Silly Children

I have been trying to get the pictures off of my phone and into a file, even though I know they will not print very big on the computer they are fun to look at. So, I'm realizing just how silly my children are. For instance we have been having many problems with our van, and it was in the shop for over a month, we borrowed mom's van and just used one car. Everyday the kids would ask when we were getting our van back, the day I did Alonna decides to hug it outside of her school. She is silly!


The boys, just like to make faces for the camera. Daniel is silly mostly when Elijah prompts his silliness. On his own he is very serious most of the time. But this particular picture they decided to pose for a picture while we were waiting in some doctor office.

You can't read the sticker very well, but it says. "Place sticker on forhead and smile" Which is just what my "wild man" did while we were grocery shopping one day.


All kids are silly, but I wanted to share a bit of mine with all of you.

35 mm Film Surprises

In today's world when you develop a roll of 35 mm film sometimes you don't have a clue what you are going to get back. Well such is the case for me. I took pictures at a "Birthday Blood Drive" on Friday for a volunteer for the ARC that has been volunteering for over 70 years. This was a special blood drive for her 95th birthday. Anyway, when I took out my 35 mm camera it already had a roll of film in it. So, when I got it developed yesterday the above pictures are what I found. They are from when Caleb and Jennifer were in Birmingham in August. It was a good time, the slightly odd ones are when Hannah brought out a CD of old songs and challenged Caleb to remember all the words to them. It was fun, but Jimmy and Jennifer had a good time laughing at the rest of us. Just thought I'd share these funnies with you all!

Welcom New Blog Friends!

It is a new week and hopefully this week we have some WVCC friends joining us. We are so excited to have all of you reading our blog. It feels like a "grown up" way to keep up with everyone. Especially those in Fort Payne that we don't get to see very often now. We miss all of you very much! As you may have read in the letter to the church we are in Birmingham and doing well. We are not sure what God has in store for us next but we look forward to it.

I can't believe that January is almost over. Wasn't it just yesterday that we were celebrating the new year watching that ridiculous motorcycle ride over the football field. Time flies, but that just is a great reminder to Seize the Day. This is what the pastor has been preaching and what God has been showing so many people in this area through the unexpected death of the son of a local radio personality. I know that God has been teaching me to slow down and seize the day. Here are a few things that I personally have been doing to enjoy life and God's creations:

1) Tell your kids you love them EVERY chance you get.
2) Smell the flowers as you walk in Walmart (this is Elijah's favorite thing to do)
3) Memorize verses in the car with your kids
4) Eat Pocky (japanize candy, they have it at Walmart)
5) Stay in touch with your friends.

God made us to love, Him and each other!

Until later

Everyday Life

This is my beautiful family. New Years day we actually got to tak a picture together. But you know it wasn't a big planned picture...it was just hey stand in front of the mantle and let "aunt b" take your picture. But it is so precious.

Okay, so I'm sitting here posting and listening to the weather on the news...SNOW? It is cold, not as cold as some places where my friends are but cold none the less. Lows in the 20's. yuck. Time for a warm cover, hot chocolate and a good book or movie. In fact I think I'll go snuggle under the covers now.

Merry Christmas!

Well, this will be our first blog posting and I'm very excited about it. It will be a great way for everyone to really keep up with what is going on in our lives.

We had a great Christmas. It was very different in a lot of ways. Everytime since we have been married if we were in Birmingham we spent the night at Moms (or lived there already), but this year we woke up in our own beds. This is also the first Christmas with our kids. Before we went into the livingroom where "Santa Daddy" had been we read "The Cripled Lamb", by Max Lucado and talked about it being Jesus' birthday and how we should be thankful for what we had. When the kids walked into the livingroom the all three bursted out "Wow.. presents, thank you Jesus!" It was so funny, but so sweet too. And periodically while we were opening one of them would say "Thank you Jesus".

It took us FOREVER to get through al the presents b/c the kids wanted to play with everything or put everything on before they went to the next thing. So, we didn't get done until about 10:30, then it was time to get ready to go to the McDow house. We ate breakfast at their house and then opened presents, where all the kids got skates and the boys got a skate board and all the padding to go with them, and played all day. It was a lot of fun. Watching the kids try to skate and skateboard was so funny. They did pretty well, but it was a riot watching them.

It's back to the real world now, I came back to work on Wednesday and so did Jimmy. It's okay though because the weekend is coming soon and we will be able to enjoy all of our new stuff then.