Loving the snow!

Abilene has had lots of snow lately! We also had some in FW when there over Christmas. We had a great Christmas with both family's. Sara got to come home and is still at home while Kara is home from college. Things are getting better and better with her daily. She went to the doctor yesterday and had a great report! Praise the Lord!!! I will post some pictures from our time at home! And some of the pretty snow we have been having.

These pictures are in reverse order ALWAYS hate that!

Best one first!!! My little puppies foot prints in the snow... who does that with an animal??? Man I am bad!!! So cute though!!!!

Snow in Abilene today (12-29)

Next few are of us shaking our head side to side and taking pictures!!! hahaha

Mom and Jordan saw a new cute way to tie scarfs and we were learning!

At my parents house Christmas!

Cant believe I put some of the pictures up.... we are running in to see what Santa brought us. This happens EVERY year at the DuBose house!!! So fun, we get to be little kids again.

Wow!!! just woke up Christmas morning ahhhh!

My sweet precious Tinker! She was cold!

Sara's cute decorations!!

Abilene has had lots of snow lately! We also had some in FW when there over Christmas. We had a great Christmas with both family's. Sara got to come home and is still at home while Kara is home from college. Things are getting better and better with her daily. She went to the doctor yesterday and had a great report! Praise the Lord!!! I will post some pictures from our time at home! And some of the pretty snow we have been having.

I am a REAL teacher!!!

YEAH!!!! Finally after 2 years I am a certified Teacher!!!! Praise the Lord!!! Just want to share the good news!

We are off to Christmas w/ Sara's big huge family this weekend so please pray everyone stays healthy so Sara can be there.... Pray her rash will only get better and she has energy!!

Grace and Peace to all,

Beth

pictures

Ok I promised pictures of what's been going on lately.... of corse they are in reverse order. Sorry!

Vick Christmas in North Richland Hills

Mom and Dad with grand babies... Logan 2, Avery 3 months

Stan (big brother, Papa (dad's dad), Logan

All mom's girl's YEAH!!! Jordan (Zach's NEW wife!) Me, MOM, and Anne (Stan's wife)

Nana (dad's mom) with Avery... This is what I will look like when I am almost 80, my pictures look just like her as I am getting older.

Dan and I's precious baby!!! Tinker! Love this girl!!

Avery... just the sweetest baby EVER. NEVER cries!!

Dan's hog... I was hunting with him!!! So fun!

We have been Jordan's biggest fans this year... Love going and watching him play!

Before Sara went into the hospital she had pictures made with her kids and Dan and I did some... here are just a few

Here is my precious mother-in-law with out her hair.... is she not just the most beautiful person you have ever seen???? Man!!!!! She is a funny lady and had this hat on the first time we saw her without any hair... Just love her!!! Please continue to pray for her. She is having some bad days lately. Thanks for all the prayers that have already been sent her way. She feels them everyday!

Till next time.... Peace out!

Too long!!!!

I know what your thinking... why do I even have a blog??? I am now done with my student teaching and have more free time since I am just subbing. SOOOO that means I am really going to try and keep this updated. My goal from right now will be once a week and then I will go from there.

We have been super busy lately. We have been Hard Core Jordan fans, and have attended about 4 games this season thanks to him. We are so proud of him and what a great role model he is. He is so Blessed and he knows that!! BIG NEWS: My little brother got married.... and if you know me well, or I have been in your wedding, you know I cried like a baby! Tears were rolling down my face as I walked down the asile. It was a sweet wedding and to top it all off my daddy did the wedding. Man talk about a tear jerker. My little brother was like my little baby, we have a close relationship and then my dad did the wedding. GOSH!!!! It was great and I will post pictures tonight or tomorrow. ( I am subbing right now, hahah man I must be a great sub to be blogging). We have been with Sara any free weekend we have had. I also got to stay with Sara the Sunday- Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Then on Wednesday after her doctor appt. she got to go home till Sunday. She was home for Thanksgiving!!! God is so good!!!!! She is now back at her apartment in Dallas but thinks she will get to come home for good before Christmas. Please pray that happens.

Dan is finishing up his last semester at ACU, but we will stay here at least another year. We will just both work. We are really blessed. We are loving being here!

I wrote the first part of this at school one day and now I am finishing it tonight.

Last night Jordan came and stayed with us. He was in town hunting and I got to cook him a home cooked meal. We all know that home cooked meals taste 100% better when you are in college!!! Some of the family came over we stayed up till almost 2am ( that's a record for me!!!) We had a blast and enjoyed getting to spend some time with him.

