I am so glad all the snow is gone! I meant to take some bread up to the mill pond white it was iced over but forgot. Charli and Seth's gifts came today, it costs $10 to mail Seth's! Next time I will just spend the money and have shipped to him!

We started a Sunday Night study on Healing and Health so I was looking at some verses and found this.

The snow is now getting rained on so it is sliding off my roof and scaring the poor birds!

Poor Charli had several mood swings at her party, LOL! She wasn't crazy about bowling but the other kids had fun. She got a lot of nice gifts and a nice crowd.

Cute hat ideas
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2008/11/simple-fleece-snow-hat.html
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2008/12/another-hat.html
this is cute, too http://www.anniesattic.com/detail.html?prod_id=76330&source=GGCROBB
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/10/looking-for-modern-bird-studios-250.html
scarf
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2009/10/simple-fleece-scarf.html
http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/01/gathered-flannel-scarf.html

This is yesterday, Les cleaned Gina's car off so she could drive to work instead of him driving her. The snow is still sticking around and I fell today, Les and I were laughing so hard it was not easy to get up, LOL! I did what he told me and instead of walking on Gina's walkway I stepped out on the lawn and still down, it wasn't painful or anything. I will just be glad when it is GONE!
I ordered the babies birthday gifts from Barnes and Noble tonight. I was afraid we couldn't make it to Greenville and I wouldn't get Seth's mailed in time. I got Charli a Pinkalicious doll and books and Seth a wooden tool set and books. Charli has memorized the Pinkalisious book! I want to record her, it is amazing because it is a book with a good amount of words and vocabulary. She also likes Fancy Nancy. Gina is getting her these books. I would have liked to find a bigger doll but they are expensive! Right now she is watching Monsters Inc Everyday, LOL! It is too old to find anything from that movie though. I might look on eBay or in Thrift stores to find a Scully toy sometime.

Here is Ames with the soft blur hat I made him, I am planning on getting more colors and making a few since Gina likes hats on him and he is quickly outgrowing what he has.

We kept the kids at Gina's today, the roads are bad is some places including her road. Les took her to work and picked her up. I still have not done anything creative yet today, LOL, Gina loved Ames hat though.

I saved all my bracelets from Self for 2010 just to see how many I ended up with, 13, it seems like a lot when I put them together! I spent hours trying to get ahead of the spam at 3S, it is so bad it is in the gallery! I don't know why they keep it open if they are not going to maintain it! I can still delete most of it, Barbara is on medical leave and I guess no one is taking care of it.

The snow is sticking with us, I saw some melt off the neighbors roof but it stayed in the mid 30's and will drop and refreeze, Trey and Gina both were off and I talked to an excited Charli! I am sure she had a great time with her Mommy and Daddy.

I finished up a little red hat and started one with an eyelash type yarn I bought on sale but I hate working with it because it is so hard to tell where the next stitch goes!

The weather men had it right this time! LOTS of soft fluffy snow! It had started sticking before I went to bed and Les and I bundled up and took Tye out to play and take a few pictures. He also filled my feeders up and I have had several nuthatches, cardinals, mockingbirds and finches enjoying them! They got to come home early and he and Gina will not work tomorrow so they can play with Charli, I can't wait to see pictures.

All the weather men agree that we have a winter storm coming, anyone that knows me knows I am a Doubting Thomas when it coming to snow... how many times did I go to bed with my parents saying, "you won't have to go to school tomorrow, it's going to snow!" and I wake up and look out the window and NOTHING! I guess they are getting better at it and Les has made sure the generator will crank, just in case, (that's another time my SIL said we could have when Papa died that she says she thinks she should have now)and we have the needed groceries so I am ready. But, just like when I was a kid if I wake up to no snow on the ground I won't be very happy!
Oh. I finished Ame's soft little hat today, will take pictures soon.

I have started two big projects, one is getting together pictures from Charli's year to do a book called When I was 2 and the second is the yearly book for Homecoming which will be Feb. 6 this year. My biggest thing is I need photo albums for these and do not know if Les will be able to go to Greenville by next week end or so. Charli's Birthday is the 20th and Seth's is the 24th. I need to get him something ordered and in the mail.

Words determine thinking, thinking determines our feelings & feelings determine the decisions we make. This is from the study tonight at church we started called Taking Control Rom 12:1-3
Preacher Bud talked to us about the difference in praying and communing with God.
As a teen I was taught that God cared about our every day life, things as simple as a good parking place so I have always spoken to Him saying, "Lord, I am in a hurry and need a close spot today" or if I lost something' "Lord I need to know what I did with that" and He would give me that spot or bring to mind where I put the object. This is a way that we communicate. I was sitting there and a light came on, God does talk to me in simple daily acts.
These 3 verses in Romans are a good start for this study:


1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Serve God with Spiritual Gifts.
3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
New King James Version (NKJV)

My Spiritual Gifts are CREATING, TEACHING, STUDYING & USING MY FAITH. I am blessed to teach Young Adults and to be the Church Photographer, I thought that I would have to give up teaching because I do not have the stamina that I used to and had given up teaching preteens when the Adults class came open, it has been a blessing to me!
Taking Control is something I have to do daily knowing I live and have breath that day because God sees fit to allow it, I can't give up because my Doctor says I need a lung transplant or that my lungs are at 41%, I have things to do, I want to see my grandchildren saved and other family members in their places in a church right for them! I want to keep taking pictures and keep my mind sharp and learn more and more about my Savior, Jesus Christ! I am looking forward to learning more and pray the weather on Wednesday nights will allow more members to come! (It was wet and cold tonight)
Please pray my son, Jeremy, will be moved to start sincerely looking for a church home in Tacoma Washington!

