Day 268 - Saturday, Sept. 25

On my way to meet my mom in Dallas and then we are off to Boston for the week!!!

Day 267 - Friday, Sept. 24

That's my husband in the white helping take out the set for the band at half time!! What a great night! the band sounded awesome and we won the game in the last 10 seconds!!!!
Here's a little bit of how we sounded....

Day 266 - Thursday, Sept. 23

I made this tonight....YUM!
Go here for the recipe.

Day 265 - Wednesday, Sept 22

No picture today.
It seems like I am having one of these at least once a week...ugh!
But I did enjoy watching Survivor tonight!
It makes me laugh to watch these people. After so many seasons of Survivor, you KNOW they have watched the show....and yet they still get upset when somebody lies or has a double alliance. Really?

Day 264 - Tuesday, Sept. 21

Not a great picture, but did enjoy the premiere of Glee.

Day 263 - Monday, Sept 20

That is one spoiled dog!!!

Day 262 - Sunday, Sept. 19

We added Abel's sacrifice to the Wall of Faith

Day 261 - Saturday, Sept 18

Went to dinner with some good friends tonight.
this was our dessert....oh.my.word!

Day 260 - Friday

What a beautiful evening for football!!!

Our band is getting better and better!!
They sounds so good tonight!!!
Jared is in the front row, middle

Day 259 - Thursday, Sept. 16

Worked on the band buttons today.
This machine is amazing....and very fun!

Day 258 - Wednesday, Sept 15

made this for bible study this morning.
This was the BEST blueberry cake I have ever made!!
Go here for the recipe.

I made this for a lunch potluck at work! Yum!!

Day 257 - Tuesday, Sept. 14

I have such a BROWN thumb!!!
I can never remember to water these....ugh!

Day 256 - Monday, Sept 13

So happy to find these at Sam's again.
One of my favorite snacks!

Day 255 - Sunday, Sept. 12

This was the first Sunday of our Heroes of the Faith curriculum.
This is our Hall of Faith.
First up was Gideon.
By the end of the semester, this wall will be filled.

Day 254 - Saturday, Sept 11

Since we are childless this weekend, Steve and I went out on a dinner date to a new Italian restaurant in town.

Day 253 - Sept. 10

Football and Marching band season is here!!!

The kids were so happy to have these new warm weather uniforms!!
It was sweltering out there tonight.
I think I sweated off 2 pounds!! ugh!

Day 252 - Thursday, Sept. 9

Worked on my Boston trip today.
My mom and I are going to Boston at the end of the month and I spent the afternoon googling things we might want to do. I am getting very excited!
And I hopefully will get to meet and see these two ladies:
Lisa and Karin

Day 251 - Wednesday, Sept. 8

Went up to the school today to take pictures of the band kids to make band buttons for the parents to wear.

Day 250 - Tuesday, Sept. 7

Went out to buy some supplies for CrossWalk.
What do headbands and duct tape have to do with each other?
Hopefully I will remember to show you the finished project!!!

Day 249 - Monday, Sept. 6

I met my friend Denise at the church today and went spent time getting the hall decorated for our new curriculum starting next weekend. We are studying the Heroes of the Faith and this will be our Hall of Faith! It will be fun to show how it changes each week.

Day 248 - Sunday, Sept. 5

I remembered a picture for Sunday!!1
woot!

We ended our children's summer program today.
We have been studying the 10 commandments.

This is not a great picture, but this mama was very happy!!
About 30 minutes after this picture, he left to go back to college.
Soooo good to have him home.

Day 247 - Saturday, August 4

Of course, Jason got to pick the menu for dinner!
Chicken Marsala
Go here for the recipe.

Day 246 - Friday, August 3

Tonight is about perfect....
my oldest home (on the right with the glasses)
my youngest in the band (behind drummer with brass horn)
nice cool evening
me sitting in the bleachers!!

Day 245 - Thursday, Sept. 2

One of the leaders of MOPS at our church asked me a while back if I would host their leadership team for a working lunch and give a cooking demo/testimony.

Ya'll this was so much fun!!!

Everything is prepared and ready to demo!!
The hardest part was telling them my testimony while trying to cook. I used to be a better multi tasker!!!

I taught them a dish I learned in Italy,
Broccoli Pasta

My best compliment was 3 of them going back for thirds!!!

Day 244 - Wednesday, September 1

Tonight Steve and I kept the children of our Youth workers during the youth meeting. The parents take turns doing this. That is Steve climbing up the play ground chasing after the boys. This picture is small because I took it on my phone....oh well.

but guess what?!!!
I heard from my son today.....woot!!
And he is doing great....loving college.
Made this mama's heart happy!

Day 243 - Tuesday, August 31

Tonight our evening and morning bible studies came together to celebrate and reflect on the end of our study of Revelation. We started out with a Wedding Feast pot luck dinner...awesome!

My friend, Becky, had set this up to represent John's vision in heaven. The baptismal represents the throne with 24 elders (the chairs) around it. You can see the 7 lamp stands. She thought of everything and it was so cool!

We then shared communion together.
It was a beautiful evening.

Day 242 - Monday, August 30

Worked a full day shift today (not usual for me) and then went straight to Jared's Meet-the-teachers Night. It was actually nice ......my husband and I did not have to split up because, for the first time, we only had one child's schedule to see!!!

Day 241 - Sunday, August 29

Once again...no picture on Sunday.....
...argh!!!

I am afraid this is becoming a habit!!!