Wednesday, September 24, 2008
pumpkin patch pics
We took the girls to the Dallas Arboretum today. Before we left Dallas we wanted to check out their pumpkin patch, hay maze and pumpkin house. It was so much fun! I never knew so many different types of pumpkins existed. Of course Emma barely had her picture taken today because she is going through a phase where she cannot be still long enough and she will not look at the camera. We promise we don't favor Ava, she just moves slightly slower so we are able to capture more images of her. We decided it was time to leave when we noticed Ava was sweating so bad that her whole head was wet:)
Monday, September 22, 2008
things i will miss...
Oh the sweet, sweet goodness. How will I live without you? You were there for me with the birth of Ava, and then we as a family celebrated your deliciousness together. We will miss you and you will always hold a special place in our heart.
It may seem quite ridiculous to imagine paying over $5 for a cupcake, but we fell for Sprinkles when it came to Dallas. We were not the crazy people who at 2:00 in the afternoon that would stand in line for an hour for a cupcake, however our affection grew slowly for the sweet confections. The red velvet cupcake is shear perfection!
We will also miss our park. This is our go-to place when we have lost our minds with the girls. Our park has the perfect size equipment for all different ages and the perfect sun and shading. We wish we could take you with us...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tupelo here we come!
I just wanted to take a moment and let everyone know a little about what is going on in "Stockdale World".
Two years ago we moved to Dallas to begin working at Park Cities Baptist Church. Jason's task was to help launch a new contemporary service. PCBC had never had a Sunday morning contemporary service, so no one knew what to expect. After 9 months we outgrew our one service and in September 07 we added service #2. This last year we have seen our Worship in the Great Hall services grow to over 1300 people, many who didn't know Christ and now do! I can honestly say that while there have been some huge challenges, the two greatest years of our lives have been spent at PCBC. But God has a way of changing things up on us!
Over the last two months, Jason and I have sensed the Lord moving in our lives in two areas, one is to be obedient to Him and His calling on Jason's life, and the other is a need to move back closer to Memphis to help in taking care of our family in a time of poor health. Over the last 2 months God has provided an opportunity for us to do both. Jason will be going on staff at Hope Church Tupelo in Tupelo, Mississippi, as Worship Pastor. God is doing some amazing things in the life of Hope and we are excited to begin serving alongside of Pastor Sam Shaw and the staff at Hope. We have prayed and labored over the move and trust me it has not been easy. But we have really sensed the leading and calling of the Lord to move to Tupelo and so we are going to be obedient to Him and follow that leading.
We had a huge answer to prayer this last week by finding an amazing house. Below are pictures that we took off our phones. Please pray for us over the next two weeks. We already miss our friends in Dallas, and we have so much to do to get ready for the move. I will keep you updated as we go along.
Our house!
Our kitchen
The master bedroom
The living room
The dining room
The view walking in
Two years ago we moved to Dallas to begin working at Park Cities Baptist Church. Jason's task was to help launch a new contemporary service. PCBC had never had a Sunday morning contemporary service, so no one knew what to expect. After 9 months we outgrew our one service and in September 07 we added service #2. This last year we have seen our Worship in the Great Hall services grow to over 1300 people, many who didn't know Christ and now do! I can honestly say that while there have been some huge challenges, the two greatest years of our lives have been spent at PCBC. But God has a way of changing things up on us!
Over the last two months, Jason and I have sensed the Lord moving in our lives in two areas, one is to be obedient to Him and His calling on Jason's life, and the other is a need to move back closer to Memphis to help in taking care of our family in a time of poor health. Over the last 2 months God has provided an opportunity for us to do both. Jason will be going on staff at Hope Church Tupelo in Tupelo, Mississippi, as Worship Pastor. God is doing some amazing things in the life of Hope and we are excited to begin serving alongside of Pastor Sam Shaw and the staff at Hope. We have prayed and labored over the move and trust me it has not been easy. But we have really sensed the leading and calling of the Lord to move to Tupelo and so we are going to be obedient to Him and follow that leading.
