Monday, April 20, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Resurrection Sunday
Last Sunday we had Grandpa and Grandma K. over (dad's parents) and Grandma Grace (mom's mom) for a scrumptious Easter dinner. We hadn't seen them all in a while, and we had a great afternoon visiting, and my younger siblings had fun doing a little egg hunt. It was so nice to spend some time with our grandparents. Here are a few pictures of our fun day!
Doesn't Ethan look handsome? :-)
The two grandmas
Ethan with grandpa
Lydia and I had fun dressing up in some fancy dresses we had in our closet
G and G asked us to play some music for them - don't I look graceful playing banjo in that dress? :-)
It was great to see you, grandma, grandpa, and grandma!!! :-)
P.S. Don't forget to look at the post below about The Widow's Might.
The Widow's Might . . .
. . . is a movie made by a homeschooling family in Texas. The director was only 19 years old, and the film won the Jubilee award ($101,000 prize) at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival this year. You can view the trailer online, and also a list of the theatres where it's playing at. If you can't make it to the theatre, I would recommend buying it (and other awesome family movies) off of Behemoth. You can download all kinds of Christian music, teaching, movies, and more - and all for great prices!!
Here is a short list of some other movies our family has enjoyed:
Flywheel
Facing the Giants
Fireproof
Pendragon*
The White Handkerchief*
Wars of Humanity series*
Still Standing*
Return of the Daughters
*can be bought on Behemoth
Here is a short list of some other movies our family has enjoyed:
Flywheel
Facing the Giants
Fireproof
Pendragon*
The White Handkerchief*
Wars of Humanity series*
Still Standing*
Return of the Daughters
*can be bought on Behemoth
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Modest Wedding Dress Business
My mom, a friend and I have ventured into a new home business selling pre-owned modest wedding dresses. The dresses we offer for sale each have their own style, and are elegant yet modest.
These days, it is very hard to find modest wedding dresses. We believe that ladies should be modest at all times, and especially on their wedding day! It is our sincere desire to help brides to find just the right dress for that special occasion. Our collection also includes mother of the bride dresses, flower girl dresses and vintage dresses.
Please pass this info on to anyone who you think would be interested. We'd be glad to answer more questions on the dresses or set up appointments for anyone to see them. You can visit my website to see pictures, and keep checking to see if we have added any.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Missions Trip
Here is a copy of the letter we are sending out about our upcoming missions trip:
Dear Friends and Family,
As some of you may already know, Jeff, Hannah and Caleb are going on a missions trip this summer. They head to Honduras June 4-13th to help install solar panels to bring electricity to poor schools. While Jeff and Caleb are helping to do the manual labor, Hannah will be helping with Fiestas for the children. These are VBS-type gatherings where they play games with the children, give them goodie bags with supplies, and share the gospel with them. Before the lights are turned on, the Gospel is also shared to all the watching families.
The missions organization they will be going with is called Sonlight Power. We learned about this missions organization from a good friend of ours. As he researched solar and how to help others with this alternative energy source, he ran across Sonlight Power. When he told us about it, we thought it would be a good way to get our "feet wet" into missions work - something that we've been talking about as family for a long time. Jeff then decided to take the 2 oldest children and now they are leaving in less than 2 months!
In May, we will travel to Cincinnati where the missions organization is based to attend a 2 day solar training camp. At that time we will meet the rest of the team that is going with us in June.
If you would like to partner with us through giving, we have set up a website which makes it easy to give donations online. Checks can also be made out to Sonlight Power and sent to us. We greatly covet your prayers - please be praying for a safe trip, that many will come to know Jesus as their personal Saviour, and that Jeff, Hannah, and Caleb will be drawn closer to the Lord by this experience.
We will be putting together 100 bags for the Fiestas to give out to the school kids, the teachers and any other children who come from the community (a lot come to see the Americans install lights for the first time). Items needed for this will be pencils, pens, erasers, balls, colored pencils, permanent and washable markers, scissors, stickers, toothbrushes, hair barrettes and other such items. If you would like to help us put together these bags, or donate items or money for the bags, please let us know.
Thank you for your prayers!
Dear Friends and Family,
As some of you may already know, Jeff, Hannah and Caleb are going on a missions trip this summer. They head to Honduras June 4-13th to help install solar panels to bring electricity to poor schools. While Jeff and Caleb are helping to do the manual labor, Hannah will be helping with Fiestas for the children. These are VBS-type gatherings where they play games with the children, give them goodie bags with supplies, and share the gospel with them. Before the lights are turned on, the Gospel is also shared to all the watching families.
