Wax Museum

Baylea's class had a wax museum today where they dressed up as historical figures. Last month , they wrote reports on their figures, then memorized sections of the report. Today, each student stood as a figure in a wax museum (talking and moving wax, apparently) and recited facts about themselves to every parent that pushed the button in front of them.

Here is Baylea, all decked out. She came up with the idea herself and did a great job with it.

She was so happy she got to wear my boots. (She and Molly have taken a sudden interest in wearing my clothes lately, yep, it's that time . . . .)

Still guessing? Probably not, but the answer is Amelia Earhart.


She spoke in a very quiet voice so everyone had to lean in to hear her. I went behind the group and cupped my hand up to my ear and made a funny face to get her attention, but she didn't notice.

Fireproof Movie Night

Last Sunday, our church held a Fireproof Movie Night. We showed the movie, Fireproof, that tells the story of a young couple going through marriage troubles that figure out how to weather the storms. TBT used this as an outreach to our community and offered a showing of the movie, along with free candy, popcorn, drinks, slushies, and cotton candy. The kids had organized activities and were treated with a visit by the local fire department and a fire truck. It was well attended and we all had a fun time!

Brett welcoming everyone and introducing the movie.

Busy front lobby

Jen and Jillian make cotton candy

Melissa put in tons of work into this and it turned out great!

Jason gears up the slushie machines

If this had been in a real movie theater, this table alone is holding thousands of dollars worth of goods.

Red carpet

Free candy and popcorn for everyone!

It's been a long time. . . .

I've fallen off the blogwagon lately, but thought I'd post a few pics of everybody over the last month or two.

Molly's usually really smiley, but I happened to catch her in a thoughtful shot. She went to a baby shower with me, where she won the baby bottle drinking contest.

Here we are at Lacey's final basketball game. Part of the reason we've been so busy lately is we've added going to the gym 4-5 times a week. (This is a before shot, haha.) Brett and I are really building up our endurance, I tried spinning class for the first time, went 5 miles on the elliptical, and can run up to 3 miles on the treadmill, which I didn't think I could ever do. I was always the sprinter, not a runner, but hopefully we'll continue to get lean and mean. Insert your own joke here.

Mr. C - as you can tell, his front teeth are growing in, making him look older. If you ever want to know anything about the Legend of Zelda wii game, he'll let you know.

Little Coley - this kid does not like to wear clothes at home, so a lot of my pictures of him are similar to this. Here, he's showing off his prized possessions, his Cars. When he has a shirt on, he still likes carrying around his sword in the back of his shirt.
Miss Baylea -Today's her 10th birthday! She's so excited, is growing up very quickly, and is awesome to hang around. Tonight, we are taking her to Olive Garden, her favorite restaurant. She's also looking different because, last week, she started wearing contacts! She's done pretty well with them and she's thrilled to not be wearing her glasses anymore. I like being able to see her beautiful face . . happy birthday, Bayles!

I just got my camera lens back from Nikon yesterday . . .too late for any Christmas pictures of my own. Bummer. I pulled this pic off a friend's myspace album. . .the kids attended her son's birthday party last week.

I get to pick up the car rental today, been driving the church van for a week now since no rentals have been available. My own car won't be fixed until late next week, however. Been getting mail already from attorneys wanting to know if I want to sue the everloving pants off the beast who caused such pain and suffering by broadsiding me in the slick ice and snow. Sorry, I just don't think I'm entitled to big money and causing hardship on someone else because of an accident. If he'd been drinking or grossly negligent, maybe, but not because of a relatively minor accident caused by icy conditions. I wouldn't want someone else treating me that way. I am, however, going to go to a chiropractor for the first time ever. My neck and shoulder are definitely knotted up, we'll see what they can do.

Congrats to my brother and his wife on the birth of their son this morning, Jaxson Keith Holland. I'm awaiting pics . . .

Looong time since posting, I've just been terribly busy. Plus, my camera lens is broken and is currently at Nikon getting repaired. Bad timing for the holidays, so I've snagged photos that other people have taken recently.

We had old-fashioned carolers at our Christmas Eve candlelight service. Baylea and Molly tried on the hats afterwards.

Cole being Cole, I guess. He also did this scary face to a girl in the pew in front of him during the service.

Goofing off in the church office.

Where was Connor during all of this? He fell asleep during the service, so I left him on the pew for about 45 minutes while we finished getting ready to go home. He missed the candles and everything!

New Shoes

Brett took Cole with him to a conference he's preaching at this week and tonight he forwarded me a video he took on his phone. Apparently, they went shopping and Cole got a new pair of shoes . . .he was so excited, can you tell? Preacher's boy's got some moves!