Kelly Jo! More Pictures

This is the Lamb i got her. Happy moment. :o)

Happy Birthday Kelly Jo: 9.30.10

KELLY JO!!!! She's finally here!

Precious Kelly Jo Faglier! We've waited a long time for you! You're finally here and loved by so many! I don't know the exact time she was born but mommy was induced I believe around 7am and arrived alittle before 2pm. She cracks me up already. She is going to be one of those baby's, toddlers, kid, tween, teen...eventually adult that is going to do everything in her own time. Even when she was induced she took her time and weighing in at 9lbs 2 oz! She is adorable though. I can't wait to hold her. My little niece. My mom said that Stephanie was flawless! And both she and baby are very healthy! :D I was looking at the pictures that everyone was taking for me and I opened the one of My sister and Kelly Jo. Even after labor my sister looked beautiful and incredibly happy. She looked so natural with Kelly Jo in her arms and looked into her eyes like Kelly Jo is her world. Which I think is perfect! Josh looked great to! He looked like an excited puppy holding Kelly Jo. He's such a proud daddy and Kelly Jo already has him around her precious little fingers. God gave them an incredible gift. And it's awesome to see that they know that. They know she is a gift from God. I think they are going to be incredible parents. God chose them for Kelly Jo. They are going to be fantastic parents.

My parents are super excited as well! They are finally grandparents! My mom looked so happy holding her. The picture of my dad is priceless. And cameron well he had that goofy smile with those glassy eyes and you just know that he is proud and excited all over. I have to admit it was really .... just a totally different feeling when i saw the pictures of my mom and dad holding her. The pictures are literally worth a thousand words and not just and desriptive words but words that describe how they feel at that moment. over joyed, proud, speechless... i can't even describe it. They just have that look of "my daughter is grown and has given this wonderful gift" they are just very proud parents and grandparents. wow i need to think about what i'm trying to say. i think it's just an overwhelming feeling to me to see the pictures that there are no words to describe.

But Kelly Jo is here and she and mommy will be going home tomorrow or saturday. They, including Josh, will have plenty of love and help. I'll be done to hold little Kelly Jo soon and give her mommy and daddy and my mommy daddy and brother big ole hugs!

One last thing though. This made me cry like a baby. I called this morning about 9 oclock (in tx) to talk to my sister and of course me being curious was like "did the epidural hurt?" "are you going to feel it when you push?" haha she answered then and quickly said to me "Chris, I brought the lamb you gave to her." I cried like a baby. I still cry thinking about it. It meant so much to me and I was truely touched that even though i wasn't there my sister wanted me there for her and Kelly Jo in some way. That gives me an incredibly happy heart. Then she made sure i was still coming to visit in two weeks and i said "yes ma'am!!!!"

This morning Gerard was bouncing off the walls saying " I'm gonna be uncle ga-ward! and you're gonna be aunt bee!" haha he was so happy. He was getting so antsy until Kelly Jo got here! then he saw the pictures and said ( AND I QUOTE) "I want one!" I looked and said REALLY!!! he shock he head like I can't believe that just came out my mouth and said... well maybe only for 20 minutes to play with. lol! i love him!

Anywho I'll stop now so you can look at some pictures....

Mommy and baby

Daddy and Baby and uncle cam in the back ground


Kelly Jo


Baby and Grandma Ceha

Baby and Grandpa

Foose!

The new addition to our family! Foose! He's so stinkin cute and so lovable and sweet and did I mention house trained! He's an adorable 3 month old schnauzer chihuahua mix. We got him from the local animal shelter and he's a doll baby. I've always been told that you can get the greatest dogs from a shelter and it's the truth! I can't wait to spoil him. right now he just taking everything in and relaxing. very skiddish but improving by the hour. :D btw Foose was the hubby's idea. We were suppose to get a girl and name her shelby after Carrol Shelby. A little boy chose us and Gerard decided to go with Foose after Chip Foose..... men.

For God’s vision to be impressed on our hearts, we must sit in stillness at His feet for quite a long time.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.(Proverbs 29:18 KJV)

Waiting upon God is vital in order to see Him and receive a vision from Him. And the amount of time spent before Him is also critical, our hearts are like a photographer’s film—the longer exposed, the deeper the impression. For God’s vision to be impressed on our hearts, we must sit in stillness at His feet for quite a long time. Remember, the troubled surface of a lake will not reflect an image.

I've noticed 2 things in my life. The harder I try to get what I want the harder, almost nearly impossible, it is for me to get. And the more I pray about what I want the more it falls apart. why? It's not what God wants me to do. I'm not being still. I'm not listening. I can't hear God for all the noise and distractions that the world and the distractions I cause myself that are around me. Well boo on me! All the failures... now a slap (that makes sense) in the face.

Let me be the first to tell you that I did not listen the first time nor the second nor the third. I can't remember how many times God tried to tell me to listen and I just keep going along doing what I wanted because it's what I wanted. I really don't feel like going into detail but i'm gonna kinda accidentally mention some my stupid moments.

