Vacation

Sorry I haven't been blogging, but there has been so much going on. We had a death in the family, then we have all gotten sick with the bug going around, and now packing for vacation. Huuuh! Well, I promise to blog after vacation as I will have many pictures to show. Until next week, try to enjoy your work week!

Blessing!

After many years of wishing, hoping, and praying the day has finally come when the Lord blessed me with a brand spankin new lawn tractor! And this is a picture of my first ride on it which was amazing! Okay, can you tell I'm a little anxious for spring to arrive? by now my wife is rolling her eyes as she reads this, but there's nothing like the relationship of a man and his tractor. Besides it was 55 degrees outside today! Can you believe it! March 3rd and 55! They say it will get to 58 today in our area. That's awesome!


Well here is one of my other blessings. A cute, adorably, pretty, loving little girl. She knows she's cute. Just look at the picture! Here she is faking being asleep to amuse her brothers, and subsequently me. It was cute, she even made the noise!


Okay, now these next 2 pictures Jon Jon asked me to put on the blog simply because he made this little thing up. On our stairway there are hook that we hang Christmas lights on and he took some rubber bands and strung them between the hooks and put something on it.



Then in this picture it was a string with a key chain on it. Fascinating isn't it?

Well, I guess that's all for now. Got work to do ya know.

Hey all! The sickness has finally left! Thank God! In the picture below you can see how many medicine cups it took in one day! Oh and I know it took a week to get back to you guys but the van ended up being an easy fix. It was just the distributor cap and the rotor that distributes the spark to the engine. Changing it was easy, getting to it in a Chevy Astro van was a pain. You have to take off the inner cowling. Basically, that's part of the dash and floor. So basically the distributor is under the radio in my van! Well anyway, I got it changed and the van is running fine. Thank you Jesus, because I just made the last payment on it and that would be really bad to have it inoperable right after the last payment. That would be quite the irony, huh?

Well anyway, while we were all sick we needed to find entertainment other than the countless movies we watched. So I got out some old electronic games. These were the Nintendo gameboys of the past. The only one that actually is from the 80's is the head to head baseball. The other ones are copies of the original ones that came out in the 80's. Take a look at the picture and tell me if you remember these or if I'm really old. What's cool is that I must have stored the head to head baseball well all these years because it still works great!

One day during the sickness, alexys was feeling cold and energetic for a while so she put on Jon Jon's hat and gloves. I'll be darned if she didn't look so cute in them. She's always trying on everbody's clothes, shoes, coats, and whatever else she can find. I think she'll be a fashion guru or at least have a closetful of clothes and shoes like her Aunt April. Maybe she'll be a missionary by giving clothes away to the needy.

Well, I've got a houshold to run so I'll have to write more later. Until next time, Try to enjoy the daylight!

Sticker Party!

Today, Carter finished his main kindergarden book! To celebrate, we had a sticker party. Okay, ans explanation is in order I know. Here it is, in this Kindergarden book, there are stickers for when he's done with his daily work. After the sticker were all gone, we took the sticker back and stuck it on each others faces and took pictures. Then we had one last pose without the stickers. "It was fun!" was Carter's response, and I agree! I'm glad Carter is finally starting to feel better, but since he got sick, Jonathan and Alexys got it. Now I have 3 kids on antibiotics and Lori and I are still getting over our cold/sinus infections. My voice is kinda shot to any high pitch so I'm not going to be able lead worship this Sunday. Or maybe the Lord will heal me by then and then I could lead worship. Let's hope so!
On top of all that, now my van won't start! Lukily, my father in law was gracious enough to use his AAA to tow it to his house, (He's a mechanic), so we can figure out what's wrong with it tomorrow. It's supposed to be cold tomorrow. 20 degrees! Burrr! But, you gotta do what you gotta do right. I'll update you on what happens with that probably Monday.
Well, I 've gotta get some stuff done today so I'd better go for now and let you look at the pictures. Blog ya later!

Pictures from before I blogged

Alexys is all girl as you can see from the pictures. She tries everyones shoes on at one point or another. in this picture they are Carter's shoes.


In this picture she is trying on Lori's sandles while taking a break to cool off in front of the fan.

Sometimes though she does the boy thing and plays with Mitchell's Gameboy.

Toasting marshmallows over the kerosene heater and then....


Putting then into Oreo cookies! What an original idea Jon Jon had!

Sometimes Mitchell is an entertainer to his sister. He loves her a lot! Right when she gets up in the morning her first words are "mommy," but when I say she's at work, she says, "Mitchell." I guess I'm just chopped liver in the morning.

Wedding Day!

This is from left to right, my father (Bill), mother (Cretia), Danielle Owens, and my nephew Shane Owens at his wedding. Aren't they a good lookind couple?

Here's Mitchell and Jon Jon as ushers in my nephews wedding. They were so cute!

Last but not least, Here is the father of the groom (Mike Owens), and the mother of the groom (April owens, who is also my beautiful sister.) Love you April!

Well, as you could see, I don't really have anything to blog about. So rather than have you think I've died, I showed you some pictures that I would have blogged about had I been blogging at the time. Plus we're all sick so no one will come and see us and I was bored. Until next time, try to enjoy the daylight! Remember that April? Tales From The Dark Side? Sunday mornings at 12:30 Am?

Jam Session

Hey, the weekend is over, I have a little more time to blog. Yeah. this picture of Lexy is of a little jam session she had on Saturday. She put on her sunglasses like a rock star and started jammin. A picture may say 1,000 words but it can't show you what is precious about this picture. She was dancing this cute little dance to the drum beat on the keyboard. I see in her future being on a worship team. Maybe even leading because she sings and dances all the time. Especially when I'm practicing to lead worship on any given Sunday. She will come in the room where I'm practicing and dance and sing along. She especially loves the song "Sing cause we're saved." At least 3 times a day I can find or hear her from another room singing, "la,la,la,la,la,lei." She can even get the boys involved in singing with her, so technically she is leading worship. Anyway, I just thought it was a cute picture, and I thought I'd share it.

En Garde!

Yep, you guessed it. Another "Fun day." Only this time I got involved. As you can see, my swords are better so I had to be careful. I did good with them though. I only cut off one finger and nicked an artery. Not bad for an playing with 3 boys who are active.

This is blacksword. He the most villanous villan as ever I had laid eyes on!


But he was against the three musketeers and therefore did not prevail. Well in other news, Alexys has a new way of asking for your food when she wants it. The picture says it all.

Until next blog...c'ya later!