Ice Skating

Right on the side of our house we have a small plot of wetlands which turns to ice in the winter making a nice ice skating rink for the little people to learn to skate in. 

Yeh Chariti! You go girl!

Step by step he's learning to skate!

Our makeshift ice skating rink. :) 

Visit with the Pierce's

Hello  faithful followers! Due to MANY problems with blogger and a very busy 2 months of cake orders we have not been able to post. We will be posting a few pictures of what we've been doing since January and hopefully we'll catch up to July before the year is up ;)

Meanwhile this is all blogger will allow us to post today.
Enjoy!



These pictures are from a reunion with friends we've know for a long, long time!

Tyler

Rebecca

Playing stop, go and police!

The men

T-io's Birthday!

Tylar just LOVES T-Al

Look who woke up from their naps!

Someone's asking for a SQUEEZE!

Happy birthday to you!

Vavo, T-Io, Tylar, Logenn, Mom and Hannah

Awww... Logenn!

Finding out we had never played a Wii before, T-Io pulled his out and let us have a go at it.

She's not competitive is she? :P

Tabitha the sword fighting a go...

While Chariti tries it out...

Stephanie plays hide and seek with the boys :)

Snow tubing

 In the midst of winter Dad got a hankering to go snow tubing so we picked a day and we all went snow tubing and we enjoyed a day with just having fun together.

Snow tubing for the day 

Sisters and best friends

Going hunting

A visit from the Moyers

 What better time is there for coming together for tea and fellowship than in the midst of the cold winter?
We so enjoy fellowshipping with you ladies! 

Alisha and Ashley

Ready for tea! :)

Skiing

Because of the Thomases sad move to Oklahoma we northeners were left without someone to plan ski trips for us! Felicity really wanted to go skiing for her birthday so Mom looked at me and said, "Do you want to plan a ski trip?" With a tinge of nervousness I said "OK" and so with LOTS of advice and information from Matthew Thomas, the previous coordinator for Lighthouse Learning Center's ski trips, I planned three ski trips to Crotched Mt this year. The pictures from the first one in January are henceforth posted. :)
Just for the record, we had 96 attendees for the January ski trip, 215 for the Feb. trip and 63 for the March trip.

Seth's first time skiing...

He loved it!

To the top of the bunny hill on the magic carpet...

LUNCH!!!

For us anyway ;)

Beth :)

Snowman #1

Snowman #2

Back at the Murray's...

The Murray's were so kind to host our small group overnight and feed us a delicious dinner!

I think Noah wants to try snowboarding!

Tosies!

Chatting...

Monopoly!

Going sledding

How many people can we fit on a sled?

A Visit to the Maira's

Long ago back in January, the Maira's came up to Mass and invited Stephanie and Tabitha to go back down and spend a week long visit with them, to which invitation we joyfully excepted!

The enjoyment of each other's company began immediately

Mmmm...guacamole!

Taking pictures at the theater after dressing up like princesses to go watch the new princess movie, Tangled
We missed you Malena! 

Feelin' famous :D

We love you girls and can't wait to visit again, hopefully sometime soon!!!
♥

Sewing with the Littles

Our little girls LOVE to sew and constantly ask Stephanie to teach them how to, so finally Stephanie had a day which she spent teaching them how to become little seamstresses.
Chariti working on her duckie quilt

Helping Felicity

Even Hannah sewed a little!

Learning together

Making blocks

Seth loves his doggie quilt!

I know we say this all the time but we just love this little guy!

Seth's School Work

It was a cold wintry day and while the girls were all diligently adding, subtracting and multiplying at their desks this little guy was walking around asking where his schoolwork was so I gave him a mission. Seth, your schoolwork is to build a nice big castle for your army men to defend! Taking his mission seriously he created this adorable castle and was so very proud of it I had to get a picture!
Now isn't he the cutest little guy on earth?

  Battle in the jungle?
 

~Spurgeon

The Lord was and is my chief portion, my well of comfort, the rock of my salvation. If we make props of our outward joys, we shall fall when they are taken away; but if we rest wholly upon the foundation of divine love, altogether apart from external things, we shall never be moved. Happy is the Christian who can practically enjoy delight in the Almighty by making him to be his all in all, all the day, and every day.

Young Men Should Seek Mentorship

I frequently meet men who say something like, "Poor me, I have no mentors." One of the things we tell our interns during orientation is that if they leave here and say, "No one mentored me," we will have no compassion on them, but rather rebuke. Why? First of all, you simply don't want to be one of those men bemoaning the fact that no one mentored them. A young man should position himself for something better. Second, seeking and having mentors is a basic quality of manhood. One of the important agendas of manhood is to take initiative and "get wisdom" (Proverbs 4:5). Happy is the one who "finds wisdom" (3:13). Solomon says that you have to "take hold of her" (3:18). A young man has to "seek" it. Proverbs 20:5 makes it clear that counsel is available - "deep water" is there, but a wise man will "draw it out." The treasure is there, "on the lips of the wise" (Proverbs 20:15). If a man has no mentors in a place with wise men, he has failed to seek wisdom.
 ~Scott Brown

NCFIC