Asher's dedication

 Asher got dedicated Sunday, January 23rd at Park City Baptist Church. We were so blessed to be surrounded by so many of our friends and family that came to celebrate in this special day.

 Pastor Marty our Children's pastor on the right explaining what the purpose of a baby dedication is.

 The church asked us to pick a life verse for Asher. Addie learned the verse and was very excited to share it with the congregation. 

"For this reason since the day we heard about Asher we have not stopped praying and asking God to fill Asher with his knowledge through spiritual wisdom and understanding." Colossians 1:9

After church the celebration continued with a brunch at La Duni.

What is a baby dedication?

We dedicated Asher making a promise to God that we would raise Asher in a Christian home. That we would set an example for him and teach him about God's love. Craig and I didn't decided to have both of our children dedicated because that's what all the "cool" parents at church do but because our relationship with Christ is the most amazing thing in our lives and we want our children to experience His love and hopefully one day have their own relationship with God.

"As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD. I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be given over to the LORD." And he worshiped the LORD there. 1 Samuel 1:26-28

A Princess Garden Party: Tea Cups and Tiara's

Saturday at the Disney store they had  great free activity, a tea party for all the little princesses. We didn't tell Adelynn about it until we were there, she was so surprised and excited.

 Before the princesses enter the party "princess Leah" taught the girls how to do the princess wave and other manners a princess needs to know for a tea party.

 Addie showing her excitement before entering the party.

Notice she is surrounded by Princess Tiana's 

 Addie had to give her autograph to be granted entrance.

 All the princesses waiting for the fun to begin.

 Each girl got a crown.

 Addie doing a wonderful job modeling her crown ;)

 

 It was very hard for Addie to not play with the tea set that was sitting right in front of her!

Princess Leah trying to organize a game. 

 The girls had to line up and carry a sugar cube from the plate to the cup on the other side. Addie got to first~

 Carrying her sugar

 Putting her sugar in the yellow cup!

The Disney Store is great! We love it! It's the closest thing we have Disneyland around Dallas. It's Adelynn's favorite place to visit.

Wordless Wednesday

What I do on my nights off

Some mom's on there nights off go to the movies, out to dinner with friends, shopping....but not me I go to Mavs games. My father-in-law has season tickets and he share them with the family (I know my Father-in-law rocks). I mentioned a couple of months back that when the Lakers came to town I would love to go to that game. Well I got the call a couple of days ago and I got to go on a date with David. The mavs have been on a little losing streak (I don't really want to talk about it) so we weren't really expecting much since the Lakers have been on a winning streak. But our boys came through tonight and beat the Lakers. 

Great game, Great company, Great night.

I need a sign for Addie that says-

I dressed myself today!

Some of Asher's first

Asher is now 7 months and some change. He is crawling everywhere and pulling himself up on everything. We are guessing he'll follow in his sister footsteps and will be walking way too soon. He is not sleeping through the night, he wakes up around 4 a.m. for a little milk. His acid reflex is getting much better. He is such a happy baby! He loves his sister more than anything and Addie is such a big help...no really!

Asher will be dedicated this Sunday, if you're in Dallas we'd love to see ya at PCBC at 9:20 Great Hall. Adelynn will be saying Asher verse in front of the entire contemporary service...well she know the verse we just hope she says it!

Some of Asher's first:

first time Asher got to play at the Science Museum

First story with Pa Pa

First Mavs game!

First time to play at the Galleria

Random pictures from my i-phone

Thank you Aunt Camille and Uncle David!

Aunt Camille and Uncle David sent Addie $15 for Christmas. That may no seem like a lot to you but to a 3 year old it's tons! We talked to her about her gift and asked where she wanted to go shopping without missing a beat she used an outside voice inside the car-

 "DISNEY STORE!" 

So last Saturday we took the family to North Park for Addie's shopping trip.

Addie outside the Disney Store with a cheesy smile :(

Adelynn was in heaven with the idea that she got to pick something out. She looked at everything princess in the store. We were there about 20 minutes. If you haven't been to the new Disney Store in North Park you should check it out its way cool you almost feel like your at a park. The employees were dancing to Hannah Montanna and getting the kids to join in! Addie stopped her shopping to join in on the fun! After much thought she picked up some Princess and the Frog toys which were on sale and were only $8. She took out her wallet to pay and gave the cashier all her money, the cashier was great and helped Addie make change!

She played all Saturday with these new toys

On Monday Craig was home because of MLK day and had he also had a migraine, he needed me to get Addie out of the house so he could have some quite. So I took Addie to her 2nd favorite store Target to spend the rest of her money. Before we left she got some extra money from her piggy bank, she had about $11 to spend.

Whenever we go to Target before we enter I always tell Addie what we are going to buy and she adds "I get to look and touch princesses but not buy." But today I told her she got to buy anything she wanted under $7. As we enter the store she told a couple of people passing by that we got to spend $7. She got a little hand held red basket and was ready to hit the dollar section.

 We look in every aisle of the dollar section and she didn't really want anything. I told her she could buy 7 things in this part of the store but the only thing she really cared about was putting items in the right place, for example she found an Alice in Wonderland book in the Tinkerbell lip gloss section and she had to put Alice where she belonged (so her father). After about 15 minutes of her organizing and shopping in the dollar area she decided to move on!

She stopped to look at sunglasses but decided she already had some so it wasn't worth her time.

We finally arrived in the toy department. She looked at everything! EVERYTHING! 3 or 4 times. She would ask the same question over and over- "what does this do" 

I would show her something in her prince range- baby food $5.99

and she would look at the baby $24.99

We looked at everything princess about a million times. I pulled some things off the shelf and put them on the floor so she could make a better decision. She picked clothes for the Cinderella "fashion doll" (barbie). I thought we were done- I was wrong! She wanted to make sure she made the right decision (she is spending her own money) so we got to look at everything one more time. 

Now we've been at the store about 45 minutes and she has changed her mind about the clothes, so I set the timer and tell her when it goes off we are leaving with or without something. After 3 minutes the timer went off and I swear it was like Super Market Sweep, she walking fast up and down the princess aisle saying over and over "I'm hurring I'm hurring" Finally she picks little Belle figures, kinda of like Polly Pocket but a Disney princess. 

By the time we got home we had been shopping for over an hour! Next time Addie has money to spend I'm sending her shopping with Craig!

Thank you Pilands for the gift it was really fun to watch Addie's eye's light up at the thought of getting to buy something! 

FYI- Adelynn's total at Target $10.81 she now has 19 cents left in her piggy bank!