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Our Family Update

It has been a few months since I have had time to write at all. So I am taking about 10 min this morning. We have family pictures today, that where on sale, so we decided to do a pre-baby picture and then will do more later for Christmas. I know have 4 and half weeks until baby arrives. Unless she decides to come sooner. I have finished her room, painting, carpet, bed, etc. I have a stroller and car seat for her, and a play yard. Still need more newborn clothes, but I am working on that. I also have to find a swing or bounce seat for her to sit in. Later will need a high chair. This time I feel like I am starting all over for the first time with this baby. She is due on Dec 12th. But she has(like her big sister) decided to stay breech. We have a c-section scheduled for Dec 7th at 7:30 am!!!!! I had to have c-sections with both Arianna and Hunter. Not thrilled about the needle in my back or the recovery from the c-section. But I know the Lord will get me through it.
Arianna is loving her new classical conversations this year. She has made great friends, and loves the tutor in her class room. She has learned so much already. It is amazing to see her memorize all that info and learn it all. Then Hunter has learned some of it as well from listening and watching Arianna. This class has truly been a blessing and I would highly recommended it to everyone. Not only is she learning educational info she needs, but how much she has grown in what she understands about God and creation and how thinks happen in an order. Devotion time each night has been a treat to go through with her. Hunter loves singing all the great songs. We have been truly blessed by this class. She is also doing well with her school work at home. From counting and reading. She has finally, or should I say we have finally found a program that worked for her and she loves to help her with reading. She is reading on her grade level and we feel by Christmas will be above that to second grade.
Hunter has done really well also. He is doing sight words, and phonics, and knows all his numbers and letters so far. He is working on writing skills now. He would rather color than write his name but is doing so well.
We all have our down days, but it is so much a blessing to be their mom and be able to see their minds grow and learn. Being able to be a part of the learning steps all the way, is so awesome.
Tim is working hard, in two areas. One to keep lawncare business running and growing. Two to find a full-time job with steady income. I am so proud of how hard he has worked to find a job. I know God will open that door when it is time. There are times when I would love to understand why we have had to grow through a year of no employment and stuggles. But then I look up and remember how well he has taken care of us and kept us right where we needed to be. I know I have been so humbled by this experience. From learning to do without what we didn't need, to learning to be a good steward of what we do have. It has been a hard and stressful lesson to learn, but I am glad I went through this. I pray I can teach that to my children. I now know that I can live under what my budget is, and we will be okay.
Scariest part at teh moment is Christmas coming, and since we down to one car, we need a new car for baby coming. We have been trying to save and prayer over this situation. I know that all will work out the way it needs to. It is just scary to know or not to know what will happen.
Tim is also deer hunting when he gets the chance. Hunter loves it, and Arianna does as well. They both want to go with him soon. I however pray they will out grow it. HAHA We have been able to take Hunter and Arianna to football games this year. Hunter loves it soooo much. He watches the players so close and then comes home and repeats what he sees. That kid at three has an arm on him and is catching really well. Arianna uncourse is the cheer section for us. She will cheer with the crowd and dance with the band. Full of entertainment!
I have also tried to start a athome business with the situation we are facing. Even if it brought in a little extra for food and things that would be great. I have been really blessed so far. Not only has it added a few 100 a month to our income, I have been able to go out and hang with wonderful women and pamper them. Whether on their lunch hour or at a home spa. The products sale themselves, they are great, but I get to help women and moms who are over worked and need a 30 min or longer break and get some great skin care and things at the same time. It has truly been a blessing.
Well I think that catches us up for know!

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We become wives, moms, home makers, and their teachers! God is Good!

This is my precious baby girl. Who turned 6 this year and entered the first Grade! I can not believe it has been 6 years since this little bitty baby was laid in my hands. She was three weeks early and the best baby in the world. Always wanting to be cuddled, and still does on her time! She has gone from so tiny to this very beautiful, tall, smart, creative, talented, imaginative little girl. She is so independent or tries to be that I forget she is only 6 some times, and other times I would love to just sit down with her and tie her shoes for her again! Hang on to those moments, they pass to fast. She may look like her daddy, and has his sense of humor, but she loves people and life and loving on people like her mommy.

