HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE!!

Happy Birthday to the most wonderful husband in the world!!! I love you so much! You make my life better by being in it!! I hope you have a wonderful day!

Christmas/Birthday Highlights

Few highlights of gifts I received...

Kitchen Aid Mixer

Blue Topaz Ring

Wine Fridge

On my birthday we went to Holiday in the Park at Six Flags... had fun!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas From The Harwoods!!

"And the Angel said unto them, Fear not: For, Behold, I bring you good tidings of Great Joy, which shall be to all people, for unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord, and this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger, and suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the Heavenly Host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!"

Remember this Christmas Season that JESUS is the GREATEST Gift you'll EVER receive!! You'll NEVER receive anything better. And if God never gives you anything else for the rest of your life, Jesus WAS and IS enough FOREVER!

Christmas is soo special because it celebrates the day that Christ was born and came to earth as a man to save us from SIN & DEATH! No more shall we have sin & death, but we shall now have ETERNAL LIFE in Him FOREVER!

So thankful for that special night in a manger!

Vacay starts soon....

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas Season!! I have all my Christmas shopping done, presents wrapped and am ready to hit the road!! We'll be traveling to Irving for Christmas and then to Birmingham after Christmas!! I'm soo looking forward to it! This is my favorite time of the year!! So much to celebrate with Christmas and Kevin & I's Birthdays!!

We've had a busy few weeks!! We had several Christmas parties over the last couple of weeks. Here is a great picture of Kevin at one!!

Nice outfit huh?? HAHAHA

Last week we also went and saw Beauty & The Beast with Sarah!! It was AWESOME!! I loved it, brought back a lot of great childhood memories!

Last night we had Christmas with The Hales! And I think Addison was super excited about the gift we got her! It was Barbies of ALL the Disney Princesses!! She wouldn't put them down!! :)

Hope everyone's had a great few weeks and is getting some much need vacation soon!!

Arbonne Fragrances

I'm soo excited!! We just found out that Arbonne's Holiday Fragrances have been such a hit that they are now going to become part of our regular line!!!! If you haven't tried them, they are amazing...and not to mention, SO CUTE!!! They perfumes are all inspired by Arbonne Consultants...

Check them out, which one are you....

The Dreamer: 

She dreams in living color...big, vidi, beautiful dreams, not just for herself but for all the people she loves. She dreams of happiness and peace and making the world a better place. She is refreshing beautiful inside and out and possesses a simple power and magic to actually make her dreams come true. With notes of Fuji apple, yuzu zest, white cyclamen and Baltic amber.

The Dazzler:

She dazzles everyone around her with her elegance and grace. The world is her stage and when she speaks, they listen...because she is the connection that brings everyone together. She sparkles on the outside, yet her inner beauty shines through, mesmerizing everyone she touches. With notes of green bamboo, bergamot, ylang-ylang and Australian sandalwood.

The Dynamo:

She is a dynamo, pulsing with energy and ingenuity. She is the leader who sets a goal, then makes it happen, as she brings her vision to life. She is stimulating and vibrant...an inspiration to those around her. She is admired not only for her outer beauty, but her dynamic inner strength. With notes of white cardamom, frosted pink grapefruit, nigh blooming jasmine, and golden amber.

Sky For Men:

This cologne is AMAZING!! I make my husband wear it all the time because it smells SOOOOO freaking good!! A warm, masculine expression of his strength and spirit, infused with woods, refreshing herbs and brilliant citrus top notes.

Addison Time

On Sunday evening Addison came over to hang out with Kevin & I!! And boy did we have a GREAT time! That little girl just melts my heart; I love her to death!! I can't believe she is going to be 4 in February, man has time flown by!!

Well we picked her up and then came back to our office. The first order of business was to make Christmas cookies!! Addison hadn't even made cutout cookies, so she had a blast helping roll out and cut cookies!

While the cookies were baking, we played with my American Girl doll, and then painted fingernails!

Once the cookies were done we set them out to cool and then headed to MCDONALDS!! We had a great time eating and playing on the playground!

After that we went and looked at Christmas lights before finally heading back to the house where we then decorated all of our Christmas cookies!!

Kevin then surprised Addi with a new movie, Anastasia!! So we all put our PJs on and watch the movie!!

We had such a fun time with my favorite little girl! Can't wait until next time!!

