Have a Little Faith

A few weeks ago Paul accepted a challenge at church and became a part of the Kingdom Assignment. Our pastor handed out $100 bills to 75 members of the church who were willing to participate. All you have to do is use the money to do something good for someone else. No restrictions, no strings attached. You can give the money to someone who is having a hard time making ends meet, you can donate directly to a charity or you use it as seed money to start an even bigger project to help others.

I think Paul has come up with one of the neatest and most creative ideas!

Please check out his blog http://havealittlefaithproject.blogspot.com/ and if you'd like, donate at least $5 to become a part of the experiment!

I am so excited to see where this ends up!


**A special thanks to Jamie for this project's awesome name!**

Share Bag

Each week a kid in Molly's class is sent home with the "Share Bag" and is asked to bring back two or three items that start with the letter of the week. This week Molly brought home the bag for the letter "T". I helped her find a few things and later that night Paul took over the hunt. I thought the bag felt a little heavy when I took her to school, but was in my normal rush, so I didn't look in the bag. When I picked Molly up from school the teachers were laughing and said Molly wins the prize for the most items in a share bag EVER.

Yee Haw! It's Go Texan Day!

Around these parts, we get pretty dang excited about rodeo-season. Every February school-aged kids celebrate "Go Texan Day" the week before the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo kick-off.

Since I grew up LOVING the John Travolta movie "Urban Cowboy" I was very excited for Molly to wear her first pearl-snap western shirt! It would have been a much cuter outfit had I actually splurged on boots, but oh well, maybe next year!

Molly's western name for the day was "Mustang Molly" - two of her friends were Dirty Boots Davis and Pistol-Packin' Presley.

Almost Crawling!

Looks like Marshall will be crawling any day now. He's still perfecting his skills, but he's definitely determined to figure it out!!!

Now, if we could just get the boy some teeth!! :o)

I'm so proud of my little guy!

Arizona

Last week I took Molly and Marshall to visit my family in Arizona. I was a little nervous about taking both kids on a trip by myself since Molly and I took several trips together before she turned 6 months old and lets just say I did not have fun flying alone with her! This time the flights to Arizona and back were a piece of cake, Marshall is an awesome little traveler and Molly is incredibly self-sufficient. We actually got multiple compliments from our fellow travelers when our planes landed in Phoenix and Houston.

Marshall took a 45 minute nap on our way to Arizona, then discovered my empty water bottle and fell in love.
For Valentine's Day Daddy gave Molly his old mp3 player loaded with all her favorite music. She thought she was such a big girl on the plane rocking out to her jams!Monday we met some of the cousins at the Phoenix Zoo. Marshall got to meet his cousins Pierce and Knolan for the first time. We enjoyed a super-fun and sunny afternoon before heading home for a nap!
Tuesday morning we headed to Apache Junction for Marshall's first visit with his great-grandparents! Marshall's middle name is Benjamin, after my Grandpa Benny, so I've been looking forward to the two of them finally meeting!
I got a kick out of Molly teaching Grandpa to play guitar on my phone!Thursday night the Gomez family took us to dinner for my birthday. We had a fun night at one of my favorite pizza places. Dominic and Shannon bonded with Marshall and Molly learned how to use the camera (Daddy's little one - not mine!)

Molly's first self-potrait:Molly also captured this picture of Marshall
Friday and Saturday we spent the days hanging out with family and playing with Nana and Pop-Pop's puppies. Molly also was excited to have a sleep-over with cousin, Tirscha.
Usually when the out-of-town cousins come to visit, we try to plan a cousin's night out either playing trivia or laser tag. This trip we tried to play trivia, but the restaurant couldn't get any of the boxes to work, so we ended up watching some big UFC fight... I also was treated to a birthday shot from Carrie and Levi. When I woke up that morning I never imagined I'd be watching cage fighting while taking shots that same night... Oh and yes, baby Knolan was there too! What a night!

Sunday morning we said good-bye to the family and boarded another Southwest flight bound for Houston. We sure were excited to see Daddy after being gone for a week!