We where so extremely blessed to learn about Classical Conversations. Then to have it come to our church home was so much more of a blessing. Arianna went to her first class today. As I get to be right there with her, the tutor and other moms and children, I feel so much joy. God is good. The information she is learning this year and what will be taught in class once a week and then carried home all week is mind blowing. She learned all her subjects today, and by the time we come home at them all down and showing of all that she remembered! It was awesome. There will be 160 pcs of info on things from creation to present she will learn, not counting the History timeline, the Bible verses, the science all bible based, the math and english and grammar is wonderful. Can you imagine a 6 year old standing in front of her class once a week and giving a presentation!! She will and did today and many more to come! The best part is we are all there to love and support and lean on each other in the love of Christ. To raise up our children the way God intended and every step they learn is all from God!

We are ready for next week already! More to come!

Thank you God so much for bringing the talents to those who wrote this curriculum and to those who allowed it to come to AMRBC and my house hold. I pray that we learn all we can and lift you up each step of the way!

Arianna Is a 1st Grader and Hunter is three. We are homeschooling!

Okay so today was a Monday for our house. We had all our plans laid out and school lessons all ready. I even let Arianna pick what we did first and second and so on today. But for some reason I had her attention about 20 min and that was it. So after we tried making it more exciting, and trying to give Hunter something better to keep him occupied. Then trying a break and some stretching and coming back with a clear head. And then trying to get Arianna and Hunter to teach each other so that is was fun, which lead to a fight over who should be on the white board first. Then literally sitting down in prayer and asking for peace and focus in out home. Now would it not amaze you that, the one thing I should have tried the first time finally worked. We prayed together and seemed to get focused on each subject and made it through to break time. Now for lunch, Hunters nap and Arianna reading. So what started off a bit rough I think will end very peacefully. Thank you God for your quick answers to our prayers, and let me say I am sorry I didn't look to your first when in need. Lesson learned for all of us in the Owens house. I am now feeling much more encouraged about this week and next week. Arianna will have her new classical conversations classes starting next week on Tuesdays. We are so excited about this and her tutor and i am thrilled to be a help mom in class. So I hope to have much to report next week on how great and successful it will be. i would encourage any home school parent to have their children in Classical conversations by age 5. It is amazing what they will learn and master each year. You should check it out at classicalconversations.com. More schooling to come and now to get pizza for lunch. Of course adding a side of fruit for some nutritents.

Great Reading Info I found today

I was looking for some creative, fun ways to work in school work into fun in Arianna's school days. Hunter spends about 2 hours with us doing school work so I thought if it was more fun, he would enjoy it also. I found this article that was great. How to raise an imaginative child.

I learned that encouraging imagination helps improve vocabulary. Reading, listening and acting all the fairy tales and stories helps them improve voc. It also helps with the taking control part of the mind of a six year old. She wants to control so much of her life, and being able to act out a scene where the princess rescues all the mice and her brother helps her to find good homes, and the King and Queen(of course mom and dad) help feed all of them. Helps her control what she feels like is more than beyond her control. It also helps with social rules. If they all go tot he play ground and create a castle out of the play houses, and then turn it into their own little world and play different parts. I love the Peter Pan part. They learn to interact with other friends in the creation in their mind. Even better is when mom and dad will join in. It is even a problem solver. They early they start with imaginative and creating the better when they get older they can solve problems through the ways they learned to be imaginative.
How do we help as parents was the part I was the most interested in. Read Read Read Books. Share stories, make them up not in a book and share them. Get them to make artwork with what they think, hear, feel, want to do, build play. Arianna loves this one and is awesome at it. She can take almost any image and in her 6 year old way draw or create it. It blows my mind every time she does it. Make music to go with all the things they are playing. Put a song to cleaning, eating, going to bed, going to the store, starting school work, singing ways to be quite. Act out different types of feelings and sad, happy, glad, and more and then how to go from one to the other,. Hunter does great at this and makes the best faces when her shows you how he feels. And of course as any acting coach says use props. Towel rack, chalkboard, sidewalk chalk, bathroom rug into a magic carpet..... But only turn to the computer on occasion. Looking up resources it is great for, but does not leave a lot of room for imagination. TV is even worse. Know all that is fun and can take up a lot for time and interaction. But there is also a limit to it, and accepting in some parts, like the imaginary friend you have to invite to dinner, always make the clean up of the mess as fun as the game, encourage wild ideas that are safe, like building a roller coaster in the back yard. ( I think I want to try that one).
So this is all the info I read and much much more. I loved all the info and wanted to share what I learned with anyone who also has a child with an active imagination and artistic mind. I will share more and would love to hear from others on things you read and learn about. Passing along parent info...

