3 Men & a Mom

We were in Dallas for over a week the beginning of June and we had a great time. We saw friends, I helped host a baby shower for my good Baylor friend Lindsey, and then we finished off our trip with my brother Jeremy's wedding in Stephenville, Texas. The boys had a blast. Here are lots of pictures from our visit

We are still here! We got back from our trip to Texas last week and I haven't had the time to sit and blog about everything so I'll start with a quick update on our year. It has been a year now since we have lived in Edmond and I think that's a pretty good milestone for reflection. Honestly, we don't love it. It's been a HARD year for us. We left an amazing kid-friendly city and some pretty awesome friends/family behind. Erik's job is going well but that's really about the only thing that has been consistently good. I know people who live in Oklahoma read our blog and I don't want this to sound negative toward the 'geographical location' because it has nothing to do with that...sort of:) lt has everything to do with God wanting us to be right here, right now, to learn more about Him. We learned that just because you are a Christian and you obey and follow where God is leading doesn't gaurantee 'happiness' in your circumstances. We learned that life is not about our 'comfort' but rather it's about sharing the gospel with those around us. I don't know where I got off track but somewhere along the way I got too comfortable with my circumstances in Frisco and thought life revolved around me. The Bible clearly teaches against this, in fact, the Bible is filled with stories of how people had to leave their comfort zones to follow Christ and share Christ with others. I think God witheld (sp?) certain blessings like finding friends in a timely manner, finding a church easily, finding good restaurants (shallow, I know...but we like to eat) so that we could learn more about the true character of God. That is a very abbreviated description of our time here. And all that to say, Erik starts his finance MBA on Monday and he will finish up next August. We aren't wishing the time away because that would teach a terrible lesson that contentment depends on circumstances and we want our sons to know that Jesus is all the contentment we need BUT.... we can't help but think about where we may be next:) Okay, enough thinking ahead before Erik reprimands me:) Pictures of our time in Texas coming soon!

This Friday we will be going back to the north Dallas area to stay for about 10 days!!!! I am SO SO SO excited...mainly to see friends/family and catch up. But there is a big part of me that is super excited to be back in a place where there are ENDLESS amounts of activities for kids and maybe a little bit of shopping for me:) This month will be a year since we moved and I will definitely do a posting about the year in review. But for now, we will enjoy seeing familiar faces in familiar places:) Here are some pictures of some of the things we miss the most. These kids have gotten so much bigger in the past year and some (most) of them have a sibling or sibling on the way:) Can't wait to see as many of you as possible!!!!

Over the long weekend we went to Lincoln, Nebraska where Erik grew up. His entire family is still there and so we were able to go to his cousin's wedding and see lots of family. Jacob had never met most of them!