Pure of heart

At the women's retreat last weekend, we wore nametags with our names and the meaning of our names were written on there. Katie means "pure" according to my nametag. All weekend I kept saying that I am "pure of heart" and I couldn't remember what movie it was from where I had heard that. This morning while I'm working, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is on tv. Now I know where I had heard the "pure of heart" phrase. When they are sitting on the porch at Matthew McConnaghey's parents house playing BullS**t (the card game), Matthew McConnaghey says his mom isn't very good at this game and she says it is because she is so "Pure of Heart"!



I like to think that I am not just "pure", but "pure of heart"!

When the lightning strikes

I love the light from candles, it is such a soft, beautiful glow.

This morning at 5:45 am, Katherine and I were texting each other saying that we weren't going to go run this morning because it has rained most of last night and it was too wet. I am so glad we decided not to go. At 6am, a huge storm hit with lightning bolts everywhere and thunder crashing with pouring rain. We would of been stuck in the middle of it on our 2 mile course. We have been running every tuesday and thursday. Okay, back to my story. Our power went out at 6:15 and didn't come back on till 8:30am. Luckily Taylor slept through the storm and I got a hot shower right before I had to take her to KDO.

I pulled out candles and the flashlights this morning and ran all over the house unplugging appliances and electronic equipment. Monday we had a storm and our neighbors house 3 houses down was hit by lightnng. The lightning hit the a/c outside and ran into the house blowing out all the outlets in the entire house. They smelled gas after the lightning hit, so the fire department was called out and they spent hours searching for the gas leak. I don't know what they found, but needless to say, I was a little freaked about the lightning this morning and that is why I unplugged everything in the house.

Taylor loved playing with the flashlight this morning.

Big brother is coming home!!!

Taylor and I talked to my brother yesterday on Skype. Skype is a free service that lets us talk over the internet and even use our webcams to see each other while we talk. It is awesome. Taylor loves getting to talk to her Uncle Zach. Zach is going to be coming home over Memorial Day weekend. He will be here for a week and then he is going to California to see some friends and then to Oregon to see GiGi (our Grandmother). We are going to go to the lake and spend a few extra days with Zach and my parent. We are super excited. We haven't seen Zach since last August right before he left for Moldova.

Rain, dinner, smile

It has been overcast all day, but finally started raining this evening. It just happened to start sprinkling when we were getting in the car to go to dinner with some friends. Nathan noticed that one of his tires was a little low, so we went to the gas station to put air in the tire. He had his work clothes on and took the umbrella while he filled up the tire, but it was raining so hard, his back and legs were soaked. Poor guy. We came back home so he could change and then we headed to dinner.

We met Mike and Dacia and Bryan and Ashley for dinner at Road House. YUM! Precious little Cody is 10 months old and just adorable. Cody ate mashed potatoes for the first time tonight and loved them! I love watching babies faces when they try new food and like it. They aren't too sure about it at first and then a light goes off in their head and a huge smile comes over their face. Love it!

Nathan's soccer game

Nathan has been playing in a soccer league on sunday nights for the last few weeks. Last night was the first game that Taylor and I could go to. Most of the games are at like 9:45, 10:45 and there are even 11:45PM games. Can you believe that!?! That is just way to late for a sunday nights. Nathan loves playing soccer and has played his whole life. Nathan Christianson plays with Nathan, so Courtney and Chloe came to the game. The girls had a great time running around and cheering for their dads. Taylor is quite the cheer leader. She yells," Go Daddy! Go Daddy!" She is getting pretty good at is since she cheers for Nathan when he plays basketball too. Nathan is about to start playing sand volleyball as well, so I might need to get Taylor a cheerleading outfit with "Daddy" on it!

Nathan is in the green shirt with the #4 on it with the orange socks.

Chloe and Taylor watching their daddy's play soccer together.

Taylor said daddy was stinky after the game.

Womens Church Retreat

This weekend we had a women's retreat with our church. We went to the Texas Star Ranch in Weatherford, Texas. The facility was pretty nice, but the bunk beds were pretty uncomfortable. Our speaker for the weekend was Debbie Eaton from Saddleback Church in California. She was wonderful! We left friday after work and got home saturday afternoon. I can't lie, it was nice to be home. We went to dinner with some friends and then Nathan and I watched a movie. It was so relaxing!

Sunday morning we went to church and I thought that all the women were going to wear their retreat T-shirt, so I sported mine to church. I was the only women in the entire church who wore her shirt to church! Nathan thought it was so funny. Last year, I didn't go to the retreat and they all wore their shirts to church that sunday, so I figured that was just what we were suppose to do. I did feel funny at first, but I was comfortable in my T-shirt, jeans and flip flops. During the church service, we introduced ourselves to a new couple that was visiting our church and the lady pointed to my shirt and asked me about the retreat. So, I don't feel like it was a total loss - something good came out of me wearing my T-shirt.

Earth Day 2009

This is a picture of Taylor before KDO. We didn't do much for Earth Day this year. I was hoping to take Taylor to the new movie Earth by Walt Disney, but we didn't make it to the movie theatre. I'm just not sure if Taylor is old enough for the movie theatre. I think she will love the movie - it is all about animals. We did spend the evening outside though. Taylor loves to play outside. We bought her a play gym for the backyard for her birthday - it's an early present. We don't have it up and probably won't till closer to her birthday. We are also thinking about building a covered patio in the backyard so we can spend more time there in the summer. I am so glad Taylor likes to be outside. I love being outside, but Nathan likes to be inside.