Baby Girl Owens

This is the 18 weeks ultrasound from our new baby girl. Awesome size and shape and growing great. Moving a lot. She moves more at night around 11 pm every night. Arianna is so excited about her baby sister coming. Her due date is Dec 12th. I don't think she will make it that long though. The c-section will be a week early, unless her decides to come early like Arianna did. Arianna was three weeks early!!! We had to drag Hunter out. no really that had to use a suction tool to get him out.. HAHAHA He was also a c-section and 9lbs. I have a May baby and an August baby. A dec. baby is going to be a change. I have a few months to go, but feel like if I don't start getting it all ready now, I will wait and then it will be to late. I know with Arianna I had everything planned to do that weekend, since I had a c-section scheduled three weeks away. Then she decided she wanted out in the middle of the night. I love being a mom and getting to remember all the great ways our children come into the world. Arianna wanted to come early and that is so her personality. Hunter had to be drug out and he is the same now, you have to let him finish everything is in own time. I guess we will see what this one does. I am excited to get colors and clothes and strollers and all the baby stuff for her in the next few months. I actually started buying diapers already and that was the first time it felt like okay now it is time!!! More to share in the future!!!

Arianna turns 6 and we venture to Ocean Lakes

We had a great invite to go to OceanLakes in Myrtle Beach, SC. It was a very nice house and the children had so much fun. There are so many things to do at the campground and hanging on the beach. My niece had a run in with a small jellyfish, bless her she was very tough. Then Hunter had a TV fall on his head and arm and scared Tim and I to death. But other than that it was a great few days. We even had Arianna's 6th Birthday there, which she LOVED. We ran into some wonderful friends from church and they where able to join us for her birthday and she couldn't quit talking about them coming and how happy she was they did. The pool was fun for a little while, but way crowded. I have never seen so many people in one place at one time. Hunter and Arianna played putt putt for the first time on her Birthday and Hunter wanted to play again and again. He wanted Grandpa to play with him, but maybe next time. He may have to wait until he can play big golf with Grandpa. I was a bit stressed at all the schedule and what to do when. But I finally relaxed and tried to just enjoy being there. The baby is 22 weeks along and she is moving a lot. Moves the most at night at 11 pm almost every night. Only a few more months and she will be here and I feel like my to do list is longer and time is to short. We are know back and already started some of Arianna's school work today. i am really looking forward to her attending Classical Conversations at AMRBC. I think it will be a blessing beyond belief. I have loaded the Beach pictures, and in the middle of trying to take the good ones my camera battery died and it got to dark, so maybe next time I will get that perfect beach picture like I wanted. I did however take several pictures of other families I didn't know and theirs where beautiful. I was actually ready to come home and get back to life, which is strange. More often than not I try to run from life....hahaha... I am really happy about what the future holds for our family and all that we are going to learn and experience in the next weeks, months and years ahead. God has a great plan for us and I am anxious to learn what it is, but also wanting it to happen slowly. Our pastor DJ is right about taking a vacation. You tend to come back with a clearer head and friendly manner than when you left. I am reading a new book I want to start posting more about, and still reading Power of a praying Parent. I will let you know how they both are going. Oh yes and the Have a New Kid by Friday really great. I listened to it, but some awesome info we are putting into play this week. I look forward to the awesome outcome, I hope!!! haha Blessings

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Long Time Catch Up Day

Okay so I am so behind on blogging. The last time I entered anything I did not know I was pregnant!!!! I am know 19 weeks pregnant and the last three months have been rough. i have been soooo sick and not wanted to do ANYTHING! This past few days have been so much better and I am handling eating better. Which also means I am fianlly putting on weight, yuck! I am due on Dec. 12th. This will be a first to have a winter baby. Arianna is is August and Hunter is May, so this is different. Arianna is voting on a girl, she says momma what and I suppose to do with another boy? Ha HA Hunter is just well it is fun that mommy has a baby in her tummy but really not sure about all of this. I think he will be so shocked when it arrives. he has been the baby for three years! I am praying for a healthy baby either way boy or girl. Tim and i have taken on a new Landscape business and it has been going well, a but slow start but well. We are praying it will be a much needed long answer to prayers. We find out what we are having on Monday the 20th I can't wait. I am a plan ahead person and want so much to knwo so I can start getting everything ready. If that isn't big enough news, I turned 30 on the 14th!!! Had a great birthday. But this one was a bit harder for me. I am a kid at heart and have loved being in my 20's like forever, and I am now 30! Arianna is almost ready to loose that first tooth. And as most of you know Hunter was in the hospital at the end of May. He is 90% better. We are still going through some tonsil healing and worried we may have to have the tonsils removed. Thank everyone for all the prayers and all the food. I look forward to sharing more and keeping up to date better. If you need a great summer read try Power of a Praying Parent!

