New Years!

"We will open the book. It's pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."
- Edith Lovejoy Pierce

This year has been enormous in the puzzle that is my life. The year LITERALLY began with a bang! Andrekus proposed to me at Midnight on January 1st. The year otherwise began as usual - both of us juggling work and school, trying our best to catch a glimpse of each other before we closed our eyes at night. But that proposal changed me.

We always get lost in the chaos of our crazy lives, but this year God had different plans. In early September, we got the call that Dad had a stroke in Iran while visiting family. God moved in our family as I had never felt. I heard him - really heard him - for the first time in my life, and it changed me.

So this year has been anything but a yawn. It has been monumental. I have been changed, both in a way that I hoped, as well as in a way that I could never have imagined. God is unfolding his plan for our lives one moment at a time, and I am so excited to see what he has planned for 2009! Thank you God for our many blessings and our wonderful family and friends in 2008. 2009, Here we come!

Christmas!

Christmas comes faster every year. This year it came and went before I knew it. Here is a wonderful picture of my Mom and Dad with all of the grandchildren. They are all so precious! Merry Christmas!

Our Engagement Announcement!

Eydani-Dixon
Mr. and Mrs. Nasser Eydani
of Denton, Texas
proudly announce
the engagement and approaching marriage
of their daughter
Soheyla Zadegan Eydani
to
Andrekus Jamaal Dixon

The couple will be married at seven o’clock in the evening on Saturday, July 18, 2009 in Denton, Texas. The bride’s brother, Allan Hubbard will officiate the ceremony.
The bride elect is a 2001 graduate of Paris High School. She recieved a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Southern Arkansas University in 2004. She is expected to recieve her Juris Doctor from Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in May 2009. She is currently employed by Pinnacle, an American Management Company.
Her fiancé is the son of Robert and Emily Rollerson of Paris, Texas. He is a 2000 graduate of Paris High School. He recieved a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Southern Arkansas University in 2004 and a Masters Degree in Criminology from The University of North Texas in December 2008. He plans to continue his education attending law school in the fall of 2009. He is currently employed by Denton County Adult Probation.

Proud!

I am so proud of my fiance! He is such a wonderful man. He is smart, patient, kind, caring, and he cares so much for me. These are pictures from his graduation from Graduate School. He graduated magna cum laude from UNT with a Master of Science in Criminology! He was also the president of the honor society, Alpha Phi Sigma. (FYI: the cords are for graduating magna cum laude, the gold is for being a member in the honor society, and the medal is for being the president of it!) I cannot express how wonderfully proud I am that this man will soon be my husband!

Thanksgiving!

So, here are some pics from Thanksgiving. There's a pic of the kids table and one of me and my honey. We had a great time.

My Sarah and Jack

These two are some kind of special. This morning we had the "Hanging of the Greens" at chuch. Sarah and Jack both sang with their Sunday School groups during the service and they did a wonderful job. The pics are kind of hazy because it was hard to be inconspicuous in church. So I went the easy way and took them from our screens!