Swimming Update! (By Becca)

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WAS TYPED BY BECCA, (sorry if there are any misspellings!): Swimming! I have gone swimming everyday in the past 3 days!It's OOBER fun! (That one's for you, Connie) I am learning how to dive; I never realized that you have to squat and all that junk. I finally can now go under water for like 6 seconds, and I don't have to hold my nose (that much). And, instead of going leg by leg underwater, I just jump in. Sometimes, the pool will sway when me and Grayson jump in.

I've even made a boat! I got a lawn chair and all the pool NOODLES (I love saying the word "noodles")and tried to place 3 going vertical and 3 going horizontal. Except, I cant lay down in it. I'll just flop over!

I'll have my mom take a picture and post it here! (Of my boat, of course)

A Palace!!!who knew?

C.S. Lewis put it well when he gave us the analogy of remodeling the human soul and a living house: " Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently, He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of--throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace."

Earring Keepers

THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE WAS TYPED BY Becca, (sorry if there are any misspellings)I just got some new dangly earrings and have been dying to make a craft to keep them in! I got two little boxes and cut the tops off them, wrapping a paper towel around each. Then I pierced the earring rods through the paper towel, and VOILA! Earring Keepers! I now keep them in my bathroom where they are safe and sound! More are yet to come, so thats why they are empty. The long one is meant for oober dangly earrings, and the little ones are for normal ones.Here thay are:

Under the Sea...

My NeW BeDdiNg!

I have gone private!... and a little tip...

I am nuts! I admit it! I want to write what I want and not worry about what people think when they read it! I hope you don't mind having to sign in!
I was making my bed today and fluffing up the pillows, it is so pretty! I will put up a pic so that you can see my pretty bed set that my sissy got me for my birthday! But, I did think of one tip I need to pass on...

From now on I will not buy two pillows to put in the euro shams... I will buy the real euro pillows! I bought two small pillows at Wal-Mart and shoved them in the euro pillow sham. I have to fluff and pound each pillow to death every time I make the bed! Ugh! It is such a pain, not worth the work! I truly believe that the extra money for euro pillows is worth the time you spend making the cheap pillows look like euro pillows... whew... I already feel better... ok, off to take a pic!

Grateful

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~Marcel Proust

I have needed to write a HUMONGOUS (isn't that a great word?) THANK YOU to all of those involved in the benefit! I came home and had pneumonia for 3 weeks and then my sister came to visit for a week, I know~ excuses, excuses!
We will never know all of those that gave so freely of their time, money, and most of all undying support through prayer and fast. We do know that we are forever changed by all of you! Because of what you have shown our family, I know I have changed. I know that I want to be a better person in so many ways. It has really made me step back and reflect on life and what I need to be changing personally. I wish I could give all of you a big hug and a thank you personally.
Eli is doing very well, he spent five days in the hospital last week due to a complication from a previous surgery... I think we need to expect some kinks here and there. Other than that he is taking his medications and looking like a healthy young man! It is so amazing what modern medicine can do! After all of this, I look at him and can barely believe all of the months in the hospital.
We are truly blessed by our Heavenly Father! He led us to Saint Johns... I truly believe that. I love you and miss you all!