Sunday, August 1, 2010

Hot Lava Sorry

i thought this little story was blog worthy:
So, we've been helping out at our church's youth camp all week. It was an outdoor camp this year for the first time, which was really cool. A family in our church lives out on a big ranch about 25 minutes from town and hosted us for the week. The kids slept in big huge tents and everything was, well, outdoors! I had no other choice but to take my 2 sweet children out there with me each day if I wanted to take part in the camp. So, on Wednesday, Boston spent practically the entire day in the pool. He got in at about 10:30 am, got out for lunch, then right back in, then out for crafts, right back in, then out for dinner, right back in, and finally out for good around 7:30pm! No joke. Luckily, the pool was located in the center of 'camp' so someone always had a close eye on him, but he was in his swimsuit ALL DAY LONG! Naturally, he began to complain of some pain inbetween his legs where his wet suit had rubbed him a little bit raw. He fell asleep in the car on the way home (seeing as how it was 11pm - I'm a terrible mom, I know) but when we did arrive home, I decided to put some cream on his legs. He was half asleep standing in the middle of the bathroom. I have the cream on my finger, I move towards the affected area to apply the cream when all of a sudden, my sweet groggy little 4 year old boy tee-tees right in my face! I yell "NO!" He immediately perks up, realizes what he's done, and begins apologizing like this:
"Oh mom, I'm so sorry, real sorry, like Hot Lava sorry!"
How can you not laugh at that?! Needless to say, he did not get into trouble - we applied the cream and went to bed!
Hilarious.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Emerging, Emergent - Whatever.

Okay, so I've had a bad taste in my mouth for this whole movement of emerging or emergent churches. I can't remember if I've blogged about it before or not, so sorry if I have. Apparently I should not interchange the names emerging and emergent, because emerging simply describes a style or philosophy that a church can take on while emergent is actually a church that has joined some association called the Emergent Church. Whatever! This is a Carol Dockrey definition, but here's what it boils down to, in my opinion: an emerging/emergent church is a church or a group of christians doing all that they can to be "relevant" to the world around them so that they are attracted to Jesus Christ (i can feel the hate mail from those associated with this style or philosophy, explaining to me how wrong I am, but oh well). It's like they sort of go to the extreme to prove that they are not simply traditional religious folk, but that they have a relationship with Jesus Christ and can basically, live like the rest of the world, and then they hope that this type of life looks appealing to those who don't yet know Christ. That's my opinion of what it's all about anyway.
So, what happened to simply preaching the Word of God and allowing people to be attracted to that? What happened to simply living like Christ (loving unconditionally) and allowing Him to draw people unto Himself? IJS!
Here's the thing - I've recently seen an overall lack of "awe" (for lack of a better word) for God's Word among His children. What am I doing to cause this? How is my life not exuding the importance of knowing God more intimately through His Word? It grieves my soul! So, what am I gonna do about it?! I care absolutely nothing about being "relevant" if it means that God's Word takes a back seat. I don't think that God's Word calls us to live like the rest of the World. We've got to trust that He is powerful enough to draw people unto Himself when we are obedient to surrender to the leadership and guidance of the Holy Spirit, NOT the leadership and guidance of this world and this evil culture!!!

----stepping off soap box now.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Warm Weather -- YESS!!!!

We got to go to the rodeo (thanks JimDad and Sherry), fly kites, and play in the sprinkler the last few days! During this time, Dash endured and recovered from a stomach bug that was not cool! Seems to be doing much better though, so all is well at the Dockrey house (especially since we can play outside finally!!).



A cool head shot of the Boss Man

Brothers playin' in the water -- it took Dash a while to warm up to water splashing on him from all directions
Let me at it...



Muscle Man


Cheese, sort of






I'm gonna play with the balls for a while







Riding the scooter through the sprinkler








funny pic




full of wonder








climbing up the play place at the park






weeeeee











brother climbs up like this, why can't i make it to the top?










cheese again

















flying kites with dad










not a lotta wind, so we had to run a little to keep the kites in the air














sliding















more wonder















so funny

















our champion mutton' buster!!! (a champion in our hearts anyway -- he actually fell off in about 2 seconds - ha)



















chillin' indoors at the rodeo

















Wednesday, March 10, 2010

We have pictures, people!

All pics are courtesy of lance's iphone, which means they aren't the best quality, but they could be worse! Our camera just doesn't seem to be working much lately, which stinks because it's only a couple of years old, but what can ya do?!

So, we will begin with the Joint Birthday Party we had this last weekend! All year long (literally) Boston has been asking for a moonwalk jump castle for his birthday party, so that is what he got! He picked a Clifford the Big Red Dog one and we had an instant party theme! We celebrated both the boys birthday at the same time and had a blast!


Miss Madison


Dash chowing down on his cake - he loved it

Dash after the pinata candy fell



Julian got a sucker!


A mad dash for the candy





Dash's turn to swing the bat - he's a natural!





This is boston swinging on the rope through the bubbles!







