This is enough.

Jesus Cast a Look on Me

Jesus cast a look on me,
Give me sweet simplicity
Make me poor and keep me low,
Seeking only Thee to know

All that feeds my busy pride,
Cast it evermore aside
Bid my will to Thine submit,
Lay me humbly at Thy feet

Make me like a little child,
Of my strength and wisdom spoiled
Seeing only in Thy light,
Walking only in Thy might

Leaning on Thy loving breast,
Where a weary soul can rest
Feeling well the peace of God,
Flowing from His precious blood

In this posture let me live,
And hosannas daily give
In this temper let me die,
And hosannas ever cry!

Just a Filler

This will probably mostly be about me and my thoughts for tonight. Things have been dying down a bit for the short time being. My last day of school was July 8th. We had a good last month of school. It was awesome because the World Cup was going on, so my class did a big World Cup project. This is our bulletin board with the bracket and some activities we did. I gave each student a different team that the researched stats on and they also researched facts about their country. My favorite part was listening to them cheer for the team they were given instead of just Mexico. They all still thought Mexico was their favorite team, but they would get so happy when they're country won their game too. It was a really good experience for them.
The next day I left for the summer camp I go to every year. This was my 6th year as a counselor, 10th year all together. I guess for the past couple years it's been just a go through the motions kind of thing, but this year really hit home for me. I began to really see my sin and how it has been eating away at me and affecting everyone around me. On the flip side, I began to really understand a little more about God, his grace, and my relationship with him. Most importantly, I really felt the importance of prayer and how powerful it is. It's really hard for me coming back from camp and trying to talk about it, so I think I'll just stop with that. I think it's just an overload of emotions and information that it's hard to express to people who weren't there. All I know, is that God really pointed some things out to me that week and I've seen the hope for change in my life and I am really positive and hopeful that it will stick around. And I had a really AMAZING group of girls this year, so God was very good in bringing that for us group of girls. :)
From there I went back to my teaching job for this tutoring program I had signed up to do. Luckily it's only from 8 to 12 and I have 9 of my boys. We have a lot of fun together, the curriculum is teaching them about Greece and all that comes with that. They get really in to it. It's so fantastic only working with NINE kids! We can do SO much!
I was able to babysit little Evelyn the other day. She's just so darn cute I had to post a picture of her! This one is a new personal favorite with Dobby sitting as he does in the background. hehe She's just a little angel! Our little piggies are doing well! Same old same old with them. Eat... poop... sleep... run around... poop some more, and then eat again! We love our little girls! In other news, mostly with Jason and I, we did children's church at church on Sunday this month. We only had one little girl, and luckily she liked playing with Legos! Jason and I had way too much fun with them as well... we ended up building a castle. I was pretty impressed with our skills.
Then we took the Youth Group to a 51s base ball game right before the 4th of July. It was actually a pretty good game this go around! I bought a new telephoto lenses so it was really fun to try it out! Here's one of the better ones that I was able to capture. We're waiting for that call to come to tell us we're moving houses here on base. We're outgrowing our house! Our extra room has turned into a storage closet. I love our house, probably because it's our first one together, but we're both really to move. They said it'd be August... but still no call, sooooo I guess we'll see. Jason has been doing his Honor Guard the past couple weeks, tomorrow is his last day and he's very happy to get back to his engineering job.
Keep us in your prayers as we continue our first year of marriage. It can be very tough at times, but it can also be so fun and amazing all the rest of the times. I guess just prayers for us to be able to communicate to each other better would be what I'm asking for. We hope all is well with everyone out there!!!

