Thomasville

This year for Veteran's Day we went to Thomasville, GA. We enjoyed a honoring presentation in the local auditorium where they presented the flags and some kid from the local schools sang. After that, we went shopping downtown and went to a yummy restaurant called "The Scoop" where they served sandwiches and ice cream. We loved it there. We enjoyed monstrous mocha's and lattes at a starbucks related store. (but much cooler, with a store built in) Also, we shopped at a store that sold adorable girls clothes. If you are considering going to Thomasville here are some helpful tips

Go to the scoop to eat

Come at Christmas time for Christmas gifts

1st Friday of every month are extended evening hours

BRING A CAMERA! (Many great photo opportunities)

Aerogirl

It's time we talk about my awesome cousin-aerogirl. You will be seeing more of her soon so here is her profile

Name: Aerogirl

Reason: Loves aeropostle

Prized possession: Yorki silky mini poo- "Little man"

Why she will be appering on our blog: She is my only girl cousin and we have lots in common

aka: Shopping, Puppies,ect.

Hobbies: Softball and Little Man

WELL, THAT'S MY COUSIN!

P.S. Hey aerogirl, hope u can read this!

Happy barks

This is what ginger would say about her life if she could talk......

"So humans are weird, when they bear they're teeth it means they like you! And as for cats, they are great for some quality entertainment. My life is pampered and hard, I get my feet washed every night, and get peanut butter with bad tasting white hard things in it, it still tastes good though. I have to have my ears cleaned out and have drops put in them. Don't worry, I will protect you from the most scariest plastic monsters... The large plastic horses. Oh well, I love to sleep and hate baths. My life."

THAT'S ALL FOLKS

Shopping - By doglover and no one else!

Also for my Birthday Meme (my grandmother) Took me and my cousin, Aerogirl to the Gainsville mall, one of them, and we went shopping. IT WAS FUN. We had our pictures taken at a photo fun booth, spent way to much money at icing, pampered ourselves at Starbucks (awesome vanilla latte) and bought cool things at aeropostle and GAP. Here are some pics to prove we had a great time.

Hairdo - By doglover

For my birthday my aunt, who is the GREAT hairdresser ,did my hair in a elegant updo. Check out these cool pictures to find out what it took. It was beautiful. Thank you Aunt Lene!

Home construction (And fun!)

Guess what? As we speak ANOTHER wall is coming down. What will happen next? I can't wait! Redoing our home makes it feel like a new house. It is fun to change things sometimes (such as no shots) and sometimes not so fun (such as my dog having allergies) Oh well, life's good. Not good, its GREAT!

Nature girl with our dog Ginger "The high maintenance dog"

The finishing photos1

Here are the results of our tearing down a wall.

Tearing down a wall written by dog lover

Today my parents decided to finally tear down the wall separating our living room from our family room. We are doing this because it all leads up to the one thing my mom wants (besides world peace and our dog not having hair.) Is hardwood laminate floors. but we had a great time doing it and hear are some pics to prove it. It is very weird to come home from a sleepover and have part of a wall in your house torn down.

Chicks By: Dog lover

Just lately our Nana gave us some cute, toy Easter chicks. Me and my sister let them set sail in the bird bath and they got wet. Because of this terrible tragedy Nana brought us more all

including. 2 parent chicks, 2 medium sized chicks and 5 little, baby chicks. Here are some pics of the chick family's and the nannies. (Stuffed bunnies.) These chicks and nannies are now lodging in the doll house.

Princess Tiger and Phones

Just a few minutes ago Princess Tiger grabbed our home phone and started typing numbers. After I heard the operators voice I took it away from her to find out she had typed like ten numbers. Momma told her to stop again after she picked up another phone to start dialing. She did this with 3 phones then left. Better check and make sure she is not at it again...

