Quilt finished

It's finished........It is defiantly NOT perfect...but that's okay. I will learn and get better. It feels great to have it finished, a big accomplishment.

Dinner is served!

Well tonight I decided to make rice balls for dinner. I took the recipe from a cook book Justin bought me for Christmas 2 years ago. I just HAD to have this book and this is the first time I've made anything from it.

It's by Jessica Seinfeld. The idea behind the book is to hide veggie that your kids wouldn't normally eat. I really don't have that problem but I thought the book would be fun.
So, I find myself rolling the rice into a ball, then rolling it in a veggie puree/egg wash then into bread crumbs and then to the pan for a light frying. Frying you say, well I guess you have to start somewhere.

Anyway, Justin walked in as I was mixing the veggie and egg wash, I choose spinach tonight for this. You can only imagine what his comment was, "I'm NOT eating that". Okay that's fine that is your choice, I thought to my self, no need for an unnecessary argument, right. Well off to the shower he goes as I start to fry these rice balls. Into the kitchen he comes in a bit of a hurry to get out the door saying to Eli, "well I guess I will try one of these rice things and then dad has to go". Much to my surprise Justin turns to me and says "well I was wrong these are pretty good". I kindly said thank you as he inhaled another before dashing out the door.

Dinner was a SUCCESS!!!! It sure is nice to hear those words. Especially when it comes to my cooking.

So maybe I will do the Julie/Julia thing and blog all of the recipes I make from this book. I won't do one a day. It may take me several years, but I'll let you know how the next one turns out.

All though the sun didn't shine much today like it has recently, today is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it......

Grace and Peace!!

A Word

Romans 8:31-39

If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[j]

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now read this again, but this time read is slow. Pay attention to the underlines and highlights. Tonight at BSF our lecture leader had us close our eye's and she read this to us. It's crazy how scripture changes when someone else reads it to you with your eyes closed.

I hope that this brings something new to you as it did for me tonight.

If you have questions about who this God is in your life lets talk......

God Bless, rest well in His comfort!!

Yoga

Lynsey watched Eli a few weeks ago while I scrap booked with the girls. She and Eli made some cookies. Lynsey said Eli ate more chocolate in that day then he's ever had in his whoppin two years of life. He really loves to help in the kitchen.

I love this smile!!!!!!

The finished product!!!! Time it dig in....O' wait they have been eating for the last hour!!!!

Adoption
Please continue to pray for us. We still need to do all of the paperwork. Pray for us to make that time.

And finally, I made it to a yoga class this morning......and I'm hooked!!!!!!

My boy's

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17

Boy do I love these guys.....even with their pale skin. It was nice to enjoy a whole day together last week during the snow.

We are "multi taskers" around here. Eli wont let me help him brush his teeth so I give him the brush and let him chew for a while in hopes that will do the trick. Sorry to all of the mom's I ever said bad things about for not brushing their teeth, my bad!!

Time for a rest, lets kick back the chair.

Good bye for now!!!!!

little drummer boyz

They beat to their own drum....literally. Our friends came over for dinner and the boys rapped the night up with some music for us. Josiah has drums at home to so they were making some great music for us....I bet you can hear the sweet sound right now as you are reading this......if not maybe next time they play I will video it and post that so you can share in the joy of two young boy's on the drums.

If you can't wait for the release of their album, I may be able to send you a demo. It's something special!! I guarantee that!!
We only had 1 "face meets drum stick" and no one was seriously injured.

I hope you enjoyed the pics!!!!!

See you next time!!!!

QUILTING

I really like to create things. I think sewing is a good way for me to do that. I am good at sewing, and if I sit right, it is relaxing. This is my latest project. I start many and finish, well not very many. I have had this fabric for several years. I bought it with the intention of making a quilt for a friends little girl and never started it. So I will make it now. I have found several blogs about quilting and they have given me great inspiration. So yesterday I sat down and started. I had it cut out already which seems to be tricky for me. I can never seem to cut even. I'm hoping practice makes perfect....and a few tools that should help. So for now wish me luck and I will post the finished product.

ADOPTION update.....

Right now things are moving very slow!!!!! We really have to start all over with background checks and physicals. And well, we just haven't made the time. So, please keep praying for us....that we make the time and that the right birth mom comes to us at the right time.....

Follow Him!!!!

Eli

I
ReallyLoveThis Boy

The best snow ever

The storm of the century finally came to visit West Michigan. It seems that they are always talking about it coming but then it never does.





Funny thing, my mom moves to Colorado and they have no snow where she is, but here it's a different story! This picture below just cracks me up. This is something that would happen to me.

Watching Wilson out in the drifts was so much fun. The piles of snow outside are bigger then he is. He just bounces around like a gazelle. I had no clue this dog could move like that.

Eli had fun too. I think he would have stayed out there all day, and if I would have let him I think his little hands would have fallen of at the wrists. It didn't seem to bother him that his hand were almost frozen.




(all of these pics I found on wood TV 8....some GR and some not, the snowed IN car was Chicago, poor person)