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Girls Night!!!

Every girl needs one-on-one time with her mommy.
This is exactly what Elliana and I had tonight...
" Girl's Night"! We BOTH enjoyed ourselves.



Elli had set up a spot in our bedroom of some
of her things for us to do.



She took this picture of me. :-)



Mama and Elli...



We had this movie playing while she mostly
did my hair.



Here is our basket of "hair pretties" as
we call them.



This was about the time we had a ball
tickling each other!



After all that playing around a girl's gotta
have a snack! :-)



Elliana enjoying her popcorn.



This is a collage that we made titled
"Girl Stuff". We cut stuff out of magazines
and glued them on here.

We also played with Polly Pockets and some of
Elli's doll houses. I recall her saying several times
" This is the best night ever" or "This is the best
night of the year"! What a sweetie! Just think, this
didn't cost me anything but time- boy what a way
to invest my time! I'm soooo thankful that God has
given me my little girl. Her name means " God has
answered me". I prayed for her for about two years.
I don't ever want to get too busy, and forget that God
has answered me. I'm thankful for all five of my children.
May God help me to remember that "things" can wait,
my children will one day be gone on their own and these
moments will be far and few between.

P.S.
Elli has our collage sitting up in her window!

Boo-Boo's!

Poor "little Wes" has had a time lately. I suppose it's because he's officially a toddler. He was walking to me a couple days ago and ran into the wall/trim and got a bruise above his right eye. Then later that day I think that he was upstairs (which he climbs all the time) when he got the scratches under his eye. ( Still not too sure how those happened!) He looks like he's been in a fight, and didn't come out on the winning side! :-) I thank God for watching over all of our children, as the boys have been mischevious lately as well! :-) Hopefully the little guy makes it to his second birthday without breaking any bones! LOL!
~Tasha

Strange foods.....

O.K., here's a question for all of you. What are some of the wierd things that you eat? Here's a small list of mine... Greg might tell you that there are many more! (This coming from the guy who likes P.B., tomato, and pickle sandwiches. ;-)
1. I like to eat P.B. and mayo sandwiches.
2. I like to eat cottage cheese and Doritos together.
3. I went through this kick of liking to eat a slice of cheese, and a slice of pickle w/ mashed potatoes on top. I also had this seasoning called " Old Bay" seasoning that I used on it sometimes.
(I know what all of you are thinking... that I ate these things while I was pregnant. While that may have been true SOME of the time, I'm sure that it was not the case ALL of the time!!! :-)
4. I also like to eat ketchup on my mac-n-cheese sometimes!
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So how about you? What are some "different" foods that you like? It's o.k., share with us! ;-)
Well, as Tigger would say "T.T.F.N." or " Ta-ta-for-now!
~Tasha

More Pictures......

Elli decided to spend a little time with Grandma
Grandama Brenda came to visit, Today (Sunday) is my Parents 40th. Anniversary. Happy 40th. Mom and Dad!!!!! .



Mommy decided to take a couple pictures before going to church tonight.



A Good chair and a nice fireplace, all I need now is a good book by Ted Dekker.



Cute Kids!!

Happy Sunday!

Just thought that I would send a quick post to tell everyone Happy Sunday! :-) I hope that you are having a Blessed Sunday with the Lord! What an awesome God we serve - not only in the good times, but also in the trying times! May you feel His presence ever so real today! :-)
~Tasha

God is so faithful! It just amazes me that even though we may really mess up sometimes, God still loves us and is standing with arms wide open ready to forgive! I certainly want it to be said of me that I was always ready and willing to forgive as Christ has forgiven me! I want Christ to so shine in me that the joy and peace I have from knowing that I'm in the center of His will flows over onto others. A dear friend of ours from Hobe Sound told me something that a pastor had shared with her, it went something like this - " God is most happy with us when he looks down on us and our heart is polished enough that he sees his own image in our hearts." I want God to look down on me and my heart be so polished it's like looking in a mirror.
Well, I should go for now. May we all shine for Jesus!
~Tasha

A Couple Pictures.

Tanner standing next to my new toy.

My beautiful wife!

This is the back of the house.



The garage, wow we have a lot of junk.



Here are a few pictures of the house that we are currently in. I have been trying to get more together, but we have been having trouble with our camera. I figured out how to fix that, then we started having trouble with our computer. With regard to the computer we have presently, the pictures may or may not load correctly, so I hope they look okay.
~Greg

Thoughts.......

Howdy, Howdy!! Thoughts come and thoughts go, but it's the one's you can't get away from that you have to sit up and pay attention to.

I have recently been giving a lot of thought to our future, it didn't take very long thinking about the future until regrets from the past came knocking. While I am smart enough to realize that you can't live in the past and in fact you can't even change the past, I think most of you would agree that you can, and definately should, LEARN from the past. Wow, don't you wish you could go back in time and change things? My dear Grandpa Collins was famous for saying "Hind sight is ALWAYS 20/20" Man, was He ever right. That being said, how does one go about learning from the past, without becoming too involved? Is there a healthy mix? I think there is, let me know what you all think.
More later.
~Gregory