Just sayin...

 

 

So I am not one to brag about anything. So I am not gonna brag.  I am just stating a fact.

I went to the Dove Awards and got to sit 3 seats away from Ricky Skaggs!!!!!  He even said I could step on him if I needed to when I was leaving my seat. :)  Lets see who else did I see??? Oh yeah! Brian "Head" Welch former guitarist for Korn.  He is now a born again Christian and I must say being a child who grew up listening to Heavy Metal and Hair Bands...yeah I was totally siked to see him!!!!!!  He performed with "Red" and let me just say it was so awesome!  They totally rocked the place!

I also got to see......TOBYMAC!!!!!!!!!! Yeah he was there...like right there like about 30 feet from me.  I thought I might loose it there for a second but I held it together.  They performed "Funky Jesus Music" and it was awesome!  This is apparently a video someone shot from the balcony at the Dove Awards.  So its a little shaky, but you will get the picture. 

 

At this point I am on the lower level in the middle.  You  never know you might actually see me if your looking hard enough when you watch on GMC Sunday  night at 8/7 central!!!  Come on you know you want to watch.  :)

To say that I am a little excited that I got to go to this is an understatement.  It was so much fun!

So go see if your cable of Satellite channel carries GMC so you can Tivo the Dove Awards.  If they don't carry it find someone who does and go watch it.  It was a great night with amazing performances.  You don't want to miss it.  By the way I am not getting paid to promote the show.  It was just AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

 

Sooooooo.....

 

So I have not been around lately....

 

Sometimes I take things in spurts, I can never stick with anything to awful long.  It comes in cycles though.  I start thing, I dont finish them, or continue them, and then I pick them back up again.  So goes blogging....

Well I am trying to pick it back up again.  I miss you guys....:(

I miss knowing whats going on, but my biggest problem right now is finding the time to read everybodys stuff.   It might help if I wasn't addicted to crackbook, but its so fun over there....

Well enough of me whining.  So how has everybody been, life treating you good?

This is what has been going on with me (in no particular order).....

I have learned how to make tutus and become an Ellerina!

Decided to take up selling ice cream...(not really I just hijacked the ice cream truck!  You should have seen the look on the guys face when I hoped in there.)

Jessie turned 19!

Went to Mission Fuge again, but this time I did not break my toe.

Syd was in her first ever beauty pageant...

Its been tractor pull time around here again....

Oh and did I mention, we almost got thrown out of Wally World.....

 

Yeah so that's been my life in a nutshell.  More to come soon, I promise!

 

~sigh~ :)

 

 

I have just gotten back from watching the movie "Twilight".  I unlike most everyone else in the world have not read the books.  I know, I know its shocking.  How could I go watch the movie without reading the books.  Well I did it anyway and now its done, its done, the movie has been watched, the characters are in my head, and well I am now hooked.  So this week I have added two new guilty pleasures to the list.

1) Beyonce's "Single Ladies"  Sing it with me now, "if you liked it  then you should've put a ring on it".  Ok now I am going to be singing that in my sleep.

2) "Twilight" ~sigh~  Oh to be 17 again........Ok no wait, I had just had a baby, ummm nope I am done with that.

Now off to actually read the books.

Ok well after I sleep, It's 12:30 and well,  I am tired!

 

Yabba Dabba Doo!!!

Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.
They're the modern stone age family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They're a page right out of history

You guessed it!  We went as the Flintstones for Trunk or Treat. :)

We had an absolute blast preparing for this one.  We actually had in our heads what we wanted to do, and then in true Valarie-Melinda/Melinda-Valarie form we started working on it last Saturday.  Nothing like last minute pressure to pull something off.   Melinda worked her fingers to the bone making costumes.  She was actually making hers at 4:30 yesterday afternoon.  Logan, Sydney, and I made the house and the boulders.  Melinda also made that cute little Flintstones sign.

