The Dash Poem Movie

I think one thing is missing in this video - it is not as much that you did all these good things, but you did them because of your relationship with the Savior. I want people to remember that I served Jesus as my Lord and Savior so that my dash here on earth would be for Him.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 921 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Happy Easter!

I bought my family all new clothes. Don't we look spiffy?

My youngest son loves Jimmy.

Opening up Grandma's Easter Baskets.

We had a great Easter weekend. On Saturday we had a great crowd for the Easter Egg Hunt. At church we had a packed church, I couldn't find a place to sit. It is sad that people make sure that they come to church at Easter and don't find much time for Jesus any other time. The weather was beautiful. Kim and Lance came for Easter Dinner - Thanks for coming K&L! We went to the park later that day. I will post some of those pictures later.

Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday

Wagon Rides

The Easter Story

The Easter Egg Hunt

Weekly Bible Reading Update

I am slowly catching up. I have read through March 11th. It is a fitting New Testament reading, since it is about the Crucifixion and we have just past Easter. The passage I read today was about Simon of Cyrene. I have recently been thinking of the song, Watch the Lamb, by Ray Boltz. Although he took some liberties to the song, it is still touching. Mark 15:21 NLT

A passerby named Simon, who was from Cyrene, was coming from the countryside just then, and the soldiers forced him to carry Jesus' cross. (Simon was the father of Alexander and Rufus.)

I hope that you all had a blessed Easter Weekend. I will be posting pictures of the kids soon.

Art Night

My daughter with her painting, "Hearts in the Air," and her Kindergarten teacher at art night. Her painting also was on a silent auction and it went for $20 to her little brother. I put a video of her talking about it on my Kirky's Turkeys blog, for those who have permission to use it. Her picture is of mommy, herself, The Cross, and some hearts. Kirk asked her, "Where are daddy and your brothers?" She said that there wasn't enough room for everybody.

Weekly Bible Reading Update

I have just finished reading the selected passages for March 3rd. Psalm 46:10a says, "Be still and know that I am God." Proverbs 10:23 says, "Doing wrong is fun for a fool, but living wisely brings pleasure to the sensible."

I need a little help remembering those things, sometimes I am a busy fool.

Pictures

Birthday

In February, my "baby" turned 2. I tried to make Red the Fire Truck (from the Cars Movie), but it was a little more difficult than when I made Thomas for my 3 year old. We invited a few of his favorite high school friends to his birthday party. He loves Jimmy, Kelly, Ryan, Tyler and Amanda.

Saturday School

My daughter's school has 4 required Saturday schools every year. Today was all about doing projects. We skipped the drama one because I didn't have the patience to take care of my two boys and explain to my 5 year old what to do. We just went to the playground instead with the other skippers. She did go to foil sculpting, where she sculpted a butterfly and flower. We also went to shoot her bottle rocket. She made a bottle rocket with her dad the other day and even though ours wasn't too technical, it went pretty high. Next year, ours will be way cooler. I wish Kirk would have been there to see it, but he was on a youth trip this weekend in southern California.

Leprechaun Trap

One other project that my 5 year old had to do for school was to make a Leprechaun Trap. She got some help from her dad. We will find out Monday if she caught a Leprechaun over the weekend.

Psalm39:4-7

I have tried AGAIN this year to read through my One Year Bible NLT, and AGAIN I am behind. I am trying to play catch up. I have to admit that I don't enjoy reading all the ceremonial details in Leviticus - it bogs me down. I feel so guilty for not being able to stay with it. Eventually I get so far behind that I just quit - I need to make it past June this year to beat my record. Maybe I will use this blog once a week to comment on what I read and you can note my progress. If I don't post, however, please get on my case, keep me accountable. Today I was reading the Feb. 22nd passages and the Psalm selection struck me like never before.

Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered - how fleeting my life is. You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. my entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.

We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth, not knowing who will spend it. And so Lord, where do I put my hope? My hope is only in you.

What Does Jesus Look Like?

My youngest son is still not talking much, although in the past few weeks he has said "dad" and "mom" more often, which makes us hopeful. I have been working with him to say "Jesus." There are some pictures of Jesus in our church nursery and when I worked in the nursery, I would take those pictures during snack time and show them to the children sitting at the table saying, "This is Jesus. He loves you. Can you say Jesus?" This past Sunday, I wasn't working in the nursery, but I was showing some new workers the ins and outs of the nursery before service began. I showed them the pictures of Jesus and tried to get my little one to say "Jesus" for them, of course he didn't. After the service was over, I picked up my child from the nursery and the workers commented on how he didn't want to put the pictures of Jesus down and he kept pointing to it until one of the workers said, "Jesus."

At the table while we were eating lunch, I started asking the children what they learned in Sunday School. I have now since forgotten what they said, but then I started telling the family about our youngest child and the picture of Jesus. My logical husband says, " How do you know that is a picture of Jesus? We don't know what Jesus looks like." And my middle child says, "Yes we do, he has hair and a nose and arms and legs." That of course made us all laugh. Then Kirk said, " You're right son." In his sweet way, my middle child gets it - Jesus was just like us. It doesn't matter what Jesus exactly looked like. It matters that he became like us - arms, legs, nose, hair, and all.

"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus; Who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death - even death on a cross. Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, and at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Philippians 2:5-11