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Thursday, January 27, 2011

For my Mom.

It's been too long since I've blogged last and my dear mom checks my blog every day.  So I'm just going to post a couple of pictures of the kids here.  I have a lot to tell about that we've done this past month and I need to tell about what we plan to do this year.  But that will be in another blog.  I know I'm short changing y'all tonight but this blog is for my Mom. 

This first picture of the kids in between Big Kids and Adult Karate class.  We have an hour to spend waiting for the Adult class and we sometimes go into what the kids and I call the padded room to wait.
This second picture is of the kids all piled in the chair.  They called out, "Hey, Mom come take a picture of us!"  So here it is. 

Well, that is all I'm going to write for now.  I'm going to go spend some quality time with my husband.  I'll write more about the month in my next blog.

I love you, Mom! 

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Happy New Year


Elijah's First Christmas
  2010 was a very good year and I'm anticipating an even better 2011 with God right by our side as he was last year. 

We enjoyed Christmas with my parents.  We started off Christmas morning with Joshua reading Luke 2 and Ruth reading Matthew 2.

Then we passed out and opened presents.  The kids had fun playing some of their new games with their Papa and Nana.

Elijah enjoyed playing with the wrapping and boxes more than anything I believe. 
We headed home Christmas night to be back in time for Sunday's services.

New Year's Eve Game Night
 Then Friday, New Year's Eve, we had game night at the church.  The kids (including some Big Kids) had fun shooting Nerf guns at each other for at least an hour.   Several of us ladies started a game of Uno.  While Scott started a game of Chess with another father after the Nerf gun fight ended. 

The kids' all picked out different games to play as well.  It was a really good night.  As midnight rolled around we cleaned up and before we came home we gathered together and discussed some of our Memories of the Old Year and our hopes and goals for our church and ourselves for the year we're entering.  Then we had prayer and everyone headed home.   We managed to get our kids' to bed and get a few hours sleep before we headed to our karate class that morning.
Elijah Helping Daddy Kick.
Every year on New Year's day our Karate class gets together at 10:00 a.m. to bring in the New Year with a thousand kicks. 

I asked our Sensei if the kicks we did while holding the Baby made up for any we might have missed.  For a part of the time Scott and I took turns holding Elijah while kicking. 

After the class, we enjoyed good food and fellowship with the other students in our karate class.  I really like the Christian atmosphere of our class.  You don't find very many karate instructors that will use the Bible as they teach karate. 

I've been trying to work on some of my goals for this year.  Some of the things I've planned for this year are harder than others but I'm working at it.  Hopefully by the end of the year, I can look back and see how much I've grown.  God is so good!   

I remember in my younger years worrying over the future.  I used to worry that I would say or do something embarrassing.  I would worry about what bad things might happen.  It was a miserable state to be in, not knowing what was going to happen and worrying about it all.

It's wonderful being able to start this New Year knowing that God is with us and no matter what we face this year it will still be good, because of Him.  I'm sure there will be hard times, and disappointing times ahead but I know that God will see us through it all.  I'm not worried a bit. 

  Matthew 6:25-34 "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? (26) Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? (27) Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? (28) And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: (29) And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. (30) Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? (31) Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (32) (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. (33) But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (34) Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."



I pray that you have a happy, worry free New Year as well!