MaryBeth

Ok Oklahomw City..Let's here some

Ok Oklahomw City..Let's here some squeals and Happy Birthdays for Willy Frank tonight...and don't forget Caleb!

Pictures Folks Have Sent...Thank You!

So far, her are some of the pics that are trickling in from friends and fans!  Please...if you have pics from seeing my boys on the CC tour, please send them to me!!!!  Tonight?  Oklahoma City!  Come on people, let's get some pics and you tube a going!  Also, yell Happy Birthday to my son Will Franklin!  19 today....

hugs,

Mary Beth

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 2 WILLY! I'm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 2 WILLY!

I'm just as proud & blessed 2day as I was 19 yrs ago! I Love U buddy! Have a great day!

rt Psalm348: http://twitpic.com/11kmoa - Caleb

rt Psalm348: http://twitpic.com/11kmoa - Caleb broke a string in soundcheck just changed it!

rt Psalm348: http://twitpic.com/11iv8g - Inside

rt Psalm348: http://twitpic.com/11iv8g - Inside the Venue today! Tulsa what up!

Sprint Center.....done!

My boys had their first show with Casting Crowns tonight...I heard it went awesome!  Please, if you were there...let me here from you!  CALEB  (Caleb and Will Chapman)  are officially out on their own.  God is good in the middle of the bad...  I am so proud of the men they have become.  Caleb has the heart of a servant and Will has the heart of a warrior...  They have been tested and found to be in my opinion, two of the best you'll find.  God has molded them through blessing and pain, and they have blessed the name of the Lord in all circumstances.  I am so very proud that they get a chance to sing their songs for you who will watch them on their journey!  Sleep Tight and check them out.

calebchapman.com

mb

SNOW DAY!!!!! LOOK WHAT WE DID YESTERDAY!!!

 

It doesn't get much better than about 5 inches of good sledding snow in Tennessee.  A rare thing indeed!  It has given us a 4 day weekend to enjoy the cold, the snow, and some yummy Hot Chocolate with friends!  Yesterday we ventured onto our neighbors property (with permission of course) to find the perfect hill for the little ones, plus some added dangers for the bigger kids in the group!  Needless to say it was a joyous time...Sunny but Cold....I only wish it would stay awhile.  Ruthy, Will's girlfriend got snowed in with us so we had to pleasure of having her with us until after the sledding adventure yesterday!  Caleb and Julia were able to make it over on the slick back roads, and Danny got to use his 4 wheel drive for the first time ever as he and Melissa made it out to our little adventure!  Our little Maria used to say ALL the time:

"I LOVE IT WHEN MY WHOLE FAMILY IS TOGETHER"

Without Emily and Tanner who are still studying in Belfast, and of course without that little infectious nugget of a girl who knew how to laugh at all things, while snot and slobber dripped out of every open spot on her face....She must have known in her short time here on Earth the importance of that statement.  "I LOVE IT WHEN OUR WHOLE FAMILY IS TOGETHER."  I would venture to say that statement isn't just in the physical sense, but on the emotional and spiritual sense as well.  I must admit....That since May 21, 2008....  "OUR WHOLE FAMILY BEING TOGETHER" has been a challenge of the greatest proportions.  I'm here to say that this journey is just plain hard.  But what do we do?  As I tell the little girls.....  "We can do hard"....  Don't get me wrong...  Just like the silence you hear (or don't) in a woods full of snow..  the insulation it brings from the snow covering everything.....  That's what I feel like I hear on most days.....  NOTHING!  But again, until I die or Jesus comes back....  "We can do hard"....and even when we feel our God is being silent in the pain....  that is where the truest sense of Faith must come in to play.  It is very hard friends....  But again....  I have hope in how the story ends.   I can't wait for the day when I can hear the giggle of that little girl as we lay in the best snow ever and make snow angels like she used to love to do.  In the mean time...Please continue to lift us up as we come to mind.  I love all of you and consider it a great honor to share my thoughts with you.  Here's to Faith, Trust, and Hope...

HUGS,

Mary Beth

On way 2 a photo

On way 2 a photo shoot that will help unveil our new on-line Show Hope store! We have some cool stuff in store!

Show Hope by Wearin Hope!

PROUD MOM!! Check out what People are saying!!!

To all of my faithful followers. I have so very much to catch you up on and a lot to share, however...I definitely wanted to share my excitement and of course my PROUD mom emotion upon hearing the following words written about CALEB (the name Caleb and Will Franklin are using for their band name).  The following is a forward that I received after the boys opened for Amy Grant in Florida on January 21st.  I just had to share a couple of pics with you and let you read what someone is saying about my boys!!!!!  Please pray for them as it appears that their career in music has begun!  They start the Casting Crowns tour on February 4 and will be doing 40 plus shows with them.  Pray God's protection as they begin to steward their story and their experiences well.  I believe in them, and I know that they will use their platform to make much of the ONE who saw fit to bless them with their talent.  Now as they begin to give to others, may many come to know the Giver of life, and the One who holds my Maria...

Here are the words that were written

Last night Caleb opened for Amy Grant in Orlando, FL. While the band was playing, the radio programmer for Z 88.3 in Orlando, a key reporting station, posted this to a radio program director e-mail forum read by our industry’s key radio professionals

Subject: The future of Christian music

I am sitting here in a church in Orlando FL watching the future of Christian music. CALEB (the band name Caleb & Will Franklin Chapman use for their new group)... is fresh, edgy, modern, cool and all the same powerful.

Their song WAIT is as good (maybe better) than most of the songs on the radio now. Remember the name. CALEB looks like his dad, but is doing his own thing.

~jeff cruz

Thank you Z 88.3!!!