Emily's 4 Year Old Pictures

Emily will be 4 years old on March 29th. I took her pictures today so they'd be ready to give out at her party on Sunday.

It's God's Garden

One of the things we did at church was to repaint the nursery.

The first step was to put primer over the existing decor.

These don't look quite as bad in these pictures as they did in person. The lines were very thick and messy. Especially the Tigger that is cut off on the right side of this picture.

The bottom of the walls was covered in a marble sheeting of some sort. We had to use special primer that would cover shiny surfaces. This picture also shows the original location of a cabinet they moved to the other side of the room.

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Primer all done

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Andrew slept in the corner

Day 2: Paint first coat

Day 3: Paint 2nd coat of green and touch up spots on blue

Step 2 of Day 3: Paint accent flowers.

We got some wood flowers and bugs to use on the walls and it saved us having to paint them all!

Sarah filling in the leaves.

Emily filling in leaves.

William helping with a flower.

"Finished"

I forgot to move the reading corner curtain to take a picture of the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" we painted in the corner.













William in the nursery (with one shoe on and one shoe off)

We still need to hang a little bulletin board and add a few more painted bugs.

Amazing Grace Baptist Church

Our church had its 1st service October 6, 2007 and since then, we've met in several locations.

1st, we met at one of the member family's pole barn. (10/6/07)
That is Dan and me in the front row (I'm pregnant with William)

2nd, we met at a local orchard's multi purpose building (2/3/08)

3rd, we met at our Pastor's house (8/3/08)

Then a church building became empty and we moved there. (5/3/09) We were 1 of 3 ministries meeting there.

The church association that owns the building needed the pews for another church, so we started using folding chairs (10/18/09)

At the beginning of March, the other 2 ministries decided to not meet at the building any more, giving us sole occupancy. We've been doing a lot of work in the church to "up date" it.

1st service with our new chairs! (03/21/10)

Ahh! Spring!

The weather has been beautiful this week. (into the 60's) so the kids have been outside playing quite a bit this week.

Here is William strolling across the yard..

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.Emily was "picking flowers" (aka gathering leaves).

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Andrew's first time playing outside when it was warm and he liked it a lot better than the snow!

bearbits Spring Giveaway

bearbits is having a Spring giveaway of a cute bear named Blossom. Wouldn't that be perfect for me as Blossoms and Blessings?

Handmade Crocheted Baby Booties

I had crocheted a pair of pink Mary Jane baby booties for a lady in the middle of working on the custom ordered R2 hats, and she liked them so much, she ordered 6 more pairs!

Andrew is 7 Months Old!

Well, another month has gone by and it's time to post pictures of Andrew!