Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Long time no see!!

Been a while since I posted so here is a quick update! Lot's of things going on...Pumpkin Patch, Copeland and COA photoshoot, Thanksgiving, Iron Bowl, Jennifer (my sis) is pregnant with her second child, Gracie and Chelle's birthday, working for all of us, school for Joseph, remodeling the house(hardwoods, new paint, crown molding, new furniture), decorating for Christmas, youth group, planning ski trip for youth, shopping for gifts, family in the hospital, Christmas parties, and braces for me again!! Here are just a few pictures...for more from the photo shoots go to my shutterbug blog.








Wednesday, November 07, 2007

My friend Paulette posted this on her blog yesterday and I thought I would share it with you all! It is so true, the only reason's we have the freedom we have at this very moment is because of men and women, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters that have chosen to be a part of our military forces and some have went a step further by giving their life to keep us free.

Thank you to all who have been a part of this fight to keep us free! May God continually bless you and keep you in his arms of protection!


Back in September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, social studies school teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten.
On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room,they discovered that there were no desks. Looking around, confused, they asked,"Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?"
She replied, "You can't have a desk until you tell me what you have done to earn the right to sit at a desk."
They thought, "Well, maybe it's our grades." "No," she said.
"Maybe it's our behavior."
She told them, "No, it's not even your behavior."

And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. By early afternoon television news crews had started gathering in Ms. Cothren's classroom to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room. The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom, Martha Cothren said, "Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he/she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you."At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven U.S. veterans, all in their uniforms, walked into that classroom,each one carrying a school desk. The vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand,perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned.

Martha said, "You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens.They and others paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education.
Don't ever forget it."

Friday, November 02, 2007

Pumpkins!

We went to the pumpkin patch on Saturday the 27th but we did not carve the pumpkins until Tuesday night...


Joseph chose to do the skull with all the teeth (future dentist!)


I chose a simple carving since this is the first one in 42 years I have EVER carved!

This one was Alicia's...I think this was her 2nd pumpkin to ever carve...

Fall Festival/Trunk or Treat at BBC

I am not sure of the total for the event this year...last year we had over 500 people there...I am sure we had that many or more this year! It was fun to see everyone dressed up, the kids playing all the games, the food was yummy and there was plenty of candy to go around!






Pictures from Youth Costume Party

We had a costume party on Tuesday night...1st place went to the Number 2 pencil, 2nd place to the Scarecrow and 3rd place to Little Red Riding Hood. We also had a jar filled with candy corn 441 pc and it was one with a guess of 437.









Thursday, November 01, 2007

Pictures of Alicia and Joseph on Morris Avenue

Just a few shots of Joseph and Alicia while we were waiting for COA to get to Morris Ave for their photoshoot.


Friday, October 19, 2007

Pictures from Bunco Babes Weekend!

We came back on Monday the 15th, we had a great time! This was the first time to the Shrimp Festival for everyone but LeighAnn. We shopped, ate some seafood (except Terri), great Italian from Franco's, played Rumicube (which is like rummy and dominos), make pictures on the beach. It was a great weekend, we hope that more of the group can go next year! It was really fun taking these pictures, we laughed had we had sand all over us! It was nice to get some shots of myself...Thanks Tracy!!



I actually have one more roll that I need to get developed and post some from it...so be on the watch!




Thursday, October 11, 2007

Guess where I am going???

Gulfshores!! to the Shrimp Festival...The Bunco Babes are going...sad to say not all of us :( Amber, Tova, Terrie, Tracy, LeighAnn and me!! We are leaving in the am and will be back Monday in the pm!!! Will post pictures on Tuesday!

See ya!

Monday, September 10, 2007

I am the saddest one....

Yesterday I received some bittersweet news...we are losing James as our Youth Minister. He and Emily have been praying about this for a couple of months now and he feels he is doing God's will. Coming of Age is the band he is a member of along with Drew (his brother-in-law) and Chris (his cousin-in-law) and the Lord is really opening doors for them and he felt he could not give our youth 1oo% and they deserve that. I really appreciate all they have done for our youth at Bethel, they were exactly what we needed at the time they came 17 months ago. My prayer is that God will continue to use him and the band as they minister across the Southeast to youth. Here is a picture of this sweet family! They are dear to my families heart! All of our prayers are they can stay apart of Bethel family, and have a place to come home to when they are not on the road.




Here are a few pictures of the band in action at a recent event: