Guest post.

Hi this is Emma.

My mom's guest poster.

I like my hair in this picture

pprreettyy!

I hope you like it too.

Maybe I will do this for one of my

concerts.

Ooohlala.

Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rainy days again.

Creativity

This is Callie's passion right now.

I think she is very talented.

This is not the first look she has recreated.

The pictures started out seriously enough.
And it went downhill from there.

Valentine's Day

Cute & a little sassy!

We love our new church.
There is a real heart for children here.

The girls were able to participate in a
little production for Valentine's Day.


Bamma and Papa came to see the girls.

Pastor David did an awesome job
teaching about God's love for us.
He taught about how when Jesus died
on the cross that was really
the ultimate Valentine's Day.
He did it because he loves us.
He challenged us to love God with
ALL of our heart, soul and mind.
And to love our neighbor as we love ourselves.
(my paraphrase but you can
get the real deal here.)
This has been a challenge for Jim and I because we
tend to have some protective mechanisms
that lead us to want to protect ourselves from
being used and abused.
We kind of grew up with the idea that everyone
just wants something from you.
But we have discovered that
a) This has not worked out to well for us.
b) There are people out there that deserve our trust.
c) We at times may have used people ourselves.
Even if this was not done on purpose the
outcome to the other person is the same, they felt used.
d) This is really not trusting God.

Pastor David taught about the
2 beams to the cross.
The vertical beam is God reaching down and
extending his love, forgiveness, mercy,
grace and salvation to each one of us.
The horizontal beam represents
his desire for us to extend that same
love, forgiveness, mercy and grace to others.
Good stuff!

Cheap labor

Will work for food. . . . . . . . .

Chicken Nuggets to be exact.

We have a man cave!

Jim spent all morning and most

of the afternoon cleaning out his garage.

He says it is not really a man cave

unless it has a TV.

There is nothing sexier than a man with a clean garage!

(positive re-enforcement)

Creative Crafty Friend

This is my friend Micki

She just lost 64 pounds!

Isn't she pretty!!!

Callie gave her a makeover.

This is what she gave Callie for her birthday.

A cupcake tier!!!!

She got the plates and the sherbet cups at Savers.

Savers is like an upscale Goodwill. : )

She just used epoxy to glue it all together.

That little munchkin in the background

helped eat the yummy cake balls that

Micki made to put on the cupcake tier.