Busy weekend comes to a close!

It’s been a fun and busy weekend! We went out Fri. night to the Casting Crowns concert (Thanks Kimmy)! Sat. was errands in the morning, my mom’s nails in the afternoon, and out with friends at night! Today was church, then we actually ate home today (normally we go to one of our parent’s house!), and Kyle was gone tonight to see Brian Regan! I did take a little nap this afternoon after reading a bit! Hopefully we are ready now for a new week!

Hole in the Gospel – Kyle and I have been reading this book, and our church, along with 4 other churches’ in this are have done a whole sermon series on it. It’s so convicting. World Hope is such a great organization! They have volunteers at every Casting Crowns concert, offering people the opportunity to “adopt” a child in need, they also just brought an exhibit to a local church that people can go thru and see into the life of a child living in Africa. Kyle and I have recently adopted a little boy in Africa. We chose a boy because we have so many girls here in our home and we wanted a little boy to take care of. It is so neat to pray about him with the girls and to teach our girls that they are so blessed to have what they have and that so many little kids live in such bleak situations. I can’t wait to communicate with him thru mail and encourage him in his schooling! We actually went thru Compassion International to adopt him. Such a small way that we can give back! Also have been convicted about how it looks to be a Christian in general. This morning’s sermon was great! It is about the symbol of Christianity – the cross and how as Christians we should want to be a living sacrifice (he paralleled the sacrifices in the old testament, the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus in the new testament, and then the call for us to be living sacrifices in the new testament as well). Just really making me think about how I can better be a living sacrifice to God! And in our Marriage/Family group Sunday School hour we heard more about the life of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar and we were challenged to rid our lives of pride. It’s kind of amazing how these all tie in too! It’s so neat to see God alive and active in our church/community, challenging us to be better Christians!

Ok – and you know I can’t finish off a blog post without some new LO’s! The first few are more 365 LO’s – I’ve been keeping up so far on a photo a day! And then some LO’s with some new products at The-Lilypad!

Whew…I think that’s it for now! Off to bed!

MandaKay

Back so soon???

Didn’t think I’d be back so soon, did ya?! I wanted to just hop in and update the 365 LO’s while I am thinking of it!

Here’s one more page I did while in the car on the way to Florida – forgot to post it!

Night,

MandaKay

Feeling Lucky

Shabby Miss Jenn just put out a new kit: Feeling Lucky, and it's adorable! Love the doodled "stickers" and it was fun to do a green LO - I don't think I use green a whole lot! And with Valentine's day and all I did a LO of my man - I'm so lucky to have him! He's such a hard worker, a fabulous and active dad, and a such a blessing in my life. I would be lost without him for sure!

I've got to get back here to post more of my Project 365 LO's and/or pics. I have definitely missed a few days - it's hard on the days I work b/c I just don't have time to snap a pic, and I am already having a hard time coming up with things to photograph. :( I am also discouraged by seeing other peoples pictures and how great they are! Oh well, I will try to keep trucking along!

Out for today!

MandaKay

Facebook

Facebook has taken over my blogging. It is just so easy to upload my pics to there and to give just snippets of information about what’s going on, that I have neglected the blog a bit. And it doesn’t help that facebooking is just so easy with having a blackberry and all. Technology – so many options, so little time! ;)

I’m blogging from Florida though today! We are on a Disney vacation! Our first trip to Disney! I’ve been to Disney about 12 years ago or so, but no one else in our family has been. It’s been a fun and busy week, and it is coming to an end tomorrow night. We’ve had so much fun! By tomorrow we will have had 8 days of Disney fun – in all 4 parks! We’ve rode on dozens and dozens of rides, watched some great parades, seen spectacular fireworks, and had a lot of fun! I have so many pictures – I think I’ve taken about 500 so far, and I put some of them on facebook, but I’ll share a few of my favorites here too, and of course I’ll be scrapping them, so I’ll share those as I do that as well! We haven’t had super good weather, but it’s better than being in MI in 12 degree weather! The worst part is the rain. Doing Disney in the rain with kids is just not real fun.

I could do so many more, but I figured most of you have seen them on facebook, so I will spare you! I can’t wait scrap these! I hope to make a whole Disney vacation book!

Today is probably our nicest day here! The kids have been swimming all morning, and this afternoon we will head to the Magic Kingdom again and catch the fireworks and all that again. I didn’t get any pictures of that the first time we did it because it was a rainy day, so I didn’t even take the camera with that day!

I haven’t been scrapping at all, but I know there is a dynamic BYOC coming to the Lilypad tomorrow – I can’t wait to play with some of the goodies once I get back!

Have a Dippity Doo Da Day!

MandaKay

Just some random LO’s

These 2nd and 3rd LO are quickpages that were offered free for The-Lilypad’s blog hop (product from the January BYOC!) a few weeks ago – still working on using those quickpages! And the first LO was done with a newer kit by Gina Miller at TLP!

Thanks for looking!

MandaKay

End of Week 3

Our week was largely focused on Selah and her 4th birthday! I finished week 3 of 365 project.

I did miss taking a picture on the 21st because I worked all day, and then taught a class at night, so I just didn’t have a spare moment to take a pic, but I’m not going to worry about it too much!

This week is going to fly by for us here! We leave Wed. night for Florida to do a big Disney trip, so there is a ton of stuff to finalize and get ready for! We are getting pretty excited though! The girls have never been to Disney, I have been probably 15 years ago, and Kyle was as a child – he doesn’t remember it, so pretty much a new experience for us all! I am looking forward to a little bit of warmth too – this Michigan cold does get annoying!

This morning we served breakfast at the Renucci House in Grand Rapids – a hospitality house for Spectrum Health. People can stay there that have loved ones in the DeVos Children’s hospital very a very low cost if they live further than 30 miles from the hospital. A group of us just brought in a bunch of egg dishes, cinn. rolls, fruit, and we made pancakes. It was super easy, and the guests seemed very appreciative! It was a great experience and we will definitely be doing that again (or something very similar!) After that we got the girls and also their cousins Sadie and Brooks and they have been playing ever since! They get to do a sleepover tonight again, so they are all thrilled! Lot’s of excitement this weekend as usual!

Signing Out,

MandaKay

Valentines – Digi Style

It’s time for all the fabulous valentine goodies to start coming out! I love valentine goodies – always great combination of reds and pinks and browns! Shabby Miss Jenn Designs just put out a new kit that is full of these valentine colors! And the great thing is, it is so versatile that you can use it for so many other things! Here is the page I created using the kit:

And she has these great packs you can buy that will make your kids valentine’s treats be the best ones of all! Who wouldn’t love a personal hand made little valentine treat from your kid this year?!

And her little hybrid party packs are the coolest too! Wouldn’t these make the shabbiest party ever?!

So, I have entered the Penscrappers monthly challenge. It is a site that gives tutorials, and information on scrapbooking and using a Wacom Tablet to scrap. I love my Wacom Bamboo Fun that I have, and they give our a free kit on their site! You can enter even if you don’t have a tablet to scrap with, so go ahead and grab the kit and scrap a page and submit it! And if you don’t want to submit a page, would you vote for mine?!!! You don’t have to register on the site or anything to vote!

VOTE HERE!

Thanks a bunch!!! Have a great Tuesday!

MandaKay