Forever Reign

You are good, You are good

When there's nothing good in me

You are love, You are love

On display for all to see

You are light, You are light

When the darkness closes in

You are hope, You are hope

You have covered all my sin

You are peace, You are peace

Whom my fear in crippling

You are true, You are true

Ever in my wandering

You are joy, You are joy 

You're the reason that I sign

You are life, You are life

In You death has lost its sting

Oh, I'm running to your arms

I'm running to Your arms

The riches of Your love will always be enough

Nothing compares to Your embrace

Light of the world forever reign

You are more, You are more

Than my words will ever say

You are Lord, You are Lord

All creation will proclaim

You are here, You are here

In Your presence I'm made whole

You are God, You are God

Of all else I'm letting go

Hallelujah, forever

All the glory, forever

All the praise to You

My heart will sing

No other name

Jesus, Jesus

Lately through pictures...

Texas Football Game

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Texas/Baylor Game (the wind is making Kevin look puffy, haha)

Relaxing on a rainy cold day in my AWESOME Arbonne Socks from our PAMPERmint set

Chinese Take Out, Vino, and Home Alone...nothing better on a rainy cold day...

It is Well...

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.


It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.


My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!


It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.


And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

Thanksgiving in Alabama

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving last week!! We had an eventful one!! Kevin took last week off and on Tuesday we headed to Irving to stay the night with my parents! On Wednesday morning we woke up at like 4:30AM to head out on a road trip to ALABAMA!

See, my parents haven't ever been to Alabama, so we thought this would be a perfect opportunity to see it and where Kevin grew up and went to college! What we didn't know if that my parents really wanted to road trip! Kevin and I have never made that trip together and the only time Kevin has is when he moved out to Texas originally! And Kevin and I aren't the biggest road trippers, 3 hours to Dallas is about all we want to be in the car for. But we decided, hey why not....let's road trip!

We finally got to Trussville, Alabama (Kevin's hometown) later that afternoon. Of course the first stop we had to make after dropping off our stuff at Kevin's dads, was to Milo's. Milo's is Kevin's absolute FAVORITE hamburger joint! He gets soo excited about their SAUCE. their fries, and sweet tea! Needless to say, he was in HEAVEN after that!

Thursday we woke up and drove up to Gadsden, AL, where Kevin's grandparents live. We had a Thanksgiving lunch with Kevin's moms side of the family. It was great seeing them!

That afternoon we got back to Trussville and watch the Cowboy's win by a last second field goal!! Then we enjoyed our second Thanksgiving meal with Kevin's dad.

Then Thanksgiving night we watch what could be the last TX/A&M for quite some time! I won't share my complete feelings on A&M's move to the SEC, but I will say that this game could have not ended ANY better and ANY more fitting than it did! It was probably the best Thanksgiving Day I've ever had!

Friday, we met Kevin's grandparents for breakfast at Cracker Barrel and then we gave my parents the grand tour of Trussville and also hit up Momma G's for lunch!! I do love their nachos! And of course for dinner Kevin had to have Milo's ONE MORE TIME! :) He's obsessed!

Then on Saturday, we woke up early and headed to Auburn for the Iron Bowl! We gave my parents the campus tour of where Kevin went to college and then tailgated with several of Kevin's family friends. I also finally got to try Toomer's Drug Store's lemonade!! VERY GOOD!

Poor Toomer's Corner, what they are looking like after being poisoned!! :(

Then my parents got to experience their first Iron Bowl game! The outcome wasn't what we had hoped for, but my parents definitely enjoyed the experience!

That night we drove after the game to Mississippi and stayed the night and then woke up early Sunday and made our way back to Dallas. We had a great trip showing my parents around Alabama!!

Thank God I Was Born a Texas Longhorn

I've been hearing this song at all the Texas Football games this year and keep forgetting to look it up!! Well I finally did today! I just love it!! Here is a video with the song and the lyrics are below too!



When I was just a kid, my dad told me
When it comes to football in Texas, there's only one team
They play down in Austin, Saturdays in the fall 
At Darell K. Royal, 100,000 Strong

And as I grew, so did my pride
For the thunder of Old Smokey, and Singin' Texas Fight
For Bevo and the boys, down there on the field 
C'mon Hook em' Horns! I know you will

I've seen Vince Young run for the Roses
Watched Ricky & Earl strike them Heisman Poses
I've witnessed the battle for that old Red River
And crossed back over most times as a winner

I'm one of the chosen, who's blood runs burnt orange,
Thank God I was born - A Texas Longhorn!

If you ask me, The greatest thing in the world
Is a pre game tailgate with a bunch of UT girls,
Down on San Jacinto, Longhorn nation all around,
Come early, stay late and get loud

Cause I've seen Colt McCoy, throw bullets to Shipley
And I've heard all the stories of the great 1960's
From Nobis to McMichael to Orakpo to Applewhite
Those names you'll remember for the rest of your life

I'm one of the chosen, who's blood runs burnt orange,
Thank God I was born - A Texas Longhorn!

I hate them Red Raiders and them Baylor Bears,
Let the Aggies keep their 12th Man, I just don't care,
So long Nebraska, guess we beat you too much,
And never forget.... O U SUCKS!!

