A busy few weeks!

We've had a hectic few weeks. A funeral, a soldier's return, a birthday party,

 and a "family reunion"...

 We traveled halfway across Texas this last week...

The Funeral was "bittersweet".

An amazing, beautiful, and precious woman

died suddenly...

She was a Christian woman who read her bible

daily, and had a great faith in God..

My husband and I sobbed through her picture slide show,

and through her fathers speech....

But then her sister spoke and she brought

clarity into the situation.

She reminded us of the hope we have in Jesus,

And after she was done , we felt  calm and at peace...

What a beautiful woman and the perfect type of person

to sit at the "feet of Jesus"....

She will be missed but we know she is in a better place

then we can fathom.

Then at the same time

 we had a WONDERFUL thing to celebrate....

After 8 long months in Iraq..

My brother returned safe from Iraq..

He made it just in time to show support at the funeral.

We then spent the weekend catching up and visiting

with family...

And as always...

lots of jokes!

Two things you can count on when we

get together...

Are JOKES and FOOD!

When we got back Baby J celebrated his

First birthday!!

you can read more about that here !

The busy weeks didn't end there...

This past weekend we went to visit

our family  back home....

And had a great time!!

The weather was beautiful! It was sunny and 70 degrees

 I really miss it...

When we got home the temp. was 40 degrees and we

are expecting 7 inches of snow!

The kids were spoiled rotten this weekend!

Everybody was so excited to see them

they showered them with gifts.

 

 

Thanks for all the love, hugs and kisses this weekend!

We had a blast!