We had a huge answer to prayer this last week by finding an amazing house. Below are pictures that we took off our phones. Please pray for us over the next two weeks. We already miss our friends in Dallas, and we have so much to do to get ready for the move. I will keep you updated as we go along.
Our house!
Our kitchen
The master bedroom
The living room
The dining room
The view walking in
Monday, September 08, 2008
charlie hall
Yesterday Charlie Hall led worship at our church in the morning and then had a concert later that night. I have to say that I have always known Charlie Hall and his music, but honestly he was always been my least favorite of all the Passion guys. Until now.
It's amazing when you get to see the person close up and you eat together and worship together how quickly that can change. When you get a chance to see the heart behind the lyrics and you get to hear the circumstances he went through before God gave him his songs, worship becomes ever sweeter in that moment. Check out his new album, The Bright Sadness. It's incredible.
I also have to give Charlie Hall kudos for taking the time to pour into my husband. Words can not describe how much it meant to me to have my husband come back to me refreshed:)
It's amazing when you get to see the person close up and you eat together and worship together how quickly that can change. When you get a chance to see the heart behind the lyrics and you get to hear the circumstances he went through before God gave him his songs, worship becomes ever sweeter in that moment. Check out his new album, The Bright Sadness. It's incredible.
I also have to give Charlie Hall kudos for taking the time to pour into my husband. Words can not describe how much it meant to me to have my husband come back to me refreshed:)
Saturday, September 06, 2008
i've been tagged
So I have been tagged by Maribeth. Here's the rules to being tagged.
1. include the link to the person who tagged you.
2. include the rules.
3. name 6 things, quirks or whatever about you that someone else might not know
4. name the 6 people that you are tagging
5. include a comment for each person on their blog that your are tagging
So here we go....
1. I clog. Or maybe I should say I clogged because I really haven't done it much since having kids. What is clogging you ask? I promise it has nothing to do with plumbing. No, I was not a plumber in a past life. It is a type of dancing. And before you go there, clogging is not swedish girls with huge clogs on their feet jumping around either. Clogging is closely related to tap dancing with influences from Irish step dancing, Canadian step and other dances. Our shoes look much like tap shoes except instead of the tap being nailed down to the shoe, ours has another tap on top that is loose. It makes much more of a sound than tap shoes.
I clogged for 19 years. Mom put me in lessons when I was 5 and I loved it. For a time, my whole family was cloggers:) I really want to get back into teaching clogging.
2. This is a total random quirk of mine, but Jason thought that I should include it. I tweeze my eyebrows in the car. I know crazy, right? But it really is the best place for natural light and being able to see all those pesky hairs. It irritates Jason to no end when I get in the car and tell him to wait a minute. You should see how mad he gets when I do it when we're stopped at a light...
3. I'm scared of the dark. I'm not even kidding. I break out in sweats when I have to get up in the middle of the night. And forget about if I hear a sound during the night. You can count on Jason having to jump up 3 to 4 times and investigate every sound that I hear no matter how small. And regardless of what bedroom we are in, I have to sleep the farthest away from the
the door. Because, if someone is going to get us they are going to get Jason first, duh!
See, you're really thinking now "poor Jason". Yeah, me too. I think I watched too many Nightmare on Elm Streets when I was a kid.
4. I did colorguard in high school. Oh yeah, I was a flag-toting, fake rifle carrying, spandex wearing girl. Enough said.
5. I like soap operas. Sorry, I can't help it. I was raised on it. Not all soaps just Guiding Light and All My Children. Well, as of right now. I actually get on the internet at the end of the week and read the spoilers for the following week. I know, it's pitiful.
I repent every day:)
6. My children must have a bow in their hair every time they leave the house. They are just not quite put together until the bow is in. I wouldn't leave the house without my makeup and hair done. Oh yeah, maybe I would.
