Dance in the Moment: 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

Waiting on one more present to be delivered.....

One thing for sure, these two girls have their own personalities, and they are NOT afraid to show them!!! I'm not sure if I felt sorry for them that day (because they were having a great time) or for Krisha (because she wanted one, just one, good photo for her Christmas card).

I love these "bloopers", because it represents these two perfectly! If you are having a bad day, just spend a few minutes with these two, they will make you smile, laugh, and remember what life is really about.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Merry Christmas

We hope everyone had a wonderful

Christmas with family and friends.

Their favorite gifts from Pop Pop and Moma D

(Princess Ponies)

Preparing Christmas Shoe boxes

We have participated in the Samaritan's Purse, "Operation Christmas Child" for the last couple of years. We have always prepared special shoe boxes in honor of Aubrey and Lainey to be given to little girls their own age.
However, this year, Krisha and I decided that the girls were old enough to prepare the boxes themselves. To help them understand what they would be doing , "You will be giving these presents to other little girls, you will not be keeping these presents", we let them watch a video of the African Children's Choir (click to watch video) on a Gaither's Christmas Video that also showed children in Africa being given shoe boxes by Bill and Gloria Gaither, with Franklin Graham.
Aubrey and Lainey still do not fully gasp the significance of what sending these gifts mean, but they did enjoy packing them and knowing that somewhere in the world, four little girls would be getting gifts from them that otherwise might not get a gift for Christmas.
When they were watching the videos, they even went to the TV screen and pointed to some of the little girls and said, "I want her to get my box".
We found out last week that the boxes went to Madagascar. There are four precious little girls around the world from us that have letters and handprints from two very, very special little girls here!

Monday, October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween

Glenda the Good Witch and Dorothy

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Homecoming Parade....

Jim and I went with Krisha and the girls to Alabama's Homecoming Parade on Saturday. Before the parade Krisha and I had to make a stop in "The Shirt Shop" for a new tee, then Jim treated us to lunch at Mugshots. Aubrey and Lainey enjoyed the parade, but Lainey is more outgoing and not as afraid to talk to people. She loved waving at the beautiful Queen and her court....while Aubrey had her head on Jim's shoulder peeking out with one eye!

Jim and Krisha went to the ballgame, but the girls and I stayed home and watched Shrek, Shrek II, Shrek Forever After and Scared Shrekless!!! (I got to get updated scores of the game as I changed movies!)

Jim, Ed and Krisha

Today when they came over, we (Aubrey, Lainey, Pop Pop, D, and Dan) had to pretend that we were having a parade in the backyard. One person held the baton, another played the drums, another threw out candy to the crowd, and the other person was the crowd! Over and over, and over again! They have a wonderful imagination.

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend too!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Catching up.......

Several people have asked why I haven't been updating our blog. I could say that I've just been lazy and haven't been as dedicated to it as I should be, but instead I am going to say that it is because we have been busy living life, instead of writing about it! (Sounds better, right?)

Jim recently became the Plywood Plant Superintendent for Koch (Georgia Pacific) in Taylorsville, MS. God has truly blessed us with this opportunity. It also put him closer to home! He is very excited about the challenges ahead with this position.

We have been very active in our church's Life Group. If you aren't familiar with what this is, instead of having Sunday night services at our church, we meet in each other's homes. We have been blessed to become part of a group that is totally amazing. We can not imagine facing any kind of life situation without these Christian friends beside us.
We have a "theme" each week (Mexican, Tailgating, Comfort Foods, etc.) and everyone brings a dish. We eat, discuss the morning sermon given by Brother Dan (Williams), do praise/prayer request and then eat again!!!! What could be better!!
Jim and I have hosted two of the Life Group meetings recently and enjoyed having these great people in our home. They are no longer guests, they are family!
Some of the great people in our group:

Scott & Kathy

David & Karen , Reagan

Aleixs & Autumn

Gerald & Denise

Rick & Kristy

Luke, Kristy & family

Joseph & Courtney

Naturally, most of our time is spent being Pop Pop and "D" to the girls. They are growing up so fast and changing so much.

Beautiful Litte Girls, no longer babies :(

Mascots for Berry's Homecoming

Helping Krisha blow our her birthday candles!

All our beautiful girls together

Eli has been battling an ear infection and allergies all summer. Hopefully this last round of medication finally resolved the ear infection. He loves when the girls come to visit.

And, we have really, really been enjoying BAMA football, ROLL TIDE.

(Notice ANYTHING wrong with that picture? We still love you Dan!!!)

OH, some more exciting news..................

I have offically become a member of a ladies Bunco group. We meet once a month for a wonderful time of eating, socializing and playing Bunco. This game is so addictive! I love playing it and I am having so much fun with these 11 ladies!! (Did I mention I won last month???? I won all the great gifts for Fall decorating, my house looks great!)

I am sure I am leaving out an important event that happened, but this should catch the blog up. Thanks for reading...........now, back to living, not writing about it.