Just a Friendly Card Game

 I love seeing them all around the table together...not to mention all their expressions.  They are playing one of their new favorite games, Sleeping Queens.

Jealous Anyone?

January 2012 Book Log

The Drop by Michael Connelly

Heresy by S.J. Parris

A Test of Wills by Charles Todd

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

Education or Imitation?: Bible Interpretation for Dummies Like You and Me by Curtis Allen

Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together by Mark Driscoll

Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes by Voddie Baucham

Wordsmithy: Read Until Your Brain Creaks and Other Encouragements for the Aspiring Writer by Douglas Wilson

The Acceptable Sacrifice by John Bunyan

The Future of Christian Learning: An Evangelical and Catholic Dialogue by Mark Noll

The Ever-Loving Truth: Can Faith Thrive in a Post-Christian Culture? by Voddie Baucham

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work by Eugene Peterson

Want to guess who is sick now?

Keyboarding 101

Celebrating 8!

 Jack turned 8 last Friday, but he wanted to wait until my parents got into town to celebrate.  They  have been here since Wednesday afternoon, but then he had to wait until Daddy had an evening free from work.  He has been a very patient kid! I had a lazy idea after not having wrapped his gifts so I asked him if he would rather I go wrap his gifts or if he wanted me to hide them and he could find them.  You can probably guess what he picked.  He hid in the pantry and we hid his gifts. 
The photographer missed the first hunt and find; a playmobil spy car hidden in his top bunk. 

 The second gift was a battleship game where you build your ships out of legos.

 Heading back down the hall...

 Where could they be?  ( I wonder if I'll have to take this one down tomorrow?)

 Off for gift Number 3...

 Behind the laundry tubs he found a baseball training thing.  The kid is crazy about baseball.

 Creed right in his usual spot waiting for cake.  He seriously loves some cake. He had been wanting it since breakfast.

 Old monkey still comes around every now and then especially on special days.  I'll be sorry when he doesn't hang out with us at all any more.  He has been by Jack's side through a lot.

 Blowing out candles. That is not pink icing; it is raspberry icing. ;-) One of the most requested cakes at our house is the ice cream cake I make. I have always used cool whip or whipped cream as the topping, but he asked for me to try it with our homemade strawberry icing.  He picked a raspberry ice cream so we decided to make a raspberry icing instead.  It was a hit!

 I think Creed is telling Grandma how big a piece he wants.

I think I ate too much.  I am even blurry.

Happy Birthday Jack!!  You are one special kid!!!

By Elizabeth's Hands

Elizabeth made this cute little color matching game for Janey Kate.  I first saw it here. She painted each of the little wooden cups a different color with white polka dots.  Then on the doll pegs she made all the faces and hair the same and painted each dress to match one of the cups. While Janey Kate is too young to play the matching game just yet, she still loves the dolls.  Elizabeth is working on some more dolls just for play.  She got a bit carried away taking pictures, but I thought they were fun!