Tuesday, September 6, 2011

NO LABOR Day weekend!

I know you are all dying to know what we did on the weekend... well, I will tell you.
First, we did NO labor. I think this holiday's name is silly.  It shouldn't be LABOR Day... it should be NO LABOR Day!

Our parentals came down for the weekend!! Hooray! We had the fam together and it was glorious!! We went and picked up Caitlin from Montgomery on Friday night! She is the one that moved to a smart school that I talked about here.  I miss her lots so I am glad I got to be her chauffeur on Friday to bring her home for the weekend! We ate at Chili's. It was yum and I felt like a ate a cow so... it was successful!

Saturday was GAME DAY!! Oh... how I love GAME DAY!!
Honestly, I do like it from the comfort of my home with my fam.  It was annoying sometimes most times at UT with lots of ORANGE, drunk people, and HEAT!! Gosh... it was hot!!
We watched lots of games.  The boys even set up 2 TVs so we could watch the LSU vs. Oregon and UGA vs. Boise State at the same time! We were pathetic.
MY MOMMY!! I love when she's around!! 

Watching the games!!!! :)

We also had a special guest for Saturday... Mister Hank the Cowdog!!! :)  - Evan's dog.
Hank had a ROUGH week to say the least! On Wednesday, Evan and Elizabeth (the girlfriend) were letting Hank out for a potty break.  Hank, as all dogs do, got really excited was jumping up and down and up and down.  He landed outside of the door strangely and began YELPING and BARKING in pain!!! His leg was killing him!! He was hurting so bad he even snapped at the two of them and ol' Hankster woulnd't hurt a fly! They took him to the vet -

The vet gave them some CRAZY news - apparently this wasn't a normal break!!! They was a definite break in the leg, but there was also a spiral fracture all the way down the leg! This wasn't just because he landed on his leg wrong - something was wrong.  It could be because he had H.O.D. as a pup, something was wrong inside that bone, something more serious, or just a brittle bone. 

The vet game them 3 options: 
1. have an $800 surgery that will HOPEFULLY work but may not
2. amputate the leg
3. put Hank down

They obviously chose #2... Hankster is now a Tripawd and we like him!!!! He is fragile right now so he can't play TOO hard b/c he has stitches and he's a bit uncoordinated right now.

Walter didn't understand why he couldn't play with his BFF/Brother even though we had many talks with him:


We are glad Hankie is okay.  He came over again last night and was doing MUCH better - even jump/hopping around!!! Good to see that!! Evan was worried about his pup pup. 

Since Walter couldn't play/fight with him... he just wanted to touch and love on him.  It was presh:




We love our families and our pups. It was a great weekend! 




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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The Girls who study the Bible at the hizzy




Just wanted to talk a little bit about BIBLE STUDY because well... it's my fav!! it's my heart!
 Here are the FEARLESS LEADERS:
HaLeIgH             AnNa 

the newest addition - eLiZeBeTh
(I thought these were very flattering photos - especially mine)

Here's a previous team member:
KaTeLyN 
She left us to go be an adult and stuff... BOO! :)

It's amazing the women that God bring to Troy to lead these girls.  Katelyn came and invested lots of time, energy, prayer, teaching, etc. into these girls. She was amazing.  I knew she was leaving and I didn't know what would happen - I knew I would STRESS OUT if I was solely responsible for 30 girls' Bible study! AHH!! So... God brought Haleigh. SHE IS AWESOME!! So excited about what God is doing in a through and around and all up in her!!! Then... Elizabeth moved here!!!! Hallelujah!! So excited that these girls have women who are trying our hardest to follow Christ to love on them. :) It's good.

This semester and year we will be DIVING into the book of... JAMES!!! Kind of scary and exciting and terrifying and jolly all at the same time.  James says some pretty radical stuff!!! We don't just teach to the girls... we learn from the Word too!! It changes us to... from the inside out!! Are we ready?? I hope so!!! 

I love the girls. I love their excitement for the Lord - they want it, they want to know Him more, they want to know each other more, they long to be RADICAL - sometimes they (and WE) just don't know how!! 

The boys will also be going through James this semester!!! Here are their awesome leaders:
JaCoB                     EvAn

I'm excited about the year!!! 
Here's some of the ladies showing their hearts in a photograph!!! 






It's one of my favorite things each week.  It's wonderful.  
One of the girls posted this as her facebook status after Bible Study:

I might make bad decisions sometimes but one thing I know is right is every monday night.(: I love my bible study friends.

 * That makes my heart happy!! *

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