The coloring table





Brinley having a blast bouncing









Dash loved jumping in Clifford








Brothers at their party!






Now, just some random pictures from the last few months:


Check out Dash's hair -- it's really getting long and he is really eating well!












self explanatory I think












My boys hanging out on the dock













Trying on Mr Kent's glasses - He's so intellectual















Boston with his fake stache
















This is my tongue















A result of Boston dressing himself one day -- very color coordinated and SUPER cool!















This was around Christmastime, but I just like the pic












And drumroll please...... the only pic we have from the Austin Marathon! This was Lance's view from the start line (yes, he ran with his iphone). I started about 10 minutes behind him - ha! And we both finished in decent times (lance's a bit more decent than mine). He finished the full marathon (26.2 miles) in 3 hours and 55 minutes while I finished the half-marathon (13.1 miles) in 2 hours and 43 minutes. It was pretty cool and yes, we plan to do it again!

























Monday, March 8, 2010

FREEDOM!!!

As I was writing that title, I was picturing Mel Gibson with his face painted blue running into battle - but that's not necessarily the direction I was hoping to go with this post.
So, we were in church yesterday singing. I could attempt to guess at the name of the song that we were singing, but I would most likely be wrong and that's got to be some sort of cardinal sin as the worship pastors wife, so I'll just leave it at -"we were singing." Has it ever happened to you where you're listening to scripture read that you've heard a million times or singing a song that you've sung/heard tons of times and something new just jumps out at you? It's the coolest thing - I love it when that happens. I know that it is the Holy Spirit at work, which is one of the reason's it's so cool when it happens. So, that happened to me yesterday while singing aforementioned song. The line was: Jesus, come make us a free generation spreading salvation, freedom is ours, we take it up... Here's what hit me: we're asking Jesus to come make us a free generation, and then the very next line is 'spreading salvation.' This is totally elementary, I realize, but that's why we're free -- in order to spread the good news. We're not free so we can just praise God that we're not going to hell. We're not free so that we won't be bound to sin anymore. We're not free so we can live at peace. We're free to speak up for him, live for him, love for him!!
So then when I got home, I looked up the definiton of freedom: the condition of being free, the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints! PRAISE GOD! That's why I plead with Jesus to make us a free generation. That's why freedom is ours and I proclaim that I'm gonna take it up!!! It's all about Him!!!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Dear Boston

Dear Boston,
Thank you so much for being the best big brother in the world.
You share you string cheese with me even when mom doesn't ask you to.
You let me watch Praise Baby before your DVD of choice everyday.
You're constantly telling me how much you love me and smiling at me and chatting with me.
Thank you for teaching me how to play cars with you - I love it!
Thanks for handing me stuff in the car that mom hands to you to hand to me so I'll be happy.
Basically, thanks for trying to make me happy all day long. You really are the best.
I'm sorry that sometimes I get in your way when you're playing MarioKart. I'm sorry that sometimes mom and dad are so tired from taking care of me that they don't play with you as much as they used to. I'm sorry that I poke you in the eye sometimes - I really don't mean to. Oh, and sorry for breaking your cool lego creations.
I love you,
Dash

I'm pretty sure that's what Dash would say to Boston if he knew how. Boston truly is a super big brother to Dash. I'm incredibly blessed, I know. Boston tells me daily how much he loves his baby brother!

I was trying to withhold on posting until I had some pictures to include, but God laid this on my heart tonight and I just wanted to write it down so I wouldn't forget it! (when I say "write it down," I really mean type it on my blog for the world to view)

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Baby Steps

Baby Steps to an updated blog...
Here is a family Fall Festival Picture (yes, I realize it is closer to Spring than Fall)
Aladdin and Aboo
Boston in the Homecoming Parade with his friend, Helen (and the rest of the Girls Varsity Basketball Team -ha)




Here we are at Christmas:



These Christmas pictures are kind of backwards - sorry, but here is Dash's Christmas morning loot:



Boston's Christmas morning loot:




Boston super excited about presents with his name on them!




Boston and Dash in Christmas PJ's






Zack helping Boston put the ornaments on the tree










This is how excited Zack is about putting up the tree!








This is how excited Lance and Carol are to be putting up the tree.











This is how excited Lauren is to be helping put up the tree.










And this is how super excited Boston is to be putting up the Christmas tree - it's all worth it!








Now, this is the total opposite of a baby step - this is like a huge monster step up in the world: Watching the Houston Rockets Game from a suite with free food and drinks! WOW! It really was awesome. Thanks Ryan and Deminy for the invite!









And a drumroll please for the greatest Baby Steps of all -- a baby actually taking some of his very first steps!!!

This first video is a little dark and Dan Zane's House Party is playing in the background. I wasn't necessarily prepared and ready for a recording, but he was just taking off, so I quickly grabbed the camera.










And this 2nd video is Boston and I attempting to have him walk, which never works out quite like you anticipated, but you get the idea anyway: