It's a Boy!

So my New Year's resolution is going to be to blog more!! Especially with our little guy coming along pretty soon! I am sure I will want to post tons of pics of him! Our due date is January 28 and we are naming him Luke Jagger!! We can't wait and are so excited!
We have been busy this fall with lots of church stuff, Mark traveling for work, us traveling together for lots of "once last trips" before the baby and getting everything ready for Luke's arrival!! It has been a lot of fun! Here are a few pics of his room...a work still in progress!

More to come later this week!!

A Busy Summer

The Summer is almost over and this is one of the first Saturdays we have actually been home!! It has been a great Summer with lots of exciting memories! We started off the Summer with Vacation Bible School: Outside the Walls. We did VBS in apartment complexes around our town. This was the first time VBS had not been in our church building! It was a great week and we were able to reach many kids and families! Preteen Camp was the next week and of course it is always a lot of fun with Preteens!! Then we went on vacation to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida (near Destin) for a week with my parents, Mark's parents, my sister Natalie and her husband Matt, and my brother Colt and his girlfriend Sarah. My family has vacationed here since I was in Jr. High and it is my favorite place EVER! I loved sharing it with Mark for the first time! We also announced to our family that WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BABY IN JANUARY!!! We had been keeping it a secret for weeks so we could tell them all together! We are so excited and so are our families! (first grandbaby on both sides) After Florida I went to Seattle, WA with our youth group where we lead Upward Basketball and Cheerleading camps and did some sightseeing. The next weekend was a girls weekend with all my roommates from Baylor. It was lots of fun and I got to spend some extra time with my BFF Katie and her baby, Annie! Her and our baby will be exactly a year apart and we know BFFs too! The last few weeks of the summer consisted of a visit from my mom for a week, wedding showers and my closest cousin Lee got married to Alica. I LOVE my new cousin and their wedding was beautiful!! That was the very short version of our fun-filled summer! I posted some pics below of some of the events!

My Sandcastle

Natalie & Matt on the Kayak

Our Canopy (with Dad under)

Our Condo

From our Balcony!

The Fam on Santa Rosa Beach

The whole group in Florida!

Our Group before we headed to Washington

Some of our Cheerleaders at camp in Dupont, WAshington

Mt. Rainier...it was Beautiul!!
Hiking at Mt. Rainier...on a little bridge!

Katie & David's sweet baby, Annie!

Isn't her hat so cute?? It matched her little capris!

Baylor Roomies + Baby Annie -Amanda

Alicia's Wedding Shower at Spice in Waco

Playing Catch Up

I haven't blogged in a while...sorry to so many of you that follow...all 3 of you! :) April was unbelievably crazy month and May was spent recouperating. April was spent in Dallas, East Texas, Guatemala, Alabama and Atlanta, GA. It was all fun and I have put some pictures below. Mark and I helped lead out in a conference for all the CAM Missionaries in Guatemala...we lead the kids part! Sorry I don't have any pics of it...yet! During our trip to see my family in East Texas we had a baby shower for my sweet cousin Jeni and her husband Patrick. They are expecting their first baby, Sheridan Danielle at the end of June. (pics below) We also went to Dallas and got to see my little cousins Sidney and Aubrey play in their basketball game...it was hilarious!!! They both did so good, but I don't think we have ever laughed so hard. Sidney is the older and way taller one and did really good. Aubrey, bless her heart, had no idea what was going on and I am laughing right now just thinking of it. Their dad, my Uncle Ron, coached their team. Take a look at the pic below where Aubrey is "guarding" the girl twice her height.....HILARIOUS! I went to the Orange Conference in Atlanta, GA and took some leaders from our church. AWESOME! I could right 1000 blogs on all the Lord taught me....AMAZING! http://www.blogger.com/www.theorangeconference.comHopefully my next blog will be sooner! :)

California Vacation Part 1: San Francisco

A couple of weeks ago Mark and I took a trip to California. We both had earned free Southwest flights and they were about to expire, plus we had free hotel rooms using H Honors! If you do not earn any type of points or rewards on your CC you must fix this now!! This is how Mark and I have been able to travel so much. We haven't paid for a flight so far! Seriously...you can get free stuff for spending money!! (I am not encouraging charging up a bunch of credit cards...use wisely and pay off each month) Anyway, we took the first flight out on Monday morning and the last one back on Saturday night to make our much needed week away last for as long as possible. San Francisco was BEAUTIFUL...not a place we would choose to live, but definately a place to visit! We did it all....you can see a few (of hundreds) of pics below!

We had been up since 3am and were just arriving in San Francisco.

San Francisco Trolley...it really was lots of fun...one of my favorite things we did!

My first time...it was amazing...and is now Mark's favorite store! haha

Sea Lions being lazy in the sun...my kind of life!!

AT&T Park where the Giants Play. It was an awesome stadium!

Alcatrez Island

On the Cruise over to Alcatrez Island...it was pretty cold!

Alcatrez Island Cell

Mark in a cell on the toilet.

The Bestest Chocolate Brownie Sundae Ever!

View from Hotel Room during the Day

View from our Hotel Room at Night

The "Crookedest Street in America"

The Golden Gate Bridge

Winery in Napa Valley. It was really cool and beautiful!

Redwood Forests