Friday, September 30, 2011

Still moving...

Still working on getting our "old" main building totally cleaned out and ready for the sale to be closed at the end of the month....which translates to working on Fridays (yes, supposed to be David's day off) and going in to help Daddy alot. Lucky for us, we have two little but very good helpers! :)

Thursday, September 29, 2011

HER first haircut...

I shouldn't be that surprised, right? Every kid does it, or so I've heard. Thursday mornings are a little crazy around here. I should back up. Wednesday nights are a little crazy. It's a late night at church for us. REALLY late if it's a week that I'm singing on praise team. Then Thursday mornings I lead biblestudy from our home. It's worked out great for the last year - the kids always went to a Mother's Morning Out at a church down the street for me. But they cancelled it this year. So without any other options, Callie and Caleb stay home on Thursdays and I pray that they can stay out of trouble. They play upstairs for 45 minutes while I'm leading the discussion and going over our homework....then they are allowed to come downstairs and watch a movie/play in the playroom while we watch our DVD of Beth Moore. They have done well so far.

On this particular Thursday, I had a meeting with one of the ladies in biblestudy afterwards - she is our new Preschool Director at church and we were talking over a few things. The kids were running around and playing, and all of a sudden, Callie came downstairs and looked at me - and I knew. She had cut her hair.
This is the pile of hair I found upstairs.
She gave herself a mullet. Oh my. Totally cut bangs for herself and then cut the sides. Oh my.
She doesn't look very broken up about it, does she? :) Could have been a lot worse I suppose. I know a lot of little girls that have cut bangs WAY up at the hairline - at least these were still decent...but the mullet look was just rough. David about died when he got home and saw it. Poor thing. Good thing we're using our pictures from the beach for the Christmas cards this year!

Monday, September 26, 2011

And He does it again...

and just because HE loves to bless our socks off (and probably because sometimes it takes 2 or 3 times before we stop and LISTEN to HIM...


...THIS is what we saw when driving to football/cheerleading practice on Monday night!!

Sunday, September 25, 2011

God's Promises

After I finished up kids' choir tonight, I was walking my class over to their Missions class and I heard the torrential downpour occurring outside. Happy to be safe inside and not outside in that rain, I dropped them all off and got back to my work. When we left later on that evening, the storm had passed, and I passed a parent who showed me these pictures he had just taken outside on his phone. How GOOD is our God?



My kids and I just stood there with our mouths hanging open looking at the sky. I LOVE when God overwhelms me.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Callie's Dolls...all of them....

A sweet lady from church asked me after choir one Sunday night - with Callie standing right there - if we would like to have her barbies....her girls were done with them....I thought Callie was going to stroke out she was so excited!! (Of course, because Callie was right there with me, there was no way I could hide them away and give her two now and save the rest for later, etc) THIS is what we came home with! Everywhere Callie goes, she has to take them ALL with her. They ALL go upstairs together, they ALL come down together, etc. It's pretty funny. She's constantly lining them ALL up on her bed, or ALL up on the couch like this. It cracks me up. I remember doing the same thing. I suppose it's just like Josiah and Jacob lining up their matchbox cars at this age, right? :)

TGIF!

It's Friday - and Daddy's home!! HOORAY!!!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Free Ice Cream Day at Carvel

The kids have decided that free ice cream cake is the BEST afternoon snack ever!! Can't say that I disagree! :)
Slightly embarrassed...but very tickled...when I noticed THIS happening next to me....

Callie and puzzles

Me to Callie: "Good job on that puzzle honey!"
Callie to me: "Yeah, I'm like a rock star!"

:) Guess she's not lacking in self-confidence....

Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Playground

This is the VERY cool new indoor playground at our new church facility. Can you find my kids in these pictures? :)
It worked out great because we had to head up to church today to get some stage things squared away and the kids were HAPPY to go when they found out they could play on the playground while we were there! :)

Thursday, September 15, 2011