Home school Festival Biltmore House April 17th

So we fianlly where able to take a short Spring Break vacation and still do school work while there. We had the great opportunity to visit the Biltmore House for their annual home school festival. From 8:30am on Friday morning, we learned about animals, making suilts, seeing real life Owls of different types, a red-tailed hawk, Arianna and Hunter picked up and 1000 pound log, made a water wheel, a compass and went on a treasure hunt with it, and made butter, and even watched soil erosion. Then had a picnic lunch at the Barn, played with the gots, chickens and beautiful horses. Then toured the Barn and all the old things. Then we toured the beautiful Biltmore house every floor. After touring grabbed a huge ice cream treat, and then slowly walked over to the Gardens. From the fish in the Gardens to every color of Tulp you could imagine. Then to the pond and waterfall. It was a full day that ended around 6 pm and then we grabbed dinner and went to our wonderful Hotel. We where so pleased with our hotel and how well we where treated. Then jumped in the heated(not so much) pool for a night swim, then back to our room where we all crashed from a long day. It was really great and we all had a great time. We look forward to going next year. We had a great drive home taking our time and going by Chimney Rock and Lake Lure for some play time. We rested most of Sunday from being so tired, but it was a wonderful time.

Dancing Dancing Dancing

I grew up dancing with my mom and loving to dance. Then I had children and wouldn't you know that they would love to dance almost more than me. We dance at least once day and sometimes more when we can't go outside. Hunter will dance as long as no one is watching. We have been able to find fun christian songs they love to dance to and now they sing them as well. I look forward to posting dance videos of my wonderful dancers. It is really awesome when children are able to grow and learn and find different ways to just laugh. This is one of those times, where we just laugh. It makes me think of all the times we seem like life is to hard and just not fair, that maybe we need to take more time to just dance.

DANCE

What a day that will be!!!

So today started out like it should have been a Monday. I am sure the full moon added to the days delight. I have two children whom are very different at times, but somehow seem to team those times when you think the devil has entered your home. haha The last two days where very off for my children, with saying no and not doing as they where asked. Don't even try to ask my so loving baby girl to help make her bed, it TOOK TWO HOURS!!! That was just the last two days. Tim has worked all day today, and we have a funeral in a few moments for a dear friend. So it has been me and my so adorable babies today. From writing on the wall, tv and teddy bear, to dumping the laundry basket in the floor after i just finished, to tearing up school work and putting it in the trash to laying in the floor screaming and kicking for spider man. So what may seem like they are being children and pushing the boundaries was like pulling my hair out today. My children are no where near perfect and need to mind better than they do, but on a daily routine there is none of what happen today. I think something got a hold on them and i couldn't get it out of them. Try punishment... forget that it was funny or a way to push momma even further. So after I walked out of another mess in the bedroom i sat down on the coach in silence. I did not answer to momma, mommy, mam, please, nothing. And about 10 min later I had my angels back with love. So today has been wonderful!! As my children like to push until I fuss or until I punish, they do not like it when mommy doesn't talk! So I realized as I was sitting there praying in silence and allowing them to realize who mommy is and what was going to happen if they didn't straighten up, I also thought how many times do i react to them in quick punishment which does not change the behavior it just hurts their feelings. Instead of walking out of the room in silence. Man is it easy to yell, but it is so peaceful and fulfilling to be silent. Isn't that just like what the Lord ask of us. Be still, silent and know that I am here. That he sees our every sin, hears our every word, reads our every thought, and what he asked of us as children is to come to our father and be silent and listen to him speak sofly to us. Exodus 14:14

