Valentine makeover

Ok, for Valentines day we did mini-makeovers.

I go to a "small group" at church called Homemakers. I say "small" because we regularly host between 150 and 200 women plus kids. We are a fun bunch, but spiritual too. Our faithful leader is Renee Burt. I've been sitting under her teaching since 2002. I have changed alot and she has helped me in so many ways. She has walked with me through all of Scotts' troubles. I love her like a sister.

Here are the before and after pictures. It sure was fun.

My new haircut

I guess you can't really see my hair, but whatever ;)

Look at Me, a collection of found photos

Look at Me, a collection of found photos

I'm cherry garcia

You Are Cherry Garcia Ice Cream

You're the coolest cat around, but too laid back to let it get to your head

What Flavor Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Are You?

Dave has a web-site!

Here is a link to his web-site, still under construction. He is starting a writing service. He wants to do copy for businesses. Freelance writing. He has a few authors he's working for. And excited about finding more.

Spirit Week

Christian and "friends".
This week at school they did different things during the week. One day crazy hair day, one pajama day, etc. Christian is very much a people person. We must channel this power into an appropriate profession!

We went geocaching again. It was such a beautiful day we just had to get out.(I'll put up a picture later )We had two to go to, but didn't find either one. It's fun climbing around the woods, I mean really climbing! You'll see from the pictures. A little dissappointing when they prove illusive. We just have to pick eaiser ones untill we get better at it. They were only about a mile from home, so it was great to get out and walk.

Mr. Incredible

Carson, my little actor! What a cutie!

Geocaching

We had an adventure last night. It was getting dark but we decided to go anyway. We went to Hidden Falls park, beneath the Ford plant and by the Mississippi river. As I said it was dark (just before 5:00pm) and only 10 degrees out, but we were dressed for it. We had our flashlights and our GPS.
It seemed to take forever to find the spot, but we did. Our flashlights seemed like pinpricks in the darkness (note to self, get bigger flashlight!) We have failed to find caches in the broad daylight, so I was thinking should we even try? But I'm glad we didn't give up.
The spot was covered with fallen trees- so many places to hide a cache. Where do you start? We found it pretty quickly though, once we started. As I was looking along a fallen tree, with my flashlight I noticed something that didn't look quite natural so I told Geoff to move it and look. There was a hollow place in the log and then Geoff found it. It was a large mayo jar covered with camo duct tape. Inside was a log book, pencil, and many trinkets to trade for. We signed the log book. There was a boyscout troop who had signed it and found it earlier that day. It's such a thrill to find the cache!
It was so interesting to find out there was a huge sub-culture of these people, AND caches everywhere! Within 10 miles of us there are 789! So fun! If you get a chance do it! http://www.geocaching.com/

Geocacheing

Here is a picture of Steven and Geoffrey from today. We went on a hunt for a geocache. It was at Minnehaha Falls park. We just started doing this recently. It's kind of a high tech treasure hunt. Really fun. It gets you outdoors walking and climbing around. You use a GPS to find them. There are hundreds of them all over the world.

My Manna

1 John 5:4
"For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conqueror the world, even our faith."

Here it is in the Message-

"Every God-begotten person conquers the world's ways. The conquering power that brings the world to its knees is our faith. The person who wins out over the world's ways is simply the one who believes Jesus is the Son of God."

Having faith, living by faith, that's how we win. Believing not doubting. Standing firm in every situation, no matter how it may look. Circumstances are temporary, My faith is for eternity. I am a God-begotten person, and I am a winner.


Our Scottie (Cameron) had a ruff appointment today. Labs, a heart biopsy, stress echo and then his office visit. He's been doing great though, it's just a check-up.
I'm expecting a good report.

Halloween 2006

Here are my boys. Super heros all! (left-right)Christian, Carson and Chance. Love 'em.

NEW ART

Here's something new I've been working on. I take an old book that I'm not interested in any more (the older the better) I take it apart add some fresh papers and a few embellishments and create something beautiful.

I love you!

Another one of my favorite pics! Dad and me.

Here is a picture of me at my Grandmas home. A kitten in a chamber pot? So cute, so long ago.

Here is our sweet kitty, looks happy doesn't she?

Ephesians 5:8-15 (Amplified Bible)
Amplified Bible (AMP)



8 For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light].

9 For the fruit (the effect, the product) of the Light or [a]the Spirit [consists] in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life.

10 And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him].

11 Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] [b]expose and reprove and convict them.

12 For it is a shame even to speak of or mention the things that [such people] practice in secret.

13 But when anything is exposed and reproved by the light, it is made visible and clear; and where everything is visible and clear there is light.

14 Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine (make day dawn) upon you and give you light.(A)

15 Look carefully then how you walk! Live purposefully and worthily and accurately, not as the unwise and witless, but as wise (sensible, intelligent people),



This was my reading for today. Vs.14 was the verse we got the morning after Scottie's surgery and they were going to wake him up, of course his Dr. Wasn't very hopeful because of the poor heart function and all the blood clots, BUT he did wake up!
But today's verse, vs.8 "walk as children of light", really stuck out to me. My devotional talked about how even a tiny lighting bug cannot be overcome by the darkness of a large room. All eyes are drawn to it. So should we walk, so that people are drawn to us, because they see a difference.


Things are good, I'll try to add some pics from camp soon.

Here is Geoff from last year. We've been going there since 2002. Geoff was only 5 that first year. I never thought we would end up working at a camp, but it has been great. The people we have met, are just the best people. They divide the weeks up. The first campers of the summer are boys. The rest of the summer is girls. My job is head cook. We serve 160, about 95 boys and the rest support staff. It's usually a very busy week, but also rewarding. I have been cook, for up to 3 weeks a summer. FUN!

The camp I was refering to is Camp Cherith (pronounced care-eth) . It is non-denominational, but part of Pioneer clubs. Here is a link, go check it out-www.camp-cherith.com/ .