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Katie had her first flag football game to cheer for today. Katie wanted to cheer with the Upwards program this year. She started practice two weeks ago and today was the first game. All the kids look too cute in their little cheerleading outfits and the little boys also looked adorable in their football outfits. Here are a few pics and video from today. I will have more video on picasa.

Our cheerleader!

You think someone wants to be just like her big sister???

Cheering on the boys as the run through the tunnel

1st and 10 - Let's Do It Again

So You Think You Can Dance.....

Well, my girls think they can or at least want to learn. This evening was their first day of dance class. Katie is taking a combo class of ballet and jazz and Bree is in the beginner class for ballet. Katie did awesome in her class which we knew she would she has been asking to go back to dancing for awhile. She listened well and followed all of the dance instructions from her teacher. Bree did awesome also, she walked straight into her class and listened to her teacher very well. She was so excited when she learned her little friend Aly from church was in her class. They both ran to each other and hugged. It was to precious. Bree's class is really cute I think, they use lots of songs to teach them how to point toes, move their arms, etc. Tonight they sang 5 Little Monkeys and they also teach them stretching and some tumbling. For her very first class I think she did really well.

Two cutie ballerina's....ready for class

They teach team some tumbling at the begginning of the class. At first Bree didn't want to get on the mat but then she got brave and went out there.

Sitting and listen to her teacher and following along. Doing little leg stretches.

Touch your toes..

Katie doing what she loves best....shaking her booty.

About 30 mins into their 40 min class the teacher had then all stand on their square and she was trying to get the to follow along with her. Bree as well as the other kids attention span was gone. Bree was kind of in her own world, but I thought it was still cute.

Homemade Pizza

Sunday evening after we came back from swimming I decided to try and make a homemade pizza for dinner instead of buying frozen or ordering one. I enlisted the help of two up and coming chefs and they were eager to help. :) It was fun having them put on all the toppings. The pizza ended up having A LOT of toppings. The girls got kinda of topping happy, which was fine with me. The pizza was actually really good. The girls scarfed it down.

The did a great job of getting the toppings on the pizza and not just putting them all in one area.

Bree was finishing off the cheese here. She kept grabbing handfuls and shoving them into her mouth.

Date Night

Last night Chris and I got to have a date night and at no cost to us. We got to go to the Keith Urban/Sugarland concert. Chris was able to get tickets throught work. The concert was amazing both Keith Urban and Sugarland put on a great performance. Chris and I joked that we have been to more concerts since we moved to Tulsa then we have in our entire relationship. We had a great night out and enjoyed a wonderful show. Oh and Chris' boss was in the suite last night and he had order some cookies for the group to celebrate Chris' birthday. I thought that was very thoughtful of him. Our wonderful babysitter Sydney wouldn't even accept any money from us when we got home last night. She said she did it for free because it was Chris' birthday on Thursday. We have some amazing girls that take care of our girls that care more about Chris and I being able to spend time together and then them making extra money. I got some pics at the concert and I will try to post them later.

Keith Urban - He had two stages so that he could play up close to the people further back. All throughout the concert he would get down and just walk around and play from different areas all night.

Sugarland and Keith Urban singing an Oklahoma song, I didn't have a clue about this song. I think Chris and I were the only ones there not singing along.

Birthday Boy

Yesterday was Chris' birthday, he turned the big 33. Last night for the birthday boy we went to Incredible Pizza which is version of chuck e cheese, but it is a lot bigger so it doesn't feel as crowed as the cheese. When we walked in the door to pay and the guy asked if it was anyone's b-day and we kind of laughed and said yeah his. The guy asked him if he wanted a sticker and a fun pack. Of course Chris said yes if it was free. The guy handed him a big smiley face sticker that said today is my birthday and a bag full of crayons, coloring book, candy, etc. The guy was nice enough to give us two so each of the girls could have one. After food and games we came back home for cookie cake and presents. Happy Birthday Chris! We love you!.

The girls on a kiddie motion movie ride..they loved this and rode it 4 times.

Present time...katie and bree both ended up opening the gift they wrapped for him. too cute!

Showing off his new shirt and fish car tag...that is what is in Bree's hand

Let's blow out the candles

Hey mommy....do I have anything on my face??? do you think she enjoyed the cookie cake. :)

My Testimony

Today, we had a guest speaker at our church it was Caz McCaslin who is the founder of Upward Sports. If you are not familiar with Upwards it is a way for the church to reach the community by offer recerational sports, basketball, soccer, baseball, football and cheerleading, and also being able to share Jesus Christ with the kids and parents. This is an awesome organization and Caz has such a passion for kids and reaching them. One thing he spoke about today was about how he had a best friend in college and they did everything together and spent pretty much every spare moment together, but one thing he said is he never during the first two years of their friendship did he share the one thing that meant the most to him, which was Jesus. Caz posed the question to us and asked if we share Jesus with the people when we have opportunities to. I started thinking that I really don't take that chance as much as I should. So I thought since my blog has some viewers that I would share my testimony on here as a start and hopefully with this God will open more opportunities for me to share with others.