When the Lord comes, to take me away,
I hope he lets me have just one more Saturday
A pretty Texas girl beside me, cold one in my hand
Cheering for the boys, way up there in the stands

That's how I'd like to go, Lord If that's alright,
A winner down in Austin, on a Saturday night!!

I've seen Vince Young run for the Roses
Watched Ricky & Earl strike them Heisman Poses
I've witnessed the battle for that old Red River
And crossed back over most times as a winner

Yeah, I'm one of the chosen, who's blood runs burnt orange,
Thank God I was born - A Texas Longhorn!
Yeah We're part of the chosem, who's blood runs burnt orange,
Thank God we were born - Texas Longhorns!

Crazy Night...

A couple of months ago I convinced Kevin to let us get mini-season passes to the Broadway Across America Musicals that were coming to Austin this season! So we got tickets with Sarah to see South Pacific, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, and Les Miserables!  I've been super excited to go see these!! Well last night we had our first one and we went and saw South Pacific! But man did we have an eventful evening leading up to the musical!

So the show didn't start until 8pm, so Sarah picked me up and we left my house around 5:30pm to head downtown to meet Kevin for dinner beforehand! Well I don't know if traffic is usually that bad, but it was TERRIBLE last night! I had reservations for us at a wine bar for 6:15 downtown, but it was about 6:05 and we were only to like 45th or 35th Street inching along! So we called Kevin and said we should probably eat somewhere closer to campus (which is where the show was) so we could make the show on time. He agreed, so Sarah and I exited the highway and made our way across campus to where we had decided to eat now! Once we got to the new place, there was like NO parking, so I ran in to see how long of a wait they had and they said about 15 minutes and at this point it was already 6:25pm! So we decided to try this pizza place across the street that wasn't as crowded!!  So mind you we got to the pizza place around 6:30pm! Got a table right away and waited about 10 minutes before the server finally came over and took our entire order! We were in a hurry and the service ended up being SLOW! We needed to leave there by about 7:30pm so we'd have time to find parking at the theatre and such!

By 7:10 our appetizers had finally come out, we were starting to get impatient with how long everything was taking. At 7:15 the waiter came by and said our pizzas were accidentally given to another table and that it would be another 10 minutes before ours were done. UGH!!! We got one of our pizzas out around 7:25 and scarfed it down. The other we got to go and ate in the car! Thankfully the place felt terrible and we got our food for FREE! So that was nice!

We then headed to the theatre and were waiting in line to park in the garage and some lady walked up to our window and said she had a free parking pass we could have! WOW! So nice! So our crazy night leading up to the show ended up nicely where we didn't have to pay for ANYTHING!

South Pacific was really good! Kevin was skeptical about musicals because the only one he had every been to was RENT and needless to say it wasn't his cup of tea. I also made him go with me to an opera once, and he didn't' really enjoy that either! But I thought he'd like South Pacific and he said he did. Although he said the French guys accent was too thick so he couldn't understand anything he was saying and didn't really get what was going on. Oh my! Baby steps with Kevin on being cultured into the Arts! ;)

Religion vs. The Gospel Sermon Video

Here is the video of the sermon I talked about a couple of days ago!


The Gospel of Mark: Religion vs. The Gospel from The Austin Stone on Vimeo.

Linda's Wedding

Last weekend, Kevin and I went up to Dallas for my good friend, Linda's Wedding!! Linda and I have known each other since our Freshman year in high school!! In high school we became close by having a lot of classes together, being in choir, and in Tiger Fever!! What is funny, is that Linda and I actually lived down the street from each other and we never knew until we met in high school! See I was always going to other schools from where I suppose to go because of where my parents worked. But finally in high school I went to the right school and there I met Linda!!

After high school we both went to The University of Texas together!! Even though we lived across campus from each other our freshman year, I remember trekking to go see her and walking up, like 3 flights of stairs to get to her dorm room, since they didn't have an elevator, haha! We've remained friends ever since. I was sad to see her finally leave Austin after college and head back up to Dallas. I don't get to see her as much anymore, but still cherish our friendship through all these years!

On Saturday, she married Richie!! I'm soo happy for her! I first met Richie during my wedding festivities a couple of years ago! And let me tell you, I saw something different in Linda with him! It was really great to see! What I love too, is when I'd say something to family or friends about Linda getting married, they would say, "Ohhh to that sweet boy we met at your wedding?? He was such a nice guy, I really liked him!" You know that makes an impression when people who just briefly met him had such a good opinion!! Anyways, their wedding was beautiful!!!! And I'm soo happy for them to start on the journey called marriage! I wish them sooo much happiness because they deserve it! Thank you Richie for being such a wonderful man to my dear friend!!!