July 2011 Book Log

Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell

D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton

Locked In by Marcia Muller

Cover Her Face by P.D. James

A Mind for Murder by P.D. James

The Chestnut King by N.D. Wilson

The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Confessions by St. Augustine

Lewis Agonistes by Louis Markos

Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church by D.A. Carson

God, Marriage, and Family by Andreas Kostenberger

The Epistle of Galatians by F.F. Bruce

Galatians by Timothy George

The Message of Galatians by John Stott

Galatians by Richard Longenecker

Doctrine by Mark Driscoll

Chosen by God by R.C. Sproul

Confessions of a Reformission Rev by Mark Driscoll

The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor by John Piper and D.A. Carson

Christ-Centered Preaching by Bryan Chappell

Unprotected by Anonymous

Quotable

Jon, while rereading Pride and Prejudice, "Why did I deprive myself so long?"

Christmas in July

or revisiting it anyway! I was looking through some old pictures and came across some pictures of the kids ice skating. I had meant to blog them and hadn't gotten around to them so I thought maybe a bit of Christmas ice skating in July might remind us that this heat isn't going to last forever!!!
all gloved up and ready to go. Notice the little arms wrapped around Anne Michal's legs. I guess he wasn't too happy about being left behind.

Watch out ice I am coming!

I think Elizabeth and maybe Anne Michal were the only ones that had been ice skating before, but Carol and Peggy offered to take them. Carol said she'd help them; I think Peggy just took the pictures which is what I'd have been doing!

Jack didn't want to go at all. He was sure he'd be terrible and fall down all the time. He ended up loving it. He started out this way...
and did fall down a lot as you can see but it wasn't long and he was skating all over the place. I don't think he had much in the way of brakes but he sure had fun.
Emma...always smiling and dancing or singing...even on the ice.




Getting the hang of it...

We did it!

Eight Months

After missing months six and seven, we are back again. The cute picture on command thing just wasn't working for us. She seems to be getting the hang of the camera thing now. ;-) I had a lot of trouble paring down the pictures as they were all so cute!

Always smiling these days...a welcome change!!!

Always on the move...



Always wanting to stand up ...
With your bunny, but impossible to keep him upright beside you...

Flipflops and Chalkboardcloth

Last week we made some flipflops using this series of tutorials. We mostly used $1 flipflops from michaels.




My sister wanted me to make some storage buckets for her 2 yr old classroom. The labels are chalkcloth. I used my new favorite toy, chalk markers, to write on them. I bought mine at Michaels. You can also buy chalkboard vinyl and chalkboard contact paper. I probably find that way more exciting than I should.
My new daily menu "board/quilt."
Then placemat for Creed. One side is a chalkboard and the other side is fireman hat fabric that I scored on Wal-mart clearance for $1 a yard. I covered the fabric with vinyl so it can just be wiped clean. Hopefully, the placemat will help him to keep his food in front of him and he can draw on the chalkboard side while dinner is being made instead of dragging his stool all over the kitchen. I can dream, right?

A Jack Funny

I probably should at least be hesitating to post this one but really it is too good not to share....

Jack didn't like what we were having for dinner tonight so he opted to go hungry instead of eating it. An hour or so after dinner he tells me, "I ate a half piece of stale bread Anne Michal had left over."

I said, "You weren't supposed to get anything else to eat!"

He followed with, " I didn't know that! I got it out of the garbage can."

Anne Michal said, "He told me he had to do it to survive."

**He assured me it was right on top, and he has now been instructed to no longer eat food out of the garbage.

Using Her New Skills

She pulled up on the laundry basket so Elizabeth put her in and I sent her off to grab my camera so she could take some pictures.
She played with the laundry. I left out the blurry picture of her with Creed's clean underwear hanging out of her mouth.


Ever time Elizabeth took her out she cried to get back in.

Wait! How did this get in here!


Nothing like a little break to make folding laundry fun.