One Year in Oklahoma

Has it seriously been a year since we left Katy?! I was trying to remember the exact date so I looked through our pictures. Our going away party was on November 15th and then we left Wednesday the 18th for Oklahoma. Crazy!! I can't believe it's been a year since we've been to Kingsland, a year since we've seen so many of our friends.

This picture is one of the first I took when we arrived in OK. My babies are so tiny!I've been missing Katy a lot lately. It must be the weather and knowing it's finally tolerable in Houston. :) I want to load 2 year old Noah up in the car and cruise down Enchanted Meadow Lane, turn on to Cinco Ranch Blvd and go to Chick-Fil-A, then maybe look at toys at Target then run over to Home "Doods" and drool over everything. Then maybe we could go to Katy Mills and take a few laps.

I want to go to HEB and hear Noah yell about all of the beautiful fountains that we see on our way. Then we could go to La Centerra and let Noah play in the fountains and get some cookies or Cold Stone. Maybe we could have dinner at Mission Burrito, or maybe Candelari's or Red Oak Grill or Vida Loca...I just don't know where we'd go.

We have such fond memories of Katy. We love looking back and seeing God's hand and perfect timing in everything involving our move. Our Tulsa house sold in 6 days, we were sad to leave, but had total peace about going and somewhat excited about our new adventure.

Through many discussions and questions, Brandon was able to lead a former Buddhist co-worker to Christ.

Brandon got to experience the life changing trip to Israel with an awesome teacher and group of people.

The teaching we experienced at Kingsland caused a revival in our hearts and intensified our love for God's word. We crave hearing God's word taught rather than topical fluffy sermons preached. Although it made our church search in Oklahoma EXTREMELY difficult!

It reminded me how important girlfriends are. I had gotten so comfortable and lazy with my friendships. In Texas, I was forced out of my comfort zone and through our Sunday school class, able to form new, wonderful friendships. It's not like I was best friends with everyone, that's a little difficult to achieve at our life stage. But it was just a special group of women to do life with and learn from.

We know that we were supposed to be there and I don't think I'd trade those two and a half years for anything!