Happy New Year

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future - Jeremiah 29:11

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My absolute favorite verse in the Bible. Always hopeful that as we seek Him, He will guide us in our lives. Which then results in Romans 8:28- "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

2013 was good to us and I look forward to what 2014 has in store!

 It's that time of year to make resolutions... what is your resolution? I don't know about you but I tend to fail at mine hahaha! Mostly because I get discouraged and or things in life get in the way and I get off track. I hope to not fail this year. Most everyone I know wants to eat healthy, exercise, be more organized, spend less, save more $.. etc., which I want/plan to do as well and think is good to be that way.. however I also think that being spiritually healthy and having a relationship with my God is much more important (to me), which leads to my New Years Resolution.. I want to read the Bible every day. Yes, I already read my Bible but not every day like I should. I want to make it a point to read it every day. I'm excited to see what the Lord has in store for me to learn!  I plan on starting with the book of Revelations. Ive never fully understood it and I want to delve deeper into it. It is a book of hope of what's to come!  Justin has a study Bible and I plan on reading that to learn more. I highly encourage you to join me !

May the Lord bless you in the New Year and I wish you happiness and joy!!

Christmas 2013

 Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Jesus!



We hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas!!! 

Vegas

 We went to cousin Eric & Marie Masten's Wedding the weekend before Christmas. It was a lot of fun. Neat thing was they got married at Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, the same Chapel Justin and I got married at! It was great to see all the Drake side family!

Luker had been sick the week before and here he is still recouping

It's been months since seeing baby Rylee! She's such a doll and so full of life and has an adorable personality! She LOVED Luke and rolled around on the floor with him and played cars with him. She's just so precious! She turned one on Dec 30th! Happy Birthday little beauty! 

Cousin Eric and his new wife Marie at the reception cutting their cake

with cousin Dakota

at the Bellagio about to watch the spectacular water show

And ofcourse its a must to go visit the Bass Pro Shop!! Only the best store for boys and men ever!! We also went bowling and Vince took the boys to see the movie Walking with Dinosaurs. They loved that. It was a really nice vacation! 

ASU Christmas Work Party 2013

We were chosen to host the Air Support Units Christmas Party. We had a great time! I only took a couple photos, should of taken more. Here we are gathered around doing the white elephant gift exchange. What a blast. The best part of the night! 

this guy is hilarious. My cheeks were killing me from laughing so much! Kevin is definitely the clown of the unit. 

Overall a successful and fun time! Looking forward to next years party!

The Birthday Boy

 Luke's birthday fell on Thanksgiving this year! He turned 8 years old! We did a little celebrating with just us and then had friends over during the weekend.

He loves everything Hot Wheels 

♫♪ Happy Birthday to Luke ♪♫

This game is actually pretty hard to play but so much fun!

He thought this card was hilarious from "Uncle" John Humecky

He had a great time and loved all his gifts. He was so spoiled! Happy Birthday Bugs! We love you !



Home ♥ Sweet ♥ Home

After looking for over a year we finally bought a home that I love ♥ We looked at an awful lot of houses and I'm sure we drove our realtor nuts! ha! But, I immediately fell in love with this house when I walked in. It has that cozy feeling that I pictured holidays, family gatherings and making wonderful memories with our boys in this home.  If you know the Bakersfield market you know its a fight to purchase a house. It was a long battle to get it but we got it!! God truly blessed us. We absolutely LOVE our neighbors. Good Christian people. It's a nice quiet neighborhood, well, besides the neighbor lady who lives behind us who seems to enjoy waking us up at 2am with her booming music. We are in the process of getting it through her head you don't be rude like that by getting her acquainted with the PoPo every time she does it. 

We moved in in the beginning of November. It's 4 Bedrooms (well the 4th is the office, its a bit small) the bedrooms are huge which the boys LOVE! 2 Baths, Approx 2200 sqft, a decent landscaped back yard, comes with a jacuzzi but not sure we will use it, a nice size kitchen, big living room and decent size family room with gas fireplace (which i love) We would of preferred a 3 car garage but can't always get what you want so we plan to put a shop in in the back yard one day for all Justins wood shop tools and motorcycle.  We are super excited and we have plenty of projects lined up for the future of what we want to do to slowly update and make it ours. It was built in 93' so we have lots to do to update. But that's the fun part! We are accepting donations if you would like to help us out! hahahaha! just kidding! Now to get going on decorating, painting and all the fun stuff I've been waiting to do for a long time! Soon it shall slowly become the way we want :)