What A Ride........

Wow is all I can say about the month of September.  It has been crazy busy.  New business, kids activities, wedding, Church, bible study, CSL and all the other things our family gets into. I have definitely failed miserably when it comes to keeping our family blog updated.  I think my husband has quit even checking to see if I have updated it. :(  But through all of the craziness, I must scream from the mountaintop how blessed we are.  God has had his hand on our family this month.  I know it and can feel him.  My mom continues to improve and prayers have been answered.  Our new startup business is growing leaps and bounds and God has surrounded us with the right people to make it happen.  I can never thank some of them enough for the help in getting started.  Our friends are our family! 

At one point in time I was journaling in somewhat chronological order the fun things that our family participates in, well.....throw that idea out the door.  I have missed adding on here some exciting things so please forgive me if the next few posts seem out of order and a little dysfunctional. 

Don finally got to enjoy his gift with his friend KL.  They had a great time at the Georgia/Boise State Chick Fil-A Kick-Off Classic at the Dome.  I am so glad he got to share it with his long time friend and also somebody who appreciated the game too.  I think if Don had taken me I would have just been a waste of a good ticket :)  They enjoyed staying downtown and all the people watching too.  It was really funny that they ended up having dinner with some of my old high school friends...your likely to find those Chatsworth people just about anywhere. 

Cross Country season is well underway for Tyler and he is running his tail off this year. We are so proud of him.  He continues to take time off and received effort of the week a few weeks ago from the coach.  I have a few pictures that are not so wonderful cause I get to excited and forget to zoom in and they run by so fast, it's really hard for me to get a great picture.  I hope the team mom is getting better ones that I can snag from facebook.

This year continues to get better and better and we are so thankful for all our many blessings. As for me.....my new bible study has just began a few weeks ago and boy is it powerful.  Jennifer Rothschild is amazing and I know I want to be that woman  who is clothed in peace and grace.  The study is Me Myself & Lies.  We all could use a thought closet makeover.  I know I can anyway.  I am concentrating more and more on what I let into my thoughts.  Focusing on positive and pure thoughts is pleasing to God and has a profound effect on the person I am.  My hope and prayer is I will remember Ps 19:14 and learn to follow as it says "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer".  The ladies in our women's bible study are remarkable and I am learning so much from them.  As the busyness surrounds our family, I pray that we not lose focus on WHO and WHAT is important.

The Wedding

These cupcakes were so cute in person, the picture really doesn't do them justice.

 The rehearsal was followed by dinner at Little Rome (a favorite).  This was the sign out front.

Even though it was a late night on Friday, we had a great time having dinner with everyone.  Grayson and Parker were asleep before we left Chatsworth heading home.  The wedding rehearsal and dinner ran a little late, but Grayson and Parker were great not complaining even once.  Don and Kanon were at a football game and Tyler was at relay for life.  Since they were not actual members of the bridal party, they didn't have to be at this part of the festivities.

These are the adorable gifts Parker and Grayson received.  LOVED them!

The pictures of my family all dressed up bring tears to my eyes.  I am so incredibly blessed with a handsome husband and sons and a beautiful daughter.  It's special days like this that make me proud to be wife and mother to this bunch.  Each one of us played a special part on this day for my cousin Derek who played a special part in our big day almost 18 years ago as our ringbearer.  We wish Derek and Ashley all the happiness in the world.

The decorations and colors were beautiful and the the reception was filled with surprises that were hilarious and only added to the memories of the day.  The "Village People" showed up and were very entertaining.  Derek and my Aunt Lorine's dance music was temporarily interrupted, then changed....LOVED that! And.......

of course Don couldn't miss the Georgia game.  As you see here he is watching it on his phone during the reception with Kanon right beside him.  The funny part is....everybody expected him to do just that and didn't mind at all.  Don did say at the end of the day, his children would not be allowed to get married during football season and if they tried he wasn't paying.  HA...that's serious.

Cake was beautiful....I have lots more pictures to share...as Don put it...I took pictures of everything down to the bricks on the Church.  It was such a great day, I didn't want to miss a thing and I wanted to remember all the fun.  But, after all the pictures I took..I didn't get a picture of the grooms cake which was hilarious, it was a zombie cake. Derek and Ashley definitely let their personality and their sense of humor shine through during their wedding which I think was the best part of all.