Easy on the eyes

Hey, my mother-in-love, gave me the greatest tip!   She told me that she washes off her eye makeup with Johnson's baby shampoo.   I tried it and it works like a charm!  No tears and it's cheaper than all the other stuff out there.   Perfect!

I thought I should share the awesome information.  So you too, can have clear eyes.

Try it!  Oh, by the way, just a dab of it to put on a wet washcloth.  We finished a soap dispenser and poured the shampoo in it so we could have a pump for our bathroom. 

Pump it up!

God gives better gifts than Santa

So my family went to Blue Ridge (our church) on Saturday to serve. I was working with the stage design team to build our next stage, John was working in his office, and the boys were happily occupied playing Wii.

One of our teenager's moms came into John's office. We love their family and especially their youngest daughter. She said she felt God lead her to give us a gift card. Not just any gift card, a gift card to Best Buy....we were so thankful!

But then she said it was for $500! Whoa! What!

That was incredible! What a gift from God!

So, we wanted to pray about how to use the gift card. We were out by Best Buy and the parking lot was packed, so John went in to see if Band Hero was on sale, and it was! $50 less, and it was the last one so we decided to get it.

When John walked out of the store with the huge box in his hands the boys flipped! Because all four of us can play at the same time...drums, electric guitar, bass guitar, and sing :)

Spencer said, "God gave us a better present than Santa did!"

It's so true. God gives His children the best gifts. Thank you God for providing for us more than we could ever imagine.

1 John 3:1

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!

Hang 10 in 2010

Hang 10 in 2010 will be my boys slogan for this year. Their room is decorated in surf decor and hang 10 is a surfing term for "walking the board and hanging all 10 toes off the end."

John and I have wanted to get our family to memorize verses together. So what's that have to do with Hang 10...well....We will give our family a goal of memorizing 10 verses this year.

I'll put the 10 verses on a homemade paper surfboard. When they memorize it they'll get a sticker for that surfboard and be able to HANG it up in their room.

What do you think? Will the surfboards/stickers be enough motivation to memorize? Which verses would you recommend memorizing for 5 and 8 year olds?

It's a new year!

So, it's the new year and I'm back to blogging.

We'll see how that goes.

My goal is to have "Silent Sunday Nights" with my family. A quiet time to do quiet things....reflecting on the past week or Sunday's message then blogging my thoughts...so blogging on a weekly basis. My husband can do the same. And my boys can read books or write letters.

This idea is so brand new to me that I haven't even shared it with my family. It just kinda came to me while soaking in the tub.

I love hot baths. :)