Bald headed daddy!

Emma loves her daddy! And anyone who is around them for more than 30 min can tell that. So tonight we were driving home from Chi Alpha, here is the conversation that went on between the 2 of them

Emma - "and daddy I want to be like you"

Will- "you do? well that's so sweet of you Emma."

Emma - "yeah, after I pull all my hair out I will!"

Jen- HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

I hope Lilly has the same "funny gene" that Emma has. It makes days go much more smoothly when she's cracking jokes! But don't misunderstand, the days go pretty smooth still when she is visiting her BFF Joan for the day...or outside playing with her daddy ;)

Now - on to Chi Alpha. What a great time tonight! This was our last Chi Alpha of the summer. Fall Chi Alpha (from now on referred to as XA) will start Aug 26th. So we have a few weeks before we all get to come together for a worship service again. Tonight, our dear friend, Mo Asaad, spoke. He shared with us what it means to be Christ's Ambassadors and letting your actions speak to those around you. It was such a great great time to be together and I couldn't have thought of a better way to "end" the summer. God is moving in some pretty huge ways here and I can't wait to come back in just a few weeks and tell you all the great things He is doing! -Before you get too excited, I will be back before the few weeks is up. There are sure to be some pretty great things that need to be shared with you guys (cough cough...all 5 of you!)

A few pictures and a video ... if you're lucky!

Believe it or not, but this is the best family picture we had during our month away! :) sweet, huh? :)

Will, James, and Chris sitting on a tree limb...they think they are cool. Their children agree!

This picture needs no caption. The kid is a natural :) The funniest part of this, though...on our drive to California (yes, you read right...DRIVE) I kept showing Emma the mountains and her reply was always "I wish my daddy could help me climb that mountain tomorrow!" Well here she is, with her daddy's help!

Here she is again...ah she is a joy. If anyone needs a laugh or just some sweet fun Emma is available (anytime, day or night!) :)

Me and my sweet baby at the wedding. Would you believe that this was an amazing and beautiful wedding and I had 0 pictures of the bride and groom? Well I don't. Call me selfish. Go ahead do it. (PS please don't judge me) :)

The cutest ring bearer in the world :) I mean come on...look at those shoes! :) And there's Emma getting him in the head lock...ooh I mean hug!

Isn't she precious? :) ahhh...I love her. So do you, I bet. I mean look at those curls...and that 1/2 smile she has. Looks more like her daddy every day.

What's that you say? ... Oh yeah, it's just Lilly sleeping under the table at the reception, on the grass, on daddy's suit jacket! :) ha ha ha!

Emma was having so much fun on this piano. Maybe we should get her some lessons... There is a really cute video on facebook of her playing "oh the Lord is good to me...and so I thank the Lord, for giving me the things I need...the sun and the rain and the appleseeds. The Lord is good to me" - trust me, it sounds so much cuter when she sings it!!! :) go listen

So good to be home!

Well we are home! A month away and our house never looked better. But I will say that the great thing about being gone is that there is no house to clean! How awesome is that. I mean yeah you basically live in your truck, but thankfully that's Will's job ;)

The kids had so much fun being away - and I wish I had a video camera on my forehead 24/7 so that I could show people the joy and laughter that these 2 girls of mine bring! :) I will post a few stories and videos asap...but this post isn't about that. or is it? nope...it's not.

OK so school...Chi Alpha...it's coming up SOOO SOON! Next weekend we are having our leadership retreat! I can not tell you guys how excited I am about this! Just today I was grocery shopping with a sweet sweet friend and I got all excited about it again...and she was excited. woohooo! I wish you guys would get excited about all the specifics too. If you did, I would share them....but since you prob don't care, I will spare you the details!

Point is, we are meeting together.

Lake Corpus Christi.

2 nights together.

planning like nobody's business.

kayaking galore (for those of us/them who are brave).

and so much fun will be had, you will be wishing you were a leader with us! :) so there!

God is so faithful to us and I am excited to see what is in store for us all!

Remember at the beginning when I almost wrote a story and whatnot about my girls, but I said that wasn't the point of this blog? Well, just to be honest, I have no clue what the actual "point to this blog" was...in fact there wasn't one. ha!