life, as christian sees it: March 2009

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Spring Day

We had to hit the WalMart for underware today and about one mile away is Buttermilk Falls so we stopped and gazed for about 5 minutes.

Our daughter was pretty sure she'd fall in if she stood in front of it so this is her picture.

While we were doing this Rob was playing paintball with the youth group boys. He chose to defend the fort while the boys chose to attack. The boys choice proved to be a bit smarter! ;0)

An old wooden silo I saw on a drive the other day.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Happy St. Patrick's Day

My 3 year old asked me how to spell this! She did great!

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Mimi & Papa's

Rob's Aunt Amy, Uncle Mark, and our nephew Joey were all up from GA this week so we traveled to Rob's mom's Tuesday for dinner with the fam.

Our daughter liked this pretty little table her Uncle Nate brought for the girls to sit at.

Dee's dog is 7lbs fully grown! So cute!

Our son and nephew hit it off GREAT!!! They played all night long and were sad to see each other go. They haven't seen one another in years.

What a crew!

Hailey having a little dinner with Aunt Amy's help.

Rob as we sang Happy Birthday to him.

Our daughter LOVES dogs.

How adorable is my niece?!?!?!?!

What a little peanut. She's so quiet and just takes it all in.

I went to grab my purse and saw that Katie was using it as a pillow :0)

Check out my-mother-in-law's new ride! How cool is Rob's Mom?!

This is just a picture my son drew for me yesterday that I thought I'd share.

Have a great day all.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Our Last Month or So

Just an up date on the Abells

On Feb 14th the kids and I helped the Sunday School decorate 72 dozen sugar cookies that we pre-sold to raise money to aide a third world family through Heifer International.

The youth event I organized went off w/o a hitch with 150 in attendance!! Not bad for a town with no stop lights! I told the youth there that I did not want this to just be a fun event but the beginning of a conversation. I didn't want to talk at them but WITH them. I took their emails, cell numbers for texting, facebook, myspace info, etc. We will continue the conversation in the months to come.

For tons of Cabin Fever pics go to our youth blog at http://www.thelimegreenroom.blogspot.com/

"Yo Mama Ain't Here" sign. (I told the kids at the beginning of the day that I wanted everyone to have fun but that I was not their Mama and would not pick up after them. I selected one youth to be the YMAH Police and carry this sign shouting "Yo Mama Ain't Here!" whenever he saw a violation.

The Next Day was youth Sunday at our church and the girls dance team I lead performed for the first time. They did so good! I was so proud! (Ages 5-9)

My daughter decided to draw with chalk in 18 degree weather...

We visited the work cite of the cousins of ours who are going to build our timber framed house in Endicott.

This is the family trying to help me visualize how big our main room would be (cuz this one is bigger than our house will be).

My son checking out the 2nd story.

Today for family day we painted bird houses.

Updates on Cutting Calories and Credit Cards:

2/6 - Lost 4# this week so back on track. No credit spending. Hate credit so much! Looked at my balance this week and wanted to puke. Just want it GONE. Someday it will be. Chip away, chip away.

1/30 - Birthday weeks are NOT great weeks to be trying to loose weight! Actually GAINED 3# - yuck. But knew I would because between my son's bday celebration and two different ones for me there was no way I'd loose. Soooo back to the grind this week. Hopefully I can at least make that weight up and get back to what I weighed in at on the 23rd. Credit spending (or actually non-spending) was fine this week but it was very stressful to not have that resource for my son's birthday gifts and party. Also, as I'm trying to loose weight it's rough because healthy food costs more and I'm trying to grocery shop with LESS money bc of the no credit thing... *sigh* - No pain, no gain, right?

1/23 - So this week was loooong. Wasn't sure I'd loose any because I was working so much I didn't get time to exercise BUT I still lost 2#. Sweet! So I'm down 8# total for the month. Spent a little money on credit this week via iTunes but I'm ok with that. Baby steps.

1/16 - Lost only 1 pound this week but I guess one pound is one pound. Might have been more but I had a hot date with Rob and we ate like kings :) ------ Nothing new with finances. Still good.

1/10 - Lost just 2 tenths shy of 2# this week. Feeling pretty good about that. Of course I would love to loose it in big chunks but I'm sure that would mean the weight wouldn't stay off bc I was just starving myself and not really changing my lifestyle. ------ Another week with no credit to bail me out. Groceries were lean because I didn't plan well but of course we all survived because it was my American (aka blessed) "lean" which means we had stuff to eat just not stuff we like :0) So this week I will hope to manage everything better. The debt is still sickening but at least nothing was added to it this week.