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Not Me! Monday & Craft Projects

I did not take a BIG bite of Emily's popsicle tonight just to tease her. She did not think it was totally funny. :)

Craft Projects

Emily made an aquarium at school last week. God made the fish. Gen 1:21

And in Sunday School, they talked about Noah. She colored this rainbow, which I thought was very good.

She also made this ark with some animals on it. But what happened to the animal on the left??? haha, I'm loving it!

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Grass ... Pumpkins ... Mums

Grass

Last week at Cubbies, Emily and I planted cups of grass seeds. Emily's is on the left, mine is on the right.

Same cups last night. By tonight, Emily's grass is taller than the top of the cup while mine is barely visible.


Pumpkins

Yesterday, we went to buy some pumpkins and flowers to get our yard ready for fall.

Mums

And we got these purple mums and the white ones with the yellow centers.

And the red ones, but I love the white ones with the yellow centers.

And check out these little pansies.

And these pretty yellow mums.

And these other yellow mums.

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Fireproof

Mike and I went to see Fireproof last night with Gary and Cherry. It was a really good movie. I'd encourage you to go see it, if you haven't already.

Here is a short preview for you to watch.

Mike says he will still take me to see Nights in Rodanthe. I hope we can! Someone told me that they didn't like the ending. It apparently does not end like a Cinderella story. We'll see.

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I won!

Updated:

I won a Mini Album over at The Life, Faith, and Creativity of Jessica Turner today! She was giving away 25 of these and she randomly drew my name. I'm so excited! I'm totally not a scrapbooker, but I think I can handle a mini-book. Jessica posted pictures of the Mini Album that she put together and it's sooo cute. Be sure to visit her blog and check it out.

First Learning Center

Emily got her First Learning Center t-shirt today. It's a Noah's Ark theme.


She also made a cow picture today. Those are her finger prints in case you didn't notice.


Last night at Cubbies, we planted grass seeds. Here are our cups.



And one more picture ... of Emily's Jumper patch for her Cubbies Vest.

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Thai Coconut Chicken Medallions

One of the meals we like is Thai Coconut Chicken Medallions. It comes in a kit in the frozen foods section at the grocery store and I usually fix some rice to go with it. We really like it. It's spicy but it tastes good.

And best of all ... 6 WW points per serving!

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Cubbies Tonight

Emily and I will be going to Cubbies tonight.

Our verse is Ecclesiastes 3:11 "He ... made everything beautiful ...". Emily already knows her verse so we're one step ahead of where we were last week.

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Not Me! Monday

I totally did not almost run over my foot with the riding lawn mower!!! I'm much too careful to do something like that. Something like that would NEVER happen to me. And Thank You God for protecting me and my little foot ... since the whole foot thing never happened.

Update: Boss's Snack Day

The snack day for my boss's birthday turned out pretty good today. In addition to the brownies, no-bake cookies, sausage balls, 5-layer dip and chips that I brought, we also had Krispy Kreme doughnuts, chocolate cupcakes (Yum!), and pita chips and cream cheese raspberry chiptle dip. With all that good food, we all ate a lot .. all day. So I'm glad we don't do these snack days very often.

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Emily's Art Work

I had an idea today to use my blog to display some of Emily's projects from Sunday School/Cubbies/School. Here are pictures of few pieces of art that Emily has made recently.

The chalk drawing from Cubbies last week. Emily's Jumper book from Cubbies. Check out her expression in the picture!!! Also, I forgot to mention that she got her first patch for her Cubbies vest last week. I've got to figure out how to attach the patch. Any ideas?
Emily's hands from Sunday School this morning.

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Pictures from Our Afternoon/Evening

After our nap this afternoon, we had to take a bath so that we could go visit Mike's parents. I figured we would be out late so better to get our bath before we left. When we got over to Nanny's house, Mason was there and he had been asking where Emily was.
He was wearing a "cape" (blanket) and carrying around a "wand" (straw) and he told me that he was Beast (from Beauty and the Beast.) This is him saying "I"m Beast!"I thought this picture was funny the way they were sucking down their juice. I found out later that it wasn't juice, but tea! That explains a lot.
While Pops was grilling the burgers and dogs, Emily and I went outside to play on the swing set.

Then after we ate, Madison and Mason joined us for some outdoor fun. The moms watched the kids while the dads and grandparents watched the OU game.

We left before half-time so that Emily could go to bed. We've had lots of busy days lately and I see no end in sight.

