Smorgasbord of Catch Up

Congratulations to my incredible husband for graduating from Truett Seminary yesterday! It was a great day of celebration! We had lunch at Truett with some of our best friends and Ray's professors, and the actual graduation ceremony was later that evening. I'm so proud of the many things Ray accomplished during his time at Truett. He has learned so much and I could not be prouder or more excited for him and the ministry God will do through him in the future. (I don't have a lot of great grad pics, so I'll post more when I get them from Friends) It was such a wonderful celebration with family and friends (not to mention some good Ninfas, thanks to wonder boy Ryan Arnold!)!







It was a perfect day!

Duke has been sick lately :( He lost 3 lbs. last week thanks to a nasty little virus. But, we've been pumping him full of drugs the vet gave us and he seems to be doing much better! We're just glad he didn't get eaten by what we found in garage last week:


Yup. The snake was 6 ft. long and about 2 inches around. Ray's from Beaumont, I'm from Dallas, we had no clue of what to do. Thankfully a church member did (Buddy killed it by swinging it in circles, beating it's head on the ground. yikes).

Last weekend Ray and I went to Dallas to celebrate with Lauren Doumany and Jeff Sutton in joining their lives together! The ceremony (at SMU) and reception (at the Petroleum Club) were absolutely beautiful, perfectly stylized for their personalities, and so much fun!

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I am so excited for the summer and ready for it to get here! Starting in June I'll be teaching 5 classes a week for Bearobics! Along with TurboKick, I'll be teaching a Step class and a Spinning class. Yah! So excited and cannot wait!

For a long time I've struggled with figuring out what I am going to do in the fall. I've had several opportunities, and several things fall through; all in all, nothing seemed fulfilling. Growing up as a minister's kid, my experiences in churches have been less than stellar. Though my mind and heart work and think like a minister, I've always been to afraid to willingly walk into church ministry. Why in the world would I go to a place I know might hurt me, again? Wasn't marrying a pastor good enough? I mean it gets me pretty close to being a minister without technically being one. I think we all know the answer to this one. Last year I was accepted to Truett and decided to being a masters of social work instead. So, when I walked in to Truett this week to talk with Mr. Grear Howard, I assumed he would tell me I needed to begin the process of applying all over again. Within 5 minutes of talking with Grear, he figured out how to get 70% of my tuition paid for, waved the $100 registration, and offered me job.

Yeah. Wow.

It's amazing how things fall into place when we decide to stop being afraid and faithless and surrender to the call God has on our life.

So I've registered for classes and officially begin in the fall. In all honesty, I'm not super excited yet, but I trust that will come. Nevertheless, it's so nice to feel at peace and know I'm being obedient to God's call and hold on my life.

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That's all I got! Happy Graduation weekend!