Callan Harstad Crockett

I am thrilled to announce that Callan Harstad Crockett was born early this morning to my brother and his wife!!! Just like his daddy, (Michael Beaumont Crockett, "Bo") the new bundle of joy will go by a given nickname... "Cal" Crockett. Precious. 

Brooke and Cal... what a sweet moment! 

(For my readers who don't know my brother...)

Bo and Brooke live in New Haven, CT where he works as an architect and she works for Yale University. They are high school sweethearts who recently celebrated their 5 year wedding anniversary! (4.10.09) An outgoing, creative and adventurous pair that will be fabulous parents! Baby Cal will be raised in a warm house full of love, prayers and lots of playfulness!

The proud mommy and daddy ( a year ago)...

Easter Sunday

We celebrated our Lord and Savior's resurrection with the Srp family on Sunday! We went to Oak Hills Church with Jim, Kim, Mike, Tracey and Hannah and heard a fabulous Easter message from Max Lucado! Michael and I headed home and I made a tray of deviled eggs... my first attempt was a success! I took this picture to send to my mom... 

 

Here are a few pictures from Easter Sunday afternoon at the Srp's house...

Christian and Michael

Laura, Matthew, Eli and baby Srp (due in November)

Tracey, Mike and Hannah Yost

Hannah waiting patiently to hunt easter eggs...

Hannah was a professional egg hunter!

Eli's contagious smile... he was so proud of himself when he found an egg!

Eli enjoying the fruits of his labor!

Hannah LOVES her cousin Eli!!

What a wonderful way to spend Easter Sunday! Thank you Jim and Kim for the fabulous food and great company! When we got home, Michael and I found a comfy spot on the couch and spent the rest of the day watching The Master's. We were pulling for Kenny Perry but unfortunately he lost in "double overtime!" Despite the outcome, it was the perfect ending to Easter Sunday! 

Growing Up

Michael and I have made the comment, "you know you are getting old when..." a lot lately. Here are a few that top our list:

You know you are getting old when... 

5. You eat dinner before 6:00 and staying up late is past 10:00

4. You (Michael) listen to talk radio

3. You grunt or fart on accident

2. You are excited about spending all day on Saturday working in the yard

1. You (Christian) have a colonoscopy!

It's true... at 26 years old, I had a colonoscopy. Thankfully, everything went well during the procedure. The "prep" the day before was by far the worst part! I had to drink 3 of the 4 liters of TriLyte (hell in liquid form) before I was "clear". I do not remember any of the procedure or the 4 hours after. Michael says that I was very entertaining and asked the same question over and over... "why are you laughing at me?" I can only imagine what else I asked him that was making him laugh so much! The good news is that the doctor did not find anything alarming and will go over the details on my follow up appointment next week. Thank you to everyone that was praying for my procedure.

Noah Winston Graham

My brother and his wife Brooke are expecting their first baby in just a few weeks!! For those of you who don't know... both my brother (Bo) and I are married to identical twins... what are the chances?!?

I am excited to announce that Brooke's twin sister Laura had a little baby boy today... Noah Winston Graham. He was 7 lb 15 oz. Bo sent me a text message earlier saying that everyone is doing well. Congratulations Laura and Paul!!

Here is a picture from Bo's Yale graduation, May 2008. 

Left to right... Brooke, Laura, Bo and their good friend Tate. (Laura's husband Paul was unable to attend the graduation because he is in medical residency in Alabama) 

Life Lately in Pictures...

Celebrating Conrad and Melissa's engagement!

(Conrad is Mike's cousin... a foreign concept to Crockett children!) 

Celebrating our nephew's 1st birthday!

(Laura, Matt, and Eli)

My class hanging out with Shamu @Sea World!

Dinner at the Cotton Gin in Fredericksburg with my hubby!

(Fabulous food!)

Happy Birthday Mommy!!

We spent the weekend in Austin celebrating my mom's birthday! We had a wonderful time watching college basketball, eating Mexican food and chatting! M.C. and Joe were also in town which was an added bonus! 

I truly have the VERY BEST MOM EVER! I am thankful for her friendship and I am beginning to appreciate how hard she had to work to raise 3 kids! I am blown away by her passion for Jesus, her desire to love others and her heart for ministry! I love my mommy and hope to some day be as fantastic of a mom as she has been to our family! 

Monday Madness @ Geneva!

After a very relaxing spring break, I arrived at school Monday morning just after 7:00.  As I pulled into the Geneva School of Boerne parking lot I immediately saw police cars in the pick up lanes... private, Christian school, small town... this was unusual. (If I were still teaching in Garland at Webb, I might not have thought twice about it!) I was greeted at my car window by one of my favorite teachers... she proceeded to inform me that the school had been vandalized over night and that I should head to the "MPB"... "Multi-Purpose Building"... (gym/cafeteria/stage/music room.) 

As the teachers began to gather in the MPB, the "Heads of School" (private school lingo for Principals) were walking the campus with the police to asses the damage. It didn't take long for them to conclude that school would be canceled for the day. Many shattered windows, turned over desks and bookcases. As soon as we got the verdict, each of the teachers called our room moms to spread the news... an extra day of spring break due to vandalism. Then we lined the pickup/drop off lanes and explained the news to cars arriving at school. 

By 8:30 we were informed that they would need each teacher to walk through their classroom with the police to assess the damage. One by one we were each called to our room and then one by one teachers walked back to the MBP with the news... glass everywhere... books, papers, crayons, markers dumped out... computers gone/smashed.... maker board ripped off the wall... 

Somehow my classroom escaped the vandals. Walking into my room was creepy... it was too clean, too "perfect"... they had busted out all of the windows around my classroom, but somehow skipped my two windows. They did write a colorful word on the side of my portable by the door and on the window glass... but they didn't go inside... strange. 

We were sent home and told that we should return in the afternoon to begin clean up. The police had to finish the investigation and finger print each room before we could touch anything.

Confession.... M.C. came over and we laid out in my back yard until we got the call to return to school. First day of warmth and sun in a long time... we needed some color! 

The clean up process was a display of the amazing community of Boerne. Teachers, parents, and volunteers gathered together to put our little school back together. The Hungary Horse restaurant provided pizza and tea for lunch... a blessing! We picked up, vacuumed, swept, wiped, and organized each room... one by one. We got the school ready for Tuesday... the new first day back from spring break. 

Tuesday morning started with an assembly. We all gathered in the MBP for a clarification and forgiveness message. Mr. Ryden, our Head of School, did a fantastic job clearly painting a picture for the students and parents of what they should expect to see in their classrooms. Boarded up windows, missing carpet (too much shattered glass to keep the carpet), etc. He explained that all of the damage is replaceable and that our job as Christians is to forgive and pray for the vandals. He shared a passage of scripture from 1 Peter about not repaying evil with evil. Then he gave a brief description of what really happened. 

What we know at this point is that the police believe that 3 teenagers ran away from a "children's home" and walked to our campus. They ransacked our classrooms and then went to the car dealership behind our school and stole a Chevy truck (with On-Star)... drove it back on to our campus and ran thru our property fence. The vandals stole a laptop from our campus and left it at the car dealership... oops... The police have tracked the car with the On-Star service and know where the vandals are... that was the latest at 7:45 this morning.

I will keep you posted as we are given more info... crazy start to our week!

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