There's no fun, like snow fun!

We have had so much in the snow! We have been sledding down the hill by our driveway! There wasn't much snow, but it sure was slick!

Tag you're it!

Katrina @ Simple Life Moments tagged me. This is my fourth picture file (from the bottom) and the fourth picture.


This is a photo of my boys dressed up for the Church Fall party. Rylan is a cowboy, and Cameron is Indiana Jones. It may sound funny, but that costume was an answer to prayer. Cameron wanted to dress up like Indiana Jones and of course I couldn't find a costume, so... I got this one together. He had the pants and boots, so we needed a shirt, hat and whip . I was at walmart and only had $10 to spend on that so I prayed something to this effect... Lord, I know you probably don't care about costumes, but my little boy does. Is there anyway you could help me find a shirt and hat for less than $10? I found the hat for $5 and spray painted it brown, I bought a piece of ribbon and sewed it around, the shirt was in the women's section (shh don't tell him) for $3 and the whip came in a little cheap toy kit for a couple of dollars. I also spray painted it brown. I find it amazing that the God of the UNIVERSE cares about our silly little requests!
I tag Joy, Prairie Chick, Brandie and Della!

Go to your 4th picture folder and post the fourth picture. ( I posted my 4th folder from the bottom, 4th picture / the other one was someone else's house)

Family Fun

A friendly game of "Operation" gone bad!

Cameron, Rylan and my husband were all playing the game "Operation" that we got for Christmas. I looked over when I heard screamimg and Cameron spitting out something onto the operation board. My husband was laughing so hard that he couldn't even tell me what happened. He then explained that the boys started fussing about whose turn it was and put their heads together and Rylan karate slapped Cameron right in the mouth. To everyone's great surprise it was enough force to knock his (already very loose) tooth clean out.

Rylan is a little

worried about what he did to his brother.

The tooth that came out.

He doesn't look like he could do a thing like that, does he? Oh, the stories we can tell later!

... eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot... Ex. 21:24
Uh,oh Rylan, you better watch out! :-)

I sure do love you two!

Merry Christmas to all my blog friends!!! I will post sometime after Christmas!!

Photos of our LIFE...

the story of the Savior we are celebrating...

the landscaping I have been working on...

My view from my front porch...

precious hands on precious words...

the door that welcomes our friends...

my back porch lit with Christmas lights...

Ry, "dancin up a storm" as we like to call it...

Look at those moves!

Christmas cards we are working on...

the Nativity scene we made...

our family tree... we have up 2 more but I don't have pictures of them yet!

cookies we made... we have made lots of others, but they didn't hang around long enough for a photo... :-)

The Nutcracker...Cameron and I went and saw this at the playhouse.

Ry, dressed up as his favorite superhero!!

a hug from my sweet little boy...

a visit to the train station...









Well, as you can see, we have been up to a lot of different things lately. We are mostly trying to take it easy and enjoy each other and this wonderful Christmas season. Have a blessed day!!

Fabulous Fall !

Last week we set out to enjoy the beautiful fall weather and scenery.

This was the view at the end of our hike, isn't it beautiful!!

It doesn't get much sweeter than this!

I am currently participating in a Beth Moore bible study about "Daniel".

It has been so amazing! It is opening my eyes to areas in my life that I

haven't paid attention to before. One of these areas is pride. We like to

think that pride is a very obvious thing, that you can look at someone

and say "they are prideful", but is so much deeper than that. Pride can

even come from something we meant for good. Some examples she uses

are fasting, studying your Bible, participating in Bible studies, sacrificial

giving... Each of these things are great, but we have to be very careful

that the devil doesn't turn it into an issue of pride. Some examples could

be.. "I" fast each week, what about you or "I" study my Bible so much

( I wonder if "others" study it like me.) Pride can be very secretive and

we may not even notice that is what we are doing. I am very thankful

that I serve a God who continually works on me! It is truly humbling to

have areas in your life that need to be addressed and know that" in all

these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us."

Romans 8:37 I found the following quote and thought it was fitting.

"If we barely manage to win our way to heaven by the skin of our teeth, we could be said to be a conqueror, but a "more than conqueror" is someone who takes the worst that life can throw at him and uses that to become victorious. "More than conqueror" is one who, by the grace and the gift of God, and in the strength of God within him, actually takes the very things that are designed to destroy him, and they become stepping stones instead of stumbling blocks. That is being "more than conquerors."

-Ray Stedman