Women of Worth November 2007

I had the privilege of going to the Cincinnati Chapter Women of Worth last night. I was invited by the women of the Afton Wesleyan Church and rode with them. We had a very nice meal to celebrate Thanksgiving. I want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all that prepared food and set up the room for all of us to enjoy. It was very nice and the food was great!

Below you will find some pictures from the evening. The decorating theme was children's gifts and the speaker spoke about loving your children. What she had to say was very inspiring and moving. God really used her I believe to encourage the women! I know she really encouraged me!

They also showed us a couple of things that are easy to make and fun for kids that does not cost very much. One of them was home made ice cream. Katrina Hutchinson was very helpful and was shaking the ice cream and then she took it around for everyone to taste. It really was pretty good. I was impressed.

They showed us a little candy bouquet of flowers it was very nice and easy to make.

Here is a craft that is pretty, easy and the kids would love. This is an advent calendar in the design of a Christmas Tree. Take toilet paper rolls, colored foil wrap or tissue paper, fill the toilet paper rolls with treats, wrap them and tie the ends. Stack your rolls in a triangle design to make your tree using double sided tape to hold it together, use ribbon around it to dress it up. You can use 25 for the 25 days before Christmas. Allow the kids to open one each night and take out the treat all the way to Christmas.

Below is a slide show of the rest of the pictures that I took that night. Be sure to notice the decorating chains. They were very neat.

I want to thank Amy Mason for inviting me to go. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Happy Birthday to my Baby!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEANNA!!!!

Today is DeAnna's 13th birthday. Time sure does fly by. It was just yesterday the she was painting pictures of her hands to give to me. She is growing up to be a beautiful young lady!

Here is a picture of her with one of her very
favorite people ~ Her Grandma.
This picture is just 2 years ago. My how she has grown up!
My........Look how she has changed only from Easter this year.

This has been a big year. I turned 40, my brother and family are leaving to go across the US, my baby turns 13, my oldest daughter will turn 21 in less than 1 month and we are going to sell or shut down our business.

Matty's new hair cut

Matty is pretty much afraid of everything. I got the camera out and she started cowering down and moving away from me. I do not know why she is afraid of everything but, she is. Hope you enjoy the pictures. She just got her hair cut a couple of days ago.

She moved away from me and laid down.

Here she is running from the camera and getting
ready to hide under Derricks chair.

~Just Life~

Well, if anyone has any ideas for me to paint my room I would really appreciate it. My new bed set is Gold and my new curtains are gold and Burgundy. My carpet is Mauve. So, tell me creative people - should I paint my walls burgundy with some gold in them or just gold or what? I am not creative at all!

If I can remember to buy light bulbs for my room I will take some pictures and see if you can get any ideas for the walls.

Also I will get a picture of Matty's new hair cut today to post. She is really cute!

Pictures from Surprise Birthday Party

I told you that I would post some more pictures of my surprise party as soon as I got them. Well, here they are. As you can see in the first picture I am a bit surprised. (not a very good picture)

They were kind to me and did not want to
have to call the fire marshall for a birthday cake.

This is my little buddy from the Daycare - Cordell.
He is talking to me very intently and wants to know
what my "number" is. (he was asking how old I was)

Cordell wanted to sit with me while he was eating
his cake and I was opening my card.

Denise gave me an awesome little scrap book from the surprise party they had after church on my birthday. It is very cute. They also got some unsightly pictures of me. I think that she said Lorna put the book together for me. I thank them very much for there kindness!!!! Denise gave me the book last night at the ladies night out event.

The ladies night was very nice and refreshing. Deanna's new edition on her house is very pretty! She has very pretty decorations and colors! It was also very kind of her to allow us in her home for ladies night out.