Thanksgiving 2009

We spent a great Thanksgiving in Denision with Barry's parents and all the VanHorn family. We had lots of time with all the cousins and visiting Grandma's and Grandpa's.

Hadley and Leila with Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa Phillips.

Molly, Sydney and Gracie with Hadley watching the Thanksgiving Day parade! I think Hadley liked it!

Tony and Heather and the sweet girls!

Tony and Heather with all the girls!

The girls "peeking" through the stairs!

My wonderful family!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and took time to thank God for all the blessings He has given this year! I am continually thankful for all the blessings God continues to show my family each year!

Art Gallery

Why I did think of this sooner I don't know! I turned the inside of my cabinets into an Art Gallery for the girls' artwork. It seems if things get put on the fridge they are getting moved or rearranged, now I can see the beautiful artwork everytime I open my cabinets... which is a lot!

Costume Party Fun

Better late than never? I am a little behind in putting up pictures from trick or treating and our church costume party. Our costume party at church had a Storybook theme, that might help explain the 'characters'. I am finally getting it done although many of you who may read this regularly probably saw these already... I hope it is enjoyable anyway!

Barry as The Man with The BIG Yellow Hat and Gracie as Curious George.

Nancy Drew (that's me!) with Curious George, a Dalmatian and a pirate princess!

My Perfect Pirate Princess:)

The girls with Fancy Nancy!

Getting ready to go Trick or Treating!

Barry's sister and her husband were up and their daughter, Lauren, got to to trick or treating with her cousins. I think they all had a fun time!

Happy 4th Birthday Gracie!!!

My sweet Gracie turned 4 on October 17th! She has been looking forward to her birthday ever since we celebrated her sisters birthdays! We had a great family party and with the theme of Hello Kitty! It is so fun watching her enjoy opening every gift and being excited about every gift too... okay she was not as excited about the clothes but she still had fun opening them:)

My Big 4 Year Old!!

Being Silly... she insisted she needed a birthday princess crown to wear to Preschool since it was her birthday!

Her new bike from Grammy and PaPop!

Gracie and her Dora scooter from Mommy and Daddy!

Getting ready to blow out the candles! She was not so fond of being sung to...

One of her birthday presents, a fun hat!

The birthday girl with her sisters!

Family Worship

We have been doing family worship in the evenings before the girls' bedtime with all three of them. We have been singing and having Bible stories. It usually goes pretty well and even Molly is getting the hang of it now! I took these pictures one night, I just couldn't resist. They were all "singing" along and sitting still... for the moment!

... getting ready to sing... Sydney sings, Gracie sings a few words and Molly does lots of noise making pretending to sing. It is funny!

Being Silly!

"Listening" to Dad read the Bible story. They are easily distracted!

My Girly Girls!

Some recent pictures of the girls! They turned out great:) Most of you who read my blog have probably seen these but I had to post anyway!
Enjoy!

I've Got the Joy Joy Joy....

Down in my Heart..... This is my prayer!

I was recently searching the internet for verses and prayers on Joy. I came across this from a Matthew Henry website. I have found myself lately getting stuck in the daily duties of being a wife, mother, housekeeper... etc, etc. Please don't misunderstand. I love being a wife and mother and all that comes along with it. I guess I just realized I needed to put the Joy of Jesus in these daily duties that I feel He has called me to do. I have saved this as a favorite and I look it up every morning and pray it for my day, for me, for my girls, for Barry.

Lord, enable me to rejoice always, (1 Thessalonians 5:16(ESV)) to rejoice in the Lord always,

because he has again said to me, “Rejoice”; (Philippians 4:4(ESV)) that I may go on my

way rejoicing, may eat my bread with joy and drink my wine with a merry heart,

as I shall have reason to do if God has already approved what I do. (Ecclesiastes 9:7(ESV))
Give me grace to serve you, the LORD my God, with joyfulness and gladness

of heart in the abundance of all things; (Deuteronomy 28:47(ESV)) and to sing of the ways

of the LORD, for great is the glory of my God. (Psalm 138:5(ESV))
Let me have that cheerfulness of heart which is like good medicine (Proverbs 17:22(ESV))

and deliver me from that anxiety which weighs down the heart (Proverbs 12:25(ESV))

and that worldly grief which produces death. (2 Corinthians 7:10(ESV))

I hope you have the Joy of Jesus in your life and in whatever He has called you to do! It sure does make your day great when you start your day with the Joy of Jesus!