Life Changes

It looks like I've got a pretty consistent pattern of updating only once a month...give or take a couple of days.  I have opened the 'New Post' page a number of times this month but could never gather enough interesting information to make a post.  I've also been waiting to update you all on the exciting changes that are happening in the McCurley family!  Matt is now the Pastor of First Baptist Church in Canadian, TX! This past Sunday, March 25th, we went in-view-of-a-call to Canadian, TX and accepted the position.  We have been on our knees praying that the Lord would give us a Pastorate for a long time now, and the Lord has answered our prayers!  We are absolutely ecstatic!  

We got back to Fort Worth on Monday night and Tuesday afternoon I began packing.  We plan to be out of Fort Worth this Friday and into our new home in Canadian Saturday afternoon.  It's a quick move, but our first Sunday is Easter morning, April 8th.  We will be moving from approximately 700 square feet of living space to over 2500 square feet of living space! From one bedroom and one bathroom to four bedrooms and 2 and 1/2 bathrooms!  It is extremely humbling to know that the Lord's will is being done in and through us.  He has been gracious and merciful to us and we are so thankful for His blessings upon our family!  We are looking forward to serving the people of Canadian, TX and are thrilled about being back in West Texas!  

We visited Matt's brother, Craig, and his family in San Antonio

(from left to right) Cullen, Matt, Me, Terrell Lee, Shari, Carys, Cale, and Craig

This was on our last Sunday at FBC Whitney, TX

We already miss y'all!

Terrell Lee just keeps growing and surprising us every day!  He is a crawling champion now and is pulling up on furniture, walls, the refrigerator...you name it! haha! He is into everything in our little house, so we are very excited to have so much room in our new home!  He's got two teeth now and is still chewing on anything that comes close to his little mouth.  Terrell Lee is our little wild-child and we love him to death!  He's already melted some hearts in Canadian and made lots of friends! 

I hope you all have had a great March!  Enjoy this Spring-like weather while it lasts...May is just around the corner!

Time Flies

Wow!  Where did February go?  

It was a busy month at the McCurley household!  With Matt being in the middle of his last semester of Seminary, things are beginning to get pretty hectic around here. One day he's studying Greek and the next he's writing a sermon or doing a book report.  I don't know how he keeps up with it all!  The first week in February I started going to a Bible study on Experiencing God by Henry and Richard Blackaby.  It has been so rewarding Spiritually and I have seen the movement of the Lord in my life more than ever.  Not to mention, I get a little girl-time every Tuesday night while Matt keeps Terrell Lee! 

In the month of February we celebrated Valentines Day, made a quick visit to Childress, Matt preached a funeral, and we took our youth group on a Leadership Weekend at a nearby youth encampment called Latham Springs.  We have been very very busy, to say the least! 

Terrell Lee is becoming more and more a part of our family every day!  His personality is really beginning to show--he's just so much fun!!!  He turned 6 months old on the 23rd--he's learning to crawl, almost has his first tooth, and as of yesterday he has mastered pulling up onto his knees in his crib! The kid is a hand full!  His eye has improved a lot over the past few weeks, which is an answer to our prayers!  Thank you for joining us in that prayer and please continue to pray for complete healing.

We went for Terrell Lee's 6 month check up yesterday and he is perfectly healthy. He weighed 14.15 lbs and is 26 inches long.  He's long and lean! We thought he was going to be massive with his birthweight being 9.1, but he is all muscle these days!  Matt calls him our Blue-Eyed Bronco Billy and he fits the name to a T. 

This week I have been making use of my Pioneer Woman cookbook that I got for Christmas.  This is my first time to use it and so far she has not disappointed.  This weekend we are excited to spend some time with our friends, the Griffins, on Friday and going to the PBR (professional bull riding) rodeo at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on Saturday night.  We figure bull riding at $15 a ticket is the cheapest and best way that we'll ever get to see the stadium! I'm sure I'll stick out like a sore thumb seeing as I am not a cowgirl and own no cowgirl paraphernalia.  But I have to say I really enjoy watching those guys attempt to ride those crazy bulls! They are much braver than me!  I remember going out to feed the cows with my Papa as a kid and sitting in the pick-up while he and Tanner were feeding, because I was afraid a cow was going to slobber on me.  Hopefully we won't be getting that close to the bulls this weekend.  

I hope you all had a great February! Happy March 1st!