Christmas!

Well it is offically here, Christmas day! The girls were totally spoiled by Santa and a few relatives! ;-) We took lots of pics this a.m. but no digital cameras so I am posting a few we had taken with Santa on Sunday and some at Great Aunt Gina's house with all her decorations on Sunday afternoon....

Pretty Princesses!

Yesterday was Little Ivy's 1st birthday party. We had a princess party theme and 3 beautiful princesses showed up. We had Princess Jasmine, Island Princess Barbie and Belle honor us with their presence. It was a great time.

Christmas Parade....

here are a few pics from the Bolivar Christmas Parade. It was the first parade the girls have ever been to and they had a blast, even though it was cold and drizzly!

Glimpses of our life!

I thought I would let everyone see a snapshot into our lives in the last couple months since Heather and the girls have been living with me. The girls have changed so much in those 60 days and we are having so much fun! They just make me laugh out load and that is an awesome thing!

Here are a few glimpses into our life!

Spirit of LIfe

I’m thankful for the wind, today.

I love how it blows life into everything – especially me!

I love how the wind moves the clouds, and the leaves on the trees, and how the birds ride on it.

Invisible, yet there, giving life and moving life.

Just like God.

SUPPORTING OUR TROOPS!

Saturday a friend from church, Nancy Hall and I took all the money we had collected from our church's "Support our Troops" ministry and went shopping. I am NOT a person who looks forward to shopping, NEVER have and never will, but it was for a great cause so I went..... We hit Wal-Mart around 9 a.m. and left after 12 sometime. Then we went to the church and worked on the boxes, getting them packed and separated. We had 6 overseas boxes to get ready (Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Greece and Germany) then we also had 6 state side boxes to prepare for military families that are from our church family as well. It was fun thinking of what the guys and gals would think of what we had bought. We even added a "whoopee cushion" to the boxes. I know my son-in-law will enjoy that! We shipped out the overseas boxes on Monday after we made a Church wide Christmas card for each and every soldier.

This week we have to get the boxes ready for the state side soldiers and their families. It was a fun time and a blessing to be involved in this ministry. But we were sure tired when we both returned to our own homes!!!!