Sara is doing good most days. Last night was not a good one. She got sick and had to go to the hospital this morning. She is doing better, and is back at her apartment. Continue to send prayers her way!

I know I have been all over the place with this post, so sorry for that!! I am tired of writing so PEACE OUT!!!

will post pictures later!

Ok so I am pretty much a terrible blogger!!!! My life is so way too busy for blogging.... I will try to get better.
Sara is making it, it has not been easy or fun, but she is OK. She is very weak and tired b/c chemo killed EVERYTHING her body. Her platelets got down to 1000 and normal is 100,000. WOW! That is not OK. They have given her 2 transfusions and her count was up to 4000 today, and they plan on giving her another one today. She is on day +1 meaning she it is one day after her transplant. This is how the hospital labels her room. She started at -6. So we are taking it day by day at this point. God has been faithful to this point and we know HE will continue to be.
Please pray her platelets will continue to rise at a rapid amount and she will regain strength. I will try to keep updating about her. Thanks for prayers and pleae continue them!!!

Sorry it has been SOOO long!

Ok so here is the Update on us...

We have a new niece!!!!! Avery Nicole Vick. She was born on Saturday morning. We are going to see her next weekend so I will post pictures then.

I am student teaching for a total of 12 weeks (10 to go) then I will be certified!!!!

Dan just go an awesome job in Medical Sales, Starts tomorrow.

Sara will start her process on the 15th and it will be a 4 month deal... Please pray for her to be strong and push through deal. We will be going to see her most weekend so pray for our travels as we visit her.

Dan did not do as well as he would have liked on his MCAT so he will retake next semester, so we are in Abilene for another year!!! We are excited about that. We absolutely love it here! Pray for him as he starts his studying all over again.

My little brother is getting married in November!!!!!

We have been busy spending lots of time with Sara (Dan's mother) before she starts her Chemo and Bone Marrow transplant. This weekend will be our last before she starts so please pray we all have a good time and spirits are high!! We are going to San Antonio to visit so pray for a safe trip!

Guess that's all for now. I will be better about blogging, I promise!!!

Love yall!

Love this guy....

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/090724&sportCat=ncf

Take a look at this... What a great role model!!!!

We had a great weekend and will post about it later. Thanks for the prayers for Dan's MCAT!!! He feels a lot better about this one than his first one! Praise the Lord!

MCAT

Dan is taking the MCAT again on Friday at 8am in San Antonio. Please pray!!! We are headed to SA tomorrow morning (Thurs.) and staying all weekend. Dan deserves to relax after studying so much. Please pray for safety and a good grade on the MCAT. Love you all!!!

Ahhhh it's been a while!!!

So it's been about 2 months... guess you can say life has be been busy. I am going to make this quick b/c who wants to read a novel about the last two months??? I know I don't.

We are learning to put our full trust in the Lord. Seems like anything that can go wrong is....

After saying that would love your prayers for the following:

I still can't find a job

Dan is also looking

Dan is retaking his MCAT on July 31 to get a higher score

We know God is TOALLY taking care of us! Please pray we know God's plan and hear from Him!

Here is what we have been doing the past 2 months:

Port A Trip

Galveston Mission trip with SCS

Preparing Sara for the hospital and preparing to live in FW this summer and then getting news she did not have to have Chemo!!! Praise the Lord!!!

Throwing my 1st Baby shower for one of my best friends Mar!!!! So excited for her and JD!!

Dan takes his MCAT on July 31 in San Antiono, then we are staying for a few days to relax and have fun! Please Pray!!!!

DC Trip

Well our DC trip was about 3 weeks ago but I finally have time to post a few pictures. We had a blast!!!!

Cliff and Nadia with Cliff's like 5 pound lobster

Cliff and Grandmother after Graduation

Family plus Nadia @ the Gala

Ben's Chili Bowl.... it's famous chili dog.  Obama eats their. 

Sherri and Tracy w/ the Fam. 

MCAT Today!

Pray Pray Pray!!! Dan takes his MCAT today @ 12 . Will last 5 hours. Please pray for peace as he takes it and to remember everything he has studied! Thanks!

DC

We are headed to DC tomorrow morning for Cliff's graduation. We are so excited and I am pumped to have a few days off from work.
Just a quick update on Sara. She went to the doctor yesterday and found out that none of the siblings are a bone marrow match, but they found a few dozen that are close matches in the donor data base. so keep praying about finding a match. Also please pray that Sara has energy and abundant joy while in DC with her family. thanks for your prayers and I will update and post pictures when we get back on Tuesday. YEAH!!!

