Youth Night!

We went to Jonesboro last night to the gym. Every other Friday night our church has a youth night for everyone from the church, it's great because everyone, young or old is invited and usually attends. Last night we had Taco's (my favorite) then played Basketball and dodge ball. Our youth leader presented a devotional about half way through. What a fun night. I knew better than to attempt any basketball, but I had a lot of fun playing a few games of dodge ball with the kiddos. Man, they take that game serious!

"New" skirt for Emmy!

If you are anything like us, you just can't find a good modest skirt for your girls. If it fits in the waist then they are really short. To get them as long as we like then they are way to big in the waist. Well I saw everyone else making a skirt out of a pair of jeans so I thought I would give it a try. Now my Grandma Collings taught me how to sew a little when I was way younger, but I have never touched a sewing machine. When we left Hobe Sound, Florida in 2010, Mrs. E. Shamber gave us an older singer machine, but we had never really used it. Well last week I was tired of studying for my Pastoral counseling class, so I decided to take the night off and relax.


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A couple hours later, and only one little mistake, (I think) here is the finished project. I had so much fun! Maybe it seems strange for "Daddy" to sew a dress for his little girl, but I am thankful to have a skill that will help us provide for our family.


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Should I say thank you to Skyler for giving me an old ripped pair of his jeans to use for the wedge of lighter material to be sewn in? THANKS Sky!!!




And there is little miss Emma, wearing her, "new" skirt!

Loving life!

We live a busy life just like everyone else. Homeschooling has been a challenge, we are looking at some other curriculum, not sure A.C.E. is working well for all our kids. Cory and Elli does fine, but Tanner and Skyler have a little more of a visual learning style, so we will see what happens. Tasha is still working at the Pharmacy down the road, but they keep cutting her hours. She only gets 15 hours this week. I have been looking for something else. I am just about to finish pastoral counseling class, I will be glad to have this one done. Only seven more classes until I finish my first degree! I am excited about that. We had a bunch of friends and family that went to the IHC convention this week, wish we could have been there, we love Dayton convention! Well update again soon.
G~

Renewed Interest!

We are in the midst of "renewing our Interest in blogging! What I mean by that is this: Facbook is Great but not always the best way to represent our family So we are going to find time to get our blog going again. Be Patient, we homeschool 4 kids and I am in Pastoral Counseling class and Tasha works at a pharmacy. Wow, no wonder I am so tired! lol Have a great week.

This last September we were living in Logan, Ohio where we were youth pastors at Logan Holiness Church. September is Tasha's Birthday so I kind- of surprised her with a special weekend away. We stayed in a wonderful cabin at Camp Akita which is just about 8 miles outside Logan. I actually worked there and thus was able to use the cabin at no cost, as long as we made sure it was clean and ready for the next visitors.



Here we are leaving for a nice long hike. We were going UP to Bald Eagle. And boy was it ever UP! Two miles straight up to the highest point on the 1200 hundred acre property. We had so much fun that day, and I think Mommy and Daddy were the only ones that was really sore the next day :)



Hikes during the day and campfires at night,,,, we really had a nice time with Mommy and enjoyed our family weekend.

New Glasses!

Elli went to the eye Doctor a couple weeks ago and was thrilled to find that she had to get reading glasses. She is such a big girl, 7 now.

New blog coming soon.

We are hoping to spend some time over the next few days "Remodeling"
our blog and getting it back up and running again. Send me a comment
and let me know if anyone out there still spends any time reading blogs
:)