Honesty

We have been sick at our house. First the oldest, then the youngest, then the middle girl, now the oldest isn't feeling too hot. We have stayed in for almost 3 weeks. The house is a wreck. We have had another incredibly busy weekend. The frustration levels are increasing for me. I am ready for a break.

But breaks don't really come when you are a mom. And when you homeschool. so I am trying to hold it all together but tomorrow is a new week, and the books were never even put up from last week. I am ready to quit. Not really, but definitely vacation. And while I'm gone, someone should come in here and get rid of all the junk that is driving me crazy, just take it out back and burn the mess, and then allow me to come back home to neat, paperless order.

I am feeling a little burdened with my responsibilities right now. So tonight, I decided to get my weekly turn on the treadmill to try and run off some of this angst. Our whole family is supposed to run the 5K at our church the first weekend in March. Since we have been sick for 3 weeks, we haven't really been training well. But that is another story. So tonight I am trying to get back into the swing of things. I am listening to Newsboys while jogging on the treadmill. It is a great song. "Givin' it over, givin' it over . . ." I am just really thinking on that one as I am running. I start to reach up, and hand over these burdens I am carrying around. Givin' it over to God. It feels good and I up my speed by a couple tenths of a mile. I decide I am going to envision handing these burdens over to the Lord. Then it happened. For just a tiny little moment, I closed my eyes. The next thing I knew I was on an ankle and a knee and the treadmill had shut off.

I fell.

And as my ankle is burning and my knee is aching, I couldn't help but think that sometimes that's how it is in this walk with Christ. Sometimes, when we are trying to do the right thing, the world in which we live, our own flesh, or circumstances beyond our control knock us down.

I guess the key is to get back up.

I did and finished my half mile segment. But my ankle really did hurt.

Catching up on life

So here is a little run down on our end of 2008:

We had a week of being Thankful at Meme and Poppa's! It was great. We relaxed, slept, the children watched too much TV and Stacy and I felt like we had a little vacation. It is pretty amazing that at 38, we can still experience that when we go home. It is amazing and shows I am still a little spoiled. The only pictures we took were of the girls one night when we had a bon fire and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows and then a few pictures for my parents Christmas card of our kids and my brothers. Here are the photos from Thanksgiving.

After Thanksgiving, life was the usual whirl of fun activities that nearly kill us except that we enjoy them once we get there. I had a picture Dog lover and the girls before their ballet performance of "Mary." I am having technical difficulties and i am tired of trying, so no picture of them in this post. But she had a wonderful time participating in this and we, as her unbiased parents, thought she did a wonderful job performing.

Next is a picture is of the girls on the day we went to the Nutcracker. It was at the civic center this year and I can honestly say I have never missed Ruby Diamond auditorium more. So loud and the view wasn't all that great either. but the Nutcracker is a tradition, and we observed it this year again.

Finally, Christmas came. It was a fun time, hopefully squeezing in a little of the truth of Christmas, how Christ came as a human to save all humanity who choose to call on Him. Somehow I don't think we got all of our priorities right this season, but we did try. Here is a picture of the girls on Christmas Eve after the Christmas Eve Service. As you can see, Princess Tiger wasn't too happy about pictures. This next picture is of the newly awakened girls on Christmas morning. they had just gotten their stockings down and found new webkins.

All in all, 2008 has been a good year for us personally. We are happy to be participating in Classical Conversations, I think we have grown in our relationships with each other in our family, and I think we have even managed to make a few new friends. What a blessing that is. God is faithful and continues to bless us. We look to 2009 with hope, and trying to trust God with our future.

Loose Dogs: by Dog lover

We have lately been seeing dogs on the loose. Some of them we know who they belong to. Others, not. For instance, I was doing math when I saw 2 Brittney spaniels running into our neighbors backyard. I tryed to get them but couldn't. Just today we rescued our friends dog and brought it back to them. Oh, joy, just I loooooved doing that! Her is a photo of our dog, Ginger, asleep. Maybe sometime we can get you one of her actually awake.