Walk to End Alzheimer's

A couple of weekends ago

we went to waco to do a 

Walk to End Alzheimer's

in support of my mom.

We had the two fold mission,

of supporting medical research to stop Alzheimer's

but more importantly to pray for breakthrough for my mom

and believe God for healing.

So we walked and prayed.

It was awesome and I am so glad we did it!

 There were flowers here to represent people who had alzheimer's

or people who cared for them.

 It was a beautiful day to walk so we were thankful.

 Post walk.

 Mary Beth and Hanj made our shirts

They had a head on them and it said,

"My faith is in the truth that God is healer, and I support medical research"

It was a great event.

I am glad Amy decided for us to do it and put our team together.

Thank you God that our hope is in you as the great healer!

WE trust you!

Duncan's Soccer :)

I think I have already done one post about Duncan's soccer season,

but I brought my camera to another game

and it happened to be the ONE game where Duncan put forth some effort.

Please remind me to not sign 3 year olds up for soccer again -

it is not the best use of time and resources :)

But they sure are cute in their uniforms

and have a fun little team -

so that makes up for the lack of effort - right?

A thumbs up to mama here

 Notice Casey is basically having to push Duncan to kick the ball :)

 You see the ball

and Duncan

I think they should be going in the same direction -

but not here

 Felix doing his spider man pose

the cutest :)

 Now Luke is able to engage in the game and does really well

 And then with a little bribery -

we were able to get Duncan to kick the ball

 and even run -

and he happened to score TWO goals with this effort.

(amazing what a little effort will do for you!)

 the fans

its always a good reminder on things like this 

that they are just kids (little ones at that)

and what they do on the soccer field does not matter.

it is also a good opportunity to teach them

to persevere and try even when they don't want to.

we are working on diligence versus laziness and this is a good opportunity to put it into practice!

The Wedding

 Geoffrey & LeeAnn had the sweetest wedding.

Jordan was one of the three officiants and did an incredible job.

He does such a good job with weddings (i am not biased at all ;))

The reception was decorated beautifully with yellow and grey colors.

 Here is the beautiful bride putting her dress on.

 Funny story about these pictures.

I was really wanting to get a family picture of us so that we could use it for our christmas card.

I had us get together and take one right after the ceremony before we got messy from eating.

I had amy take it and was happy with some of the results.

 Do you notice anything missing in these pictures?

I didn't realize it until 10 minutes later -

our FAMILY picture was missing BARRON!!!!

i felt like the worst mom ever.

i guess this picture won't be on our christmas card :)

 as you can tell by this picture

jayden was throwing an absolute fit.

i think the kids were super tired from the past two weeks of activities and it was catching up with them :)

 first dance

 mother son dance

 a family pic (with everyone)

 duncan LOVES to dance

 love how geoffrey is looking at leeann in this picture

 these two were adorable during the reception

apparently they were pretending they were jordan and christy

and had 3 boys and 1 girl

hillarious

 sudan women

 us

saying goodbye to the wonderful couple

it was a wonderful wedding in every possible way.

so happy that they are married and that i get precious leeann as my new sister in law.

i couldn't be more thankful for all the wonderful in laws that i have on both sides.

God is good.

and now we try to recover from the crazy september that was our life.

Bridesmaid Brunch

 On Sunday morning we had the most precious bridesmaid brunch at the Farrel's home.

It was so sweet and fun because we all got to sit together and just enjoy a wonderful meal.

LeeAnn was so calm the entire day - she was a wonderful bride.

 i put barron in one of geoffrey and jordan's old outfits for the occasion

he looked so sweet in it

 mother of the groom

 all the mrs.ogden's :)

such a sweet time together

thankful for the start of a fun day!