Peace!

Here's the latest....

Ok so I know some more Info. if you have not read the last post... start there

Sara is right now waiting to hear if any of her siblings are a match for a bone marrow transplant. She will find out Monday. If they are not the will continue the search for a match. She has the greatest chance of a match with her siblings. She is on a new pill that will bring her white blood cell count down, and as soon as they bring it down to a normal level they will start Chemo. They say this should be in 4-6 weeks. Chemo will be one week, and then she will be so sick they want her to stay in the hospital for about 4 weeks after that. She will then get the transplant. After the transplant they have told her to stay no less then 10 minutes from the hospital b/c her body will easily attract any disease or illness at this point. This is why they want her close in case something happens she is right there. Also her body is likely to want to reject the new white blood cells and think it is an infection b/c they are new to her body. So she needs to be close in case this happens. I think that's all I know at this point, but she goes to the doctor all the time and comes home with new news, so i will try my best to keep you updated.

On a positive note.... KARA IS COMING HOME TOMORROW!!!!! AHHHHH it has been so long. She has been on her second study abroad. She is home for good this time!!! YEAH!! She is coming straight to Abilene and I can't wait to hug her neck!!!

We have a busy weekend and it starts tomorrow... Kara and Sara are coming to Abilene tomorrow afternoon. Friday we are having a cousin dinner welcoming Kara back and seeing Scottye off (tear... still very bitter about that). Saturday morning Ben graduates from ACU and we are having lunch with some of the family and then Saturday night is the big celebration at a good fancy steak place close by in Buffalo Gap called Perinies (probably spelt wrong...o-well).
Sunday we will all go to church and eat yet again. Dan is headed home with Sara then so he can go to her appt. on Monday. I will work Monday and Tuesday and then head home tuesday after work so we can fly out wednesday morning to DC. So ready for a break and DC will be so fun!!! I can't wait! We are in DC from Wednesday - Monday and back to work on Tuesday. I will have the rest of that week. The last week of school will be a breeze. We have a holiday on Monday and Thursday and Friday are half day. So if I can just make it to DC then I will be good. I need summer.

Anyways this must be the worlds longest post and I am sorry, but thanks for reading! Love yall and love your prayers!

Thanks and God Bless.

Not sure what to even name this Blog...

A lot is going on at the DuBose household. It's not all good either. Acctually some pretty big stuff and God is really testing us right now. He has already proven to us He will take care of us and we believe that 100%, but it does not mean that we wont have hard times. Right now is one of those hard times.

If you keep up with the entire DuBose family, then you probably heard about Sara being disginosed with Chronic Leukemia a few months ago. She was told  to try a pill and see if the pill will keep your white blood cell count down, and it did untill now. She was having some other health issues and went to the doctor and come to find out she has a blood clot in her leg, and her body is not responding to the pill anymore. So... now she has to have a Bone Marrow transplant and chemo... Now I am not a doctor, so if I worded something wrong I am sorry. All I know at this point is we need prayer!!!

Pray for energy, comfort, peace, and joy during this time esspecially for Sara, but also the whole family!

Another reason I am not myself.... Dan's cousin, Scottye came over last night to tell us she is moving to Midland. I am not Ok with it one bit. She is my closest friend in Abilene. She works out with me, she stays with me when Dan is gone, she keeps Tinker for us, she is just great. I can not imagin being in Abilene without her. Summer is coming and I can not tell you how happy I was just thinking about how we were going to spend everyday together working out cooking dinner and having a blast. Then she tells me she is leaving... I am so mad about it.

I will keep you updated with Sara and her progress, but at this point we just need prayer!!

Thanks!

This weekend I did soooo much, I feel the need to Share it with you.

Friday:
Worked
Went to Sams
cooked dinner (already forgot what)
Finished Fireproof (loved it!!! totally recommend it!!!)

Saturday: Very productive day
Work out @ Gold's
Returned stuff to Mall
Got a wedding gift for Tim and Brittany (wedding this coming weekend in FW)
grocery shopped
Cleaned and did laundry
Cooked awesome meatball subs!!
Watched A Cinderella story (love those teen movies!!!)

