Question of the Day......

A lady said to me this morning, "Wow! Do you run a day care?"

"Nope", I replied, "they're ALL mine!" (HUGE smile)

"Oh wow!"

Now tell me, how could you think I run a daycare after seeing these precious, little ankle-biters....er, I mean darlings????

Yep, they're all mine and I'm proud of it!!! ;) (in a good way, of course)

Invitations, MeatWoaf and Pictures.....

This picture is so precious to me. It makes me feel guilty, ashamed, thoughtful......determined!

It was yesterday. Kristyn was playing outside in the back yard and when I went to see what she was doing, she wasn't in her playhouse. She wasn't on the swing set, or in the garden. I looked down towards the church and she was sitting down there with another girl. I went down to them and talked to them for a while. The girls name was Elizabeth. She was waiting for a ride. I asked if she was okay and she said she was fine.

So I told Kristyn we needed to go that supper was on the table. We started walking back up to the house and I thought she was right behind me, but when I got up to the house, I turned around and she was back down there.

I went back down and this is what Kristyn was saying, "...we love having new people come. We'd like for you to come and you could sit with us." After a little while, we both walked back up to the house and Elizabeth's ride was coming. I asked Kristyn why she went back down there after I told her to come home. She started crying (which isn't uncommon) and said, she was just thinking that she hadn't invited Elizabeth to church, so she went back down to invite her to church and Kids Club.

As we were walking away, she turned and said, "Elizabeth, I'll pray for you." This had made me think so much. Why am I so ashamed to invite people to church? Am I ashamed of Jesus? Am I worried they will think I'm weird? Am I so afraid that they will say, "No?" Will they miss Heaven, just because I was too busy, or didn't care enough to invite them to church, or tell them about Jesus....OR tell them, "I'll be praying for you?"

I am determined to do better!

P.S. We've had in the past the "talk" about strangers and all of that, so I tried to kindly remind her of that little conversation.

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Owen told me today that I was "The most Pwecious, MeatWoaf Making-Mommy in the whole wide world." He loves meat loaf. :)
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I took some pictures for a friend the other day. Here are some of my favorites.







So go out and invite someone to church, or just tell them you will be praying for them. :)

Going to Grandma's...

Owen hitched a ride with Uncle Quentin Monday and went to Grandma's house....clear in Oklahoma, all by himself. As you can tell, he was quite excited about this little adventure.

Thanks for the shirt, Mary Ellen. :) It says, "That's it, I'm going to Grandmas!"
Uncle Quentin said that twice on the trip down there, Owen said, "If you're tired, you can go ahead and take a nap and I'll drive." Glad he didn't take Owen up on that offer.
Here are some other pictures from around our house. Our yard is wrapping things up for Fall. :(



These are some of the last peppers I got. I didn't really need them right now, so I froze them. Great for pizza topping.
Our growing little guy.
My flowers....:( ......I'll have lots of seeds for next year.
This picture is for Aunt Mandy. It's kind of blurry, but Megan LOVES peppers. She goes to the garden and picks them and eats them like an apple...even the really hot ones. :) Aren't you proud of her!?!
Picking our last peppers.....and wild onions. :)
This is a hornet's nest we found. Kristyn wanted to take it for show and tell this week.....NOT!!!! There were still hornets coming and going. We just did a drive-by-viewing.
Owen came to me the other day when I was paying bills and said he was an Indian. He got the sticker things from between the stamps and I had given him the big sticker and then he snatched an address label. :) I don't know how he's going to chase any cowboys with those blinders on.

Thanks for dropping by!

Wordless....

Being The Third Child....

It's TOUGH!!!!!

....But these two just look so innocent!
We have had a great week, can you tell? :)

On a completely different note, a few weeks ago someone e-mailed us a video clip of Nick Vujicic. He was born without arms or legs and has an amazing testimony! After watching the video clip, Keith went to his website (lifewithoutlimbs.org) and looked under the schedule tab and saw that he was scheduled to speak at a church about 2 1/2 hours from here. Of course, he immediately said, "We're going!"

So Wednesday afternoon Keith and I and another couple took 2 bus loads of teenagers (30 people in all) to hear Nick Vujicic speak. That man is incredible. He spoke on the worthiness of God. It put me to shame, because I have 2 perfectly good legs and arms and still I grumble sometimes.

I would encourage you, if you ever get a chance to hear him speak, it will be worth your drive and you won't be disappointed. You can also go on You Tube and type his name in and watch him speak. He is a powerful speaker!

The pictures are kind of blurry...sorry!

He brushes his own teeth, combs his hair, SHAVES by himself (although, I think he forgot to shave before he came Wed. night. :) ) he can even swim by himself....unbelievable!!
Well, that about sums up all I have for now. Have a great weekend!!!

A Miniature Bride and A Praise...

This past Saturday, Kristyn was the miniature bride at a wedding. She thought was she in princess land all day. :) Here are a few pictures.

Quite the little lady, huh?
She wanted a picture with "Big Josh".

Her and "Little Josh" found lots of cool things to do while they were waiting for pictures.

"Boy, this is getting long....."
Congratulations, Josh and Heidi! We are so happy for you guys!


And now for my praise:
A friend of mine asked me to take pictures of her grandsons yesterday. Our camera has been messing up and I prayed and asked God to please help the camera to work. So yesterday when I took the pictures, the camera did great until the very end. So I want to thank the Lord for helping the camera. :)

Since they're not my kids, I'm only putting one picture of these darlings on here. Aren't they cute?
Thanks for dropping by. Have a great day!! By the way, ANGIE, thanks for leaving a comment on the last post!!! ;)