VBS Pictures

Well we helped with the VBS for the Nowata, OK congregation last weekend. The decorations turned out really well. The kids seemed to enjoy them!

This is supposed to be the Pacific Ocean!

You guessed it - a treasure chest!

These next 2 pictures are supposed to be the South Pole.

These are supposed to be in Egypt!

This girl attached herself to Clint the whole night.

As you can see he is carrying her around!

Clint is teaching! He did such a great job! He is sooo good with kids.

Now we just have to wait another week or so and do this again, but we add one more scene to our VBS - Mount Everest! This Saturday we are going to pass out 500 fliers around neighborhoods! Hopefully we will have a good turnout!

Still Working on VBS

Well, I am still working on VBS stuff! Our church is helping a church about 30 min. with their VBS. Clint and I are incharge of decorating and man, have we really been working on it hard. Most of the items are things we didn't have to make they were things people already have, like, rope, pails, tents, book bags, things like that. But there are some things we are having to make and it is starting to wear us out. Good thing VBS is Friday, because that will mean everything will be done. Our VBS is August 3 -7 so we will have a week or so to rest up before hitting it again! It has been fun getting ready though. I look forward to helping where I can. I will try to take pictures so you can see how it looked once put all together. Please pray for these VBS's. Hope everyone has a good rest of their week!

It's A Girl!!!

This is our baby girl! No we don't have a definite name picked out but there are 2 in the running. We will let you know what it will be when we know ourselves! She weighs 1 lb. 12oz. and her due date is still right on - October 25th. Please continue to pray for our baby girl and her health and that God prepares us to be the parents He wants us to be! (If you click on the pictures it will zoom in for you.)

Dresser/Changing Table

We got our dresser/changing table last week. I thought we were never going to find one we like but we did. We found it at an antique store in Benton, Arkansas. Clint's parents still have to bring it to our house though, so we don't have it yet but we will soon!

Oh, and by the way, we find out tomorrow if we are having a boy or a girl, that is, if our baby will let us see! Our appointment is at 3:00! I can't wait!

Our First Niece

Taylor and Jenn were able to bring their baby, Adalyn, home on July 3rd. We went to their house on the 4th for dinner and got a beautiful family picture of them!

Baby Shower!

We had our first baby shower June 22nd in Sheridan, Arkansas. Some ladies from the church Clint's parents attend hosted the shower. Clint was unable to be there because he had to preach and also go to camp which started that afternoon. The shower was for me and Jenn Howard, my sister-in-law. She was due Aug. 1st but had her baby, Adalyn, June 3rd! Clint and I and our baby have been so blessed by this shower!

Taylor, Jenn and me (Taylor is Clint's brother and Jenn's husband)

Jenn and I laughing! I thought this was a funny picture of us!

I thought these were very cute outfits!

Priscilla, me, Diane, and Rachel (Diane and Rachel are friends from High school and Priscilla is their mother)

Me, Luann (Clint's mom), Jenn, and Cheryl (Jenn's mom)

Cake to our babies!

Jenn and I standing infront of our gifts in the truck!

Our baby's gifts from the shower!

Camp Workday!

On Saturday, about 10 people came out to our camp to have a workday. The major work to be done that day was mowing and weed-eating. I worked a little in the kitchen because there was mold all over the place. I guess because of all the rain and it being really warm this happens quite a bit. Anyway, I wasn't in there very long because some people thought it wasn't a good idea for me to be working with bleach. So mom and Luann, you should be very pleased to know that there are plenty of people looking out for me and our baby's well-being. It made me feel good to know that some were looking out for me. So after that I went outside and started pulling weeds from the volleyball court. But then Jim, one of the guys that came out started spraying weed killer on it and I was told to get away from there when he starts getting really close. So unfortunately, I felt pretty useless after awhile. But that is okay, I was able to do some things at the beginning, which I'm sure helped some.