I was raised in a christian home, both of my parents were christians and they always made sure we knew and understood that God came first in our lives. Every Sunday and Wednesday i was at church learning about God and his son Jesus. When I was 9 years old i got saved. I remember starting to ask questions and trying to understand. I spoke to my pastor and we prayed together and I asked Jesus into my heart. Life to me didn't change much. I didn't have a revoluntary moment in my life, I just knew I believed in jesus and what he did and now that I was saved i would spend enternity in heaven with him when I died. Church to me when I was young was confusing, the hyms we sang didn't make much sense and the bible was full of thee's and thou's so it was hard for me to read the bible and understand so I think at some point I just decided it was easier to know I was a christian and let that be that instead of trying to build a relationship with Jesus. Church became a social thing for me and it was hard for me to stand up to my friends saying a I was a christian and speak about God because I really didn't know him. For the next better part of my life I just when throught life knowing God was there if I needed him, but as long as things were going good I didn't really give him much thought. Even thought I didn't show God much love or attention He still continued to work in my life by putting people in my life that were strong christians, one in particular was a co-worker Patricia. I worked with her everyday for 5 years and we became great friends but through her and her actions and words I started to realize that I was missing out on something with God. She had this amazing trusting relationship with God and it was all based on faith. Even though I started to see these things I still wasn't quit ready to turn my life back to God, to me things were going great and God was the person you went to when times were bad. I wanted to live my life the way I wanted to and I knew if I was going to follow God I would have to change things in my life and I just wasn't ready to do that. I first had to let go of my pride and the thought that I can handle everything going on in my life. It wasn't until I had our first daughter, Katie. I remember like it was yesterday. The day I had her and was holding her. I heard that small still voice inside of me, saying the love you feel for your daughter is just a small portion of the love God has for you. I started to realize at this time that God had to become a more important part of my life. Not only for myself, my marriage but for Katie and eventually Bree. I have two little girls that I am now responisble for in everyway and not given them the opportunity to know God and learn of Jesus love for us just didn't seem fair. I wanted my girls to have that chance, so even though my motives for church were more for them, God worked through this decision and has completely changed my heart. I see more now than every how amazing it is to love and serve Him. Anyone can go through life and have a great life without God, but life is just not the same. I have had the life without God in it and I know have the life with God as the center and our life is so much more blessed by having Him in our lives. Everyday I see how God works more and more in our lives and how the Holy Spirit gently guides me in my decisions and thoughts I have. I have always been a person that could just hang out in the back and be fine not being noticed, but it seems that God keeps pushing me to get out of that comfort zone. Even thought I fight Him all the way on this I am starting to realize that when I feel that nudge from Him I just need to do it and trust He will take care of the rest. So putting my testimony out here is a step in that direction and I will from time to time put other things like this on our blog when I feel God is leading me to speak what He has put on my mind.

Nothing Like Cheap Family Fun

Friday evening the four of us and are good friends Jeremy and Stefanie and their two kids Braedn and Lydia all went to a place we found called Kiddie Park. It is about 45 minutes away from us in the next town over called Bartlesville. We had heard that they have all these small kids rides, no admission fee, no parking fee and all rides are only .25 cents....could it really be true. Did such a place exist??? Well, we all set out see for ourselfs and can you believe it, it was all true. This was the neatest place, plus it agreed with Chris' frugile side so he was all for it. We bought $10.00 worth of tickets and still didn't use them all. The park is only open during summer months from 7-10pm in the evening. We stayed until 10pm and still had some tickets left over, but the good thing is they never expire so the next time we go back we can use them. To make the trip even better the food they have there is also inexpensive. The most expenisve thing is 2.50 which is nachos. Everything else is either a 1.00 or 1.50. Every Wed night they have a magician that does a show and every Friday night they have a group of clowns that make animals balloons, face painting, etc. The kids had so much fun riding as many rides as they could, we didn't get to all of them but hopefully we can go back one more time before they close for the summer. Here are a few pics from the evening.

Bree and Lydia riding the horses together. The both were shaking the reigns like crazy.

Katie and Braeden riding together. Braeden actually tried to ride on the horse infront. He thought that would be much funnier.

Hang on....going for a ride on a rollercoaster. This was Bree's first rollercoaster. I thought she would cry but she didn't. Katie and Braeden were screaming everytime we go up and down one of the hills.

Time for the carosel. Family favorite. Katie, Braeden, Stefanie and Lydia, who was hiding from me.

Can't forget me and Bree, we were in front of Katie so I snapped a pic of me and Bree riding.