Bible Study

I started a new bible study a couple of months ago. It's a Beth Moore study on the book of Daniel. So far it has been amazing! I'm doing the bible study with the same group of girls that I did my last one with, and they are amazing!! 

This group of women have become so special to me. It is so nice to be around Godly, wise, funny, humble, and fun women! We pray for each other, laugh together, worship together, and study the word together. 

We recently had a 'bible study retreat'. We stayed at a women's house that is on the market, but no one is living there. We kind of all popped in and out all weekend. We watched movies, ate yummy food, went shopping, went to dinner, got manicures, went to church, and talked talked talked! It was awesome!!

I don't know what I would do without these amazing ladies!

Sisters

Addyson just wrote this note to Katelyn last week and I thought it was soooo sweet! They really are best friends, most of the time...ha!

Upcoming Projects

Well, we are about to take on the biggest project around the house yet...the landscaping. We have done some things here and there like trimming trees or cutting down trees. We knew right away that this project was way too big to do on our own. We had several landscape designers out here to look around and give us feedback. We finally hired a lady and are super excited to get started. We have had several meetings to go over drawings and ideas. We are now at the stage of getting bids from different companies to start the work. We are going to get some stone half walls put in along the driveway, widen/change the path to the front door, tear out and re-do the back patio and add a sunken fire pit, tear out and re-do the master courtyard, add lighting throughout, and just spruce up all the flower beds. This is phase one. Phase two will be raised vegetable gardens and some cool things for the kids! We are also going to freshen up the powder bathrooms with new sinks and toilets (we haven't done anything to any of the bathrooms since we moved in so they need a facelift)!!! Tackling the master bathroom and the kids bathrooms will be later down the road, hopefully. Home ownership...always projects to be done!

Here's a pic of the girls having a picnic in the un-landscaped yard...ha!!

Easter 2014

The pastor at our church asked members to come to either of the Saturday night services, if we could, instead of the Sunday services. So we went to the Saturday night Easter service. It was a little different, but it worked out great. We have been attending the Saturday service anyway, so the kids were used to it. It was a great service and I was so happy to see so many people get saved!

This freed up Sunday to just hang out as a family. It was awesome!! The weather was gorgeous and we hung out outside most of the day! Jason started a project in the garage, I assembled a picnic table that my mom got for Nolan's birthday, and the kids played and played some more! Then it was baths for everyone and a nice dinner! Easter 2014 was fantastic!

Petting Zoo

On Good Friday, Jason had the day off of work so we decided to drive to the petting zoo! The kids and I have season passes, but Jason had never been. The weather was nice, and all of the animals seemed to be out and lively. We got to see a monkey close up, a kangaroo with a Joey in her belly (if you look closely at the pic of the kangaroo you can see the baby's foot sticking out of her pouch), and we got to hear the lions roar!

Science Museum

Katelyn had a field trip with her class to the Science Museum. I couldn't find a babysitter so we had to bring Nolan along too! I knew he wouldn't tolerate sitting in the stroller the whole time, so I had to let him free. He was a wild man....running everywhere and into everything. Kate and Nolan had a great time!! At the end of the morning we got to see a cool show in the planetarium.