I finished up a set of calendars for Bobbie, today, that makes 30 pages so far this year, also I am using the guide in the back of my Bible and am up to Gen 11 reading through the year.
Had a very nice time with the babies today, held Ames most of the time :0)
Today would have been my Nanny's 94th birthday, she was wonderful, could look at something and make it. She quilted, crocheted, sewed, and was the best cook I ever knew. She also was serious in Bible study, she had an allergy to nylon so rarely made it to church but her Pastor Phillip came to the house for her and Aunt Doll. She loved Oral Roberts and is the one who let me borrow Corrie Ten Boone's book The Hiding Place. I spent a good bit of time with her. She made aprons and sold them to the women she worked with at the mill and was a cloth hoarder, LOL! I know I have a lot of her in me!

OK, done well so far, 8 pages today which made a total of 20. Here is one I made for the SBE Scripture Challenge. Kit is Oh Night Divine by Rina Kroes.

I forgot to put my 2011 resolutions in writing here... to do something creative every day and to reread the Bible, this time in Chronological order (I love my new study Chronological Bible).

I started my New Year with 3 pages using Cold Hands Warm Heart by Connie Prince. Today I made 9 pages on a special calendar I am making for a friend at church. I was a little disappointed that only Les and I were on our pew today, usually Gina and Charli join us but they stayed home today. My week doesn't go well without church. Of course I study because I teach and I read my Bible as my Grandmother taught me but to really be a Christian I need to be with other Christians or the world takes over my thoughts. When my end comes it will be said I was Faithful and not a faker.

Charli was a good sport trying collards and black eyed peas but she did not like them! It wasn't worth a trip to the Dollar Tree! She did like the cornbread and cheese biscuits, though.

I so loved my fIL! I am thinking of him tonight as he wouldn't let us sweep or wash clothes on New Year because he believed it would cause a death in the family...

I played around usually Daily Inspiration by Connie Prince

I so hope I get my ROBOT back today! Mine blew out on Christmas Eve and poor Crystal had to open Lincare to let me get some tanks and let me borrow this portable! This one is made for transporting people and has no holder. I am not wanting to have this next week when I keep the babies, It won't be easy to carry Ames as I carry this! I have a strap so I can put on my shoulder but it is bulky although very light.

Some pictures of the snow Monday, it didn't last long.

A few of my favorite things

These are 3 of my favorite gifts this year. I always enjoy the VWs I get from Twila and Keith, my Mom gives me wonderful gifts like this statue and the CUTE Gamecock Gnome from Gina.
I took my last chemo today, will start Cellcept end of month, it is another strong medicine with a lot of side effects but I made it through 12 chemos without much... just gaining 20 lbs which Dr H says not to worry about.
It snowed yesterday but didn't last, took a few bird pictures I will post later.

Well Christmas is over, Today was a nice quiet day at my MIL's, It was just my family and my niece, Noel and her new husband, Dylan. Noel lived with us when she was in elementary school and I love her so! My SIL went to Kentucky :0)!!! Since both the boys are in Army and my other niece is in some trouble it was a nice peaceful NO DRAMA time!
It was nice with my family, we rented the lodge which was smart, I had some stress because my portable air tank blew a seal and Crystal had to come get me a tank to borrow and it didn't have a holder and didn't last as long so I am having to use the heavy tank and I forgot the stocking and my camera and didn't get to visit with my Grandmother, that all started to get to me but I remembered it's all about a Baby and sharing time with family while I can.
Les will be out of work awhile, he has a cane to use and has a lot of pain and trouble getting around. I have to get disability paper filled out, I don't know if he is going to take me to my last chemo or if I will just go myself. Gina is working.
Jeremy is on the phone now, he just posted a video for me to watch so I will go do that.
Merry Christmas all!

I have to say this is the most "UNChristmasy" holiday ever! Had to call ambulance for Les Monday night and the ER was a terror! He is still in hospital with a pinched nerve in his spine, Might get to come home tomorrow. The stress hit me this morning, I have so much I need to do... have not wrapped gifts, House was a mess and still have calendars to do!
Charli was a good girl in the Christmas play though and I only have a couple calendars left, got most of my cleaning done, Les usually does most of it because I do not have the breath to do it but he had spent most of his day off helping his Mom do her Christmas shopping so I had to. I hate that he didn't get to see the play even though it was boring.

I am so glad Gina got the 'crafty gene'! She , Trey and Charli made a gingerbread house, complete with the family on the back!
Very busy trying to get the church calendars done! Four down, eight to go!

These are pages from Kevin'd Book at church, His is the first I have finished, I used Raspberry Roads JAVA JOE Kit so it would have a masculine feel to it. His Mom wanted pictures of his friends at church, I know he will be tickled when he get it!

Dear Santa

Working on calendars for church, I have 12 to do, this one is Tommy's, he has a toy drive and right now has over 2000 toys in a warehouse to help kids in need, I thought it would be very nice to give him Christmas all year! These are top page, bottom has calendar. I used Cathy K's wonderful Dear Santa to do these as the fun colors are fun for all year!