Tapestry Webinars

I just finished watching the webinar titled "Tips for teaching a houseful".  Wow!  These webinars have been a tremendous blessing to me this summer.  I have felt really empty with the loss of my mother, and like I just needed a way to be a good mom again- I have been drained.  These have definitely helped, especially coming from such a strong biblical point of view.  I highly recommend them.  Let me see if I can manage the link in here somewhere!

Tapestry of Grace  

Once you get there, click on the main tab labeled "Tapestry of Grace" and on the page that comes up you will see a box on the far right labeled "watch free webinars".  These are well worth the time invested to make you a better teacher and mom.  Enjoy!

It Lives!

I don't know how or why, but my template is restored!  Yea!

Here is a pic of the fam in San Antonio two summers ago at Sea World.  Okay, so dressing alike is corny, but it really helps to be able to spot all of your kids!

Here is one more of us all at the "Dine With Shamu" backstage event.  It was really neat, but what you can't see is that if Shamu wanted us for lunch, all he would have to do is jump a very little way to get us!  After some of the tragedies involving killer whales in captivity I am nervous in hind sight!

The end of our table butted up to the railing, and on the other side of the railing was this:

He might have been ten feet from us.  While we were eating the trainers were explaining about the care and upkeep of one of these massive beasts, and if I remember correctly they eat enough fish to equal a small cow each day.  My next thought was (yuck) and the trainers swim in that water! What goes in...

blogging blues

I am not sure what is going on here.
I am getting an error message all over the page that reads something like bandwidth exceeded.  I am having to start over on a template here-- we shall see what happens.  I may have to switch to another blog host.  I am liking blogger less and less. 

Better than TV

The black one is the boss (in the pic with A).  The one in front with L is the one that lays the easter eggs.

Making breakfast

These three made muffins from scratch the other morning for everyone.  Chocolate Chip oatmeal kinda healthy muffins! 

Beating the heat

This is my first attempt to post video- hopefully I will get better at it!  Turn up the volume a bit to hear Lance laughing at W.  Pretty cute!

Our summer in pictures

She is a farm girl at heart!

Summer fun

We always hate it when the public school kids go back to school the second week of August---our neighborhood pool closes and WE still have lots of summer left!  They will still be open on weekends, but no longer can we take our supper by poolside, and swim til almost bedtime!  Sigh
As you can see, our pool isn't very busy in the evenings. That suits us just fine!  Oh well, they couldn't stay open even if they wanted too- there isn't anyone to work as lifeguard since all our life guards go back to highschool or college.

 

My supers

Thanks Samuel for capturing my supers!