Happy Field Trip to Happy Cow Creamery

Happy Cow Creamery

Saturday April 4th

We had a wondeful field trip to the Happy Cow Creamery Farm in Ware Place(Pelzer) on Saturday. We where able to tour the farm, see the cows, how they are feed all natural rich grown grass, and how they are milked and how the milk is really good and healthy for you. Then we also where able to taste the milk, chocolate milk, and buttermilk(Tim only). It is sooooo good. And since I have had stomach trouble for the last few months I have not be able to drink one drop of store bought milk. But this has not hurt my stomach at all. We learned how anyone who takes medicine for stomach, ulcer, gastritis, heartburn, etc. If you drink this milk that is the real milk with NO hormones, no chemicals, no high temp process to remove all the good stuff that it will help heal the stomach, and no more expensive medicine! So we have decided that we will never buy milk that is hurting us and our children again. So we went back yesterday and got more milk, cheese(so good), sour cream, cream cheese, and more. So that was the best field trip experience we have had so far. I encourge anyone to make it worth the drive. http://www.happycowcreamery.com/ It ws a blessing to learn from Farmer Tom, and Ashley on the cows and how the milk is suppose to be. They are good christian people. Ashley said while we where touring how many times was milk and honey mentioned in the Bible, God was trying to tell us something. This is the way milk is suppose to be. We already feel better and Arianna and Hunter love it.

All Womens Weekend

Ok so put 8000 women in the same building and what do you get? Still thinking? Okay so here it is. You get the most awesome, most blessed, most spiritual, most emotional, most loving, most eye opening, most uplifting, best worshiping you have ever seen!! The Extrodinary Womens Conference this past weekend at the Bilo center. I was so blessed to be able to go, at the last minute mind you. Then I had the best time taking my big sister with me. She and I haven't done that in a long time. I look forward to more time with her. It is so easy to drift apart when you have a family to run and things to do. Sometimes even your closest, become the furthest away. Then we had the best time worshiping Friday night with Charles Bilinsgly, and Rachel Lampa, and The sisters from Lord Song. Then laughed and laughed til we cried with Shonda Pierce. Then more amazing worship from NewSong. Everytime I hear A rise my love tears are like a water faucet. Then we got to go back on Saturday. We both went a little later, since we had babies at home that needed mommy first thing. But to hear Angela Thomas, man that was powerful. To fill God in the room with 8000 women, and see the stands almost empty and the alter full. She is an amazing women of God. I loved how she described every women as God's "Baby Girl" . I think I will sign everything that way now. Love Holly God's Baby Girl. I know I am the baby in our family and was a daddy's girl and still am most of the time. But to hear how precious you are to some one so powerful, so mighty, so faithful, and so uplifting. That is an awesome feeling. Then we had a lunch break and I walked around and talked to a lot fo the artist and speakers and writers. Then enjoyed taking pictures and listing to all the other womens blessing they had already gone through, and how thrilled they were to be there. We had more awesome worship with Charles, and more inspiring, God lead speakers that afternoon. Michelle was funny but very right on about life and God leading our lives, and being able to go through the battles with him. God does not take the battles away, he takes us through the battles, and then removes the hurt as we reach heaven. Then Stormie aw Stormie. So soft spoken, so beautiful, so loyal to what God has given her to do with her life. I was so blessed to be given "The power of a praying wife" , last year when I needed it. Praying through any situation is very important. But learning how it's not him, it's me and I needed to pray to be changed. Wouldn't you know that God changed Tim's heart while I was reading this book and he was saved!!!! Now that is power!! Since Saturday night Tim and I are reading her new book, "The power of prayer to change you Marriage." It is already been awesome, and Stormie hits it home in every word. The best part is that it gives Tim and I something to do together. The other awesome book she has is for children, and what does God think when I pray. It really helps out with all those little questions when children are trying to learn. Over all it was an amazing weekend. I look forward to next year!! Thank you to Jennifer, and Sande for the last minute tickets. To God for allowing my sister and I to go and spend this special time together and everything I learned and drew closer to him. Blessings to you all.

