It is summer already...what?

Ok so here is the quick look at what we have been doin since you last heard from us. Snow was the last thing significant in our lives evidently and that was a couple months ago and I am gonna try to remeber everything and forcast a little. Here we go....

April went by without a hitch. May is barrelling on through and summer is getting started. We are spent Memorial Day weekend on a tour of La. We spent some time in Monterey at Cj's lake house, some time in Natchez at Ro's camphouse, and finally went to a ballet recital in Norco for our neice.


This week we are having VBS at the church. Then at the begining of June we will be taking our students to Harden, KY for summer camp we will be back for a bit only to get on a plane for Peru in early July. Then in August we will be meeting our other MattnNat (the ones we don't work with) for a weekend retreat with their students and there is even some talk of returning to Monterey to buy furniture before summer is over so we will try to keep you posted

We Got Snow!

Yes, a few weeks ago - We got Snow in Saltillo! It was beautiful! Everyone gets to share their stories of how their kids reacted to the snow - but we get to share how the dogs reacted! This was the first time that either dog has seen snow. It was a Sunday morning and Brotherhood at the church so Stephen was up earlier than me. He got up and got dressed and then tired to put the dogs outside to go potty before he left. When he opened the door to let them out, they both immediately we outside. But before Stephen could even shut the door, Rolo bolted back inside. She ran into our room and hide under the bed and was just a whining. Reese's just stood on the patio and looked. When Rolo would not come from under the bed, Stephen let Reese's back inside. He came into the bedroom and told me that they were mine - he had to go to Church. Knowing the "girls" had to go potty and not wanting our bedroom to smell like pee, I got up and attempted to get them to go outside. When I opened the door, Reese's went outside. Rolo came out from under the bed, still whining, and jumped on the bed. I had to go pick her up and tote her outside. She was shaking and whining the whole time. When I got them outside, I just shut the door and hide till they went potty. Finally Reese's walked over to her normal spot and Rolo just backed her butt off the patio and pottied! It was so funny - I wish I had a picture but I was laughing so hard that I forgot to get a pic! Below are pictures of the house & yard from the snow. It was very pretty and all gone before Stephen got home from Church!

Barbie Cake

Well, folks - I know that it has been forever since I posted and there is so much more that I could be sharing with all of you like: Jones' Christmas, Stephen's Trip to Yemen, Ashley's work filing Bankruptcy, DNOW with Calvary, etc. These past several months have been very busy for us. But, I will do my best to post some pictures from Jones Christmas soon. It is so much fun at Christmas with nieces and nephews!

Anyways - back to this post. I wanted to share with y'all the Birthday cake that I made this weekend. Amy Webb, one of the girls that I work with at the plant had a birthday last week. Things were so horrible at work that we were not able to take her out to celebrate over lunch. So, we decided last Friday that we would just bring the birthday party to the plant today. (Taking people out for their birthday is tradition at the plant - we like all the opportunities to get away for lunch that we can think of.) Well, Amy is by no means a "girly" type girl. She was the girl that would burn Barbie's with a hair dryer going up. But, it was decided that we would surprise her with a Barbie Cake for her birthday cake anyways! She has a great sense of humor and we knew that she would appreciate us trying to make things fun. Therefore, I got voted to make a cake (everyone else said that they would just go buy one and I just couldn't have that). And it was so much FUN making it! This was my first time every to make this cake - I have heard about how easy it is to make the Barbie cake with the Pampered Chef Batter Bowl but never tried had a reason to try it. It was actually very relaxing and stress free for me! And we all know that is not normal for Ashley! :) But, none the less, it was great and Amy truly appreciated and enjoyed it. I have made a collage below of the pictures from the process.

Happy Valentines Day Baby!!!!

This is a post to let all you folks know that I have the bestest wife in the entire world. There is not a day that goes by that I am thankful for her being my wife. I love her more and more everyday and can't wait to spend the rest of my life with her. Ya'll just wish you had a wife as hot and smart as mine. So go on and be jealous. Love you baby.

Stephen Burks