State Fair of Texas

Saturday, October 16, we went to the state fair of Texas! Nathan had so much fun riding all the rides.

Nathan with his two cousins, Holli and Colton!

He even rode the "roller coaster" with his aunt Kelly.

He was then ready for some lunch...when you go to the fair, you have to have something fried....we chose fried cheese sticks! :)

"Mommy, that's a BIG man!" -Nathan

The family with Big Tex

Then we went into the air conditioning to look at some cool cars!

Then it was back to more rides....

Nathan fell asleep while walking to the parking lot...

It was a great day of fun at the state fair!

Tuck the Turtle

We took Tuck outside to play this week for a while, then we cleaned his lagoon out and put him back in it and he went crazy!! We videoed it with my phone, its a little blurry, but you can see him going crazy!! :)

today...

Today I felt....
discouraged
hurt
upset
what's the use
why do I even try
hopeless
bitter
anger
struggle
revenge
dejected
weak
disappointed
fail
suffering
tears running down my face

Then I stopped and said a prayer....

Suddenly I felt:

thankfulness
gratitude
comfort
compassion
faith
grace
peace
freedom
unity
salvation
hope
love
the cross
happiness
joy
obedience

"Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." Epeshians 5:1-2

This is so hard sometimes.

Be there for someone.....

I love this!

Nathan's First Pet! :)

This weekend Nathan got his first pet....a red-eared turtle! He has been wanting a pet turtle for a long time now. You may remember me posting about hatching turtle eggs, but they didn't survive. Ever since then, we have been on the hunt for the perfect pet turtle.

We found this one at first monday in Canton.

Meet Tuck the turtle!!!

Nathan thought that Tuck needed to go outside and needed a play mate, so he brought Tuck and his fake turtle outside.

He then decided to lay with the turtles...LOL!

Tuck!!

Nathan sure does love this little turtle!!

School has started.....

Well, its been about a month since I have blogged. School is in full swing and so is junior high basketball. Since our school does not have volleyball, we play fall junior high basketball. Our first game was the first week of school, so I have been busy busy busy! My team this year is so awesome, they are a GREAT group of girls and are very fun to be around. Our record so far is 10-1, and we have won 2 tournaments. Here are some pictures of them after winning their second tournament this past weekend.