Please be praying for us...

Howdy all,

As I sit here by myself, waiting for Jon to return from work one last time before we leave to take him to army camp this weekend, I admit I am feeling a mixture of things.
I can't help but think of how I will be blogging for us from now on, for the next 6 months at least, and not get to sit down with Jon to share with him in person what I blogged about our lives together.

We need prayer! and lots of it, Just pray for the Lord to strengthen our marriage, even when we are apart. Jon and I both recognize that this is exactly what the Lord has intended for our lives right now. We are both about to start our ministry, Jon to the men he will serve and lead, and me, focusing on the Lord and how He will provide all I will need while my husband is away. Pray that our days apart would fly by, and that we would find joy in our circumstances.

I am so incredibly proud of my husband, and his willingness to serve in the military. I never really talk about that aspect, probably because Jon is so humble about serving, we don't talk about what a commitment and honorable thing it is to serve. These men willingly leave their wives, families, friends, homes, all the comfortable things most people enjoy, to serve us. We need to be constantly thanking God for their hearts, their ability to serve us in such an unselfish way, a way most of us can admit we would never be able to do. They do so much for us. I am so proud of Jon, please pray for his success and ability to spread the love of Christ to all the men and women he will be with while he serves.

Jon has reminded, through several crying sessions, that I have been hand-picked to take on this task. Being able to give up my amazing, loving husband for months on end so that he may go and fulfill his duty. Jon has also, so lovingly reminded me, that God will be teaching me a huge lesson on humility. Asking for help when I need it. For those of you who know me, this is a challenge!!! I will need help, I will need people to be bold with me and insist on things. I am working through not being embarrassed to cry when I need to, or call someone when I feel lonely. I will need every last one of you to hold me accountable and pray for me. I know I will never get through this time alone, and the Lord has already blessed me with so many amazing Godly women to help and pray for me. Thank you so much!

We leave tonight, our last night in Aggieland together, sniff... This was our very first home together, and we will miss it terribly.

Our Early Anniversary Trip

Our Lovely Trip to Dallas!




Where to begin??? Our trip was a blast, we truly enjoyed every minute of it! Sorry there are no captions showing on the slideshow...(I had issues with that online photo album thingee...any suggestions on a good online photo album site would be great;))
So, to continue, Let me start off by taking you through a short version of our Romantic lil Get-A-Way..
We started out with a great visit to Dr. B to make sure everything was progressing smoothly for Noah, and he is! Then we headed to Ft. Hood to pick up Jon's uniforms that were being altered. We stopped in at Cracker Barrel in Waco for lunch, Yummy goodness, then we finally felt like our vacation was starting.

We arrived in Dallas and checked into our lipstick shaped hotel, which was super easy to find, and surprisingly close to everything we were doing that weekend. Anyway, we got upgraded to the 29th floor with an incredible view of the city. The hotel was only 30 floors so we felt special!

We got to our spify room and just sat...couldn't believe we were finally there, and memories of our honeymoon started to flood back,"wow, we're really adults now,we're on vacation, just us!!!"
I had a hankerin' for Red Lobster, and Jon gladly obliged so we headed there.

In the morning we went to the State Fair! The weather was cool and breezy, it only started to get hot as we were leaving around 2:45pm. We ate fair food, saw a dog show and just enjoyed being together.
In the evening we went to Medieval Times, which was literally a block from our hotel, you can see it in the pictures from our window. We had a blast, except for an extremely awkward conversation Jon tried to have with the Falconier guy. We got to cheer for the Black and White Knight..who threw me a flower:)

Saturday morning we ate at the Original Pancake House, enjoyed chocolate chip pancakes, and headed to Babies R Us to do some registry. We promptly made it back to the hotel before Aggie game time and ordered pizza to our room to watch the game as we got ready for our dinner and the Lion King!!! Lucky for us, we only saw the first half of the game...:(

We had dinner at a Brazilian style restaurant Texas De Brazil, lots of good meat! They bring meat to your table and slice it off the skewer, they also had quite an exotic salad bar. Then we were on our way back to Fair Park to see the Lion King!

The Lion King was enjoyable, but both of us agreed it wasnt the best we had seen. It was very impressive as far as costuming and props goes. Then it was our last night...sniff...

We slept in, woke up, grabbed some breakfast taquitos from Whataburger...yummy...then headed for a short visit to Jon's grandparents house.

We ended our trip with another visit for dinner at Cracker Barrel in Waco...Love that place!

Altogether we felt so blessed to have had an opportunity and the time to go on a vacation before Jon leaves. We loved every second of it!!! It was an early Anniversary trip since Jon and I won't get to be together in January for our 1st official Anniversary:(

Dallas was fun...now its packin and studyin time for Jon, we leave for Dallas again to head north for Oklahoma on the 25th of October....and I wish the days would go slower....I'm really going to miss him..sniff.

Houstons are goin to Dallas

"Super-fun happy times in Dallas" (jon's exact words) this weekend for the lil Houston family! We've got a fun weekend planned...a sort of early Anniversary celebration since we will not be together in January, and Jon is fixin to leave at the end of the month.:( ...But we've got lots of fun things planned...like the State Fair, Medieval Times...and the best part...LION KING!!! YAY! We're so excited. We promise to take lots of pictures to document the fun and share all our stories when we return on Sunday:) Dallas...Here we come!!!!

Everyone Wants These Pics!!!

Okay Okay, You all finally got to me...Here is another long awaited Belly Shot Week 23! I know...I'm getting BIG!

And, Here are some cute pics from our full anatomy Sonogram we had at week 20, Noah's precious hands and feet!




I have a great story to tell about lil Noah! As most of you know, you can see him kicking through my belly now. This is always entertaining, especially when everyone gathers around my stomach and stares, and of course, he does nothing! It does get exciting when he gives us a lil punch just to let us know he's sensing he's in the spotlight! Also, Jon and I talk to Noah at night because his hearing is developing. Basically Noah can make out the sound of my voice because he hears me all day long, but outside noise is just noise to him right now. BUT, he really seems to get active when he hears his Daddy talking to him at night. So, last night I wanted to play some music on my stomach to see if he would move around more....Oh man! This little boy is going to love classical and Contemporary Christian Music. I started the jam off with the song, "You Are a Child of Mine" by Mark Schultz, and he just started kicking away, HARD!
I was laughing with delight!! I was screaming for Jon to come into the room and sure enough he starts cracking up because I have one ear pierce practically in my belly button and the other ear pierce on the side. He thought it was so funny, then he started to see all the intense movement Noah was making too. He asked, "What are you playing to this baby? He's moving like crazy" To his Dad's delight I said, Classical right now...Jon was thrilled! We were so excited! So, needless to say, from now on Noah will be having daily jam sessions with his mom! :) I love this baby!