Happy Spring 2011

We just wanted to wish everyone a 

Happy SPRING! 

Love the Titones

May the Spirit of Jesus Christ fill you this Easter Season!

May you know a joy only love can fill your souls with...

May your hearts be pure and clean for the journey...

May you always keep your heads up...

Don't forget to have fun along the way...

And always remember those who've made you better...

Photography done by : Julie Miller

Wassailing

Wassail is an old English tradition that was performed with the intention of ensuring a good crop of apples for the next year's harvest. The English would trade and share their "apple cider" creations with neighbors and friends in hopes of bringing good cheer. (thank you wikipedia)

Frisco, CO has a tradition of carrying on this old English custom. Today we took part in this fun, exciting, and cheerful event. All the shops on Main Street were serving their own version of YUMMY Wassail, and we even got two souvenir cups to use in the process! Perhaps, The Titones will add a little Wassail to our own traditions starting this year.

Merry Christmas!

Happy Wassailing!

If you're on our X-mas Card list you'll be seeing this!

This reindeer was too neat!

It was so Christmasy up there! It put us in the spirit!

This weeks special events...

Meeting Aunt Nora

        

       This past week we were blessed by my sister in laws presence. She is a new author to the biography world and an amazing one at that! If you haven't already been "wow'ed" by her please see this (and yes, I am happy to say that is her voice...)

http://www.tatteredcover.com/event/nora-titone-my-thoughts-be-bloody-bitter-rivalry-between-edwin-and-john-wilkes-booth-led-ameri

        Aniela was a big hit, and so was Aunt Nora! We can't wait for this summer when we can get the cousins together. They would be soooooo good together! 

Even Grace stayed still long enough.

2010 Festival of Lights Parade 

(A Tradition of Mine since I was sixteen)

 

       So we braved the cold... and the wind... WE ALMOST made it all the way through. The babe was just a tad bit too cold. Although, you wouldn't know it by my marvelous bundling job (okay minus the head gear because she refused to wear it). She didn't get to see Santa, but she really doesn't seem to care too much for him anyways (that's obvious from the previous post). LOL. 

       Auni sure loves her Aunt Steffy and preferred to sit with her over me. Once she figured out the whole cheering thing, it was amazing what we got outta that little girl. She's such a big girl. She truly loved the parade just as much as mommy! 

 

A Titone Tradition

Merry Christmas!!!

 We have started a tradition of hunting for our own 
REAL Tree each Christmas.

We wish you a Merry Christmas...

 Auni would not sit with Santa, 

I repeat DID NOT want to sit with Santa!

But... she didn't mind Mrs. Claus 

A Family Sleigh Ride: By Horse

Auni and I rode the "mini horse"!!! 

She really loved it! 

Auni and Daddy picked out a tree. 

It's purty too!

Auni helped mommy decorate the tree.

She loved the "fuzz balls"! 

She really loved decorating. 

It was so sweet!  

 Look at my necklace mommy! 

 And "It is finished!" 

  

Merry Christmas 

Auni & The Harvest Farm

The "Son's" Flowers... Happy Harvest! 

 She did NOT want to be put down... 

she's still too young for the fun...

"Oink, Oink!" 

They had all the animals of the farm.

She really loved the petting farm. 

"BAAA"

"MOOOOOO"

A cow? In the petting zoooooo??

WHATEVER. She loved it!

My Angel

Please forgive me for my lack of staying up to date on here! Motherhood is so rewarding! I just said yesterday how all my dreams are coming true. If my little girl only knew how much I look foward to waking up each morning to her, and those of you who know me well know that I have NEVER been a morning person. Her smile takes my breath away. Her smile melts me.

So she is almost three months old; a total of 11 weeks this Saturday! WOW... its amazing. Some of the things we've experienced:

Cradle cap - YUCK!!!
Blue eyes - YES THANK YOU DADDY!
Long blackish hair - GoD, I hope she gets to keep it!
Smiles, Smiles and more Smiles
Scoots - yeah that's right she is already using those strong arms!
Swimming - Aniela loves her baths, she's gunna be a swimmer!
Shots - Daddy and I are not following the reg CDC schedule
I HATE SHOTS!!!

That is just a little bit of the adventures we are experiencing...
Oh yes... I forgot one... We are up to 10 and 1/2 hours sleeping straight through the night!