Sunday:
Church-we love our church!!
Watched the Prince and Me while Dan studied
Mowed the lawn in record time!!!
Ran 2 miles
Worked out some
Cooked soft tacos for dinner
Zach came to spend the night after visiting Jordan in Lubbock, they go their engagement photos... don't worry will post as soon as we get them!!!
Watched parts of Two Weeks Notice and wish I saw it all together, good thing I recorded it!!
Walked 2 miles with Zach.

We had a good weekend... Dan studied most of it, but that's his job right now. He has his last set of test this week before Finals, and then he is done for a few months!!! We are excited to head home for a quick visit and Brittany's wedding. We will come back to Abilene right after the wedding because Dan has a project due Monday.

Exciting things going on: 2 weeks and Dan is on summer break
T-3weeks till DC YEAH!!
6 weeks and I am done!!!!!


Please Pray for: Dan's MCAT on May 28
I find a teaching job

Yall have a great week!!!

We are Busy!

Well as you can see I have not written in a while... we have been busy!!! To catch yall (love the word!!) up I will just make a list of what we have been doing lately.

*FW Zoo (love it!)
*Camping (also love it)
*cousin Dinner
*had Cliff visit for a week
*Sara and Clifton visit a weekend (Sara seems to always be here, but we love it)
*Making summer plans!!! YEAH
*Dan making school look easy
*I am busy with my kids at school
*Looking for a teaching job next year, excited about the opportunity.
*Went home for a night to have Dad do our taxes... love daddy he did very good this year Thank you God!!!!!!
*Planned our DC trip, booked our flights to see Cliff graduate Law school in May!!!! YEAH
*Planned our Port A trip for June... Can't wait!

We have been busy, but we love it. Life is good! God is good to us everyday and shows his blessings daily!

I have to list some things I am excited about:
*Today is APRIL!!!! YES, summer is closer!
*8 weeks of school left
*Dan takes is MCAT in 8 weeks (excited to have that over) PLEASE PRAY FOR THAT!!! He takes May 28 @ 12 pray then PLEASE!!
*Zach gets married in November. Yeah Jordan!!!! We love her!
*I made some INCREDIBLE Homemade chocolate chip cookies for Life group and will forever only make homemade cookies!!! will post a picture later... so good they deserved a picture!

Ok so I have written enough, will post pictures when I am home. I am at work so guess I better look busy now! hahah

Peace!

BIG TV Night!!!

So word is out and everyone knows who Jason picks but in case you have not heard, I wont spoil it. I will tell you the story I heard tomorrow after it airs... Anyways I am SOOOOOOO excited for tonight!!

Now pretending to not know what happends......
Forsure Melissa will win, I like Molly, but Melissa fits him better. And... Deanna comes back... I have been waiting all season to find out WHY??? To warn him to pick the right one since she did not, or maybe to confess her dying love for him???? Who knows? we will tonight!! Anyways have fun watching!

Exciting events ahead for us:
-Dan going on his medical mission trip on Friday (be praying for that)
- I am heading home for a few days (friday-Wednesday) then leaving on Wednesday with DuBoses to go camping in Bend. With some AWESOME people I might add!!!!
- Logan, Stan and Anne are coming to FW this weekend and wea re going to the Zoo on Saturday! Can't wait to see my little nephew (he is growing up so fast)
-Zach is coming home sometime while I am home, so I get to see him. He has the flying part of his big test tomorrow (please pray for that) He did AWESOME on his 1 hour and 45 minute oral... what??? way too long for me! WAY TO GO ZACHY!!!!!
-no school for a week after Friday!! AHHH can't wait! It only means summer is right around the corner.... love it!
-we are excited that we spring forward on Sunday... the mentioned it in church last Sunday and Dan and got so excited... we love it staying light outside!!!

Remember I am a horrible speller and I don't go back and check this so I don't care.. if it bothers you, sorry!!!!!

Have a good Monday!!!

More TV

As you can see I really enjoy my TV.... ok so last nights biggest Looser was a tear jerker. If you watch that show you know that it it not know for making you cry... well last night was the night. The groups got split. AHHHHHH poor Bob could not take it. He lost his pink lady, his blue team, and part of him Brown team... they were all sooo upset. I was crying b/c i saw how upset Bob was... of corse Dan was laughing b/c he could not believe Bob of all people was crying. That has never happended. All that to say it was sad to see the teams have to split up and Jillians team did not seem to care too much they left her.