On one final note for the night, my PaPaw passed away one year ago today. Still miss him. Sure wish I could have been with my Mom today. Hopefully we'll get to see her in a few weeks.

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Pictures from Our Morning

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Finally Friday!

For some reason, this seemed like the longest work week and I am so so so glad it's over. We had Date Night (which should be re-labeled Family Night) tonight and went to eat some yummy fajitas at Alfredo's.

We have no special plans for this weekend. I wanted to go see Nights in Rodanthe, but so far that's not working out. Instead, I'll probably lay around in bed and read Sail.

This morning at work, our group decided to organize a snack day on Monday to celebrate our boss's birthday. Did I mention that I'm the only female in our small group? Do any of these guys know how to cook? Scary thoughts. haha So anyway, I'm trying to figure out what I can fix for snack day. I was thinking maybe sausage balls, but I don't know what else.

Does anyone have some ideas or a snack recipe that I can try?

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"Please don't do that."

Tonight, Emily and I went to Cubbies. I had five boys and girls in my class. I think Emily had more than that in her class. Our classes accidentally met in the bathroom and it was chaos.

Our verse was Genesis 1:1 - "God created the heavens and the earth." We learned that God created the light and we made chalk drawings. We talked about what we do during the day and at night. Then we hunted bunny tails. (Scattered cotton balls in the dark room and used flash lights to find them.) Aren't you glad that God made the light??

While we were eating our snack (oreo cookies) tonight, I was singing along with our song for the week and one of the sweet little girls looked up at me and said "Please don't do that." Haha, I guess she told me!!!

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News on my Camera

Mike asked me to take a picture of him tonight. He has to have a "mug shot" for the Truck Stop Ministry that he's getting involved in. So I got out my new camera and the touch screen WORKED! It worked just fine. I was able to get to the menu and I did the process to reset the touch screen like the book talked about. I was thrilled! I guess I won't have to send it back now. Yah!!!

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Not Me! Monday

1) I did not loiter in the bathroom stall for several minutes this morning at work to avoid having to speak to someone I don't particularly like.

2) I did not boot up my extra PC and pull up a spreadsheet to make myself look extra busy when the VP came through our area at work this morning.

3) I totally did not eat an ice cream sandwhich while cooking dinner tonight and waiting for my sweet family to arrive home. And I also did not hide the wrapper so that nobody would know. (Hi honey! Love you!)

Nope, not me!

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As you can see, I've jumped on the Not Me! Monday bandwaggon started by MckMama over at My Charming Kids. I've been reading some of the post over at MCK and they are hilarious! I just had to post a few of my own. Go check them out for yourself! And while you're there, read about MckMama's son Stellan. This family is in desperate need of our prayers right now.

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Halloween Costume Trial Run And Other News

Mike's mom bought Emily an Ariel costume when they were in Florida the other week. Tonight, we tried it on to make sure it would fit. As you can see from the pictures below, it does fit and and Emily looks very cute in it. We were missing one shoe, but we went ahead and took a few pictures. As usual, her smiles look very fake when I ask her to smile so some of the later pictures where when I told her to "twirl" in her dress.

This is not the crown that she'll be wearing, but we had to have some type of crown for our pictures. (Of course, silly me.)She said that she hopes to get some Smarties when she goes Trick or Treating.
This is my favorite picture.
And here is one of the fancy shoes. I actually dig the shoes.

In Other News ....

My new camera has a major malfunction. The touch screen has become unresponsive. It will occasionally respond, but it's as if I touched a different part of the screen. The manual says to go into the Menu and reset it, but I can't get the Menu button to respond at all. So I guess I'm going to have to send it back. I'm totally bummed about this since I will be without a camera for however long it takes to get it back.

Hope you all have a great week!

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Family Time

Yesterday morning, we took Emily to gymnastics. It was Teddy Bear Day and she took her stuffed elephant named Sweetheart. They got to jump on the air trampoline and did some work on the balance beams. Then they went to their small groups and worked on cartwheels and some rolls. I just wish the parents could see what they were doing in small group time.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any good pictures of Emily and Sweetheart.

Then after gymnastics, Mike wanted to take us to Ted's for lunch but Emily didn't want to go. So we went home for lunch and then took a nap. It worked out for the best anyway. We took a long nap and then went back to Ted's for supper.

Then this morning after church, we went with the family to Cracker Barrell for lunch. Emily threw a little tantrum because she didn't want to sit with me. That's becoming more and more typical these days. So she went and sat by the girls. Here they are after lunch sitting in some of the rocking chairs on the porch. The picture turned out a little dark, but they had a good time.

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