Living Loving Praying and Loving It

Ok so I have the best story to share. We had a wonderful service at church on sunday. I was so thrilled to get to share with the high school girls about how the Bible and God's true and perfect word is so amazing. Then we had our last class sunday night body building. It was awesome, no, that is not the right word, it was Beyond Imagination.... Our wonderful pastor shared his vision for our church and then we worshiped. I mean the real down on hands and knees, tears, weeping as the Lord sat with us and wept, it was,... well it was.... So I wanted to share what God lead me through during this time of prayer and worship. I love being a mom, and I love being a wife. Sometimes i do better at one or the other but not both at the same time. Then trying to get our home running, clean, and organized. Well after being ill lately, forget it, it is all a mess. I found God showing me where i am trying to make every excuse for why, and he showed me how it is very good to clean, it is really important to stay organized, and it is important to balance them all well. What he wants me to do is first LOVE HIM, and let him love ALL OF ME! whoooo! To JUST BE, to be on my knees, loving, praying, worshiping, leading, following, growing, sharing, but JUST BE all those with him FIRST. Then love my husband and share all of what I love about God with my husband first, I love him more than anything, but sometimes he gets left out. God broke my heart to love this man with all I have, with all i am , and with all I do, the way i love the Lord, I will love my husband. Then to love my children, but not just love them as I already do, but love them more than enough to correct them the Godly way, to guide them to him, to share him with them, to teach them how he wants them to behave, not the world, to allow them to grow to who he created them to be, not who I want them to be, to fall on my knees with them daily, nightly and pray for thier lives, their salvation, thier future goals and dreams. To love them through Gods eyes and teach them to love others through his eyes. LOVE this word is thrown around like air, but to truly get down to LOVING the way God loved, the way Jesus loves/d, HIS BLOOD , there is no greater love.

How precious are children

It has been a good week for the Owens family. Right now I feel very sad for the family who lost a baby boy this morning. I feel lost as what to think, say or do. i know everything is God's will with his children and that that sweet boy is in heaven with the Lord right now, but thinking how he left this world scares me and makes me feel so blessed at the same time for my children. Please join me in praying for this family and all families with children and realizing how blessed we all are to be parents..

Weekend Rewind

Okay so we made it through another weekend with all our hair. Ha ha No really after a rough week with my stomach, it was nice to have a good weekend with the babies. We just hung out at home Friday and watched funny movies. The funniest is watching Arianna and Hunter dance and Hunter will stop dancing if he thinks you are watching. So it is for sure that they both have my dance back-ground and rhythm but they have Tim's secret break dancing moves!!! You have to see he is really good. Then we went Saturday morning to watch the dancers at SMA and that was good, last year a bit better we thought. We left for a snack and to head over to AMRBC auction but I got sick again. So we headed home for some rest. Then we had a wonderful day at church, my pain aside, worship was awesome, the day 6 choir did really great, I love to hear them sing. Then our body building class was awesome and learning more about the church and waht the 21st century church should be. I think our church does an awesome job in all areas, but there is always room for improvement in any place. Which all lead to a great start for the week. School work went awesome this morning with Arianna, and watching her brain work and learn was really coll today. I love home schooling her and am so glad God lead us to this decision. I am looking forward to all the fun years of home schooling both of them. Looking to the rest of this week to be awesome. Jer 29:11

Our week in Rewind

So this week started off with a wonderful night of vacation to the ER.(Holly) In the wonderful SRMC waiting room, and after seven hours of waiting and being in pain, it ended early tuesday morning with lots of medicine but no real good results. Then having the headache of a lifetime from the morphin hangover, that is worse than any miagriane I ever get. School work went really well though, we started a new book, Considering God's Creation science. Arianna has loved this one this week. It started with God's creation of the seven days and even learned a new song with the seven days of creation. Then we are working on number recognition from 1-100, so that is not quite as fun but she is doing really well. We learned about a new state today and have started reading the Boxcar children series. So all in all the week was great. We had STS on Wed. after ballet, and then helped with new soccer season evalutions on thursday. Stayed in and learned how to blog...yeah!!! on Friday. Hunter is also learning a long side Arianna and we have been going through simple sign language and he has I love you down pat. Counting to twenty and all of his ABC's. Knows his colors and is coloring more than just scribbles this week.
I had this awesome prayer God laid on my heart to share with our youth girls at the beginning of the week. I was not sure at the time where God was leading it, but after getting a awesome response to it's helpfulness from one of the girls it was eye opening to see where God leads your prayers. So even though I am eating crackers, and ginger ale and THAT IS ALL. It is still a blessed week. We are looking forward to this weekend full of dance comp. and day 6 auction and Sunday service. This week will be one to look back at and say we made it to share the love of God for another week.

Happy Snow Day March 2nd 2009