Dear Friends, 4-17-12 First of all Kari and I would just like to say thank you for your continued care by your prayers and concern. We appreciate the unity, positive criticism, and the support shown by God’s people in our lives. At home, we are looking forward [...]
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Snow! Dissecting owl pellets with cousins. Joel typing to Mima and Papa. Christmastime with family…Mima reading the Candy cane story to the grandkids…and great grandpa too .
Saying goodnight normally consists of various other conversations …either brought up to stall the sleeping process or sincere questions. Tonight was the latter of the two. With tears forming in his eyes, Kaleb tells me, “Mommy, I don’t think I believe ENOUGH to be saved.” That made me think of an e-mail Gabe sent me [...]
We were watching a Pocahontas cartoon after we read a book about her. Joel saw one of the main male characters in movie and asked, “Mommy dat Jesus?” I reply, “No it’s not Joel” He asks again, “Dat Dod (God)?” “No” “Dat Daddy???” “No Joel its John Smith.” “Oh, Don Smith.”
Well, we succeeded…with LOTS of help… in doing VBS another year. Gabe (a very last minute guy) and me (a very much planner aheader (is that a word? worked together on it… and in the process I think we were both challenged and learned a bit more about each other as well … The coolest [...]
Yep, that’s snow….but enough for a snowman??? SURE! WHY NOT?!? 2 days later…warm SUN!
Kaleb loses 2 teeth in the same evening… his first teeth lost…a couple weeks after turning 7! Pulled out by daddy using dental floss tied around each tooth. Joel finally got 2 little bitty teeth in at 11 months old:-) ! He now has 4 though and he turns one year old tomorrow.
I’ve long realized that I tend to think more negatively than positively. Well, I have been “trying” to work on it, but have not really put much thought into it. I found this link on a friend’s blog the other day and thought I’d share it. I think I’ll try this out as it could very [...]
Kaleb- “Thank you God for saving us for FREE”! He has been learning about money recently and just made enough (saving for about 1.5 years of doing yard work and and odds and ends jobs for other people) to buy himself a watch from Walmart ($9)! He was SOOO proud and is also realizing that [...]
Joel and Megan found a tree just their size We found a tree…finally! Cutting carryingThe cookies and coco after… “Just lil’ ol me waiting for everybody to finish loading the tree and eating yummy cookies and coco without me …” home and ready to fit the tree… ”BUT I DO get the best job there is, [...]
