Ladies Brunch...Belly Pics...New house

Hi everyone! The ladies brunch was a hit!! Yea! God is so good. All week I had been asking God that if He wanted me to share something to lay it on me. I patiently waited, researched, read, and prayed. As I was going to bed last night thoughts started coming to me and then this morning before the brunch it all came together. God gave me words of wisdom. I shared a devotional about how God is crazy about you and each of us are a daughter of the King. God gave me scriptures to share and a devotional out of a book I have about how he wants us to come to Him for rest for our souls. Two other ladies prepared 4 songs for worship and they were all perfect. God definately showed up and blessed us. The tables and food turned out great too.

Here are a few more belly pics. I am now 23 weeks pregnant and loving this time in my life. God has taught me to embrace this time and I am. I love being with child and feeling this miracle baby move. The picture of the sign is at Whole Foods. We never thought we could park in these special parking places and so we took a picture of it. Silly, I know. :))

I am also attaching a pic of our new house. The inspection went great last week and all is going well. We are scheduled to close on May 25th. Yea! Now it is packing time. I asked Brian if we could wait to start packing until after the ladies brunch. :)) He agreed.

We pray all is well with all of you. I will try to update more often. :)

Love to all,

T and B

Surprise on our door step today and update!!!

Hello blogger friends.
I must update or my friend Heather is going to come to CO to get me! Just kidding!

We had a great surprise when we got home from work today. We drove in the driveway and I saw a big Babies R Us box. So we immediately opened it to find our 6 piece crib set for the nursery delivered to us from my best friend from college, Kat!! Kat, thank you sooooooo very much! It made our day!

We are excited about a few upcoming events in our lives: this precious baby I am carrying, a new house on the horizon, and a ladies brunch I am planning for our church.

This precious baby Willeford(Brianna or Pearson) continues to move around and let me know that all is good in there. And the dr. says all is good and we heard the heartbeat again on Monday! Praise the Lord!!

We put an offer on a house here in Colorado Springs. It is about a mile from our current house that we are renting. It is a two story, 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath house with a beautiful kitchen. It is in our price range and in the area of town we wanted to stay in. We are excited. We didn't want to rent forever. We are having the house inspected tomorrow(Sat.) and if all goes well we will close on May 25th.

I am planning a ladies brunch for the ladies ministries for our church. I am excited about this. It will be a great time of fellowship, fun, and food. I am praying that if God wants me to share a devotional or testimony that He will lay something on my heart.

We hope all is well with you and yours. More pics of the growing belly coming soon!
Love to all,

T and B

Happy Easter!!!!

Hi! Happy Easter!! We hope you all had a great Easter! We had a snowy Easter here. We hope you enjoy the last picture with huge snowflakes falling on us. We had a great day at church and hanging out with the Dunn family. We are very grateful that they have adopted us as one of them. We are so grateful for God's grace and mercy on this very special Easter. We pray this finds all of you well!

A praise report for Carol Ann-She has finished her treatments and she had her tests and scans done last week and the tumor has decreased in size and she is doing very well. She hopes to have the stomach tube removed very quickly. She is claiming victory and giving God all the praise. Thank you for your prayers for her!

Much love,

B and T

Awesome Trip to TX!!!

Hello friends and family,
We are delighted to let you know that we had an incredible Spring Break in TX! We were showered with many blessings, gifts, and hugs and kisses! We went to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of McFBC ( our previous church in McKinney) and to see family and friends. The anniversary celebration was so great! On Saturday night when we went to a dinner celebration the word that we are pregnant spread like wild fire. It was very fun to have so many people who have prayed for us for so long to be so excited for us!

On Sunday we were showered with blessings and many great baby gifts from our former life group! It was a great time to visit with our friends. It was so great to see everyone! It was especially great to see my friend, Heather! You look great gal! And especially great to see my friend Jenny who now lives in Houston. Thanks for coming to town the same weekend as me girl! Thanks again to all who were there for showering us with so much love and gifts!

On Monday I went to Slaughter Elem. and Wolford Elem. to see all my former colleagues and I had a blast visiting with everyone! I even got to see former students.

We spent the rest of the week visiting with our precious families. We spent a few days in Greenville and then a few days in Ft. Worth. We had a great time hanging out with Nannie and Mom(CarolAnn) and the Willeford bunch. We also had a great time with the Upchurch crew. I went to Disney on Ice with Madeleine Grace and my family. It was great to see all of our neices and nephews. They have all grown so much. Enjoy the new pics of them. We also went to visit my sweet grandfather, Papaw, who lives in Decatur. He got to meet my sweet nephew for the first time. We had a blast laughing with him.

It was hard to leave as we love all of them so much, although we know God has called us here to CO Springs and so we were ready to get back to what He has for our lives.

We hope all of you are doing well. Much love to you all! Have a blessed week!

Love,

B and T

New Pictures

Hi friends! Here are a few pictures we took this weekend. I don't know if you can tell, but the baby is growing. My belly is sticking out some. We also took a picture of some gifts we have received, I know it may seem silly but, we feel so blessed! We hope life is great with all of you!

