A Visit and A Birthday...

Grandma came for a visit last week and we ALL thoroughly enjoyed her being here. We even took Kristyn out of school early one day to go to the park. :)




Thank you for coming!!!

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Last week, Megan turned 2 years old. It's so hard to believe that she is that old already. Keith and I were talking the other night and it just seems like yesterday, we were visiting her in the "Special Care" nursery when she looked like this:
and now, she looks like this:
We are SO blessed!! She had a wonderful birthday, we spent the whole day outside enjoying the nice weather and having fun as a family! (Grandma had to go home on her birthday, but we celebrated the night before.)

Here are some of her presents. :)
She was very happy to get a "Big" Bible. Kristyn and Owen have theirs that they take to church and she would always whine around about having to take her little New Testament. :) She was VERY proud to take her Bible to church on Sunday and I saw her showing several people her new Bible. :)


Having fun in the leaves!!!

A Little Bit of Everything....

My mom sent me these pictures of when Owen was down there at their house. Looks like he had it rough. :)


Last week Kristyn had "show and tell" at school and she needed to take something that started with a "T". She decided she wanted to take her tea set and have a tea party.....I'm sure the boys were thrilled!
Our growing little man.
The other day, I found Megan in the corner with the picnic basket having her own little tea party. She was quite pleased with herself.

This morning I heard Owen screeching in the garage about something. He was in a panic/overwhelmed state when he found me. I tried to get a picture of his face, but then he just smiled. He told me there was a "ooooge" mouse in the garage. It was so funny to see him like that....terrible mother, I know.

At least it's not like the visitor that Mandy had last week. :/
Best Buddies!!

Silhouettes...

I was reading last week about taking silhouette pictures and I thought if the sun ever came out in this part of the country, I'd love to try taking a silhouette picture. Well, Friday afternoon we were out picking pears and sure enough, the sun came out. So the whole family stopped and we tried our hand at silhouettes. :)

This is probably my favorite! It's hard to believe it was a bright sunny afternoon, looking at these pictures.
Keith took this one of Owen....also one of my favorites.
Kristyn had her hair in pig tails so her head shape is a bit strange, but this is one of my favorites, too. Well, I guess they are all my favorite! :)

We still have a bit to learn because I think in silhouettes the image in front is supposed to be all black, but I don't think it was too bad for our first time around. Tell me what you think?

Danny Boy.......

Isn't he a cutie?

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. :)