Happy Birthday, Brian!!!

Today is my precious husband's birthday! So here are a few fun pictures of him over the past year! Enjoy! I love the laughter and joy that this awesome guy brings to my life!

Dear Brian,
Happy, happy birthday! I hope today is an incredible day for you!! May it be filled with lots of laughter and happiness!

You are my best friend, amazing husband, and soon to be awesome Daddy to our little bundle of joy!! Thank you for all that you do for me and our family! I cannot imagine my life without you in it! You light up my whole world!!

I am so grateful that God gave me you!! I am so blessed to be your wife!

Happy Birthday, sweetheart! I love you very much!

Trina

A finished nursery, now awaiting Baby Willeford's arrival

Hello friends and family,

Thank you for your prayers and sweet comments for Madeleine Grace. Please continue to pray as Tammi and David have an appt. with an audiologist soon. We truly appreciate all of your sweet comments and prayers.

All is good here. Brian has returned to work and I am learning what to do with myself as I did not. I have taught for 11 years and at this time of the year I have always geared up for school. I am not complaining one bit, it is just an adjustment. I know in a few weeks I will know exactly what to do: take care of Brianna or Pearson. All continues to go well. I am feeling fairly well. We go back to the doctor tomorrow. :)

We have enjoyed finishing the nursery this weekend. Enjoy the pics. We now have a bookshelf, a toy box, and the wall hangings up. We loved the plague that says "I am a dream come true."

We had the pleasure of visiting with friends from TX this weekend: Jason, Heather, and Luke. When Heather sends me pictures of us together I will post them. Unforuntatley every time we were together I forgot my camera.

We hope you all have a great week!

Love,

T and B

Prayer needed for Madeleine Grace

Hello friends and family,

We need prayers for our precious neice, Madeleine Grace, who has recently been diagnosed with a sensory hearing loss due to damage in her brain stem. David and Tammi are doing everything they know to do to help her. Madeleine will have a neuro-psychological test on Thurs. We know God has a special plan for this precious little girl's life! For those of you who know her, you know how very precious she is!!! God has given her so very many talents and abilities. Please pray for God's peace and comfort to wash over my family and pray for her doctors to have wisdom to know how to help her. At this time there is no cure for the sensory hearing loss diagnosis, so our prayer request is that the doctors and specialists will be able to guide Tammi and David on how to communticate with Madeleine. Thank you for lifting this precious child up to our Awesome, Healing Heavenly Father!

Madeleine and Brian love to take silly self portraits! Enjoy the pics and thank you in advance for lifting her up!

Love,

Aunt TaTa and Duncle B(as Madeleine refers to us)

Awesome Shower in CO!!

We have been sooooooo blessed again! We were blessed with an awesome baby shower this weekend in Colorado Springs. Four talented, amazing ladies at our church threw us an awesome shower! We played three games, ate awesome food, and opened many generous, amazing gifts!!! One game we played everyone had to predict how large my stomach is and then measure their tape around me. My precious student who was there won that game!! Another game we played was very fun. The object of the game was to see how many balloons you could stuff in your shirt! Brian won that game with 11 balloons in his shirt!His sweet mama came in 2nd place with 9 balloons stuffed in her shirt!! We had a blast! Thank you Susan, Marti, Sallly, and Kristen for an amazing day!

We were very blessed to have Brian's mom, Carol Ann, and her friend Pat to come see us this weekend! We were so excited to have her here for the shower!! What a blessing! Enjoy the pics!

Now, I have a great "honey do" list for Brian this week. He already put together the swing and now he will work on the bouncy seat, bookshelf, hang pictures, and whatever else I come up with before he goes to work next Monday. I am so grateful for such a sweet husband! Thanks, honey for everything!!

We go back to the dr. tomorrow. Will post an update then!

Have a great week everyone! Much love to you all!!

T and B

Surprise visitor this weekend!!!

Last week Brian told me that he had a surprise early birthday present for me on Sunday after our church picnic. He asked me not to ask questions and not to doubt him. So I didn't ask any questions. I was very curious and intrigued. After the picnic Brian told me it was time to go. So we went to the mall. The whole time we were walking through the mall I kept looking for anyone we knew. I kept thinking, "Someone is coming to see us, but who? Maybe Kat!!!" Well, I was right! My best friend from college, Kathy, came to town to surprise me!! I was very surprised and happy to see her!!! Sunday night we hung out and talked for hours, then we went to dinner at Chili's. On Monday we hung out all day. We had breakfast and talked more!! Then we went to lunch at Panera Bread and shopped at the shops at Briargate! We both love Brighton and had a blast trying on sunglasses we would like and all the ones we never buy! Then we went to our doctor appt. Baby Willeford is still doing great! I got a good score on the bio physical profile. I was highly encouraged to drink more water, so I working on that. Then we drove out to the Garden of the Gods. We walked around Old Colorado City. Then we met Brian for dinner. By this time we were pooped! We hung out and talked more this morning and then she headed out around 11am. We took lots of self portraits, hope you enjoy them! It was so great to see her!! Thank you Brian and Kat for surprising me! You guys rock!

11th Anniversary-Updated

Do you recognize the couple in the first picture? Our friends here in CO Springs did not. :)) This is our engagement picture of us 11 years ago!

Today, Friday, July 13th, we celebrate 11 years of marriage! God has blessed me immensely with an amazing husband! Here are just a few reasons why I love him so: he's very compassionate, sensitive, loving, handsome, and funny! It has been an honor and joy to spend the last 11 years with Brian. God has changed his heart so much since we first met. I love the way he allows God to lead our lives and how he constantly relies on God's will for what is best for us! I cannot imagine that last 15 years(that is how long we have been together) without him! He is an incredible supporter, husband, and best friend! I love the way we work together and the way God allows us to work together as a team. There have been some challenges in the past 11 years, but God has never failed us! Thank you Lord, for never leaving or forsaking us and always being right by our side and for bringing us through some hard times and teaching us to trust you and your timing!

