Sarah and Joe

My sister, Sarah has gone and gotten married. Can you believe she's that big now? Here's a picture of her and her husband Joe.

Our church had a send off for him before he heads back to Iraq.Umm, Sarah, don't women usually cut a cake?

He's such a ham. Pun intended.

Zach started summer baseball practice, but he thought he needed to wear his old uniform.

These twins on Zach's team were so "twinnish" it was almost creepy.

Imagination

This has nothing to do with imagination, but Addison woke up with a mohawk this morning.

The kids kept sneaking the TV on. After keeping careful watch, they have not had it on

like they were. For a few days they were at a total loss on how to play. Now, I'm happy to report that their imagination is working again. My first clue was when they took a horse outside and a rope and began lassoing trees and horses. Here they have made a "play" with my visuals and blankets in Zach and Addison's room. The only problem with imagination is the clean up afterward. I think we can deal with that though.

For the people at church

We went to see Mrs. Matthews the other night

More from Myrtle Beach

The girls enjoying the water.

Brittany eating her 6th birthday cake.

Now Isn't That Interesting.

I normally don't express my political views on here, but I just find this too interesting to pass up. When George Bush had the tax rebates sent out, people and the news media were saying that it wouldn't help, and that people would just use it to pay off bills. Now that the package seems to be working, little Miss Nancy wants to pass another tax rebate bill. hmmmmmm.

As a side note. If people pay off bills, doesn't that help them have more money to spend anyway??? That's kind of like the no drilling for oil argument. People say that it will take 10-20 years to even get to the point where we can refine oil. You know, they were making that argument 10-20 years ago. Just think, if we would have gone ahead and drilled back then, they wouldn't still be making the argument today, and we wouldn't be in quite such a bad fix with gas now. It seems like people want a microwave fix instead of a good old oven baked one.

Myrtle Beach

Mom's 56th

I've been waiting to post anything up here because I had wanted to post this picture, but it was on another computer.

So, happy birthday, Mom. Hope it was good, and tell one of those grandkids to get their hands out of the CUPCAKES!

Yoga

The husband of one of my high school friends wrote a good article on yoga that you might like to read.

Jumping Addison

Spencer found these paintable things for $.44 a piece. The kids thought it was GREAT fun.

So, I get ready to put the kids in the vehicle to go somewhere when I hear a truck drive up. I look out the window and see this delivering a washer across the street. Didn't they ever learn not to park in front of someone's driveway?

VBS skit

The first video is shakey because I was trying to watch kids and video at the same time...not a good combination.

Kids Singing "Jesus and Me" with us at church

Crazy Like a Fox........or Wolf?

There's this work at home commercial on TV. I guess the Fox is their mascot. Anyway, it shows all these people making a lot of money at home and how they must be "crazy like a fox." So, why is one of the websites that they give www.92wolf.com? I really am not doing a commercial for them. Spencer and I laugh every time we see it.

A Typical Shoshannah Moment

So, the phone rings the other day and shows a Texas number. The guy on the other line has a Texas drawl so I think it's my brother-in-law. By the way he starts the conversation, I thought for sure he was once again trying to pull another prank on me. So, I say, "Shut up, Rodney, you're so funny." The funny part was said rather sarcastically. The guy continues his conversation saying, "I know this may be an unusual phone call ma'am, but so and so gave me your number. After he mentioned the person's name, I realized that I REALLY wasn't talking to Rodney.
It was an evangelist trying to get in touch with Spencer so he could get in touch with our pastor to confirm that he was preaching at our church tonight. After much apologizing and explaining that I thought it was my brother-in-law on the phone, I gave the guy Spencer's work number. After I hung up I realized that I didn't explain that my brother-in-law plays prank calls on me, and that I really do get along with him even though I told him to shut up. OOOPPPPsss! I didn't even want to see the guy when he preached at church which worked out pretty well because I had to teach a class for VBS anyway.

So, I had been spring cleaning until my schedule got interupted for a week. I washed my kitchen walls after I took everything off of them, washed the curtains, washed the blinds, wiped down the molding, and wiped down everthing that had been hanging on the walls. I used my Swiffer duster for some things, but it couldn't quite handle the ceiling fan blades. It did work pretty well in places that I can't reach really well though. After this week of Vacation Bible School is over, I'll be hitting the rest of the house starting with the kitchen cabinets.

So, I was exercising this morning with my video and the girl said, "This is a lunge." Sierra said, "Stop the video, Mom! She said, 'It's time for lunch'!"

Smoke

There is a forest fire burning about a hundred miles from here, but the smoke and smell have definitely come our way. Yesterday, Zach woke up thinking I had made ham and eggs for breakfast because the smoke smell was in the house. Poor guy had to settle for Honey Nut Cheerios. These are pictures taken from under our carport looking out on the neighbors' yards. For those of you living in California, I know this is nothing new, but we live in North Carolina where things like this don't happen.

Ice Cream Cone

I grabbed the last box of cones at Wal-Mart the other day. When we got them out of the box, I realized I probably should have looked at the box more closely before I bought them.