Wordful Wednesday- Broken Arrow's Homecoming

Broken Arrow's High School Homecoming was last week. For the first time, Braden participated in the Homecoming activities. His team participated in the parade, and like most home games tailgated and ran out onto the field with the high school players. He is really enjoying this "football fever"!

The Future Tigers running after the Big Boys!

Braden & Kaybrie walking to the game!

What a great big brother holding his little sister's hand! Priceless!

The Tiger! Kaybrie loved him/her but would only allow a pat on the arm!

This shot was on the team float before the Homecoming parade!

Braden's team- BA 3rd Grade Black

Braden playing his air guitar- a little Elvis going on!

Oh dear, there were cheerleaders...

....and Braden exchanged birthdays with a few of them, LOL!

The theme of Homecoming this year was Viva Broken Arrow!

Broken Arrow ended up with a Homecoming victory over Sapulpa 52-7! Yay BA!

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Start It Out Right Sunday- Week 14

Today's sermon was a huge eye opener and something that all of us Christians know, but fail to think about on a daily basis.

1. We live in unsanitary conditions.

2. We let our guard down and we get infected.

Proverbs 4:23 says, Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it.

There are 100's of strains of the flu, and we use soap, hand sanitizer and inoculations to prevent from getting sick. But there is only one inoculation for eternal life and that is the blood of Jesus Christ.

This past Wednesday, while driving home after church, I asked the kids what they learned. I typically get the classic answer from them, Jesus. Instead, from Kaybrie I got, " Jesus is in my heart, and He said thank you."

I just love seeing how my children are growing in the Lord each week and how they look forward to going to church each time the doors are open. My prayer this week is that God will continue to guard their little hearts and protect them from the evil of this world and to help them make the right decisions and choices.

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Start It Out Right Sunday- Week 13

God's plan. God's will. We started attending Community Group this past Wednesday night and our study is Andy Stanley's Discovering God's Will. For once, I'm not going to elaborate, I just wanted to tell you what we are studying. But, something that has been on my mind is God's plan. God knows and is in control of everything. He know how many hairs we have on our heads, He knows what choice we are going to make before we make it. He even knew that this tree was going to fall on this house this past Thursday night.

He knew that the Crow kid's Great Grandmother was celebrating her 93rd Birthday the next day and was sitting inside the house. He also placed her son there to save them both from the falling tree! Without God and His divine plan, MaMaw Crow would not be holding her great-grandchildren today! Our God is Awesome. Now can you think of a better way to Start It Out Right?

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The Summer Crow's Race for the Cure

This year, The 4-Crow's and our next door neighbor put together a team for the Tulsa, Oklahoma's Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Breast Cancer Walk/Run, thus creating the name, the Summer Crow's! We ended up with a total of 12 walkers for the one mile fun walk. Our walk took place on September 19th.

We walked in celebration and in memory of many family members and friends.

The 4-Crow's list is at the bottom of this post!

Here is our team!

Stacye, Chris, Faith, Braden & Kaybrie strolling along!

Dusty walking!

Dusty walked in celebration of her Mother, Sharon Morton!

The Finish Line, all Breast Cancer Survivors were greeted with a beautiful pink carnation!

The Crow Kid's- It was great getting even the smaller kids involved for the Cause!Stacye walked in memory of her mother, Myrna Pennington.

The 4-Crow's celebration list: Angie Crow, Mary Lee Grace, Katie Keys, Nancy Gunter

The 4-Crow's memory list: Ann Tomlinson, Great Aunt Tressie, Great Grandmother Dillard

Wordful Wednesday- Guess What We Are Doing?

Yep, you are not seeing many post, because Braden is quickly becoming a hot commodity in the 3rd grade football world! In Broken Arrow, we take our football something serious! In a previous post I wrote about the weight issue, now I'm just going to write about our activities and show you some shots that I captured this past Saturday. Thankfully we have gone from four day, two hour practices, to three day, two hour practices.

But now we have added into the mix G-A-M-E-S! We lost our first one 28-0, to a boy's club of Tulsa. But we Roped us some Rams this past Saturday with a win over Owasso 32-0! Braden is playing linebacker and has had unlimited compliments and comments from coaches from across the area. Yes, I am bragging, I am a very proud Moma!

Here is a closeup of my handsome son! The red #2 on the back of the helmets are Remembrance Numbers for a player from Bixby, Zachary Wertz, who lost his life in a car accident during Labor Day weekend.

My baby boy pushing through the line...

...that quarterback is mine!

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Start It Out Right Sunday- Week 12

I can't think of a better way to Start It Out Right this Sunday, than to attend a believer's baptism! Especially when that new believer is a special friend of The 4-Crow's! Sydney and Braden have attended school together and we live practically around the block from each other. Because of her and Braden's special friendship, our families have also developed a special friendship! The Applegate's and the Crow's enjoy cookouts, going to MOPS, talking on the phone, blogging (check out Lynn's blog here), and sharing in our children's special events! I thank God that he has brought these special friends into our lives!