Melinda also painted the address on the house after we got there.  See her pearls?  I made those.  :)

 

Fred

Wilma

Pebbles

Barney

Betty

Bam Bam

We really love doing this every year.  Any excuse to dress up and be goofy and we are there.  We already have an idea of what we might be next year.  :) 

We had so much candy it was not even funny.

This is a picture of all our empty bags..

This is a picture of the candy we had left when they told us to start going easy on the candy.

That whole corner up there was completely covered with bags and bags of candy when we began.  We ended up not running out, but it got pretty close.

Here we are with some of our friends.

Betty, Wilma, and JuJu

Fred, Barney, Betty, Lorie, and Wilma

 

Bill, Hillary, and Betty

They were much shorter in person than I imagined them to be.

(this is really my nephews dressed up!)

Look Jessie even came by to see us.

Each year they have a competition to see who has the best "Trunk".  Now we don't do this for the recognition, we just do this for the fun.  Even though last year we got beat by toddlers, but that's ok we are not bitter or anything.  Nope not at all.

But this year we WON!!!!!!!!!

We had our picture taken and it and the trophy will be displayed in the Church until next Trunk or Treat.

Again we love doing this every year, but we would like some more competition.  Right now our closest competition is her.

We always wonder what Mr. and Mrs. Bickerson and their Sunday School Class are going to do.  Last year they went as Gilligan's Island.  See they even had a boat!

This year was really cute though, they had a duck blind and went as Ducks  and Duck Hunters.

They were all dressed up in their hunting gear and some of them was dressed like a ducks. They were so cute!

(Sorry Dana I swiped your picture from your blog)

Look "Sarah" even has her gun out!  Thank goodness there was not a moose there. :)

So next year people its on!  Bring out your Big Guns and decorate those "trunks"!  After all we do not do this to win, we do it for the children.  :)

 

Comfort Zone

 

If you have read this blog very much, you know that I have a problem with the smell and clothes at the Thrift Store.  Well this weekend was "ServeNow" at our church.  This is our first year to do this.  We find places in the community to have the youth serve in some capacity or another.  Guess where I got to go help out at? 

The Rescue Mission Bargain Center

God was working on me here.  A place in my life that I am uncomfortable in, he places me in.  Now I am all for what they do there and the people that it helps, but the smell and the cooties.  It just gets me some times.

These were my tools of choice for the day.

Latex gloves and sanitizer

 

Lets take a look at some of the cootie filled departments that we helped with.

(I don't know about you, but buying drawers from the thrift store is WRONG!)

Now these girls got a big kick out of my cootie phobia.  They would bring random pieces of underwear to me and ask if they should purchase them.  Then, they did bring home a HUGE, like taller than me, Green Stuffed Monkey.  Oh the cooties that thing probably has.

Y'all want to know something.  God has a HUGE sense of humor.  Yep at one point HE was laughing hysterically at me.  We were helping to sort through new stuff that had just arrived and I picked up a bucket and asked "Where does this go?"  The guy helping us said "oh we throw those away that's a bucket from an adult potty chair."  Oh I get the creeps just writing that. 

Melinda found something I think she might want at the Bargain Center.  It was an old player piano.  She tried getting it to work, be we never got it too.

We had everybody in that store trying to get it to work, but when you don't know anything about player piano's, its a little difficult to get them to work.

After we helped at the Bargain Center, we went and did yard work at some peoples houses around the neighborhood. 

Again God was probably laughing at me, because I got to use one of these for the first time.

I cleaned every thing from the driveway to the dog bowl with that leaf blower.  It was a blast! (get it a blast, blasting the leaf? Oh never mind)

When we went to the next house Melinda used the leaf blower.

Yes the girls started the leaf blower.  :)

When the day was over everyone was tired

We went and got cleaned up and then came back to the church for supper.

Walking Tacos!

We had a wonderful time all day.  Working for God, serving others, Worshiping with friends. Yep it was a great day. 

The fun did not stop there either, six of the girls came to stay at my house that night.  Before we go home though we pile into the cars and go to the ScareMare!  Whew that is another post altogether.  Imagine chainsaws, and screaming teenage girls!  It was great!