Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Happy Birthday Dylan!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUGAR BEAR!
Dylan turned 10 years old yesterday! We have a house rule of "No gum until 10!" Grandma got him $50 worth of GUM! What fun! At least most of it is sugarless! Dylan will have a sleepover with some "buddies" in a couple weeks!

Spring's Coming!

You know spring is not far away when Aunt Grace gets her peeps! She usually orders them live and they come in the mail. This year Uncle Mark got her an incubator, and she is hatching her own!
We heard one peeping from inside the egg, before it started to crack open. Aunt Grace helps them out once they start breaking through. She's quite the Momma hen!
She keeps them warm by the fire for a few hours.
She then moves them to a heated box. It's amazing how quickly they change!
Ashley and Dylan loved cuddling with them! How wonderful the Creator is! What an awesome God we have!

Couple More Random Pics!

Congratulations Sarah and Jeremy! They had thier wedding reception at the church on the 17th.
Our Jr. Church group! We completed a unit on God's Care for us.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Just Some Misc. Pictures!

It's the dead of winter, and we're dragging. Seems like summer is an eternity away. We're trying to focus on school... school... school... so we can be done mid May this year. Last year we finished mid June! :'(

We have Jr. Church this month. We learned that God cares for us. We can see through the ravens feeding Elijah that God cares for our needs. We also learned that God cares about how we feel, be taking a look at Hannah. Shawn and Ashley did a puppet skit. (above)

We had a couple days of really warm weather last week. It was cloudy, but the temps were around 75 degrees! We took off and met some friends for lunch at Kinder Farm Park. We all had a great time - especially the puppies. Debi and I walked the 2.5 mi. loop with the doggies. Toward the end, they would walk around in front of me and sit - wanting to be picked up and carried!

Just a bath picture. They really are a lot of fluff. I think they look like bobble head dogs when their wet! This is Toby, he HATES baths!

Did I mention Toby HATES baths! Shelby hears him crying and she cries worrying about him. Thankfully she is much better in the tub! We're hoping he will get better in time.

Noelle came for a visit last weekend. These kids are getting soooo old! I put her and Ashley to work coloring the Jr. Church craft. The girls went snow tubing on Saturday.


Our church saw Pastor Caleb and Jessica off. They are moving to Illinois to Pastor a church out there. They served at Anchor the 10 years we had been there, so it was bittersweet - sad they were leaving - looking forward to hearing about their ministry in Illinois.


We also celebrated Mom's birthday this weekend. I think she would kill me if I posted her age...but it was a MILESTONE Birthday! a HUGE one! One you would have to be retired to celebrate! The second digit was a 0! The first digit was higher than 5! I LOVE YOU MOM! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Ephesians 3:14-19

"For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height - to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen."