Regionals- hard work pays off!

Jaden did very well at Regionals this last Friday. Regionals is where once a year kids from Independent Fundamental Baptist schools come to compete in such categories from art to chess to speeches to quartets. They have from the end of the school year till the next competition to have their projects done. He took 1st place in the Popsicle stick division. He worked on this project for almost 2 months! He made a fighter plane out of the notched craft sticks. It came with very complicated directions. He also competed in checkers. Here he is standing in front of his project. I am sure that you can click on the pic and it will enlarge and you can see it much better.

Colossians 1:29 "Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily."

I love HIM!

I love this man! Ryan is the best husband any woman could want. He knows me so well. He loves me, takes care of me, provides for me. He is my best friend. I am so thankful that God saw fit to give me such a man.

Happy Valentines Day to my love, my friend!

Song of Solomon 2:16 "My beloved is mine, and I am his:..."

Bridgerland Applied Technology College

This is Lenard.. He is one of Ryan's teachers at Bridgerland. Yesterday we went to a job expo at Bridgerland. They had all different exhibits set up for you to look at. This was one of the demonstrations for the electronics department(Ryan's department). This does not sound that loud, but I tell you.. It made you jump! What they are doing is blowing up a capacitors by giving way more electricity than is needed. Thus the explosion.. Just before we started to record he yelled.. FIRE IN THE HOLE! After we seen this we went up front to where they had their beauty class set up. I had a wonderful hand and arm massage. Jurney received a scalp massage. Ryan and Jaden headed back to the diesel department and ate cookies and enjoyed a coke. We had my friend Stacey watch Joshua and Josiah so that we could have an outing with the older ones.. All in all it was a fun and very interesting time.

2 Timothy 2:15 "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

9 Months today!

My baby is 9 months today.. he is Ryan Jr. for sure.. looks and all! My mom scrap blogged this picture that I took.. He is such a cute little guy! He almost has one tooth (on the bottom). He pulls himself up to things.. He is very close to crawling.. I know.. this really is a good thing to have him not totally mobile yet, but they are so cute when they start crawling! Well, who can believe it has been 9 months already.. NOT me!

Proverbs 23:25 "Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice."

Resolutions one month later!

I had announced that our whole family was going to be making some big changes and when we had all the kinks worked out I would let you all know what we are up to! Well, it has been one month since we all sat down as a family and decided that we wanted to be a healthy family! So, we now get up and exercise together everyday for 30 minutes. We eat proper portions and best of all we eat healthy foods. What a difference this has made.. Praise God for the discipline He has given to us to see this through!

Progress:

Ryan- lost 12 lbs.!

Me- lost 24 lbs. and 12 1/2 inches gone!

Jurney- lost 3 lbs. and 4 inches gone!

Jaden- working on a six pack

Joshua- well let's face it.. he never quits running.. He is a workout! :)

Josiah- working on crawling and cutting his first teeth!

1Timothy 4:8 "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come."