Here's Molly, John, Bobbi, and GeeGee at the celebration! A big chocolate chip cookie cake. 
Judah and Elijah playing battle ship. They look so excited about blasting ships out of the water. 
Samuel and Sullivan's dog Sydney. Sammy always has a smile for us. 
I thinking I'm singing happy birthday. I guess I'm really getting into it. Oh well I guess I can't always get pictures with my mouth closed. Aren't the girls precious.
So you've been wondering what our street looks like!. Well this is the bottom of our little mountain. At least the kids are having fun with no school and a new playground!!
Here are our icy cars. Okay so not as much snow, but lots of ice thick on the roads. No school again. Mark got our kerosene heater going so we will manage if we lose electric. Marky never made it home from practice. The grocery stores are doing a booming business. Every time they say snow or ice the stores are jammed worse than christmas rush. 
Well these are blurry and I guess someone needs to learn how to use the camera better, but you get the idea. My manger which my aunt made the main nativity pieces and our friend Georgia Monroe who at 82 lived with us added the rest. (she made them almost 100 years ago now) Some angels and things people have given over the years. 
Above our china cabinet is my little village. The places vary, but the characters are the same. 
Here was our beautiful centerpiece mom and Ruth sent us. It was much enjoyed for the holidays and it still has a great fragrance. It's the only Christmas left. (oops I did leave up the christmas cards on the door. I didn't think I was going to get any and at the last minute so many arrived. I especially loved the pictures of the families we love. Thanks everyone.
Some more pictures of our new Vineyard building. Lots of love, prayers, and generosity. Today someone left Mark a box with his name on top of his guitar and it was a Ipod. It has a pedometer he can use while running and takes videos, radio, lots and lots of music that Marklar has already downloaded. What a blessing. 
Our pastor's wife, Beth, Cleaning the front windows. 
The band guys came to pick up Mark and thought they'd throw a few basketballs around first. 
The girls found the perfect place to roller blade. Eventually they want to have an indoor play area for the kids. This works for now.
Well here are the beautiful girls! Can you believe it they will be 2 this month. They are so much fun. As soon as they drank their milk they ran it over to the sink and threw the cup in. It seemed liked there reward for drinking it all up. 
They love to smile and find pretty much everything funny. They also know just before the video game music is going to start because they start dancing. Good instincts. 
Here's Samuel. Not sure what he was looking for, but he loves school and he loves looking cool. (which he does all the time)
Elijah eating an orange. He loves the oranges. He's still as sweet and loveable as always. 
Here's Judah getting himself a hot chocolate. Judah is growing up fast. He became one of my Mary Kay customers, with his hard earned money, as he wants to smell good. I won't say for who.
Here's Josh and Marklar putting together a clothing rack getting ready for clothes for those in need. The Lord has blessed us with a fantastic building for our services and ministry. A large part is great for now for running around and ministry storage. We had a potluck after church and then worked on hanging pictures and in the finished side and putting up storage and places for household items, etc for those in need. 
Here's the guys putting together shelves. It only took about 3 or 4 of them to put them together?? One of the blessings of being a body.
Pastor Tom and his son hanging the stain glass in our front window
Our one baby! He's waiting for some fellow babies to join our new church.
Our worship team getting ready to lead us in to the presence along with Daniel who plays the drums.
Not a very good picture of our tree, but I wanted Ruth to see I really had one. This is in front of our back window which faces the mountain and Lake Julian. 
Here's happy Marklar with his christmas hat in his usual spot by the computer.
Okay so I have been away from my blog a long, long, time, but thanks to the generosity of some sweet angels I have a digital camera again!! So here we are trying to learn some more about healthy eating. It was informative and interesting. We are probably not going to do this extreme, but want to learn all we can and pray and make good choices. Thanks to Larry and Teresa for taking us and loving us even when we disagree some!! 
A big surprise was that we ran into our old friend Krissy from Washington DC soon, but we were friends in Ohio. She is expecting no. #2 baby and is giving her kids a great start nutritionally. It was great seeing her and catching up a bit. Of course the down side is it always makes me lonely for all our friends and family in Ohio. 
Larry and Teresa, our good friends.
So this is a typical day here. Turtles and turkeys every where. It is a place of beauty and many surprises. We also have a birds nest in our bookcase on the back porch on top of Oprah magazines. They are smart since we have some big crows flying around looking for some fun or food. The babies are born now. You can see there little beaks. 
This is our weekend with the boys. Mark had them make boats and then took this to the river to float them. They really enjoyed themselves. We also went to the Feed and Seed to dance and listen to blue grass. Judah and Samuel really like the dancing (clogging). 
I finally found some pics from the new house. The first one is our living room. There was no oil in the furnace so the fire place has come in handy in this unseasonable cold season. Mom that's your little oval pic there. the top shelf now has all the wedding photos from my sisters and kids, grandma, mom and dad. The next pic is Marky snowboarding in the back yard. That is our back porch that now has a tent on it. The snowy picture of the front of the house and my car in the snow on final moving day. 
Okay so the new house has only two bedrooms, but Marky and marklar have managed to put a tent on the back porch which goes the whole length of the house and part of the side. The tents in the corner. this is his good friend Dylan and marklar playing video games in our new "room"
So here's Mark at one of the job sites. He has been working hard and been such a blessing to me. It was a little hard imagining our new house as a home, but Mark has worked very hard to make it our own. He has painted the kitchen and our bedroom. (mark kept the gold paint in his) He redid the ceiling to floor bookcase so it is very beautiful. He painted the front porch and put up a railing so I have something to hold on to in the stone steps. He is a blessing from God. He's also been so supportive of me in starting my business. He'd like to have a men's party if any of you are interested!
So I've been sitting on this picture because I now see why we all need to sit up in our chairs (sorry mom), but I couldn't resist you seeing all nine of our beautiful grandchildren together. What a bunch! All that God given love and potential for the kingdom of God. I am truly a blessed woman. Just in case you don't know the top row is Judah, Eli, Grace; next row Samuel, Simeon, Faith, and front row Aliyah, Ariel, and Abram. You would think we were Jewish! Well completed jews anyway. Thanks to Jesus!
Well here is my handsome husband in front to some weird wheel in Asheville. Not exactly sure what it is. Connie treated us to Mellow Mushroom it's where all the cool people go and sit outside and enjoy the atmoshere of mountains and people. 