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15
Sep
11

a heart for missions

By Julie P. 2 Comments
Categories: Christianity and parenting

James, me, and our girls are going next summer to the Dominican Republic to serve together on a church mission trip, (along with two other families in our neighborhood.)  We are so excited to introduce them to “the nations” and begin to expose their selfish hearts by visiting a country that looks much different than our little surburbia bubble (I say this to myself too, I have no doubt God will expose my selfish heart also.)  Meanwhile, our missional community group  has been brainstorming ideas how to teach our kids a love for the nations so they have a heart for missions.  We talked with the pastor who puts together these mission trips to the DR and he suggested that we buy a world map shower curtain and put pictures up of our missionary friends in the country where they live, etc.   This is where I bought ours!

We put the shower curtain up on our wall in the playroom.  We added a picture of our girl that we sponser from Compassion who lives in the DR. We hope to meet her next summer!  We also added our friends who live and serve in Ethopia.  We will add more families as the weeks go on.

Rilyn pointing to Texas

Every morning, during our 5 minute Bible reading time before carpool for school, we read a verse(s) from Proverbs that corresponds to the date (we read verses in Proverbs 16 on September 16th).  After that, we have added praying for the “top 25 countries that have the lowest Christian population” So on the 16th, we pray for Thailand because it has the 16th lowest population of Christians at 1.10%.  We will then show them Thailand on the map.

We want to start now and parent and pray for them to have a heart for the nations and missions!

14
Sep
11

more cheer!

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Categories: Rilyn

Some of my favorite shots from Rilyn’s cheering last Saturday!

They have to “introduce” themselves to the stands and so when their name is called, they do a little jump and rah rah! Here is Rilyn’s jump:

Rilyn on the far left yelling her heart out!

One of Rilyn’s coaches is a former UT Longhorn cheerleader. She is in charge of coordinating the “stunts” and the cheer routine for competition in October. For some reason, unknown to me, she put Rilyn on top of the pyramid. Rilyn is a skinny girl, but she is on the taller side, and there are girls smaller…(The girl who is “holding” Rilyn-her face says it all…)

Rilyn can not wait to cheer each weekend!

And, just for fun, here is a picture from the last game. I also take action shots for the boy, #13, who is grabbing onto the quarterback’s leg and pulled him down!
10
Sep
11

Ella’s first Aggie game!

By Julie P. 4 Comments
Categories: Ella

When our kid’s are five years old, they are allowed to go to their first Aggie game.  Ella went last Sunday evening with James, my dad, and my brother for her first game (v. SMU)!  James said that Ella screamed and swung her 12th man towel the whole time!  She really got into the 12th man spirit!

Here is Ella watching the Corps of Cadet march into Kyle Field before the game.

WHOOP

On their way up to their seats they get a good view of Aggieland!
love all the maroon!
swinging that towel!
watching the Aggie band at half-time

Yelling while we are on defense!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

After the game, (which we won 46-14) you are allowed to go on the field!  Here is Ella with grandpa and uncle Jeff.

on the 50 yard line!

And I couldn’t end this post without a sweet picture of Asher that I took at home. He didn’t get to watch the game on TV because it was a night game, but he had his game face on before the game!
06
Sep
11

first day of PreK!

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Categories: Asher

Today I went grocery shopping by myself!  🙂

But I guess the more important milestone was that Asher had his first day of preschool!  😉 He was soooo excited to start this year (last year he cried the entire first day!)

yes, he was supposed to get a hair cut this weekend but it never happened.  oops

Four boys, all the same age, all from the neighborhood, are all going to the same preschool (3 out of 4 in the same class!), so we HAD to buy them all matching t-shirts! This is their superhero poses in the donut store parking lot!

Gavin, Caden, Asher, and Kian ready to start the day!!!

Asher and Caden with their teacher.

Asher fell asleep on the car ride home, which he NEVER does, so it must of been a busy day!
05
Sep
11

my first senior portraits!

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Categories: photography

Click here to see them!  Sneak peek:
04
Sep
11

Rilyn’s first game to cheer!

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Categories: Rilyn

We have officially started cheer again this season!  Rilyn was especially excited to see that they added pink to the Falcon cheer outfits this year!  Here are a couple pictures of her on game day yesterday.  The Manor Falcons (Pop Warner) played the Westlake Chaps and we beat them 6-0!  She is cheering for tackle football now, (instead of flag), so it is pretty fun to watch!  (And I have a couple contracts to take action shots for moms on the football team, so I’m “working” on the sidelines during the whole game!)

early morning shot-her new uniform!
her team
cheering!

Here is one of my favorite action shots of the game. (I am taking shots for #5, who incidentally is the best player on the team, and scored the only touchdown, so he’s fun to photograph!)

go Falcons!
03
Sep
11

new photo shoot!

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Categories: photography

Click here to see!  Sneak peek:
31
Aug
11

new photo shoot!

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Categories: photography

I got to photograph some adorable red heads today!  Click here to see some of my favorites. And here is a sneak peek:
30
Aug
11

Great family night links

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Categories: Christianity and parenting

We did all of these in the last month, and I would recommend them all for family nights!
http://famtime.com/images/uploads/In_the_World.pdf
http://www.famtime.com/images/uploads/Bent_and_Torn.pdf
http://www.thrivingfamily.com/Family/Faith/2011/strength-of-gentleness.aspx  (we did the “school age” activity)

*I might of said this before but there is a great website called PluggedIn where you can print off free “movie devotionals” for the kids for family movie nights!  Talk about scenes in many different movies where you can point to a Gospel truth!

29
Aug
11

California vacation day 8

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Categories: Asher, Ella, James, Julie, Rilyn and Vacation

Sunday was my cousin’s wedding day!  My kids did very well being the flower girls and ring bearer and were party animals at the reception!  Seriously, they had a photo booth at the reception, and Rilyn was taking pictures with bridesmaids that we didn’t even know!  The girls were in the center of dance circles and dancing with strangers.  It was crazy to see how extroverted they were!  Asher was spinning out of control on the dance floor and falling half the time.  He loved it (and all the attention), and laughed the entire time!

*All professional photographs by Bluephoto

coming down the aisle

I got to sit in the second row and had a pretty good view!

married!

I love this shot I took of Ella sitting on great grandpa Erickson’s lap during the ceremony.

I also love this one! He was so cute in his lime green bow tie and never fussed with it once!

All dressed up!

*Professional photography-The wedding party! I love this shot because we had just pulled up Asher’s pants and apparently we pulled them up too high! 🙂

He never smiled for the group shot BUT he didn’t cry either!

*Professional-The reception. You can see James and Ella dancing in the bottom middle of the photograph.

beautiful!

Asher dancing with the bride!

so sweet

*Professional shot-the girls dancing with the groom!

swinging good time!

*Professional-cute!

The girls always wanted to dance near the bride!

The busta’ man bustin’ a move!

*Professional shot-spinning!

Needless to say, nobody wanted to leave early, but we had to get up at 3:30 a.m. the next morning to catch our early flight from LAX (not a fan of that airport) to Austin. It was the best family vacation yet! And we just get more excited thinking about our kids getting older and being able to do more fun things together!!!!

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