THANK YOU JESUS!

I love my little Angel!

Aniela Ysabel Titone

Welcome...

ANIELA YSABEL TITONE

"Angel Consecrated to God"

Born Saturday, July 18, 2009 @ 8:38 am

7lbs 6ozs


Aniela graced this world on such a beautiful day! Despite the last hour of labor, mommy did great! Aniela is sleeping through the night for the most part... that is if you consider 5 hours straight "sleeping through the night." Mommy and Daddy are adjusting to this "parenthood." It is quite challenging and often very hard, but always a TRUE BLESSING! God has blessed us with the most beautiful little girl we could have asked for.


Mommy is praying that God sends friends (mommy friends) for sanity. Daddy is praying God sends sanity on mommy's behalf. And Gracey is praying Aniela grows up so fast so she can eat all the yummy food that drops on the floor! There is not a day that goes by that mommy is not up looking like a person and out trying to stay busy. Mommy even started a job tutoring because she needed a nice break... but don't let these words deceive you... Every minute mommy is away from Aniela, she misses her!




Just today mommy found herself asking God, "why?" Sometimes it's "why me?" "Why did you bless me?" and other times it is "why?" "Why does this have to be soooooo stinkin' hard!?" The good Lord starting playing mommy a song "The Voice of Truth" by Casting Crowns. And it reminded me that there is no giant bigger than God. (i.e. there is nothing that God can't beat!) I just wanted to copy the lyrics because this is exactly how I feel each morning when I wake up and realize each day is a new challenge.



Oh what I would do to have
The kind of faith it takes
To climb out of this boat and then
on to the crashing waves

To step out of my comfort zone
Into the realm of the unknown where Jesus is
And He's holding out His hand

But the waves are calling out my
And they laugh at me
Reminding me of all the times
I've tried before and failed
The waves they keep on telling me
Time and time again. "Boy, you never win!"
"You never win!"


Chorus:
But the Voice of Truth tells me a different story
The Voice of Truth says, "Do not be afraid!"
And the Voice of Truth says, "This is for My glory"
Out of all the voices calling out to me
I will choose to listen and believe the Voice of Truth

Oh what I would do to have
The kind of strength it takes
to stand before a giant
With just a sling and a stone

Surrounded by the sound of a thousand warriors
Shaking in their armor
Wishing they'd have had the strength to stand

But the giant's calling out my name
And he laughs at me
Reminding me of all the times
I've tried before and failed
The giant keeps on telling me
Time and time again. "Boy you'll never win!"
"You'll never win!"


Chorus:
But the Voice of Truth tells me a different story
The Voice of Truth says, "Do not be afraid!"
And the Voice of Truth says, "This is for My glory"
Out of all the voices calling out to me
I will choose to listen and believe the Voice of Truth

But the stone was just the right size
To put the giant on the ground
And the waves they don't seem so high
On top of them lookin' down
I soar with the wings of EAGLES
When I stop and listen to the sound of Jesus
Singing over me


Chorus:
But the Voice of Truth tells me a different story
The Voice of Truth says, "Do not be afraid!"
And the Voice of Truth says, "This is for My glory"
Out of all the voices calling out to me (calling out to me)
I will choose to listen and believe-

I will choose to listen and believe the Voice of Truth

I will listen and believe
I will listen and believe the Voice of truth
I will listen and believe
Cause Jesus you are the voice of truth
And I will listen to you, you are

My Aniela is true beauty and a gift...
we will figure this out...
we will figure this out...

With Love...

Autumn-Rose

Take a deep breath... is this really happening?

Earlier this week I wrote about all the many things I am thankful for. I hope you got a chance to read it. Here it is Thursday and I am so overwhelmed with my blessings I have to shout out!

I know some of you have only been following my blogs for a little bit, so you may have missed out on some of the really good ones that I had hoped were encouraging. I am going to refer back to a couple of those today, as I think its necessary.

