Something Brand New!

Hello friends and neighbors! I just wanted to tell you about the new blog that my friend Amanda has started. Amanda and her husband, Jeremy, are on deputation preparing to be missionaries to Brazil, South America. They also have three adorable boys! Our church began supporting them in January. I know you will enjoy her photos and her news of their travels to different churches. I appreciate all of our missionaries so much. It takes a lot of character and a close walk with the Lord to go out by faith, not just to a church somewhere in the US, but to a foreign field.

I hope you can stop by and say hello to her at www.tylerfamilytales.blogspot.com She is a very godly lady and I am blessed to call her my friend.

Thanks for visiting my little blogspot! Have a wonderful day!

Thank You, Kristy!

We had an awesome surprise today! We got a FedEx package from the Rowell family today! Now, I've met Bro. Mike Rowell, many moons ago! But I've never met his wife, Kristy. I found her blog on the Internet after my husband found Mike's blog. I had just started blogging, and we started chatting back and forth. Today, the FedEx man delivered us a box from them! No one could imagine what was in the package!

Here are some photos:

Dad opening our surprise gift!

All the kids got sacks of goodies like this one.

Inside we found candy bags for the kids, a coffe cup for me with some yummy little cookies, a candy bar for Terry and the best mini muffins you've ever tasted! (Chocolate and Banana Chip!) She wrote us a very kind note - just the encouragment that I needed! She put Fun Dip in the goody bags, and my kids had never eaten Fun Dip before! What a great day they had. It came at just the right time of day, too! We had just finished lunch! Here's a thank you video my kids made. Mitchell is still a little hoarse! Bless his heart! (I meant to say "thank you" too on the video, but I got so carried away with helping the kids say thank you that I turned it off without saying it at all! Sorry! Please know that I'm sending you a HUGE "thank you" too Kristy! I don't deserve a friend like you, that's for sure. I do hope we can meet sometime in the future!)

Graphics By Diane ~

I wanted to share these great graphics that my friend, Diane in West Virgina, made! I wasnt' sure how to use them on my blog yet, but I wanted to go ahead and share them with you this way. They are great!
Also, if anyone has any favorite sites to get graphics from, please comment. There are so many, and I don't know where to begin. Your help could save me a lot of "surfing" time!
Enjoy the graphics!

Thank you, Diane!!