Much love,

T and B

Is anyone out there in blogger world?

Hello. We are beginning to wonder if anyone else besides our 4 faithful blogger friends are out there? Does anyone ever look at our blog? Just checking... :)) It is not hard to set up an account to leave comments. :))))

All is good here. Just busy with normal life stuff: work, church, basketball on Mondays for B, small group on Tues., prayer on Wed. and normal every day life stuff. We are very blessed with a full life. We cannot complain.

The pregnancy is going well. We go back to the dr. on Tues. We have been tossing around possible names this week. We still don't know if we will find out the sex or not. Decisions.... I will post more pics soon. I have started needing to wear maternity patns to work. Sweats at home. We did finally tell some people at work today and that was fun. We pulled out some of our special items that we had in a chest from our previous pregnancy and that was a very special time! Praise God for this miracle baby!

We are getting excited about our trip to Texas in the end of March. McFBC(our old church) is having a 10 year anniversary celebration that we will be in town for. We received an invitation this week and I have been invited to join the choir again. That would be fun. I don't know if I can swing it or not without being at the rehearsal, but we'll see. We are looking forward to seeing our families again and many friends. I am looking forward to a trip to my previous school to see my teammates and friends there.

Ok, I just thought I would update the blog, so I don't become a blogger disgrace!
Much love to all,
T and B

Great weekend in Pagosa Springs

Hi everyone. We had a great weekend in Pagosa Springs, CO. We decided to get away on our three day weekend. I rested a lot and Brian enjoyed the natural hot spring pools. I refrained from them as the temperatures would have been too hot for me and my pregnant body. We ate at good resturants and enjoyed a nice lodge. It is a very cute town.

Exciting News!!!

Hello family and friends,
It is with great excitement, joy, and shock that we share with you that God has provided a way for us to be parents in 2007. I am 13 weeks pregnant with a miracle baby that God has created. We are thrilled and shocked. As many of you know we have been trying to conceive for a very long time and never imagined that we would ever be able to conceive on our own, but we did. We discovered this miracle on Dec. 23 right before Christmas. We have stayed quiet until we felt the pregnancy was a little safer. We have seen pictures of the baby three times and this past week we saw the spine, hands, and feet. We feel very blessed with a great new doctor here in Colorado Springs. He has been taking very good care of me during this first trimester.

We want to say thank you for all of your prayers, love, and support over the many years of our journey. It has been an honor to share our journey with you. We have known all along that God had a plan for us and we still trust that. Now we ask for your prayers for a healthy pregnancy and delivery. We pray all is well with all of you and love and treasure each one of you very much.

It has been so much fun this past week getting emails and phone calls from friends and family after reading this message in our email. We felt it was ok to share with our blogger friends too.

Feel free to check out the link for my friend Heather's blog. She is home now and looking great! Yea! Praise God!
With much anticipation for the next 6 months,
T and B

Helen Hunt Falls in the Springs

Saturday was a beautiful day in Colorado Springs and we did not want another Sat. to pass us by as we did laundry and house work, so we got out of the house on a beautiful day. We decided to go to Helen Hunt Falls here in the Springs. We packed a picnic lunch hoping to find a dry picnic table to find them all still snow covered. The falls were very pretty as underneath the frozen snow was the waterfall. We had a great afternoon hanging out and enjoying more scenery in this beautiful place we live.

Thank you for praying for our friend Heather. She is home now recooperating. I miss you on blogger world, girl, and look forward to hearing from you when you feel better. Get well.

Thank you also for praying for Brian's mom. She is doing well. She has finished radiation therapy and now has two big chemo. treatments ahead, one this Tues. Thank you for your continued prayers for her as she knows this is why she is doing so well. Praise God!!

We hope all of you have a wonderful week and great Valentine's day! Much love to you all!
Trina and Brian

Hi friends,
We hope all is well with all of you. We are doing well. I got a hair cut this week with a new hair style. It is still growing out but I kept the length with lots of layers and flipping at the end. I promised a friend I would post a picture so here it is. It feels kind of funny to post one picture of me. Sorry. :)))

If you think about it please pray for our friend, Heather Rice. She is our friend who introduced us to blogs. She had a vertical sleeve gastrectomy on Nov. 29th. It's a laparascopic procedure with one night in the hospital for observation post-op. She has had many complications since then. She has been in the hospital for a very long time. She has had spleen troubles, lung trouble, leakage from the stomach surgery and just tons of bad stuff. She did this surgery to end her diabetes and have a healthier life. Please pray for a quick recovery and for her to be able to go home soon. Please pray for her sweet husband Jason and son Luke. Thanks for your prayers.

By the way it is snowing here in CO again today. Fun! Well the sweet husband has the Sat. breakfast ready, so I must sign off for now. Love to all!!!

Geocaching in TX!