While some of us ladies were waiting for the men to be done, Jim was going to check on something and his foster child, Nolan found a big snake. In this picture they are holding their

arms out to describe how long it is, but their arms are both out all the way so I am sure it was longer than that. A little later, Nolan wanted to be the adventurous one and try to find the snake again! His foster mother and I were trying to tell him he shouldn't be playing with snakes and that if something were to happen to him he would be missed. We were trying to scare him so he wouldn't want to go and find snakes but it didn't work. He went to look for it and found it but made sure we knew that he didn't touch it or mess with it at all! He is a silly little boy!!!

After another 30 minutes went by and there was still no hope of leaving anytime soon, one of the ladies and I went to see what the guys were up to. And just so you know, it was past lunch time, and being pregnant and hungry is not a good combination. Well the guys were in the boys dorm, how appropriate, and they were fixing some pipes in the bathroom. It was a little cooler in there! I decided to take some pictures of the guys working some and of course, Clint didn't take a nice picture. He feels he must make a face in just about all of the pictures I take of him. I haven't quite figured out why that is. Maybe after he sees this one on the blog he will start taking

nice pictures for you all.

Well it wasn't shortly after this that we finally were able to head home. We were extremely exhausted. We are going to go back out this afternoon to work some more. I am going because there is another young girl going and I think she will be the only one, so I am going to hang out with her so she doesn't feel so alone. I probably won't be able to do much but that's okay.

VBS Workday

Well, our VBS is from August 3rd- August 7th and Clint and I are in charge of decorating. We had a workday on the 13th for those who could make it, which is usually just me and 1 or 2 other people. This day it was Ron Akin. He helped me color some of the murals. We still have about 3 1/2 more to do. We were going to have a workday today but the lady who was going to come had to cancel because her son is still running a low-grade fever and didn't want to take a risk of getting me sick. So tomorrow Ron and I will work on it again in the afternoon! We are making a lot of progress!

Weeks 14-20 Progress

WEEK 14............................... WEEK 16

WEEK 18................................. WEEK 20



Well I am now 20 weeks. It has gone by extremely fast. Half way through. Clint and I find out if our baby will be a boy or a girl in 6 weeks. Also the first week of August we will be going for a 3D/4D ultrasound. Check out this website for more info: www.anticipationultrasoundstudio.com We can't wait for that either. On the 22nd of June we will have our first baby shower too. It will be in Arkansas with Clint's brother, Taylor and his wife, Jenn. If you are interested in where we are registered it is at Wal-Mart and Babies R Us.

Another Busy Month

Well, I've been a little behind on posting events. In March my two sisters, Natalie and Rebecca drove from Illinois to come and visit us. We had a great time. We went to Wichita and drove by our house that our parents built. We saw our next door neighbors and talked with them a little while. We saw the schools we went to, (Maize, KS) and how much that town has grown. We really enjoyed ourselves.
Last week we had a couple of friends from church from New Home, TX drive out and see us. It was a short visit but it was a good visit; that's all that really matters. It was great that we could catch up on things.
This weekend, Clint's cousin got married in Ft. Smith, AR and then after the wedding a couple from Sunset, the school Clint just came from, followed us back home. He and his wife are trying to raise support to go do missions in Siberia, Russia. He preached this morning and also this evening. They are a great friends. If you would like to help them with their support, let us know and we can give you contact information.
I've had a job for about a month now. They are really flexible with me. At first I was working about 20-26 hours/week, but I thought I wasn't able to do as much as I wanted for people in the church, so they worked it out to where I work in the mornings and now I can visit people with Clint in the afternoon. I am so thankful that I can still meet people in the community and be able to share my time with those in the church. God has really blessed us!
Clint and I have been really busy with church. Over the past month we have had 3 showers and 1 graduation dinner. Our lunches on Sundays have been going well. This next month we will have a break, due to us traveling. (Clint officially graduates from Sunset May 19th in Lubbock, TX. My brother graduates from High school May 26th in San Antiono. We will be traveling for both of those events. My younger sister graduates from college May 12. Unfortunately we will not be able to make it for that one but she will have the rest of our family there. We are so proud of her.)