Dance Your Shoes Off

This past Sunday, over 2,000 people from our church at Second Baptist Church of Houston, TX joined up at Discovery Green in downtown Houston for a flash mob to celebrate Easter and our risen Lord, Jesus Christ. It was an awesome afternoon of worshipping Him and letting others know how great He is!

At the end of the dance, each person left a new pair of shoes on the field which was donated to several mission organizations for those in need.

Check out the video here on YouTube:

Toy Story and Baptism

After watching many baptism services for students in our high school ministry, Brayden decided that his Toy Story guys needed a dunk too.

The Year in Pictures

For the last couple years, I've been compiling pictures...THOUSANDS of pictures. I didn't really know what to do with them. Printing individual pics is expensive and ends with massive amounts of picture albums. Scrapbooking takes too much time. So, I knew I wanted to do an album that I put together online, and I'd heard about this great site from a friend and saw her amazing book, and I knew I wanted to make one from the same site - Blurb.

It's taken me awhile to actually finish the albums, but I AM DONE! And I must say, they turned out amazing! There are several great things I loved about it...My album is nearly 400 pages! It fit the entire year into one album...and allowed me to put TONS of pics in. It also links up to my blog and imported all of my blog posts and pictures into my book. I didn't have to manually type it in...GREAT! It also allows a lot of custom formatting and playing around with layouts, which the former high school Yearbook editor in me loves! However, it also has tons of pre-made layouts to make it easy to put your book together.

Check it out - it's an amazing site with great software to put together your album.

My nice thick 400 pages albums...I LOVE it!

One thing that I added into the pages was both Jonathan

and my Twitters from throughout the year. It added a fun

element "into our thoughts" of that day,

and it brings back some great memories!

The back cover of the 2009 book:

The back cover of our 2010 book:

Traci's 'World Traveler' Baby Shower

This past weekend, we celebrated the upcoming arrival of Traci's baby - Eli James - with a World Traveller themed baby shower. It was a fun morning to shower Traci with lots of fun things to help her get ready for Eli.

The entry way displayed a canvas I put together with pictures

of Eli's mommy and daddy and their world travels.

The sign says, "Welcome to our world Eli James."

A game we played was "Baby Scattergories."

I made the cards with things like: "A boy's name," "A Baby Brand Name,"

"Something Babies Wear," and "A Nursery Rhyme."

Everyone had to use the letter "W" for Eli's last name.

"Ready to Pop" popcorn favors

Cookie favors in the shape of luggage

I made a circle sticker that says "Eli James due April 22"

for Traci to stick on her baby bump for pictures.

Traci with the hostesses: Cindy, Kasey, Julie, and me

Adding Interest...and Color

I love color, but for some reason, my living room was seeming kind of blah. So I pulled all the books off my bookshelf and put them in order by color. Starting with reds, I went sorted them like a rainbow all the way through purple on one bookshelf.

On my other bookshelf, I put all the white books on the top shelf and the black/brown books on the bottom shelf. I love how it looks sorted by color...after all, I do LOVE organizing things...and when it adds color and interest...even better!

Spring Break...part 3

The last of our pics from Spring Break in Oklahoma...

My beautiful sis

Bricktown for dinner

Shopping for antiques in Guthrie w/ mom

Cuppies & Joe w/ the Diefs...love them!