week 11 coming soon

to all my fellow p365ers, I'm out of town thru Tuesday and not in a place to get my pictures posted, but I'll get them up when I get back!
there's some good ones! :-)

threesixfive, week 10

nothing major to mention this week. i'll get right to the pictures.



sunday
i started this book months ago, and never fininshed it. i picked it back up today. its very very good. i highly recommend it if you have kids at home.

monday

a new park opened over the weekend. its a play for all abilities park. they have swings for wheelchairs, a section for music and sand therapy, areas that are designed for children with autism, etc. theres also a "town" with streets and traffic lights where you can ride your bike or scooter and learn how a city operates. each building in the town has educational aspects when you go inside. its amazing. we didnt get to stay for long, so i took the kids home with the promise to bring them back in a couple days.

tuesday

we got to hang out with our friends the brownings. i got by tail kicked in yahtzee.

wednesday

we went and spent some time at the new park. this is a seat that spins with your body weight. if you get your momentum going it gets pretty fast. it flung colby and molly both off. i was able to get a picture of colby mid fall, and another right after he landed. i tried it too; it wasnt pretty.

thursday

i didnt actually take a picture today, but this is a cute one from the park yesterday. :-)

friday

i peeked in one of mollys classes at co-op and took a couple pictures. they were learning about instruments.

saturday

its been wanting to rain all week, and we had kind of a drizzly day yesterday. the sky finally opened last night and it poured. i was thrilled to see puddles in my yard this morning.

have a blessed week!!

celebrate the forgiver!

here's the video we showed in church Sunday morning.it's so good!
these are all people in our church body.
notice Colby towards the end holding his sign "son of a pastor, child of the King"

Come as you are. from Central Round Rock on Vimeo.

threesixfive, week 9

another great week with some crazy texas weather!
my friend katie moved in with us tuesday. she'll be here for about a month probably until she's able to move back in with her parents (they're in the process of moving out and finding a new home). we also have a houseguest this weekend; a junior at baylor who we've gotten to know over the past couple of years thru the camp allen directs in the summer, as well as her being a disciple now leader for us for two years now. needless to say we've had a housefull this weekend!

sunday
we're launching a new curriculum and strategy for our k-4th graders in april. this is the training we did for the teachers (now called shepherds). i was the 'MC' for the trial run this evening.

monday

allen got this for me for christmas, and i finally started it! so far so good, although all the swedish names are confusing me.

tuesday

we're showing a video sunday morning (allens preaching) of cardboard testimonies with members of our church. colby and our pastors son, josh, held signs that said "son of a pastor" on one side and "child of the KING" on the other, while the 'pastor dads' stood beside them. it was funny, because josh is very tall, so it was difficult to get both he and colby in the same shot with the height difference. its an amazing video. i'll post it later this week if i can get my hands on it.

wednesday
the evening sky was beautiful!

thursday

allen got the new "headboard" up today! its actually 4 garden trellesis (sp?) i found at hobby lobby, and he mounted them to the wall. the DREAM will probably come down, but i dont know yet what i'm going to put in its place.

friday
with a house full of people, we had to do some rearranging at bedtime. katies occupying the guest bedroom while shes here, so our weekend guest, anna, stayed in mollys room, which means colby and molly got to do a sleepover. they were so cute sleeping next to each other, i couldnt resist a picture.

saturday
we went to lunch with the lamberts and to the park for a few hours to enjoy the absolutely beautiful day! aunt april was passing out the rice krispie treat (the size of a small town) after lunch.



we had weather in the almost 90's this week, and weather in the low 40's, so i'm just as confused today as i was this time last week. but i figure if thats my biggest problem, i'm doing ok. :-)

have a blessed week!!

threesixfive, week 8

we had a good week here in central texas, but have been a bit thrown off by the weather. wednesday and thursday it got up to almost 90 degrees, and has been back down in the upper 50s/low 60s with strong winds (which makes it feel colder) since then. my skin is freaking out, and i never know if i should shave my legs or not. :-P

sunday
i'm starting beth moores new bible study this week. i'm really looking forward to it.




monday
the kids dug their perler beads out the last part of last week and have been obsessed with them. allen printed off some super mario character bead pictures, and we've been recreating them with what we have. molly asked me to do this one (princess peach) for her. i was pretty proud of myself. of course then we iron them to melt the beads together, and its like 'now what?'