Ok so my blogs have been all about TV the past few times, so let me tell you real quick what is going on in our lives ( I am at work so I need to be fast)

-I am currently looking for a teaching job for next year (pray for that)
-Dan is doing AWESOME in school
-He is preparing for his MCAT
-Tinker turned 3 !!!! we made her a happy birthday omlet
-We had cousin dinner the other night and Dan and I did all breakfest foods, it was GREAT!
-Spring break is the week after next! Praise God!
-Loving the warm weather!
-God is GREAT and blessed us with a Life Group we LOVE!!! We meet every tuesday and we are doing the Fireproofing your marriage study!

That's all for now time to work!

Oh please pray today Zach (little brother) is taking a HUGE flight test at one.

God Bless!

American Idol...

Well week one of America voting is over and my guy made it!!!! Love Danny!! so excited for him. I do have to say this new way of doing things might let some good ones slip by. They are having 12 of the 36 sing each week and only 3 go through. At the end of the three weeks they will pick 3 wild cards making the Top 12. So everyone that doesn't make it the first time still has a chance, but it will be even harder at that point. Well one very good guy did not make it last night... Anoop. he is great. I have a good feeling about him getting the wild card spot though. I was please with the three that made it last night. Love Danny and the other two I don't remember names, maybe Alica and Mike??? But i was happy to see them through. I am excited for next week.... have a good one!!

Melissa and Jason!!!

I love them!!! And he LOVES her too!!! If you don't know who I am talking about, CLEARLY you don't watch the best show EVER.... The Bachelor!! gosh I love it!

Molly~ she is great but Melissa is better, no question!

Melissa~ She is GREAT!!!!! Love her and they are one beautiful couple!

This week Jillian got kicked off and I was kinda surprised... well not really. He was caught off by her saying she wanted to marry "her best friend". He keep saying there needs to be more... well duhhhh. My husband and I are best friends and were long before we even dated and let me just say we have a great marriage and you do need to marry your best friend. I love my husband and he will always be my best friend!!!

Anyways, kinda jumping all around today but hey... Jason did not get to meet Melissa's parents and he is disappointed (as he told us numerous times in Monday's episode). He meet her friends. I honestly think there is something else going on besides the "publicness" ( that is what she called it) issue. I am kinda thinking that they don't support her being on this show. She says they have a great relationship and she sees them around 2 times a week... I don't know if I truley believe that. She has not talked to them since she was in her hometown and they did not want to meet Jason. I would be calling my parents trying to get them to somehow meet and ask questions.... but she is not trying... I still love her though... she is awsome!

Last thing about the bachelor I promise... Why the heck is Deanna coming back? She had her chance.

till next time!!

SHAWN JOHNSON!!!!

Ok if you have read my all my blogs you have come across this title before... and you know I have a girl crush on Shawn! Love her! The best news ever came yesterday... she is going to be on Dancing with the Stars!!! YEAH!!!! AHHHHH so pumped!!! I don't even watch that show (I know hard to believe b/c I watch EVERYTHING), but I am hooked and it has not even started. Oh but don't you worry, I will be glued to my TV March 9th when it starts. I can't wait!!

Also some other great shows are starting back up soon. Survivor starts on Thursday and Sunday is Amazing Race. I love both shows!!! I really really want to be on Amazing Race. I think I will wait and apply when Dan and I are older and our kids are out of the house. I think we will have a better chance then. Till next time everyone get EXCITED for Shawn Johnson and vote for her (if thats even how the shows goes?? Maybe the judges vote??? I don't know) Peace!

Bachelor!!!

Wow... just love him... I just had to write after Monday's Show.  He is the sweetest man besides my husband and my daddy (sweetest two people in the world!!!!)!  He had me in tears and I know the rest of American too.  Yes I knew it was Stephanie's turn to go. He was in tears to see her go, and I thought that was precious. I love that he wanted the other girls to hear what all he had to say about her, that was sweet!! He is a great guy and will make a great husband and already makes a wonderful dad.  Love the show and just wanted to put a little note to express my love for Jason!!!    Go Melissa!!!!

Snow day # 2

Well as you can see from my title, I had two snow days in a row... WOW!  It's great to have a few days off, but now we have to make the few days up.   I got to sleep in and have fun wth my hubby since he was off too.   We also went SLEDDING... and not just down a hill... but behind a truck!!!!   This is Scottye and I sledding.   Loving it!!!

Dan Drove us while Shelby, Scottye and I had a blast!!!

We are headed to FW tomorrow night for the RODEO with BFF (hahah have not used that "talk" in years... hahah) Mar and her fam.  Will post when we get back!   till then.... PEACE!