sometime. She was seeking therapy and massages, but it was getting worse and worse. She went for an MRI and found out "by chance" that she has cancer. Please keep her in your prayers and request prayers at your church and amongst those who pray. We are exercising our ability to speak against sickness and believe God for a miracle. Please feel free to read her updates and a better description of her situation. http://karinupdates.blogspot.com/

We love you Karin!!!!

More video...

Here are some clips from the Marching Band performance!

Brandy's first performance!

Wow! There were many positive and a couple negative notions about this ordeal! First off, this was so amazing to see a group of kids whom worked extremely hard all summer to finally have the opportunity to perform their masterpiece.Of course, we couldn't locate Brandy because everyone looked the same!! Here are some of the pics and video's we took... Sorry for the few blurry pics...

I was overwhelmed with joy during their performance. It was so awesome. It was powerful in their uniforms, unison, and ability to gracefully entice the crowd!! WOW!

The negative part that really REALLY made me angry was the inconsiderate teenagers and uncontrolled children running by and nearly knocking me down. I brought my crutch for the extra support to get up and down the bleachers, but no one paid attention and just zipped on by.
The chain link fence that was in front of us had a few signs stating NO LEANING OR STANDING against the rail. So, what do all the teenagers do?!?! *SIGH*
It was very unpleasant. Not to mention when we first got over to the ticket line, they already had 2 teenagers causing problems enough the cops were escorting them off the premises. I don't think they were students at our high school.

Anyway, more photo's and video to come. :)

Greg's New Truck!

HA! Greg did some extensive research on a pick up, and found the one he wanted and was an awesome deal finally!! Actually, He found a couple of them and none of them were in Texas. He planned on flying to Florida for one, but it was already sold to a lady in Ohio.
So he found one in San Diego. He took a loan to pay for the truck and the trip for us to go. It was a nice little trip, and talk about last minute before the big rush of school starting and job starting. The kids stayed with Mercedes parents and they had such a wonderful time.
Here are some pics of the trip.

We were stopped by border patrol twice. They were very intimidating too! They asked us some pretty in depth questions about why we were traveling the way we were!!

As you can see the border patrol trucks, this is what the view was for a very long time. Over that hill and a few hundred feet is the border of the US and Mexico. You can see all the tire tracks from the trucks driving around on the sand dunes protecting our borders. They also had a very long strip of fence and steel piping so that people cannot drive through to the highway.


This was actually quite the view. I have never seen mountains of just plain rocks and boulders. There was no vegetation no dirt, just mountains of rock.

The bridge was a bit scary for me as I don't like high places. Especially in a vehicle.
The scenery was awesome though!
LOL-- A Herbie with a RR front clip!
At the beach..

Yes, I had to put my toes in the ocean just once. The water was very very cold. I don't understand how people could swim in a cold ocean when the temp was only around 70. See, in Texas, I would have gladly dived in since the temp would have been 100+ degrees! Anyway, the beach was neat, the water was cold, but the walk on the beach to the water was very difficult! I didn't realize how sore I truly was going to be after that walk. I did my physical therapy for that weekend just in the walk alone! HA!

Greg's friend Jeremy lives in San Diego. He took us to dinner while we were there and afterwards took us to a place where the seals had taken residence on a beach that was intended for children. It was too dark to see them at night, and woah did it smell. The next day before we headed home, Greg took me there to see them again. I also have video, but will upload that later.

Greg and his friend Jeremy. HA! Back in Texas.
I think this was in Nevada.

The treasure in San Diego.

More rock...