tuesday

my friend emilie and her husband had a work banquet to go to tuesday night, and their sitter cancelled. she asked if she could bring her girls over (their oldest is one of mollys best friends) for the evening, and we told them of course they could. they were over pretty late and katie fell asleep on allen. i had a flashback to when molly was that little and had to capture the moment.

wednesday

this is what colby did in his art class this week. hes so good!

thursday

we were introduced to a new family activity by some friends of ours; geocaching. they took us on a hunt thursday afternoon, and we found i think 4 in the area where we were. it was really really fun. this is one i found; it was the trickiest of the day. if you want to know what it is go to www.geocaching.com and check it out. its national and other than an app for your smartphone, which isnt necessary, but extremely helpful, its free!

friday
we inherited some roses when we moved into this house 6 years ago. they look pretty good considering i dont do anything to them!

saturday

molly woke up with a sore throat and upset stomach. unfortunately this set-up was advantageous. better my trash can than my couch. :-/

hopefully the illness is short lived and stops with her. she seems fine right now, but she just ate for the first time today, so i may be speaking too soon.
have an excellent week!!

stay warm...or cool as it may be where you are. i'll probably be doing both!

my little songbird

molly sings. a lot.
sometimes she sings actual songs, and sometimes she sings what shes doing.
kind of like opera. or a musical.
she got a cd player for christmas from my mom with a cd of disney princess songs. she knows almost all of them by heart, and earlier today was singing one of them to me in the bathroom while i was getting ready. she couldnt remember the words, so she went to her room to listen to it so she could come back and sing it correctly.
while she was gone, i snuck the camera onto the bathroom counter but she noticed it when she came back and wouldnt sing.
but for whatever reason, she said she would film herself, well, herself. so i showed her which button to push, and she took it in her room and filmed herself singing one of the songs from the movie tangled.
and here it is for your viewing pleasure. shes stinkin cute.

threesixfive, week 7

happy valentines week! i realized on monday that i never put my valentines decorations out, and at that point i was over it. no heart tree or love birds on my mantle this year.
we've had lots of rain this week, which has been nice for the grass and all the lakes we have around here, but a bummer for anyone planning to do anything outside (us!!). we've been trying to get out and go hiking for a couple weeks. last week was too cold, and this week was too rainy. maybe next weekend we'll have a shot at at.
here are the pictures for week 7...

sunday
i love that my kids will eat a big plate of salad!

monday
heres that latch-hook rug ive been working on. i was trying to have it done by the first weekend of february, but its proved to be a much bigger project than i anticipated. its finally starting to look like a rug though. im not going to have enough tshirt strips to finish the whole thing, not that i wouldve; i think that would take me the rest of 2012!! but if i use what i have left, i can get half the mat done, and it will go perfectly in allens office. think orange!

tuesday
happy valentines! we never made a huge deal out of valentines day, and the last couple of years its been an excuse to do something fun together as a family. this year allen had this project for them to do (from micah 6:8). i'll post a picture of the finished product next week. when we were done with that we dipped our own chocolate covered fruit; the grapes are my favorite!!!

i couldnt pass up this picture of mojo with a little left-over chocolate on her face. :-)

wednesday

we met my parents for dinner, but got to the restaraunt early. they were able to entertain themselves pretty well while we waited, despite molly feeling kind of yucky this evening.

thursday
we're slowly giving our master suite a facelift. the bedroom is a work in progress, and i'm hoping to tackle the bathroom with some of our tax return (assuming we get one...). today we made a trip to hobby lobby and bought new knobs for our dressers and nightstands. they're all mismatched in shades of orange, turquoise, and brown.

friday

this is what allen surprised me with for valentines!! he made it!! i showed him something similar on pinterest awhile back and have been wanting to do one myself, but just havent got around to it. i was so proud of his craftiness....or handiness, rather. that sounds more manly.

saturday

today we, along with about 5 other families from the preschool department at our church, went to our local serving center to deliver some cans that had been collected by the youth group the weekend before for disciple now. we got a tour of the facility, then put a sticker on all the cans and boxes donated by our group that says 'Jesus loves you!' colby and molly had a great time, and it was a great opportunity to teach them about 'being the church'.

allens out of town this weekend speaking at a youth event, but will be back super late tonight. colby has a friend over right now, and the easy-bake oven made an appearance earlier to appease molly. its looking like a pizza and a movie kinda evening.

have a fantastic week!!