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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Wordless Wednesday: Snowed In!
Well, before we got snowed in, I did some traveling this past weekend. On Thursday, we headed to my in-laws to celebrate my sister-in-law Lindsay's birthday! We had spaghetti with the best meat sauce ever (made my my mother-in-law) and hot fudge cake (also homemade!) It was delicious!
We spent the night there and then headed to Charlotte (because the mister took his college youth on a ski trip). I got to see one my best friends from college and her son James. They had lots of fun playing together, and we tried to get them to smile with us for pictures. When we couldn't get them to smile together, we decided to throw them up in the air and then get a shot on their way down :)
Today, our school districts are closed again, which means no work for me or the mister! We spent all of Monday cleaning the house, which was long overdue. We also took Little Man out for a walk around the neighborhood. Yesterday, we ventured out after the mister got his truck up our steep driveway. We rented a couple of movies and picked up pizza for dinner! (By the way, Inception is a great movie, and I would also recommend The Town)
Link up with Daphne:
Happy Wednesday Y'all!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Monday Message: Praying for Others (and an update on Little Man!)
Little Man and I were visiting my family in Charlotte this weekend, and we went to a new church with my parents and sister. They said they really like the church because of the message that is given each week. I completely agreed. The sermon really inspired me to want to deepen my relationship with Christ and reminded me to make Christ the focus of my life!
Some of the great points in the message from Colossians 1: 9-14
-We should walk in a way that is pleasing to God! Our walk should be structured and discliplined, but we should avoid synchrotism. I love this. I don't want my spiritual life to be like a chore list that I check off, but more of a disclipined path where I use my relationship with Christ to make every decision!
-We should bear fruit in every good work! One of the amazing things about Christianity is that we are saved by grace through faith. Does this mean we should just go and do whatever we want because we are saved anyway. No...we aren't saved BY good works, but FOR good works. If you are a Christian and you have a true relationship with Christ, then you will want to serve others and do good works.
-Christianity is about relationship. The mister and I talk about this a lot. We have the one religion where God came to meet us where we are. He became one of us. Instead of doing everything we can to reach Him, He reached out to us and sent his son to die for us! So we should treat every relationship we have like we would treat Christ. That is something to think about!
While we were with GiGi and Grandaddy this weekend, my mother said, "We are going to get him to walk!" I told her I didn't want to push him because he gets mad and then doesn't want to at all. But lo and behold, he ended up taking steps by himself!! He would only walk from me to GiGi or GiGi to me when we had a goldfish or something of interest, but his best was 5 steps in a row! I got him to do that again for the mister today! So excited!!
He also pushed his Walk and Ride all around the house today...which he has NEVER done, so that is a big accomplishment. Any bets on when he'll really take off? :)
Hope y'all had a great Monday!
(P.S. We had a big snow here today and everything is pretty much shut down through tomorrow...more pictures to come!)
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Thankful Thursday: New Year's Recap!
Before I get into the post, I just want to apologize for not leaving comments yesterday. Blogger and my computer have been acting up on me. Please know I have been reading and trying to comment, but it just doesn't always work out!
Today I am so thankful for my grandparents! I was fortunate enough to know four of my great-grandparents, and all of my grandparents. My last great-grandmother passed away my first year out of college, and my paternal grandparents both passed away in the last 3 years. I loved them all so much. My maternal grandparents are still here and only live an hour away, so we get to visit them a lot!
On New Year's Day, Little Man and I went to Spartanburg to meet most of my family at our grandparents' house. We had lots of fun, and it was a great way to start off the new year. I held true to my resolutions and ate small portions and didn't drink the caffeinated sweet tea! It was hard! I also caught myself mid-sentence about to say something negative about someone and changed my wording real quick :)
So my grandfather (Ray-Ray) wanted to try to give Little Man's 2 year old cousin some eggnog, but she wouldn't drink it. Little Man couldn't get enough! (no alcohol of course!)
Yum!
Where's my eggnog??
Cousin W on the table. Don't know where she learned that!
Little Man and Cousin E
One of Little Man's new favorite facial expressions
We ventured down to the picture wall in the basement. This is my mom in high school :)
The boys sleeping on the couch
Ray-Ray with E and Little Man
Effie and cousin W
Happy Thursday Y'all!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Wordless Wednesday: A White Christmas (or day after)
Most of these pictures are pleasant of the day after Christmas, however I need to warn you...the last picture is not appropriate and simply demonstrates what happens when an innocent person becomes the victim of a prank! I thought about not posting it, but it shows my crazy family! Look at your own risk!
Backyard of my parent's house
Front driveway...my car!
My parents' Christmas tree
Little Man being entertained by his aunts during breakfast
Backyard
I'm not a big fan of the cold, but I didn't want to miss out on the snow too much! I helped with the base of the snowman!
Sister #6 and me
Our snowman...don't think we had a carrot... (and warning...the next picture is the last picture!)
Sweet CoCo (sister #3) was innocently making a snow angel, when Evil sister #6 strategically placed two oranges and a banana that were originally intended for the snowman in the...well you see the picture!
Happy Wednesday Y'all!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
HTT: New Year Project (and family Christmas pics!)
Our FROG (Finished Room Over Garage) is going to be our remodel project for the new year! I am hoping it will be checked off the list by the end of February if not sooner! Right now it stays cold and houses stuff we aren't using at the moment (including our Elliptical)! When it's done...the elliptical will be in use, and I should have a workspace for my etsy shop!
More Christmas!
We went to the Christmas Eve service at our church this year. Usually we rush off to either my family or our in-laws after the service, but this year we decided to stay home! Little Man was able to play downstairs during the service.
Christmas Eve pajamas
We mainly used the video camera on Christmas morning, but I did get a picture of the aftermath. Santa brought Little Man lots of books, a toy helicopter, a chalkboard with letters and numbers, racecars that spin, and a few other things! He had lots of fun seeing his new toys!
We also had a surprise visit from the in-laws! They showed up 5 minutes before we went in to get Little Man and shared in his Christmas morning experience!
Once we were packed, we headed to Charlotte to spend time with my family.
Here we are with sisters 3, 4, and 5!
Little Man and Granddaddy!
His real favorite "toy"-the stairs!
Little Man and Cousin E
Getting a family Christmas card picture on Christmas Day (better late than never!)
The six sisters:
#5, #1, #2
#4, #3, #6
This is my parents after they opened the present the mister and I gave them.
It's a painting of their house. They moved in May 1990, and are set on moving sometime in the near future. So this will be a reminder of our old house! (maybe they'll stay there awhile longer though!)
Later Christmas night...the snow began to fall!!
More snow pictures tomorrow!
Happy Tuesday y'all!!
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