Okay... so as some of you may recall from my "When You Believe" Blog... posted back in March... I spoke about a recent miracle (of many) that Toby and I were being blessed with. Since that blessing, Toby and I have continued to live out God's direction for our lives. We have faithfully started tithing again, and we have faithfully continued our prayers, and we have faithfully found a church to call home once again. In the midst of our faithfulness the Lord has continued to bless us abundantly. I am not referring to only material things either. The Lord has greatly blessed our marriage as well (not that Toby and I ever had a problem) - but we are learning to communicate on such a deeper intimate level. Might I recommend some books: The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman, Love and Respect by Emerson Eggerichs and The Unexpected Adventure by Lee Strobel and Mark Mittleberg. Toby and I are currently reading the later of the three. Anyhoot... it is through these devotionals and intimate reading times that Toby and I have really connected to each other and our marriage. I never thought I would say this, but Toby is my world. He is my soul mate and so much more. He has blessed me beyond belief and I could not have asked God for a better partner to go through life with.

The Lord is also blessing us in so much other areas of our lives. As seen in the "When you believe" blog - Toby and I have been working deligently to get out of the massive debt we accumulated. March seems so long ago from what we have accomplished since then. We have saved so much money since then, not only that, but we have been faithful coupon users! AH! I admit its a fun, very fun, addiction, believe it or not. To see some of those savings check out our "I can teach you to save money" blog (you won't be disappointed)! Well in addition to our diligent work and faithfulness, we were given another gift to pay off more of our debt. Toby and I can now say that we have exactly 7,000.00$ left in credit card debt to pay off (also saying we will be almost completely debt free after we pay that off!). Oh this is so exciting, I can't even begin to tell you how freeing it is to know that everything we own is ours and in less than a year we will have our final card paid completely. This is not to say that Toby and I are still asking God for guidance in paying back my student loans, but we are at peace knowing even those loans are in his hands.

Additionally, because we are loved by the GREATEST of all, He continues to bless us. Toby and I just found out today that he was promoted! Toby is now a level 2 instead of the level 1 that he has been for years. Now Toby is NO LONGER at the bottom of the totem pole! You have to understand how much we count this accomplishment as a blessing from our Heavenly Father. In these tough economic times, and knowing we have two more weeks left until our daughter graces our hearts and arms, we can't help but know this was God's way of showing us just how much He has us!

We are saddened by some of the things that are going on around us personally and non- personally, but we have so much to be thankful for. We have so much to live for... we have so much to give our daughter and teach her... we have so much! We are thankful for those of you have bent over backwards to make our wishes for our daughter come true. You know who you are... we know the Lord is going to bless you guys just as he is blessing our family. But because I can't help myself... and because I said I want to shout it all out... here our just a few thanks we owe (I will try to remember everyone!)...

Thank you Jesus!!!
FOR EVERYTHING
Thank you Rachy and Mikey...
for agreeing to be our daughter's God Parents...
Thank you Roger and Marvel...
for what you've done for us there are no words...
Thank you Mommy...
for the many hours we know you are going to commit to our little girl...
Thank you Aunt Lori and Uncle Bill...
for your blessings...
Thank you ULA...
for promoting my hubby and keeping him humble...
(hes the most humble man I know)
Thank you to all of you who came and participated in our baby's shower
And if I missed anyone... thank you for what you will do!

Toby and I are celebrating our one year anniversary this year... we know that the baby will be somewhere between a week to three weeks old... so keep us in your prayers that she latches on a bottle so that mommy (that'd be me) can breast pump so Toby and I can enjoy our anniversary alone! WE are so thankful for the time we get to be together as we know we could not have started such a more beautiful journey without each other.

Decorating is a BLAST!

So this is the semi-finished product of "Mommy's Project!" I am loving this whole decorating thing! This weekend mom came over for an "us" day and we decided to spoil the baby by giving her a room that is BEAUTIFUL as her. I think it is so much fun to paint. Can't wait to finish.

Still left to do:

• Buy window shades
• Finish crib setup
• Buy wall decoration
• Fill dresser Drawers
• Wait for bookshelves (when will they get here?)
• Put baby in CRIB! YEAH!

BEFORE: Excuse the mess (We just put crib and dresser together)




Mommy was a GREAT painting partner...




What is she doing to poor Toby!?




Toby had to touch places up!




But he was so happy to do so!




I was finishing up the wall outlets while Toby worked on curtains.




What do you think?

BOTTOM LINE: It's purple and that's all that matters. We have much to still do, but ah' the joy I have resorting to the baby's room. Toby asked me last night, "You gunna make it yours?" LOL. I just might have to! LOL.

STAY TUNED... more to come...

BTW - if you're interested Toby and I are registered at Baby's R' US and Target. Click the link to go directly to our registries!