Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Christmas Is Coming!!!

I am so excited about christmas! This time of year is probably the best time of year and I am even more excited to be spending it with my family. We have been so blessed by our congregation to be able to spend christmas in OKC. I am looking forward to everything. Swadley's, Taco Bueno, Red Robin and even the occasional Taco Bell run. (yes we have taco bell in canada but it isn't the same) Of course I'm looking forward to spending time with my family. That's a given.

Monday, October 29, 2012

LG Life is good

Life is good right now. But life is also hard and trying at times. It has been a rough couple of weeks with the boys taking turns being sick and then Syb and I taking turns being sick... We are trying to figure out how to get both the boys to sleep all the way through the night because when one wakes up the other one does shortly after. It didn't used to be like this. They both slept so good through the night. So that's one thing we are working on. It is so fun having two boys especially when I see how they are so much like what my brother and I were like. It is so fun to see them play and fight and love on each other. It brings me so much joy. What I am thankful for is the stage that they are in right now. Rather than wishing they were older so that they could understand things better or be able to behave better, I am thankful for how they are and the way that they act now. Because in 10 years when they are 13 and 11 I am going to wish that they were running or crawling all over the place and wanting to play with me every minute of everyday. I know that when the time comes that I will miss that. But it isn't something that I am going to wish away at this stage of their life. It's busy and crazy but I wouldn't want it any other way. When I think that I need a break for a bit I will come down to our office or go to the church for a bit and work on some things. Then give me a couple of hours and I'm missing them. People have said that they wish that they could freeze their kids at a certain age and from what I've been told that age is anywhere between 9-11. But give me a 3 and 1 year old any day. I love my family with all that I am and my goal right now in life is to be a better husband to my beautiful wife of 5 and 1/2 years and to be a better father to my two incredible boys. When I have succeeded at that I have succeeded in everything. 

Eric

Saturday, February 4, 2012

a little bit of Oklahoma


Hi-lights from our trip down south... Jan 10th- 24th

1. Provision

It has to start with God's provision. A love offering was taken at the Tab and the amount that we received for Christmas was 3dollars more then what our tickets cost for the 4 of us to fly. God knew we needed this trip more then we even thought we did.

2. Home alone

You know that scene in Home alone when they are running through the airport. That was us. We were delayed in Great Falls so what was going to be an hour and a half in Denver turned out to actually be ten minutes. We landed at 4:40 and our next flight was leaving at 4:50. We were running as fast as you can with two little boys. They kept calling our names over head, "Hawkinson party of 4 please report to terminal 28" easy for them to say we were dashing from 89 all the way to the twenties. Every place to eat we passed Noah would say, "Mom I hungry." But we were so thankful that they held the flight for us.

3. Ludingtonville

We spent the first week with my side of the family. It was awesome, full of hanging out and checking out their new home and church. Such quality time. I was so thankful we had a full week with them. Noah couldn't get enough he was waking up as early as 5:30 and wanting to play right away. They all helped so much and it was a much-needed break for me. I was very thankful.

a. Lou Lou's Dino

b. Maddy's fort building with Noah

c. alot of church playground fun

d. Youth group (overwhelmed with the fact Lou is in Youth group, so proud of that amazing young lady)

c. quality time driving with Miranda to get Noah to sleep

d. New cousin pics.

e. “Uncle Tis” and Noah’s new dino book

f. our first official date night with out our two boys

4. Food

In between all the fun we got to eat at some of our favorite places. It is always a treat. We really try to limit ourselves at home how much we eat out but when we are in OK we splurge.

5. Hawkinson’s Home

For the second week we stayed at Eric’s folks home in OKC. It was nice to get to see everyone so much. We saw all of Eric’s grandparents, cousins, and a few of our friends in between everything. Teresa was able to take a few days off so it was fun running around with her.

a. Price is Right breakfast with Depaw

b. Cousin time playing/fighting

c. Grandparents

d. Seeing Brent’s work

e. A windy day at the outlet mall

6. Friends

We never seem to get enough time to catch up with our friends. It is always hard trying to squeeze them in. We were thankful for the time we were able to get either running into people or visiting with them.

7. Home

As much as I need to see our family and have a bit of a break from normal life, it was so great to get back home. It has been a bit rough getting the boys back to normal routines but we are almost there and it was well worth it.