Elijah's haircut

This was from back in September when Brent was cutting Elijah's hair. He's such a ham!!

Guess who?

I hate this picture isn't more clear, but to the ones that get it, they will still think that it is funny.

Reading...

I have a small dilemma -

I have several books started -

Children the Challenge which I've discussed previously...I"m on chapter 9 of 36 chapters
Chances Are (a novel)
Experiencing God (a daily study guide...for the Bible study I'm participating in)
Billy (a newly released book that is a biography of Billy Graham's life)

It's kind of complicated to be reading so many books at one time...and makes them all go by so much slower.

Well...it could be a much worse dilemma...

Camera

I have gotten so slack with my camera. There have been lots of photo opportunities that I have missed. I have had some technical dilemmas with my camera so I guess I've just given up on it. I like my camera but I always seem to have camera issues. Yesterday my friend Jodi was nice enough to let me take pictures at Elijah's party with her camera since I forgot mine. Hopefully she will email them to me very soon.

The other sad thing is that Brent lost everything on his computer and I lost a lot of pictures. The good part is that at least the best ones were posted on the blog so I have those.

I missed some great photo opportunities over Halloween...I need to try to get some from some other people.

Happy Birthday Elijah!!!

My little boy is 3. I can't believe it. It seems like he was born yesterday. His birthday is now bittersweet because it is so close to Michael's death...that's interesting to me since he is so much like Michael in looks and personality. I should put up a picture of Elijah and Michael at the same age so you can get the idea...I will have to work on that.

We had a wonderful birthday party for Elijah yesterday. Lots of friends and family showed up and we had a good time. The kids got to go on a "mini-hayride" and got to ride dad and Karen's (aka Chevy, Nolan, Elijah, and Maddy's) pony Dixie.

Elijah got lots of great "boy" gifts...construction vehicles, tractors, a garbage truck (his personal favorite) and others. He actually would have been just as happy with a couple of the gifts unlike his brother who says "Aren't there any more presents?" Another favorite gift of both Nolan and Elijah was Incredible Hulk "boxing" hands (I really don't know what they are called!) I'm sure that the boys won't beat each other up with these....

Thanks to everyone who came to the party, gave Elijah a gift, or just thought of him on his special day.

Slacker

I am a slacker in the area of blogging lately. It's not that I haven't had anything to discuss. It's just that I've been busy. Now I am sitting here trying to think about something to blog about and I can't think of anything. Hmmm...

Thomas Nelson book reviewer

I found out the other day while looking at someone else's blog via the Bloggy Carnival that Thomas Nelson book publishing company is looking for 10,000 bloggers to become reviewers of their books. You will receive one free book (of your choice) to read. Then you write a 120 word review and post it on your blog and also a retail site (like amazon.com or something like that). You get to keep the book.

I thought that it sounded like something that I would enjoy doing. I signed up to do it and today I am trying to determine which book I should read and review first.

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, go here to find out more info.