Day 30 - Saturday, January 30

More snow and ice today.
So, I headed across the street to my neighbors to make jewelry.
We also sewed and hemmed her bedroom curtains

Day 29 - Friday, January 29

This is the kind of snow Arkansas gets.
no school today....yippee!!!

Day 28 - Thursday, January 28

My friend and I went to the mall tonight.
She was cracking me up how she was trying on a dress!

Day 27 - Wednesday, January 27

My Blurb book came!!!!
I LURVE it!!!

Day 26 - Tuesday, January 26

Big pot of chicken and noodles.
we are feeding the homeless under the bridge tonight.

Day 25 - Monday, January 25

taking Lily to the groomer this morning.
She's lookin' a little nervous!!

Day 24 - Sunday, January 24

our drama for the kids on Sunday.
Nebuchadnezzar praise the God of Daniel when the 3 were saved from the fiery furnace.

Day 23 - Saturday, January 23

All Region Band Concert today
Jared is the one in the white shirt.

Day 22 -Friday, January 22

Shopping for our new comers dinner on Sunday..
..can you guess what I'm serving?

Day 21 - Thursday, January 21

our unit this Sunday is the fiery furnace.
today we were testing out our stage and props.
you can't tell but the flames are moving and crackling.
This is going to be SO COOL!!

Day 20 - Wednesday, January 20

Today was extremely busy!!
I barely had time to breathe

hence no picture....ugh!

Day 19 - Tuesday, January 19

Jared driving home after passing his driving test!!

Day 18, Monday, January 18

some very tired eyes.
got a call at 1am last night that Alyssa was in the ER with abdominal pain. I was awake till 4:30 when we found out that it was another ruptured ovarian cyst. She is doing better, but it was a long day for this mama to be away from her baby.

Day 17 - Sunday, January 17

Our golden idol for our Daniel unit

Day 16 - Saturday, January 16

boys gone for weekend +
house clean +
no plans =

a day to sit on the sofa and finish this great book!!

Day 15 - Friday, January 15

iChatting with Alyssa today

Day 14 - Thursday, January 14

Good bye hearing my dishwasher at the neighbors..
Good bye having to clean the dishes complete before loading..
Good bye broken soap lid..
Good bye tiny space with no room for large objects..

HELLO new dishwasher!!!!
We actually had to turn the TV down to hear it tonight!

Day 13 - Wednesday, January 13

Youth at our house tonight.
they had teams and when the youth pastor yelled out a word they had to become it as a group. Here the boys are making a winning guitar.

Day 12 - Tuesday, January 12

one of our heating units went out over Christmas...
during the coldest winter on record in 10 years!
Steve's office was 44 degrees!!!

this is our new heating unit being put in.

Day 11 - Monday, January 11

Dinner.....my boys had seconds....pretty amazing!

Day 10 - Sunday, January 10

After a busy day....it was pancakes for dinner

Day 9 - Saturday, January 9

The inevitable.....she had to go back.

Jared's birthday cake for his party tonight.
Red Velvet.

Day 8 - Friday, January 8

What was supposed to be the "last breakfast".
She decided to stay one more day....yippee!!!

Day 7 - Thursday, January 7

This beautiful cake was delivered to me today.
Our Youth pastor inadvertently dissed me while preaching a couple of weeks ago and I told him his only way out was a chocolate cake (he makes the BEST!)

look at that chocolaty goodness!!
oh and that "clean sweep of sugar" out of my house I talked about on Monday.....is going to have to wait!!!

Day 6 - Wednesday, January 6

It is COLD out side!!!

Day 5 - Tuesday, January 5

Alyssa and I spent some girl time together today and went to a movie. I had a great time with her, but the movie was pretty bad. Good message, but expected more.

Day 4 - Monday, January 4

It "snowed" in LR today. This closed schools....crazy!

Jared turned 16 today!!
Country Rigatoni was his choice for dinner

After diner we all played Band Hero....too funny!

Day 3 - Sunday January 3

We started a new unit in children's....Daniel!
the kids get to walk into the mouth of a lion!!!
the mane is coming!

at a youth meeting.
my kids making me a mummy....we lost!

Day 2 - Saturday, January 2

I was wiped out from our party yesterday.
I spent most of the day on the sofa, in my PJs,
working on my Project 365 book.

Day 1 - Friday, January 1

This is my favorite picture from our open house today.
While all the adults (50+) were upstairs eating and visiting, and all the teenagers were running around all over the house, and all the younger kids were playing PS2 in my bedroom, our worship pastor's son had found my boys train set. I found him all by himself and completely content with it!! so sweet!!

Day 365!!! Thursday

Happy New Year!

We spent the evening with good friends,
playing cards, whoopin' on the boys,
and laughing....a great way to end the year!