Lots of exciting things happening here at Revelation Guitar Amps in Austin Texas! Hoping to announce a cool partnership soon. Josh is busy cranking out some amps for the company to play with over the holidays. If anyone you know is in the market for a custom, hand made, high quality amplifier, check us out.

Revelation Amps website

2 social media posts today that made me happy. Hannah is always managing to get Oscar in some funny poses for their "selfies". And when the big kids showed up at church this morning Pastor Lori wanted a pic with them and was SOO excited for them she even posted their photo.

Just returned from a trip to our nations capitol.

very eye catching awareness tool

Our team went to a trafficking conference last week. It was really good, practical material, and we heard amazing stories from actual survivors. It was very inspiring. We also got a night time tour of the capitol, which was pretty darn cool. We got to sit in the House chamber where the president gives his annual state of the union
address. That was REALLY cool. We weren't allowed to take pictures in there, or I would have. We also toured alot of the monuments and Smithsonians, but I already posted pics of those several years ago, so I won't do it again.





As soon as I got home the wedding planning commenced. We toured our first venue last night and ruled it out. We have 5 more this week. Apparently we are months behind schedule. Planning a wedding these days is a year long ordeal. One venue she really likes is already completely booked on all saturdays through next summer. But if she likes it enough we may choose a Friday or Sunday. This is gonna be a crazy ride.

The Proposal

The proposal was so beautiful. He had several friends and family there before we arrived and we were there pretending to do a photo shoot. Then Hannah had her listen to a song on her phone that was Michael singing her a song he wrote. Then one by one during the song her friends and family brought her pictures that he had drawn her of some of his favorite memories of their relationship. At the end he came up with blank paper for their next memories, and then he proposed. I think there were very few dry eyes. 

collage of all the drawings

Jordan's 20th bday

"indoor skydiving" at Ifly

everyone loved it, except Michael who would like to "never do that again" :)

Miles wanted to help with the candles

In other news, Michael asked Josh's permission to propose to Jordan.  He took him out to his favorite breakfast spot and had a very long, very good conversation.  Shhhhh.. don't say a word, she's not supposed to know...    :)

More news hopefully coming soon!!

Here are some pics of the bathroom redo's. I'm still not done with them. I need to frame the mirrors and put up some decor in the kids bath and also repaint their cabinets. I still love how the grey brings out the color in our slate tile. Pictures just don't do the room justice..

before  and   after  

before  and  after

kids bath in progress - LOVE the color! New dark tile with white rugs :)

Josh is back home after another whirlwind European tour of London, Norway and Sweden. While he was away I redid our bathroom as a surprise. He was definitely surprised! When he left it was a red cluttered mess. It is now decluttered, painted grey, with black and white photos from our Paris trip hung up, chrome accessories and bright white trim and white linens and rugs everywhere. It really brings out the color of our slate tile in there. It looks great. I was very happy with the transformation and was therefor motivated to do the kids bathroom as well. Theirs is now Tiffany blue and white with some dark flooring. It looks absolutely adorable.  Next project on the list is redoing the entire upstairs flooring. Ripping out the 12 year old carpet and putting down some wood laminate.

I think it really just occurred to me that my last child is a senior. This is the last year of their "home" education. Next year I will not be a homeschool mom. It is absolutely unbelievable. I never thought it would go this far and there were years I never thought we'd make it this far. But we did it. I can't believe this adventure is on its last year. It all happened so fast. Especially these teen years. Wasn't I just yesterday worried about how to get them through high school? How does time get away from us like that? The thought of them both being gone sometime soon took my breath away. I don't think I want that. I'm still not ready. I would miss them too much.

Josh got back in town late friday night from yet another business trip.
My friend Rene gave us her box seats so we could attend the Saturday part of the Le Mans race weekend. Josh and I had a blast. I didn't know that Patrick Dempsey was a race car driver! I saw him up close, then watched him race later. It was a very cool experience spending the day out there and touring the pit area between races.

"these are the best of times, these are the worst of times.."  Isn't it funny how they can be at exactly the same time? Things going along just swell in our non profit and out of nowhere we are hit with extreme cruelty from an ex member. I'm sure she's just bitter, but to try and take down a non profit who is only trying to help save people? Who does that? Just evil I tell ya...
Other than that, things are moving along rapidly. Yesterday we met with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Texas office. That was very informative and they gave us a TON of contacts for introductions moving forward. So beyond cool.

We're all very excited to be headed to Washington D.C. in November for a national trafficking conference. The head of that organization wants us to get introduced to some high level people in our field. Very exciting stuff.
Gotta get ready for Bunco tonight - looking forward to some downtime with friends.

wow

There are so many exciting things happening at KTF. I so wish I could tell you about all the amazing things God is doing and the things He has given us. I hope that one day we can tell the story of all that He has done these last 4 months. It will be such a testimony. But for now, I guess it's just for our faith building. It seems all we can do now when we share the newest drop jaw moment is just say, wow. That is the most prevalent word in our vocabulary at the moment. If anyone ever doubted that this is a move of God, they do not now. Our work has already begun. We have jumped in all the way. Not by our choosing, but God just keeps dropping things at our door. We said we wanted to rescue these victims and now we're putting our feet in the fire. As James said last night, if you're not ready and not sure if this is where you want to be, then get out now, cause it's about to get crazy. The people we keep "coincidentally" meeting who just happen to be exactly the person we needed to meet, the directors of places we need to get in, just "happen" to sit next to us in a meeting.. The list goes on and on people.
God is so cool. So beyond cool. I can honestly say I've never seen anything like it. I don't know why He chose me to come along for this ride..

-s 
Blessed Beyond all Reason

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Hannah and Ashley about to rock the 80's head mics

Hannah sang a special at Anderson Mill Campus today. It was an acapella quartet doing the "Cups" song that's popular right now. They bang their cups in rhythm on the table while they're singing. You should watch it, they were AMAZING!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=l_BApFVBoVQ

I love this.