God's Sovereignty

Above even the darkest, most severe storms, there is blue sky.

We had wild weather yesterday. 70 degrees quickly dropped into the 50's while the storm clouds moved overhead. Thunder, lightning, even reports of a tornado in the area. Then came the rain which turned to hail. 10 minutes later, it was over.

I am not currently in the midst of a storm, but as I pondered this picture God reminded me of His ever present grip on my life. "Forever and always secure." Thank you Jesus!

Propeller Head

Our creative boy is at it again. Danny is so funny with the things he dreams up. Today it is a propeller hat. It even works! He attached an erector set piece to a spinning device that is operated buy a simple circuit from their Snap Circuits kit. Flip the switch and -Wahlah! (Is there a correct spelling for that?)

Promise of New Life!!

GREEN!!!!!

I don't want my excitement to take away from my kiddies accomplishments, so if you haven't already, scroll down to see my last post. Besides, you'll understand my excitement over this picture better if you do!

Recent Events

I'm trying to come up with a clever opening but nothings happening. So I guess I will just dive right in to life-lately. Sunday was our Scout troops Blue and Gold Dinner. Danny has moved on from Wolf Cub to a Bear Cub. He is loving scouts and especially looking forward to earning his whittling badge next year. Tyler has now officially crossed over into Boy Scouts. He earned the "Arrow of Light" and crossed the bridge. He has decided, however to end his scouting career here. I am proud of both of them for their achievements. Danny for being consistent and enthusiastic even when few others were showing up. Tyler was not sure he wanted to be a scout this year, but since he had signed up we told him he had to follow through on his commitment. He really persevered and worked hard to complete what he had to to "graduate". I am proud of him for sticking it out and fighting past the desire to quit.

Tyler has decided that he would rather put his efforts into baseball. He is now registered for baseball and he will be going to tryouts on Saturday. He has never played before but is determined to do well. We have been out practicing during these warmer days. It has been rather comical as I have been using a kid-sized, made for a lefty glove. I have to give him credit though-he hits more than he misses and that is really saying something with me pitching left handed!!

Danny came home the other day with papers for football registration for the Fall. He is so excited! He has been wanting to play football for a while.

And if that wasn't enough, Kate came home all excited yesterday with papers of her own! "Mom guess what? I have papers for signing up for football too! Can you sign me up too?" "Honey, you're a girl and girls don't play football" "But Mom! They said that anyone could sign up." Ahh, yes. Raising girls in modern times! I mentioned to her that if she played football, she would have to give up dance class. "Hmm. Oh. Well, never mind." I'm half tempted to sign her up just to see if she could even walk with a football uniform on!!!

Monday Kate and I got to join Danny's class on a short field trip to MiddleCreek to see the Snow geese and Tundra swans. That was pretty amazing! There were thousands of them everywhere!

I know this looks like a swarm of bugs, but all of those tiny dots are snow geese!!! There were so many that I had to stitch 3 pictures together to make this picture, and it still doesn't show all of them!

Now I am just awaiting some signs of Spring that have a little more color in them. I know brown is the "in" color right now, but outside, I would love to see it fade into the back ground while some more vibrant colors take over!

Waiting for the Lamb

At 6am this morning the word was "2 hour Delay" so we all went back to sleep. By 9am (yes we were awake by then) the updated word was "School will be closed" YIPPEE and YAHOO! It is always fun to have my kiddos home with me unexpectedly and though I would have preferred watching daffodils popping up, we instead were able to enjoy the lion's roar!

Tyler about to crash into me

Kate enjoying her ride

"Look Mom! It Works!"................. THUD!!!....... Giggle. Giggle........."Oh, until I try to turn." ;o)

The Reveal

So nothing thrilling. We painted stripes on the wall. Nothing bold. Just stripes in the same color but using a different higher gloss paint. Not sure it was worth all of the work but it does look nicer than the white walls that were there. The kids were thrilled to get 2 volleyball sized tape balls out of it! And if nothing else, it was a good time of bonding with my Mom and then with my sister when she came to town just in time to help finish things up.

We were trying to find 'stuff' to hang on the walls in there and couldn't quite come up with anything. So I decided to create my own art. I took a few pictures and "painted" them in Photoshop. Now all I have to do is order them. Tell me what you think...
If you click on them to enlarge them you can see better the effect of the painting process.

What is Going on Here?

My Mom came to town for most of this month. Can you guess what we were doing while she was here?