Birthdays, Vacations, and Celebrations

We've been busy, busy, busy here this past month and a half. Where to start? Well, our birthdays are very close together, mine being April 29th. We went to Carraba's, yuummm


Jason bought me pretty flowers for my birthday! :)

Instead of doing big presents for each other, we decided to just do a big date night together. So we went to the top of the Stratosphere for a fancy dinner and then off to the Lion King down on the Strip. It was a fun night out for us!
Then we got a new addition to our family. Stephanee and Kyle got us little Jetty, the guinea pig! :) She's adorable!!! We named her after a smoothie that Jason and I really enjoy! Jason and I loved her so much, we got another little girl....
This is Buffalo... but we call her Buffy. She was named after Buffalo Wild Wings, because she looks like a buffalo wing with a dollop of ranch on her head. hehe
They love each other!And they love they're daddy! This is their crazy cage we built them! We also took a weekend trip to San Diego. We got free tickets from the Air Force to go to Sea World! It was a lot of fun! Lots of sun, and LOTS of people... but it was still really nice being on adventures with the husband!
Oh Killer Whales! They're crazy!
I love this one.
Then we went to the Padre's game! I think we've started a trend for ourselves. We're on a 'Lets go see how many baseball fields we can visit' kick! It's a good kick to have, I say.

Here's Jason on his birthday. My family knows him well already! :) Other than that we've both been working hard and living life. Next year, my job is safe. I'll be looping with my 4th grade boys up to 5th grade. We're also all changing to 9 month school next year. Jason also got news that he did not make it into the Officer Training School this time around. This year, it's really hard to get in, they're only taking like 15% of the applicants. We're ok with it though, and really to see what else God has in store for us. For now it looks like we'll be in Vegas for the next 2 years.

We've both been busy working with the Youth Group, Jason's been helping me out tremendously by teaching the kidos about science v. creation. They enjoy it. Jason is away on TDY right for 10 days, it sucks pretty bad, especially since I'm sick today. :( Only the piggies to take care of me!

We also got to celebrate with my side of the family Todd and Monica's wedding! It was a rainy morning and then when the wedding started, a rainbow came out! We all thought it was pretty perfect!
I thought this picture was pretty awesome! Go me!
My mommy's beautiful cake. I'm so proud of her!

Nieces!

I just bought a new camera. So naturally, I've taken my first pictures of our nieces! :) Since they're so cute. We've had a weird couple weeks. Jason and I went to Ohio for Spring Break and a reception. It was great spending time with his side of the family. Near the end Jason got really sick. :( It lasted about a week. Poor guy. I've been incredibly busy with school. 34 boys really stress me out sometimes!!! Anyway, here's some precious pictures! Our family is very blessed!

First up is Kaylee! She's Jama's (Jason's sister) oldest. She actually shares the same birthday as Jason. She's just the smartest little almost 4 year old I've seen!


Then there's Julianne. She's Jama's youngest. She just turned one in January. She's a cutie, and has so much character already! It's so amazing to me! Then there's our little miracle Evelyn. Kevin and Mitchi's baby! She'll be 4 months at the end of the month. She's starting to sit up by herself and her teeth are coming it! She's beautiful!

Swaab Street

We've really enjoyed having our own house to invite people to! One: Because it makes me want to clean the house. Two: Because it makes me want to cook. And three: Because we enjoy the company of our fellow friends and family! So here's a look into some of the people we've had over, and some of the things Jason and I have tried to cook!

First, it starts off with our first visitors, Kyle and Stephanee! We are using our wedding guest book as our house guest book as well. So every time people come over, they have to sign the guest book as well. Then Tobi came over, and we cooked chicken soft tacos together! It turned out yummy! We made our own chips too, Jason was amazed with how we did that ourselves!

Then mama and papa Thomas came over and we cooked them Salmon! It turned

out delicious! I didn't realize how easy salmon is to cook! On a cold, rainy Saturday, I thought I'd try making potato soup with a sour dough bread bowl! It was... A-mazing! It turns out, I might actually be a good cook! We've also had people over for food and fun!

