Finished project

Here's the finished project from Rachel's room. We put little jewels on the wall to dot the "i's". I had planned on a better bow, but alas I'm not overly crafty with my bow-making skills. So this will have to suffice.

Fireproof in 60

Our church is getting ready to start Fireproof Your Marriage. So while searching for promotional materials I came across this. The entire movie in 60 seconds. You won't want to watch it if you haven't seen the movie yet. Otherwise it's good for a laugh!

Aaron's Spell Bowl

Aaron competed on the Spell Bowl team on Friday. Spell Bowl is like a spelling bee, but as a team competition. Aaron's team didn't win, but he got all 4 of his words correct. Way to go Aaron!

I spoke at the womens conference in Indy this weekend. After 2 days of it and all the events of this past week, I'm a little beat. We will have a busy day at church tomorrow. Come Monday I am crashing and not planning on doing ANYTHING!

New lens

From misc winter

Got a new lens last week. I think I like it! :)

My Grandpa

My Grandpa Lynn went home to be with Jesus this morning. He was 91 years old and a godly man who lived a life filled with love. I will miss him.

I had to add this photo I found. I've flown commercial once in my life. The other times I was flying it was in this plane. :) Grandpa's blue tri-pacer.

Sunday

We enjoyed a great service this morning at church and then had a relaxing day. Rachel even got to take an old friend out for some fresh air. :) El Cinco enjoyed the sunshine!

Out working

Aaron and I headed downtown with a group of kids and parents from our church for Children's Ministry Day. We spent the morning at the Metro Baptist Center stocking food pantry shelves, restocking the clothing closet, and setting up for tomorrow's services.

You did a great job kids!

A special photo

Today we received a wonderful piece of mail. We had a letter from Mwajuma, the girl from Tanzania that we sponsor throught Compassion. Included in the letter was an updated photo. I was so happy to get the photo. The only picture we had of her came in our sponsorship packet.

She just seemed so sad and forlorn in this photo. However it sat, framed, in our living room to remind us daily to pray for her and her family. Here is the updated photo we received today.

She is wearing the clothes that she bought with the money we sent for her birthday back in October. I was also happy that her mother and brother were in the photo. She wrote us about buying new clothes and also rice and sugar with her money. I take hundreds of photos, but this one snapshot means the world to me. It has been such a blessing to write Mwajuma and be a part of her life. If you have ever considered how you could help children around the world, please visit the Compassion website today. It costs so little. We don't miss the dollar a day. It would mean the world to a child!

Lovely weather we're having

Paging Schmidt & Young!

The wind left us a present - a gaping section of siding gone. Late last night I was hearing a loud banging on the side of the house. You wouldn't think that siding hitting the side of the house would shake the entire wall, but it will. Went outside and two strips of siding were hanging down. Decided to sleep in the living room, because the bed is right on the wall where it was hitting. After 30 minutes we didn't hear it anymore. So we figured either it was blown completly off or one of the neighbors came out and ripped it off so they could get some sleep!

Out at the Home Show

Dusty and I loaded up the kids and trekked out to the Indianapolis Home Show. I figured that Aaron would complain, but he really liked it. He said that there was a lot of interesting things to look at. Here's a sampling:

The CP Morgan Showcase home built in the middle of an exhibition hall.

Aaron at the booth of our favorite construction company
Schmidt & Young Construction!

Professional pool player, Jeanette Lee "The Black Widow" running the table on some poor schmuck who went up against her.

Rachel with a piano just her size!

Princess Play Date

What can I say. They're girly girls. David was here too, but he was too busy playing the piano to go near the dress up stuff!

Things you don't see everyday

a stretch Hummer picking up kids at the elementary school

I think he's exaggerating

It's not THAT cold in the house...but I turned up the thermostat...a little

Here we go again

This was the scene outside when I went to pick Aaron up from school at 3:30 PM. Fortunately it lasted all of 15 minutes and then the sun came out. I'm trying to send the snow your way, Briana! It just doesn't want to leave us!!

Go Cardinals

Today the Hackney 4 will be cheering for the Arizona Cardinals. Yes, I know, we are Indianapolis Colts fans, but they're not in the Super Bowl now, are they! Therefore today we are officially Cardinals fans. It mainly boils down to the fact that I like Kurt Warner. I liked him back in the day when we lived in Illinois and were St. Louis Rams fans. He seems to have his priorities in place and I hope he wins another Super Bowl! Go Kurt!