Brian, Happy anniversary! I love you sooooo much! It has been a joy to journey life with you these past 11 years, honey, and I look forward to the next chapter in life as God allows us to be parents to Baby Willeford. What an honor and joy that we have been bestowed with! I love you!

We have plans today to hang out and go to a nice dinner tonight.

We went to dinner at Ted's Montana Grill!! It was so delicious! If you ever have a chance to go to one in US, go! It was awesome!! We walked around the shops at Briargate, which are some nice shops. We had a relaxing, enjoyable evening! Thanks for all the sweet comments! We love you all!

T

Great week and New links

We have had a great week relaxing and hanging out with friends. We had a great 4th of July with the Dunn family. No great pics to post, sorry. We had a cookout and played blongo again. I went to ladies bunco last night and it was just Susan and I, but that was great to be able to hang out with her! She taught me a new card game called Nertz(spelling unknown).I can't wait to teach Brian and take him down. :)) We are enjoying our new home, new nursery, and all of the fun great gifts we have received. I am in the process of figuring out what to wash now and what to wait on. This is all new to me. :))

There are two new links on the left side of our blog. The one titled "Praying for Molly" is a series of devotions that a friend of mine, Heather Arbuckle, is writing each week for a family in McKinney whose daughter has recently been diagnosed with Leukemia. Heather tries to post her devotions on the days that the little girl has her treatments. I have enjoyed reading the devotions during my quiet times lately. Feel free to check out the blog and lift up this precious little girl named Molly.

The other new link titled "Aimee and Lonnie" is the blog of some dear friends who we knew when we were in McKinney, Aimee and Lonnie. We were in small group together for a few years. They now have three precious children and I just found their blog today. :) Great to be back in touch!

Enjoy your weekend! For those of you in TX enjoy your days of sunshine!! I hear it has rained for 17 days straight! Wow!
Love to all,
T and B

Beginning of a Nursery

Hi! We are excited to post new pictures of the nursery. There is still a lot to do, but this is the beginning of Brianna or Pearson's beautiful nursery. Brian painted yesterday and today we picked up the bed and put it together. Then we added all of the bedding and valance! We love it! Thank you to all of you who helped make this nursery possible! The dresser/changing table is coming soon. It had to be ordered. :) Enjoy the first of many pics of this room.

So Blessed!!!

We have been so blessed I don't know where to begin! We had an amazing trip to Texas. We had two awesome weeks of visiting, relaxing, and being showered by so many with so many amazing gifts.

We arrived on June 12th in Hurst to hang out with my family. We loved on our precious neice and nephew, hung out with Mom, Dad, GG, Tammi, and David. One day we went to the movie with my parents and ate great catfish(which is hard to find in CO). We went shopping a few times, ate my sister's famous strawberry pie twice, and played with Madeleine and Mason! We also had family pictures made that turned out great! See previous post for those pics. Then we enjoyed a fabulous shower that my sister and great aunt hosted. We were able to visit with many great friends and family. Thanks Sis and Aunt Aunt for hosting!!

Then on June 19th we headed to Greenville to see Brian's family. We arrived to find Carol Ann with a newly redecorated house! We had a great time there hanging out with Mom and Nannie. We enjoyed geocaching with our nephews and neice. We also enjoyed shopping a few times there, eating at our favorite restaurant in Greenville, and chilling out with the whole gang. Then we also enjoyed an amazing shower there too that was hosted by our friend, sisters in law, and Carol Ann. It was amazing! Thanks gals for hosting!

We are very grateful for all the goodies we received while in Tx. For those of who were able to see it was great to see you!

We traveled home to CO on June 26th. Since being home we have unpacked, painted the nursery and put together the stroller. It is becoming very real that a little one will join us in about 2 months. Wow!! We hope to work on the nursery more this weekend. I will post pictures of it when it is complete.

Enjoy the pictures of our trip. There were 111 pictures to choose from, I hope you like the ones I chose. Thanks Carol Ann and Heather for taking such good pics at both showers. I appreciate you!

Love,

T and B

Texas trip and new pics!!

Hello precious friends and family,
We are having a great time here in hot Texas!! We had family pictures made with the Upchurch/Cox fam last week and they turned out so great! We also had a few maternity pics taken! Enjoy!! We had black and white pics developed of us. They are really cool. We will put them in the nursery.
We had a great shower at my sister's house this past weekend! She worked sooooo hard all week! And it was so beautiful! Thanks sis!!!! We had a great week visiting with my family and now we are visiting with the Greenville clan.
I will post more pics off of my camera when I can. Hope you are all doing well!
Love to all!
T and B

Geocaching Race #3...House...Ready for TX!!!

Hello family and friends! Today we had the Amazing Geocache Race #3 with our friends from church. Our team came in 2nd place. I didn't race. I just supported and took pictures. We had a good time!

Here is one more picture of our new house. We are feeling right at home and so blessed! We have unpacked boxes, picked up paint samples for the nursery, mowed and water the lawn and gotten settled! It has been great to have our own house!

We are ready to head to Texas!!! We will leave early on Tues. morning. We will be there for about 2 weeks. One week in Ft. Worth and one week in Greenville. We will have two showers while we are in Texas. We are looking forward to seeing our families and friends!

I will try to blog while we are there, but Ms. Blogger Queen-don't hound me too much if I don't! Love you,

T and B