Happy Easter

Happy Easter to my girls! What a great day we had at church and with our family.

Aren't my girls precious. They looked so sweet for Easter.

Not so easy to get these girls to cooperate with picture taking at this point.

Gia and Alaina

Gia and her girls

My handsome husband and sweet baby girl

Audrey got to swim in the hot tub with her cousins. She loved it...as you can tell.

Audrey and her Aunt Sarah and Gia. She just can't get enough of them.
What a great day!
Now back to work on our house...

Introducing our New Home

We are now officially home owners! Yea!
We have relocated to Fort Worth, TX (Keller, TX ISD.)
Troy transferred to the Ft. Worth office of Entech and we are only an hour from my family. If you hadn't heard, we have been talking about this for awhile and finally decided that one of our main reasons for leaving Boston was to be closer to family and since coming back to Texas 2 yrs. ago we have realized that if we are going to be here, we need to take advantage of it and actually be closer to family. So, since there was an Entech office in the DFW area, Ft. Worth was the best choice.
We are also excited because there is a church here that we are really looking forward to checking out (more on that later.)
Anyway, here is the house....(these are "before" pictures...there is much work to be done...which you will see later...)

The house is in a GREAT neighborhood, with a great school, parks, walking trails. Fun stuff. Nice trees. We love it. It's a 1989 house. We like that it is a bit older.

above is the living/dining room. This pic doesn't do it justice in the size area. It's huge. Those are back windows into back yard. Carpet is coming up...is actually up now.

den/family room/kitchen combo. We love this room. Carpet coming tomorrow! This pic also doesn't do the size justice. That door in the back is to the 4th bedroom/office. Troy is really excited about this room. And it is quite large. He is decorating this room. He has big plans for it.

Kitchen complete with ugly wallpaper (which is now gone) and part of den.

master bedroom ...is now repainted.

master bath...will be repainted.

Audrey's room...is now yellow.

part of backyard...can't wait to work on this! And we have lots of trees.

Now, some renovation pics...

The pink room is Alaina's

scraping popcorn off the ceiling and pulling off wallpaper. This is the girl's bathroom.

Nettie even got in on the painting.

She loves to lay against the wall and every time we would paint around a baseboard it seemed we would look over and see her laying against it. She has the colors from every room somewhere on her. And it's been on her for 4 days.
You'll get a bath soon Nettie.
Add that to our "to do" list. :)

More pics to come.
Carpet comes tomorrow. More painting to do (we are repainting the whole house.) Troy is laying down hardwoods in part. The list goes on. We'll keep you posted.
Oh, and our new address:
7579 Deerlodge Trail
Ft. Worth, TX
76137

An Afternoon at the Ranch

Well, we are now relocated to the Dallas Fort Worth area (more on that in posts to come)! Here are a few pics of our few days "in between" homes. One day was spent at Sarah and Eddie's ranch. Audrey had a ball! ...

She ran around outside like crazy. Loved on Rowdy,

looked at the horses and goats,

all the while sporting one of Cole's Cowboy sweatshirts.
She looks like a Texas girl doesn't she?

Meanwhile Alaina hung out with Mommy and got some lovin (as usual.)

A Day with Sweet Friends and Sad Goodbyes

As I have mentioned before, I have been in a Bible Study this year called Community Bible Study (LOVE it and HIGHLY recommend it...it is all over the world, you should check it out.)
One of the joys of this study has been the wonderful women I have gotten to know. I have thoroughly enjoyed them all. We've had a precious leader and there were 2 other pregnant girls in my group. That was really fun.
A special blessing for me has been my friendship with Julie (one of the other new mothers) and MF.
Julie and I have had the treat of going to spend a day at MF's house in Wimberley a couple of times. Julie and I could just sit and talk and enjoy MF for hours. She has a beautiful ranch with so much history and MF and her husband Bill have an amazing life story that we just eat up. It is a very special day when we get to go to MF's.
And Audrey and Alaina love MF too...

I love to see MF love on my baby. It is so special.

MF was talking to Audrey here. Can't you just see how special and fun she is?
Audrey can't get enough of her.

This is Alaina and her friend Caidyn enjoying the day.

Audrey met some chickens. This one was really fat!

We went on a little walk and Audrey led the way.

And then today was my last day at CBS. I am so sad to be moving away from these ladies. I would have loved to have been in a group with them for years to come. How grateful I am to them for their encouragement and for their love for God and His word. What a blessing they have been in my life this year. I do look forward to keeping in touch with each of them as I leave.
Thank you God for these beautiful, godly women!

My friends Julie and Alisha...

I love you ladies!