The Lum's came over, I cooked ginger-fried pork, and then we played Aggravation, which is a game Jason and his family taught me. My dad knew what it was, so he made us a board for our Christmas present! The Lum's hadn't played before, so they had fun with it. Now, when we play this, Jason... ALWAYS wins. It's frustrating. But THIS time, after we played three times, I finally won! So it was great. Then we made them Special K, which was a hit... but I have yet to take a picture of it, the recipe came from Jason's mother. :)

We also finally bought a grill! So Jason jumped on that the other day and made steak with peppers, and shrimp. It was tasty. I'm excited to try out some yummy recipes with the grill. Tonight, we're off to Ohio with my parents. We're having an Ohio wedding reception there for this family that wasn't able to go. We're staying a whole week! It should be very fun!

I AM DONE WITH MY MASTERS! WOOOOOOOO

House, Transportation, and life Updates

Checking in from the Lawyer's! Life has been going at high speed lately. So much is going on, so let me start with our base housing! Everyone always asks me how living on base is. It has it's ups and downs. It's nice to feel safe, and I like the feel of living in a small town again. We live at 101 Swaab St! We finally got our name plate for our house! :) The other day, they came to take our fence down because we didn't feel like paying $20 extra a month to have a fence... but now they mow our grass for us! How fantastic! The down side is that it is a hassle getting people on base! Luckily, people still come to see us anyway! It's been fun putting together a house with Jason. We've gotten a lot of hand me downs which has been so helpful! Other items we've gotten amazing deals on! So here are some pictures of our little shack of a house!
Across the street, they've started demolishing the houses. They're plan is to get rid of all the old housing on base to build new homes. These houses were all build in the late 60s or early 70s. So this will be what our house looks like come August or September. In other news... Jason and I bought our first big item together! We bought a new car!!! It's a Nissan Versa Hatchback. I absolutely LOVE it. I named her Chelsea. Mostly becuase of the soccer team, they're color is bright blue... and I thought the name just fit the car. It has that fabulous new car smell! I love it! Another piece of transportation we've gotten is a new road bike for me. Jason is really into riding his bike, and I've been wanting to get back into being active, so we thought this would be a good newlywed hobby! I love my new bike!News with us Lawyers. I am on track break... but not really. I volunteered... like a nerd, for track break tutoring. The students have 3 weeks of, including Spring Break, and when they come back we have a week of review and then the following week are the high stake testing. yikes! I'm totally enjoying my boys. I look at some of the 3rd graders, and I'm so thankful for my group of boys! There's a lot about the gang world I've started to learn as well... it's all very new and interesting, as well as scary to me. OH!!!!! And I'll be finishing up my MASTER'S here NEXT WEEK! HORRAY!

Jason just turned in his Officer Training School application. It's taken him probably 4 or 5 months to complete this hefty packet. So keep up in your prayers, we're unsure of what's going to happen in the future. I can't remember if I've mentioned Honor Guard, but he's been doing that this week. It only last two weeks and then he'll go back to his regular job for a month. He basically does the rifle turning and marching as well as shooting at events like funerals, weddings, and retirements. It's different for him, but I know it's good for him.

In other news, we're starting up our Sunday school teaching this Sunday for the next 3 months. Jason has also but such an amazing husband and has offered to help me out with Youth Group while my brother Kevin is unable to do so himself. So we're very very busy! That's a good update for now! Stay tune for more soon!

Coming up on 2 Months!

Just wanted to share the new photobucket I uploaded with more wedding photos. So if anyone is bored and would like to go through them... have at it! ^_^

http://s939.photobucket.com/albums/ad232/MelissaLawyer/

Things in our next of the woods is... to sum it up in one word, BUSY! Jason just finished up with Honor Guard training. It lasted 2 weeks, then he served his 2 weeks of duty. Now he's back at his real job, and very happy about it. I've been teaching my boys, with lots of drama and issues arising along the way. It's time to get the kidos ready for the big tests coming up. So it adds a lot more stress that doesn't need to be there.

We were able to spend some time with our newest family member on the Thomas side. Baby Evelyn Rose! She was only awake for about 3 minutes, long enough to get a cute picture out of her! She's the most precious thing I've seen! We're working on finishing up some last minute additions to the house. Then I'll take pictures and get those up here!