This week has flown by. We’ve had a good friend of ours in for a few days and then my best friend is coming in tomorrow or Saturday morning. And I get to meet her new special someone. I can’t wait. This week has just flown by. My sweet baby boy (who’s really not a baby, he’s 5) bit through his lip tonight. He’s okay now but wow! what blood! Mouths sure can bleed. My friend Lisa also joined us for dinner with her 4 kiddos. And of course we ended the ngiht with a campfire and marshmellows. Speaking of marshmellow, I think that is what I’m beginning to look like.
Until later….
Rest in Christ,
Julie
A really fast week
A cat who knows how to relax
Here’s a kitty who certainly knows how to relax…
on top of a pair of red silk PJs
on top of a pair of red silk PJs
More Ssccrraapin'
I promised more pages from my scrapbooking efforts on Friday so here ’tis!…..
Before
After…completed with the final embellishments
And all the rest of the pages….
Hope this helps give you some ideas too.
Hope this helps give you some ideas too.
SSCCrraappin' Again!!
I got the chance to spend 10 hours, yes that’s right girls, 10 hours, scrapping on Friday. It was the first time I’ve gotten a chance to work on my scrapbooks since before Thanksgiving. Here’s one of the pages I’ve almost completed. It needs a little more work. I hope to post more tomorrow!
IN HIM…julie
Merry Christmas
Oh, it’s close now. I’ve been waiting for Christmas since Thanksgiving. My best friend is coming. The tree house ladder goes up AND we get to eat Honey Baked ham. YUM! I’ve been baking this week and will make another trip to the grocery store today for the ingredients for TRASH (or party mix) as it’s called in my family.
Do any of you remember Phil and Lisa Roberts who gave birth to quadruplets a little over a year ago? Phil has written a book about their journey. It’s wonderful. I just finshed reading it and you can download a copy for only $6.25. The book parallels Mary and Joseph’s journey with their own and is called appropriately called IN THE SHADOW OF A MANGER.
All proceeds (if any) will go to the children’s college fund. They also have begun a charity Project Seahorse. You can read all about it, Phil’s book and their desire to help keep NICU families afloat on the links above. They are a wonderful Christian couple from Georgia and we met them when they purchased our big GMC conversion van from us about a year and a half ago. (On Ebay of all places) If you feel led to support this family in their efforts to help others please visit the HERE to purchase a paperback, hardback or downloadable book.
Let me know if you visit their site and leave a comment here. They have a wonderfully encouraging story. Here are Danielle, Benjamin and Casey. They’ve grown so quickly since coming home. Emily died shortly after birth and that is why you only see three kids pictured here in the bathtub. Several people have asked so I just wanted to mention her living happily with her Lord.
What a blessed Christmas they will have this year.
And I pray all of us will too.
IN HIM,
Julie
Now we have a total of FOUR entries
Now we have a total of three entries in the Christmas Photo Contest! Be sure to enter! Check out details here!!
1.TNMOMTOMANYBLESSINGS
2.SAMIAM
3.ONFIRE
4.BUNNYBEAR
Go check on the entries!
JULIE
Our First Entry!!!
TNMOMTOMANYBLESSINGS is the first to post her picture for the Christmas Photo Contest! You don't have long! Start posting those pictures!!
On another note here is my favorite scripture set within a photo I took last week.
Merry Christmas soon!
Julie
Christmas Photo Contest
Christmas Photo Contest
A couple of days before Thanksgiving I posted a contest for the best Turkey feasting picture but I think I needed to post it a little earlier based upon the comments I received.
So with all that said let's have a “We're gettin' ready for Christmas“ photo contest. It can be funny or classic or just plain beautiful, but it's got to be from this year's Christmas happenings. Post the photo on your blog and then comment on my blog. Send me an email with an attachment of your picture to julie.stew@yahoo.com. I'll print off the pictures and let my kids and hubbie pick the winner. The winner gets 25 FREE Digital Prints on me!
So get out those cameras and start snappin'. You've only got until December 10th!!! Here's some inspiration…
Photography Contest and Help Needed
If any of you bloggers have photo blogs or sites out there and would like me to include a link to it on The Company Porch on Friday please email me or leave a comment here with the link's address. It will be included in an article I'm doing for the Tip of the Day about photography on Friday. To view my other articles on photography see the The Tip of the Day on the Company Porch all this week.
Happy Thanksgiving
Julie
Oh….and I'm having a photography contest. The best “Oh, I ate too much for Thanksgiving” picture wins 25 FREE digital prints!! Email me your pictures by December 1st (a week after Thanksgiving) and I'll post the winner and the picture on my blog. Now go take some pictures!!!!
Tagged Again
Well, master Joe tagged me so here goes the five things I'm most thankful for:
- I'm thankful for a Father who loves me more than my little brain can imagine and that I get to start again every morning.
- I'm thankful for my family and the health and protection MY FATHER provides for us.
- I'm thankful for a husband who'd rather be at home building a tree house than out playing golf or doing something else and the friends God has given me.
- I'm thankful for homeschooling, HSB and the internet that helps me to feel connected to other homeschooling moms in the world.
- I'm thankful for a bed to sleep in everynight…something Jesus didn't even have.
- And just because I have to be different
I'm very thankful to live in a country still covered by the Lord's grace.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Julie
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