The missions organization they will be going with is called Sonlight Power. We learned about this missions organization from a good friend of ours. As he researched solar and how to help others with this alternative energy source, he ran across Sonlight Power. When he told us about it, we thought it would be a good way to get our "feet wet" into missions work - something that we've been talking about as family for a long time. Jeff then decided to take the 2 oldest children and now they are leaving in less than 2 months!
In May, we will travel to Cincinnati where the missions organization is based to attend a 2 day solar training camp. At that time we will meet the rest of the team that is going with us in June.
If you would like to partner with us through giving, we have set up a website which makes it easy to give donations online. Checks can also be made out to Sonlight Power and sent to us. We greatly covet your prayers - please be praying for a safe trip, that many will come to know Jesus as their personal Saviour, and that Jeff, Hannah, and Caleb will be drawn closer to the Lord by this experience.
We will be putting together 100 bags for the Fiestas to give out to the school kids, the teachers and any other children who come from the community (a lot come to see the Americans install lights for the first time). Items needed for this will be pencils, pens, erasers, balls, colored pencils, permanent and washable markers, scissors, stickers, toothbrushes, hair barrettes and other such items. If you would like to help us put together these bags, or donate items or money for the bags, please let us know.
Thank you for your prayers!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
We're Moving to Florida!
April Fools! Did any of you remember that today is April Fool's Day? And, in case you didn't know, it's also National Atheist Day. :-)
Visit this website to take the test to find out if you are a fool or not:
http://visionarydaughters.com/
If any of you played a successful trick on a family member or friend today, please comment and tell me what you did! A couple things we did - switch all the clocks after dad went to bed so we would sleep later, stretch clear tape across the bottom of doorways, put food coloring in water to make it look like juice, and put raisins in our scrambled eggs. :-)
Visit this website to take the test to find out if you are a fool or not:
http://visionarydaughters.com/
If any of you played a successful trick on a family member or friend today, please comment and tell me what you did! A couple things we did - switch all the clocks after dad went to bed so we would sleep later, stretch clear tape across the bottom of doorways, put food coloring in water to make it look like juice, and put raisins in our scrambled eggs. :-)
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Blizzard and Birthday
Yes, you read that right. Another blizzard. Well, I guess I should say "winter storm." We've gotten maybe 12 or so inches, and travel is not advised. There was some wind, but I don't think it was as bad as predicted. So, just when I was looking for green grass to start showing itself, snow completely covered the ground!! *sigh* Our area does NOT need any more moisture. As you all probably know, Fargo and the surrounding towns have had MAJOR, record breaking flooding in the last couple weeks. Several friends of ours have had to evacuate, but thankfully everyone's okay. Our house isn't in any danger, but please be praying for those in Fargo and in the surrounding areas. Pray that homes and people will be kept safe, and that many will draw closer to God through these trials.
Here are some pictures of this most recent snowstorm. This first one is of our county road. A little while after I took the picture, the snow plows came by. Since the weather isn't very cold, the snow on the ground was very heavy and wet.
Our front porch
Dad plowing our driveway
Lydia turned 11 on March 20th. We celebrated her birthday at home before the convention, and then we had a little "party" with some friends for her when we were there. Some of Lydia's talents and hobbies are: drawing (God really gave her a gift for that!!), collecting Littlest Pet Shop items, playing piano, violin and harp (she can play very well by ear!), and writing pen pals. We each get to choose a movie to watch for our birthday evening, and Lydia chose FIREPROOF. You can find out more about it at www.fireproofthemovie.com. So, here are some pictures of her birthday celebration at home.
Thank you Aunty Jan for the wonderful birthday gifts! :-)
Happy 11th Birthday LYDIA!!!!
Here are some pictures of this most recent snowstorm. This first one is of our county road. A little while after I took the picture, the snow plows came by. Since the weather isn't very cold, the snow on the ground was very heavy and wet.
Our front porch
Dad plowing our driveway
Lydia turned 11 on March 20th. We celebrated her birthday at home before the convention, and then we had a little "party" with some friends for her when we were there. Some of Lydia's talents and hobbies are: drawing (God really gave her a gift for that!!), collecting Littlest Pet Shop items, playing piano, violin and harp (she can play very well by ear!), and writing pen pals. We each get to choose a movie to watch for our birthday evening, and Lydia chose FIREPROOF. You can find out more about it at www.fireproofthemovie.com. So, here are some pictures of her birthday celebration at home.
Thank you Aunty Jan for the wonderful birthday gifts! :-)
Happy 11th Birthday LYDIA!!!!
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