Cosmetology school was no easy task. I actually hated it. I fought everyday. Missing grades, missing hours, teachers who literally said "you've got 5 hours... keep busy" while they did there own thing like pay bills and talk on their cell phones. I'm not making this stuff up. Thinking back on it I didn't enjoy it at all and I felt completely our of place. I never felt like I belonged.

Before I was done with school I started to apprentice at a salon that my hair stylist partly owned. it was cute and I thought it was great! Plus I had 2 great people including my stylist take me under there wings! I loved it! I was happy! But then.... dun dun duuuunnnnn! Things went down the crapper. The person whom I apprenticed under made my life hell and alot of other people's. While practicing on my mannequin she called me to her station and flat out told me to rethink working in her salon and rethink my career. well that didn't make me think it just pissed me off. many more things happened and needless to say I called her out and gave her a piece of my mind. But my whole experience at that salon was "it's a good day" or "it's just a bad day. you can't have all good." I felt i didn't belong. I just felt I was passing the time and hanging out. In the middle of that year I began to pray. I asked God to take control of my career path. If this was it then I was all up for it. If not I was willing to start over.

It wasn't until I was in San Angelo that I took my own prayer seriously. Instead of praying "please let me find a great salon" I started to pray "Your will is my will. Show me know what You want me to do". YUPPERS be frickin careful on what you ask for. Things started falling apart more and more and the more I actually stopped enjoying doing hair. My whole attitude is changing. It continues to. I actually see myself with options like going back to school and new careers. I'm getting the energy and the excitement to go and research new careers! You think you've got everything figured out and you're settled and you're like "i'm gonna do this the rest of my life and can live with it" but then a rock gets thrown in you're little pond and if causes ripples and you freak out and can't handle it and you get scared. and what was your safe haven... the one YOU CHOSE is chaotic. I don't know about you but I thank God for that rock because He knew i was going nowhere and would eventually "be safe" in my little pond. I don't wanna "be safe"! What challenges and missions and opportunities would that give me that was FOR GOD!? psh i don't know either.... I'm gonna go with "no answer" for that one because I don't think that there is one.

Anywho what I'm trying to say is is that I was too busy fighting for what I wanted and not listening to what God wanted me to do. So He basically had to slap my stubborn butt around for a while until I would listen. I kinda figured that out today when I was laid off from the salon that I hated working at. My life wasn't getting easier. It was getting harder and I was doing it to myself. Maybe I'm not suppose to do hair. so what. Or maybe I am. but now I'm going to take much needed time of mediation and listen to what God wants me to do. He'll let me know... Hair or another career. It's not going to be easy BUT I can bet you it's going to be way easier than what I was doing to myself.

For God’s vision to be impressed on our hearts, we must sit in stillness at His feet for quite a long time.

Heck Yea! Welcome Back Christy!

I feel like my old self again! Happy and excited! Still alittle nervous and homesick but i'm really starting to enjoy Tx! Cra-Azy! I know! Everything has been going well. Work is kinda starting to suck. I'm tired of salon drama and being used. so needless to say since I'm only 24 I can change careers without a second thought. which is nice. so I've started filling out apps for different jobs. I'm even looking at other salons. cause maybe it's the one that I'm in. I'm just getting really bored. If I'm lucky I'll get to do a color or a highlight once a week but never both in one week. I'm just tired of cutting someone's hair and they leave with it wet cause they are going to PT or just tying it up anyways. the challenges are gone. Anywho I may even go back to school. I want a career not a job. ;0)

Guess what!!!!! We are getting a PUPPY!!!!! I'm sooo flippin excited!!!! We are going to the animal shelter whenever we work out a pet deposit with the realtors. I can't wait to take pictures and post them! I'm so gonna spoil her! We already came up with a name lol. Gerard and I came up with a name before we even got married. haha. I can't wait to have a puppy follow me around the house and look up at me with those cute puppy dog eyes or play ball in the backyard! ahh so excited!

38 Days until I'm back in GA! I can't wait! I get to see my mommy and daddy and chubs (brother) and stessy and josh and granny! but most importantly... well 2nd to mommy and daddy is that I get to see KELLYJO! I'm going to be an aunt someday next week and I can't wait to see her! I'm gonna take tons of pictures of her too!

On a random note I really love the reality show Big Brother and I actually just filled out the application for the next season! It was alot of fun! filing it out I remembered how fun and outgoing and witty I am just filling it out. I've been down in the dumps so much lately that I forgot how I really am. People here don't really know how I am. I gotta stay out of this funk! :D It's way more fun! Anywho I'm excited about sending it in. Gerard thinks it's funny. Either way filling out the app was definitely a reminder to me that i really needed. ;o)

Humm... whatelse. can't really think of anything. I'm just really glad my attitude is changing! Welcome back Christy!