Oooo What a Week !!

My mom was in Abilene,

visiting us for about a week, and it has been a whirlwind week! What a fabulous time we had, having her here with us. We had just sent her off early this morning ( er, I hadn't woken up at 5 a.m. on purpose in a LONG time ) and she arrived safely in California right before noon. Anyway, we're still "recuperating" and missing her sooo much, and getting photos organized and all that good goop. What a blessing indeed it is, to get to spend time with my wonderful, sweet, kind, exuberant mommy!

"They will celebrate your abundant goodness
and joyfully sing of your righteousness."

~Psalm 145:7~

Elizabeth's 7th Birthday Party

Turning 7 is a big deal!

Especially when you're as sweet as Elizabeth :)

Here's a slideshow scrapblog with 12 images this time, and embedded music for those who might just decide to look around while it's downloading...

and for the rest of us who are too impatient.. ( hehe ) here's some of the "highlights"

3 John 4

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

A Trip to the Scrap Yard

We're having to expand our "kitty premises"

and although we love Lowe's to death, some stuff you just can't get there, or if you could, they'd be way more than what we could afford to pay for the materials ( We DID buy a fence section from them and it was 40 something dollars!! ) EGAD.

Anyway, we had gone and gotten metal roofing / material from this guy before - he's a pretty nice man of about 85 years of age or so, and thought we'd drop by while we were doing our "necessities shopping" rounds yesterday.

It's neat how even a scrap yard could make for some pretty cool photos.

I thought I'd also make a digital scrapbook of the pictures. It's really interesting, and I may continue to explore this for a bit..... This time, 5 pages to the set, also with embedded music..

Adventures in the Scrap Yard

"A lazy man won't even dress the game he gets while hunting,
but the diligent man makes good use of everything he finds,"

Proverbs 12:27 (Living Bible)

My first Scrapblog - Svjetlana's Birthday

I love all arts and crafts

My younger sister even calls me her artsy craftsy sister ( as opposed to our older sister whom she calls the "shopping sister" ) LOL. Anyway, I had come across ScrapBlog while trying to do some online digital scrapbooking - I have no space in real life at the moment to do any "hands on" scrapbooking, so this will have to suffice for now, and boy, does it suffice...

There are 6 pages to this set, so it may take some time to download. Also it has music embeded in it, so that might take a while too... :)

Ladies who Lunch

well, maybe not quite...

It almost seems like I've been doing the Ladies Who Lunch thing, but really I'm not.

First, there was a Woman to Woman event at Church, with the theme "You're my cup of Tea" where the event was held for the ladies who were new to the congregation. I had NO idea that there would be.. ahem, "tea and crumpets" at the "do" :)

Then, that was followed the next day by Svjetlana's birthday, which we celebrated at Bible Class, where this time, Nancy made us a brunch of 2 types of Quiche, pumpkin muffins and lotsa fruit.. And Denecia made us some Almond punch! I know.. I know... pretty far out :)

Woman To Woman : You're My Cup of Tea









Svjetlana's Birthday on Friday








Proverbs 30 - 31


Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Give her the reward she has earned,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.