Thursday, December 20, 2007

A little bit about the Harrells

Its a lovely wintery day here. I am listening to Christmas music, my son Donavan playing with his toys in the background. I have a few minutes before nap time, then I have a meal to prepare and some dishes to do. We are having company tonight, and I am looking forward to an evening of some adult conversation.
I am a stay at home mom, and I really love it, most days.........
Like on Sat night, we put Donavan to bed for the night and we were waiting to make sure he would stay in bed before we started up showers and getting our clothes ready for Sunday service. Well we sat in the living room and chatted trying to stay quiet. After about 20 min Donavan hadn't made a noise, nor had he come out of his room, so Kelsey and I started for the bedroom and bathroom and as we got to the bathroom door, Donavan busted out of his room with his sippy in his hand and was smiling so big making this growling noise and walking as fast as he could towards us. It was just so adorable, you have to laugh. So we gave him big hugs and put him back in his toddler bed and he was out like a light.
Donavan is my son, he is 21 months old, has beautiful blond hair and blue eyes and a cheery smile. He loves to play the drums and everything is a drum stick. He is a really good little boy with a little stubbern streak that he gets from both me and his dad! ha
Kelsey is my husband. We have been married a little over 6 years. Kelsey and I worked at the local grocery store, he was my manager. haha He was wonderful about helping me clean up my messes I made. It was nothing for me to drop a large supreme pizza right before putting it in the box! Or to overflow the fryer when I was cleaning it. (Oh I worked in the deli part of the store)
Kelsey plays many instruments and is VERY good at it, he also sings and he preaches. He has been preaching out a little more each year. When we first were married and while we dated he never told me he was feeling called to preach. I really don't know how fair that was but He is a wonderful preacher. I always thought I would marry someone serious, and I didn't. Kelsey is a nut and a whole lot of fun to be around. He is a WONDERFUL husband, and I can't imagine life with out him.
Right now we go to a little church a few miles up the road and we have a wonderful Pastor Leon Fontenot. Kelsey and I are as of Jan the Youth Leaders and Kelsey helps out (A LOT) in the music Dept. and I help out with whatever is needed there. We have a little over 100 in our church and about 16 in our youth group. We have a wonderful church with strong men as leaders in it, its really been great for Kelsey and I. My dad has always been my pastor growing up (Don Doran) but about 14 months ago Kelsey and really felt like we needed to branch out and move on. The nurse who helped deliver Donavan went to this church and on Fathers Day we wanted to go and see her so she could see Donavan. We had never been to her church, and we fell inlove with the church and the pastor, and God just showed us this is where he wanted us to be. We now live about 3 hours aways from my family all to ourselves, and it gets a bit lonely somedays but we really love our church and Kelsey and I have really grown here.
Well thats enough for now
hope everyone has a very merry christmas!!

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