Fun Weekend

Last weekend we drove down to Austin to do the capital 10k with my parents & Hannah & Drew. I ran this last year with my mom & Dad & I love that it is becoming a family tradition. I ran/walked the race with my mom, while Dad, Hannah, & Drew ran it, & Cody was our official chauffeur.

We enjoyed a great weekend together starting with a dinner at a local Italian restaurant, then some NCAA basketball, breakfast with Einstein's Bagels, the race, & lunch at fun Austin restaurant.

There were about 18,000 people participating this year!

Right before the race was about to start

And, of course we had to stop in to see our one week old neice, Harper, she has grown a lot in a week!

Harper Belle

Welcome to the world Harper Belle! Cody's sister, Cayce had a sweet baby girl on March 18th & we could not be more excited. Since last week was spring break we were able to make the short trip down to Austin to greet Harper.

Here are some pics of our new niece!

Proud Aunt & Uncle

Cayce & Matt ready to take Harper home!

Harper's Shower & Happy Birthday Hannah

Last weekend we took a short trip down to Boerne on Friday night & then to Austin on Saturday for Cayce's baby shower. Cayce is doing great & Harper is probably going to arrive earlier her due date (March 22). Anyway, here are some pictures from the weekend, it was great to see family, even if it was only for a few hours.

Lots of family at the baby shower

Cayce with Harper's new bumpers - I love the fabric!

Yummy shower sweets

Happy Birthday Hannah! We had a birthday brunch for her on Saturday (hence the early morning look - sorry hannah) & I got her some yoga pants.

A Weekend To Remember

Happy Valentine's Day (a few days late)!

We really didn't have plans for Valentine's Day, until about a week ago when some friends offered to send us here:

And they even gave us a 2 night stay here:

We went to a marriage conference called, "A Weekend To Remember" & it was really great. The weekend was held at the Gaylord Texan (amazing place) & featured great speakers, like Dennis Rainey, and a couple other people.

I was definitely a little bit surprised when we got there on Friday night & there were about 2-3 thousand people there just for the conference. It was neat to see so many couples coming together seeking to have a Godly marriage in a world that doesn't support lasting marriages. Everything we learned there wasn't really anything that no one has ever heard, it was all just presented in a great way & spurred on a lot of great conversations between Cody & me. They also had everyone make individual goals & goals as a couple on things that you can do to help your marriage this next year. All that to say, it was really good & every couple should go to one of these weekends, they are so healthy. Thanks Brenda & LJ for making this happen for us.

More Gaylord pictures:

97 Kids

This year we decided to make camp sign-ups a huge event at Alley Cats. All year we have been inviting kids to come to summer camp with us. We encouraged them to come to Alley Cats (a local bowling/arcade/laser tag place) as that would be the first time they could sign-up. Since we have never done anything like this we thought we would have a few kids come sign-up, boy were we wrong! We had 97 kids sign-up! We actually only have 100 spots & that includes leaders so we are already over booked & are trying to get more spots.

It was an unbelievable night. We really encourage kids to go to camp as it's so important for kids to get away from the craziness of life & experience life to the fullest, while hearing about Jesus. Hopefully we can get more spots so every kid that go to camp with us!

Sharptop Cove here we come!!!! www.sharptopcove.younglife.org

Happy Birthday Cody!

Happy Birthday Cody!!!!

Last Friday night we celebrated Cody's 27th Birthday. We had big plans but since we were both feeling a little bit under the weather we decided to just go to dinner & come home. We went to Texas Road House b/c Cody really wanted a steak & decided they had they best ones at the best prices. After Road House we came home, opened a few presents (notice the fancy new golf club he is holding in the pic) & had some Italian cream cake. About an hour later Hannah & Drew came over, as they were in town for a wedding. It was a fun night & we had a few other small celebrations throughout the weekend.