Abby and Erin's Project Completed

Look how beautiful their baby doll bed turned out. They each made a pillow and worked together taking turns to make the blanket. I helped with pinning and set up but they did all the sewing themselves. Pretty good for their first project!

Learning to Sew

This week I was working on making some cushions for Ruthie's room and finishing some curtains for Brady's room so the girls decided they wanted to learn to sew. They pulled out the little Barbie sewing machine. It doesn't really work other than giving them practice pushing the presser foot and running the material through. So they did that and I showed them a few hand stitches. Today we are making pillows for their baby doll bed. I'm glad they want to learn to sew. I have always enjoyed it and its nice to be able to make things for around the house. I love the satisfaction of being able to say I made something. Plus it does save money too! So I will continue teaching as long as they are interested. Charlie the dog had to go to the vet today for his "surgery". He was sad this morning and wouldn't get out the van. I think he may have thought we were giving him away.....who knows what dogs think.

Happy Birthday

Today is my Momas birthday and yesterday was my Daddys birthday. So Happy birthday Moma and Daddy! Daddy is 57 and Moma is 55. I know they would love for everyone to know their ages:) The picture above is of our entire family except for Ruthie(1) and Brady(10 months). I hope you both had a very good birthday.

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Oprah's Church?

Read this and see what you think. I was very disturbed when I saw this on a friends blog this morning. Make sure you pause the music at the bottom of the page so you can hear the video.
Lisa

Chasing the rotten dog

OK. Try to visualise this scene. I am cleaning out the garage, The kids (Abby, Erin, Emma, Samuel and Andrew) are playing outside and Charlie the dog is frolicking around the yard. Charlie does not usually get to be out of the fence because he runs into the road, but today he was out. I hear the kids yelling at him and go to see what is happening. He is down in the road. Samuel chases him trying to pick him up. This just makes Charlie run further away. By this time we are all at the edge of our hill screaming at Charlie. He is in the neighbors yard which is on the main busy road. I send Abby to run around the other side of their house to try and stop the dog. But instead he runs across the busy road into someone else's yard. So now I run down the hill, down the street and across the busy road. So do you have this pictured? Samuel and I are across the busy road and Abby is standing at the end of our road crying. We all think at any moment Charlie the dog is going to get run over by a speeding car. So here comes the police. He passes me and Samuel then sees Abby on the side of the road crying and comes back. He asked me what was going on and I proceed to tell him we are chasing our dog. About this time the dog runs back into the busy road and back to our street. I asked the policeman to wait in the road until we caught the dog. So he did. He pulled onto our street and watched me catch Charlie and spank that rotten dog. So all this time I am thinking I know this police is wondering why all these kids are not in school. I did not take the time to tell him that we home school and this is our spring break and I am keeping my niece and nephew today who are sick. My appearance during this episode was horrible, sweaty and dirty, I wasn't planning to see anyone while cleaning out the garage. But everything turned out OK. Charlie did not perish by way of motor vehicle but he did get a bad spanking. And I managed to complete my spring cleaning of our garage.

Lisa

Our Spring Break

We decided to take a break from our regular school routine this week. My hope is that we will get out of the house, ride bikes, maybe plant some flowers, jump on the trampoline, anything but watch TV and play on the computers. We had a really good weekend. We spent time with several of our friends. We are enjoying getting to know all the church members. Kim's daddy is doing very well. He had his open heart surgery on Thursday and hopefully will be going home on Wednesday. Thank you to all who prayed for him.




April 16, 2007 was the day Grandaddy White went into the hospital. He never got to go back home. So many things have made me sad about him lately. Yesterday Dave was flipping through channels and came across the Braves game. That was his favorite thing to do. He watched them every time they were on TV. He also liked Walker Texas Ranger. He liked Oreo ice cream and anything fried:) My kids still talk about him all the time. Andrew(my nephew) waves and points at thing just like Grandaddy did. We all miss him a bunch. He died on July 3, 2007. That was exactly 33 years to the day after my Grandmother died. She died 4 months before I was born.

Well off I go to do something outdoors. It rained a little, maybe the soil will be good for some digging......till next time.

Lisa

Easter Pictures

These are a few of the pictures we took over the Easter weekend. We dyed eggs at home, hunted eggs at Granny's, took some pictures at the park, went to church at Grace Fellowship and atelunch at Mamas. Whew... that was a mouthful. Enjoy the pictures.

Chloe, Emma and Andrew

Abby, Erin and Samuel

Ruthie and Brady

All the"big kids"
at Granny's

I do not know why there is such a BIG space below!!!!!

I cannot fix this if you have any ideas please tell me. I guess I

could write a lot more to try and fill the space. Maybe I should

just make a list of my favorite things......I like coffee and cake,

long hot baths, cold bed sheets, kids market with Kim, date

night with Dave, Sunday lunch at Momas, Law and Order(any

of them), family devotions, scrapbooking, yard work(my Daddy

will laugh at that), Andrew calling me "moma" I love him, any

song Abby sings, Daves laugh, Erins artwork, Samuels

voice, Daddys knowledge, Moma's cooking, watching the news,

sleeping and writing this blog.



I dont know if that took up alot of space but it sure

was fun to write. Have a good day!!






Lisa