You Capture: Friends

This week’s theme of the You Capture blog carnival hosted by Beth over at I Should Be Folding Laundry is Friends.

The boys have been friends this week (well...mostly). Apparently it's easier to be friends while you're in trees. ;)

And what have they been doing in the trees? Nailing a poor little blue monkey to a branch

and, in their words, "torturing sock puppets."

Grace playing with friends at church:

And Grace with her most favorite friends, a stack of Henry and Mudge books.

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And the winner is...

Dannielle!

My friend Dannielle is the winner of my recent giveaway! Congratulations, Dannielle! And thanks to all who participated!

The spider web

This was a hardworking spider, because my son and I just swept the front porch, top to bottom, yesterday.

Close-up...no spider in sight:

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Reunions

Last night some friends and I got together for what we have dubbed our "small group Bible study reunion" that we occasionally have but haven't in a while. Last night was our send-off for our friend Suzy, who is moving back to Indiana tomorrow.


And if I'd thought about it, I would have gotten pictures of us together.


We laughed, told dozens of stories, laughed some more, tried not to cry, and just talked and talked. Then we hugged Suzy, said goodbye to our friend, and tried not to cry some more.


I'll miss you, Suzy! I will be praying for you and your family to get settled quickly, to find a solid church, and to connect with godly friends. I'm already looking forward to your visits. :)


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Within the last month, I have gotten back in touch with one of my best friends from high school. This is the same girl who said (and I agreed) that we would not be those people who call each other up when they're nearly 40 to try to catch up on things before their 20 year high school reunion, because we were going to stay in touch and remain friends no matter what happened after high school.


(Let me just pause here to say this, because I simply cannot say this enough...You couldn't pay me enough money to go back and relive those years in high school.)


Well, guess what? We didn't talk on the phone after finding each other after all these years...we found each other on Facebook. And neither of us are going to our 20 year high school reunion this weekend. With Jason's final exams for his online summer classes this weekend and next week, we need to stay close to home. And my friend? She's getting married tomorrow! Congratulations, Miina!

Oh, and did I say "nearly 40"? I meant "thirty-something"...

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Me? I'd be really tempted to put this up in my son's room...



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You Capture: Black and White

This week’s theme of the You Capture blog carnival hosted by Beth over at I Should Be Folding Laundry is Black and White.

I snapped this one in exchange for Robert getting computer time. He normally doesn't willingly pose, but bribery still works. ;)




This is Josiah in his favorite place. And, yes, he really looks that intense most of his waking hours.



I love the way Grace's eyes look in this shot! Isn't she gorgeous?

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Gorgeous Sunsets

We have had an abundance of gorgeous sunsets this month!

This is the only one that isn't a view from our backyard.

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"Lovin' on da pank flowers"

As we were heading into one of our favorite places to eat after church on Sundays, Grace was so excited to see pink flowers that she stopped to hug them.

Seriously.

She hugged them as we were on our way back to the car, too, which was when I snapped this picture while Jason was wondering what our little girl was doing. (She was telling the pink flowers how much she loved them, too.)

And the blog post title? That was totally from Grace. ;)

What I Learned This Week: A new shape

It's been a while since I participated in the "What I've Learned This Week" blog carnival hosted by Jo-Lynne at Musing of a Housewife.

It's been a while since I posted much of anything over here...but I knew I had to share this. It's big news, folks. Big news! I learned that there is a new shape out there that I have never heard of before.

Really, I thought I knew all the shapes there were to know! But that was before my 7 year old told me he had invented one.

This, my friends, is called a vench, and it is a new shape invented by Josiah, age 7.

You're welcome.

Josiah also told me about another new shape he has invented called a var, but he said it was very hard to draw. He's still working on drawing that one for me.

Now, head on over to Musings of a Housewife to see what others have learned this week! I'm pretty sure there won't be any posts about new shapes. ;)

Click here to see what else I’ve learned in other weeks.

Oh, hi! Remember me?

It has been quite a week or two. I've missed you! :) I will write a rambling post soon with pictures from our church's VBS as well as Josiah's birthday party, but first I have to take care of some bloggy business.

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I’ll let you know as soon as I have any of those generous giveaways to offer to my readers. :)

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