Okay I'm now supposed to tag 6 people. The only problem with that is I don't know that many people that blog or the ones that I do know have already been tagged. Nobody in Dallas really blogs. I've got ton of facebook friends just not that many bloggers. However, I am going to tag Faith.
1. include the link to the person who tagged you.
2. include the rules.
3. name 6 things, quirks or whatever about you that someone else might not know
4. name the 6 people that you are tagging
5. include a comment for each person on their blog that your are tagging
So here we go....
1. I clog. Or maybe I should say I clogged because I really haven't done it much since having kids. What is clogging you ask? I promise it has nothing to do with plumbing. No, I was not a plumber in a past life. It is a type of dancing. And before you go there, clogging is not swedish girls with huge clogs on their feet jumping around either. Clogging is closely related to tap dancing with influences from Irish step dancing, Canadian step and other dances. Our shoes look much like tap shoes except instead of the tap being nailed down to the shoe, ours has another tap on top that is loose. It makes much more of a sound than tap shoes.
I clogged for 19 years. Mom put me in lessons when I was 5 and I loved it. For a time, my whole family was cloggers:) I really want to get back into teaching clogging.
2. This is a total random quirk of mine, but Jason thought that I should include it. I tweeze my eyebrows in the car. I know crazy, right? But it really is the best place for natural light and being able to see all those pesky hairs. It irritates Jason to no end when I get in the car and tell him to wait a minute. You should see how mad he gets when I do it when we're stopped at a light...
3. I'm scared of the dark. I'm not even kidding. I break out in sweats when I have to get up in the middle of the night. And forget about if I hear a sound during the night. You can count on Jason having to jump up 3 to 4 times and investigate every sound that I hear no matter how small. And regardless of what bedroom we are in, I have to sleep the farthest away from the
the door. Because, if someone is going to get us they are going to get Jason first, duh!
See, you're really thinking now "poor Jason". Yeah, me too. I think I watched too many Nightmare on Elm Streets when I was a kid.
4. I did colorguard in high school. Oh yeah, I was a flag-toting, fake rifle carrying, spandex wearing girl. Enough said.
5. I like soap operas. Sorry, I can't help it. I was raised on it. Not all soaps just Guiding Light and All My Children. Well, as of right now. I actually get on the internet at the end of the week and read the spoilers for the following week. I know, it's pitiful.
I repent every day:)
6. My children must have a bow in their hair every time they leave the house. They are just not quite put together until the bow is in. I wouldn't leave the house without my makeup and hair done. Oh yeah, maybe I would.
Okay I'm now supposed to tag 6 people. The only problem with that is I don't know that many people that blog or the ones that I do know have already been tagged. Nobody in Dallas really blogs. I've got ton of facebook friends just not that many bloggers. However, I am going to tag Faith.
Friday, September 05, 2008
pretty flowers
After breakfast we all headed out to see the "pretty flowers" as Emma calls it. Sorry for the poor quality pics. We only had my point-and-shoot camera. It deserves that name because Jason complained about it after every picture and said "shoot" all day.
The girls...
Emma told us she was cooking us some hot dogs.
The girls...
Emma told us she was cooking us some hot dogs.
happy birthday, daddy!
Today was Jason's birthday. He's 28 today, inching ever closer to 30. We started the morning with a home-cooked breakfast of mini blueberry muffins, eggs and bacon. Emma is already asking when is it going to be her birthday (it was in july).
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
green velvet cake
So I decided to make a red velvet cake last night. However, there was no red food coloring. So instead I decided to use a little blue which really turned it green. How could something that tastes so good look so gross:)
In much bigger news, Ava is sleeping in a toddler bed at 16 months! I'm so proud of my big girl. I thought we were doing good with Emma in a toddler bed at 18 months, but Ava has set the family record so far.
In much bigger news, Ava is sleeping in a toddler bed at 16 months! I'm so proud of my big girl. I thought we were doing good with Emma in a toddler bed at 18 months, but Ava has set the family record so far.
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