Hi. When we were in Texas in December we took our neice and nephew geocaching. We had a blast! Kate and Hayden really enjoyed it. Unfortunately it rained the next day and we weren't able to go again. Enjoy the pics.

We have an opportunity to go to Texas in March for a 10 year anniversary celebration at our old church. Lucky for us it is the same week as our Spring Break. We will ride with Mark and Susan. So all the family that was going to come see us in March will have to come this summer. We are excited to see friends and family again very soon. Yea!

Later taters,
T and B

Christmas 2006 in TX!

We had a fabulous Christmas in TX!! We thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with our families! We loved on our neices and nephews alot as you can tell from the photos. Everyone is doing good. My mom and dad were so glad to have us at their house. We enjoyed relaxing and visiting there. My mom, sister, and I shopped some! That was fun!! We enjoyed seeing my cousin, Marcie! Hey girl, love ya! I thought you would love seeing your pic on our blog since you check it so often! We had a great time in Greenville too! Brian and his brothers take great pictures with their parents. We enjoyed relaxing and visiting there too. It was great to be able to love on and spoil Carol Ann a little as she wasn't feeling too great and she never lets anyone spoil her. Thank you for your prayers for her. She is doing good, just tired from all of her treatments.

We were able to spend Sunday in McKinney at McFBC seeing old friends. We were able to spend the afternoon with our dear friends Phil and Beth and their precious kids. It was great to see them! We were able to pick up right where we left off and visit all afternoon! What a blessing they are in our lives!

Mentioning blessings, all of you are just that to us! We hope 2007 is a very blessed year for you!
T and B

We made it to TX!!!

Hello friends and family,
We are soooooooooooo excited to say we made it to TX! Our first flight out on Thurs. am was cancelled and then we made it Thursday afternoon on a new flight that AA created. The 757 airplane was packed and we arrived in TX Thur. night at 7pm. Our families are so happy to have us here and we are loving hanging out with the fam! New pics to come soon! Stay tuned!

Merry Christmas and lots of Love,
T and B

Snow Storm/Blizzard Warning

Hi. We survived our two day work week! The kids were good and the party went well with my 1st graders. We racked in the gifts this year! We are very blessed to have great students and parents. We are thankful to be off for awhile! Yea!!

Please pray that we can make it to TX as are having a snow storm and blizzard warning today. Our flight leaves on Thursday morning and it is supposed to snow all day today and get worse throughout the day. We'll keep you posted! Love,
T and B

Dilema Solved

Hi. After much consideration and thought I decided to write a Christmas letter. All 124 letters are ready to be mailed. I am so blessed as my sweet husband helps me with the whole process. We hope you enjoy it.

We have had a good weekend shopping, cooking, wrapping, packing, and resting. Brian has not felt to great this weekend, but seems to be feeling better now. We are getting ready to go to TX!!!!!!! Yea!!! Two work days and one day to get ready and then get on the airplane early on Thursday!

I received a new cute holiday shirt from my Mom and Grandmommie. I wore it this weekend and want them to see that I love it! Thank you so much for the cute shirt!

Enjoy your week! Later taters,

T and B

Christmas Card dilema

Hi friends. Here it is Dec. 14 and I have not done one thing to get my Christmas cards ready. Usually by now I have mailed all 100 of them. Not yet this year. I can't decide if I want to do a letter or if want to send a holiday photo card or both!! Yikes, decisions, decisions!!! If these are my biggest issues I have nothing to complain about. Tonight my sweet husband changed out of his comfies into regular clothes again to try to get a Christmas picture for cards, although I didn't like any of them. So now you can get a sneak peak, although I may not use any of these. I love our new camera and self timer on it!

Thank you for praying for Brian's mom, Carol Ann. She is doing well. She had her first round of chemo. this week and seems to have done well.

Very Recent Blessing: When we are in TX we will be able to borrow my sister and brother in law's car! Yea! This will save us a substancial amount of $ while we are there! Thanks sis and bro!!! We appreciate you!!! We are so looking forward to our trip. Only 6 more days and then I can hold my niece and nephew!!!!! I still have a lot to do to get ready!

Tonight we had a Christmas program at our school and it was so great! Our work environment might not be the greatest, but the kids are! I love those kids!

Thanks for listening to my ramblings! Enjoy these last few days before we celebrate our Saviour's birth! Love to all!!
T and B

Precious Pics and Prayer request

Hi all! Here are more precious pictures of my niece and nephew! Can't wait until Dec. 21 when I can hold both of them.

Thank you for praying for Carol Ann, Brian's mom. She started her radiation therapy yesterday. She will have radiation 5 days a week for 6-7 weeks and chemo. therapy one day a week. She wants to work and resume normalcy as much as possible. Can't wait to love on her too when we get to TX! Thank you for praying for her strength during this new journey.

All is good here in CO. No snow to report this week. Just a little cool. We have two Christmas parties this weekend and more shopping to do before we head to TX on Dec. 21. We have adopted three children for Christmas and we are enjoying shopping for kids in need.