Braden, Sydney & Madeline at Sydney's Baptism luncheon!

The Baptism took place outside in an inflatable pool, this is Sydney with her parents Lynn and Steve, yep it was raining!

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Wordless Wednesday- No Arguing

The B-ster has been grounded from his Nintendo DS for hmmmm......lets see, IDK, but I said he could have it back September 1st. Well, with school, homework, and football he finally realized it was September, five days into the month and finally asked for it!

Jason caught this classic snapshot on Sunday. Both Braden and Kaybrie (she is using mine, she likes crashing the cars) are laying on Braden's bed playing Nintendo DS's. Yep, a classic wordless moment- no arguing!

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Start It Out Right Sunday- Week 11

Prayer. I believe that the power of prayer can move mountains.

In Matthew 19-20 Jesus says "Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst."

It seems that we are all being hit with some type of strife in our lives. Sickness (physical and mental), job loss, family relationships, our country, jealousy, mission work, foreign relations, housing situations, schools- these have all crossed our prayer lists within the past year and tend to be a growing and constant focus.

I actually had a friend call me a prayer warrior the other day. Yes, I take my friend's/family's prayer requests very seriously, but I took that to God and said, "Whoa....I don't want that label!" And of course I gave Him every reason why or why not! Regardless of what label I get, I'm still gonna pray! And I have decided that it is time to teach my kids how to pray, other than our typical bedtime prayer:

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, guide and guard me through the night and wake me with the mornings light. Dear Jesus, watch over Mommy, Daddy, me and Kaybrie. Keep us safe at work, school and home. Be with all of our friends and loved ones. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Yes, I added the last part a couple of years ago, but I think it is time to get specific with the 8 year old and of course I've introduced prayer to 2 year old, and she is starting to now say some of the words aloud, so she might as well start learning to pray from the heart as well. I have a few simple board books that I am going to start out with: Prayers for My Loved Ones, Prayers for People Who Make a Difference, Prayers for Our Planet, and Prayers for Special Days we are going to read these and then expand on them. And that is my Start it Out Right Sunday!

Feel free to email me (upper left hand corner is the link) any prayer requests you might have. I can certainly keep them confidential or share with my church community group! Have a great week!

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Happy One Year Blogoversary- TODAY! (plus a blogoversary giveaway)

Happy Blogoversary to The 4-Crow's! Wow, I can't believe that I have been telling the world the in's and out's and all of the happenings of The Crow's Nest for one year now! That is 178 stories about the about our life, never knew we were so interesting or that I could tell you so much about us! LOL! This is also my 100th post for 2009!

My friend Carrie O, over at Oharamom encouraged me to start blogging. Through the blogosphere I have met many friends! I have even branched off into Facebook and into Twitter (my buttons are on the right side of the blog)! I have encouraged many of my friends and family to start using these electronic social exchanges as well! It is so fun! Love it!

Over the course of the year my readers have seen many changes to our blog and will be seeing many changes to come. When I first started out blogging a year ago, our blog was an open blog, meaning it was open for the world to see. Now, in order to protect my family it went private in June. Yes, this has been pain. But, I am finding that control over who reads and sees our lives is a must. Our readers may have also noticed the blog meme "Start It Out Right Sunday", for those of you who do not know what a meme is, (rhymes with theme), memes have become synonymous with internet quizzes, surveys, and novelties that people link to and pass around on their blogs, forums and via email. A few of the changes you will be seeing will be a watermark on any pictures posted on our blog along with a new blog makeover by Devri at Tweetest Backgrounds! She does free and custom Twitter backgrounds along with blog backgrounds and........she has graciously agreed to give one of my readers their own custom designed blog background, in honor of our one year blogoversary! How cool is that?

So, how do you qualify for the possibility of getting your own custom blog background?

Just leave me a comment telling me what your favorite post was on The 4-Crow's this year and why, and follow Devri's Tweetest Background's blog! (Giveaway ends 9/09/09 at 09:09 AM)

Don't forget Devri has lots of free Twitter backgrounds, so grab one from her site, follow her on Twitter and show her some love! Thank you, Devri!

And to all of our readers, thank you so much for continuing to read The 4-Crow's. I know that it is very frustrating to have to go in and physically look each time for an updated post since private blogs do not update on blogger's dashboard. Don't forget that we love comments on our posts and always look forward to reading them!

Wordful Wednesday

My brown eyed, chocolate ringlet, curly haired girl sported her first blond wig yesterday......

...yep, she's chillin' out, takin' it slow...

...getting the best of both girls yesterday. Yep, a little mixing it all together, because it's so much better 'cause you know, you've got the best of both worlds!

(especially when your Mom finds the Hannah Montana wig and backpack for you and your BFF for only $3 at Wal-Mart)

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