Big changes

A big girl bed & big girl potty trained! Well, no messes yet today at least.

She was SO happy to get her big girl bed! She doesn't know she can get out of it yet, I think she thinks it's a bigger crib since it matches the crib and bedding. Fine by me.

Rockwell's turn for some changes. He got his first haircut. We think he actually enjoyed it for the pure pleasure of getting attention. Zack's sisters got a hold of some scissors (per my request) while we were at a movie one night.

Uncle Thomas said he went from looking Jewish, to looking like Hitler. I know it's not politically correct, but it was too funny!

The video of Rockwell is pre-cut days last week when his hair was long over his ears.

7 Years Ago

Seven years ago, January 5, 2002, we were married in Modesto, CA.

Never in a million years did we imagine our happenstance meeting the day Zack, recent OU grad on a job project in (random) Modesto, dropped his friends visiting from Oklahoma off at the SF airport. He decided to go to the church he had been attending in Modesto since he was already awake so early.

Seeing Zack walk across the forum from a distance, I jokingly said to my mom, "I'm going to go meet my future husband." I sat down next to him, in the last open seat, he introduced himself during the greeting song, and the rest is history. Our first date was a week later and he told me his job was already transferring him to Visalia, CA, three hours south of Modesto. I was also a recent CSU grad living in Alameda and working at a CSU. We made the long distance relationship work and were engaged 5 months after meeting, married 5 months after that.

In seven years time, we have seen the Lord's provision on our lives in countless ways. We feel overwhelmingly blessed and continue to dedicate our days back to Him. We have lived in three states (CA, OK, CO), have gone through so many changes, and have been blessed with two beautiful babies!

We want 2009 to be a year where we use our gifts and passions to the fullest.

"Live a life worthy of the calling you have received." — Ephesians 4:1