Serving the Ushers

Brother Jr and Mrs. Debra always give a dinner for the ushers each year. Since Justin is a jr usher, we were invited to join in on the festivities. We always have a good time of food, fellowship, and fun!


One of Shelby's finest officers right here. LOL


Mrs. Debra is here with her handsome grandson, whom we just don't get to see enough of. He's a terrific young man.


Some of the ladies helped serve our dinner of beef and pork bbq, with red slaw, and chips.


Mrs. Katherine was at the end of the serving table.


Mrs. Reba enjoying some fellowship. :)


There was a lot of laughing going on at this table and Cammy was right in on it. I love to hear her laugh. She's so sweet.


When we were finished eating, Brother John O' gave a message...the best message really I've ever heard...about ushers. Great job, Brother O'!


Brother Jr asked Brother Arnold to the dinner and it is always an honor just to be in his presence. He is truly a man of God and loved by everyone. In the, almost ten years, we've been at Faith, I've heard him only say a handful of words. But when he does, he pours out wisdom and teaching. Last night he said something for all of us to think about, that when you pray for your pastor you begin to criticize him less and love him more. And when you pray for your church you begin to criticize it less and love it more.


One of our deacon's wives. Sweet lady right here!


Brother Doug and his wife, Mrs. Lucille. I love these people!!!! They are so kind.


Brother and Sister Leonhart. Now these two people are funny! We have a lot of good laughs when we're together.


Our sweet and very talented piano player. :)


LOL...Brother Street is gonna get me for this one.


Brother Mike playing the Minute to Win It game. This is Harrison's Sunday School teacher. Harrison loves his class.
OK, the object of this game is to get the cracker from your forehead and into your mouth without touching it. You have to work it down with your face muscles. This was the most HILARIOUS game to watch. If the cracker fell (which several of them did) you had to start over with another.


Brother John O' looked like a pirate here. hahaha


Pastor Goodman and Mrs. Ava were in on the fun too. It won't be long and their first grandchild will be here. Won't he be proud of his grandparents? haha


And these are the champions, my friends.....lol

Justin, Jayme, and Brother Johnny.

Thank you, Brother Jr and Mrs. Debra. Y'all are a blessing and, as usual, we had a fantastic time!

Of Eggs and Whoopin's

Harrison had a Science experiment yesterday involving an egg, a jug, and a match. We did not receive the results we had anticipated and so we plan on doing it again soon. But after the experiment I gave the egg to him and told him that he could have an egg toss with Hannah. She wasn't exactly thrilled about it, but she participated anyway, as to be expected from a big sister.


On the final throw it was from Hannah to Harrison. The egg busted in Harrison's hand and he threw it back at Hannah anyway. You can see by the look on her face that she was none too pleased with her younger sibling. LOL Harrison on the other hand got a good laugh out of it, as to be expected from a little brother.



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Mom came by last night toting Krispy Kream doughnuts. We sat around the table munching on our sweet snack and playing a few games of Uno. Mom won the first two games and Bruce told her if she won the third one he was whipping her with a belt. Needless to say, she won the third game. So he gave her the option of which belt he would use for the whoopin. lol


She protested at first, but what could she do against her much stronger son-in-law (the bitter loser), her grandchildren (the youngest losers) cheering on the whoopin' and her daughter (the eager loser) ready to snap pictures of the whoopin'.

Eventually she gave in to her sorry plight. It was so funny. She was a good sport.

DISCLAIMER: No grandmothers were injured during the photographic journaling of this incident.

New Year's Eve 2010, New Year's Day 2011

Mom left her bingo game at our house the other week so for New Year's eve we invited our moms over for supper and bingo. Bruce had gone out and bought some prizes and we had a great time. He was our game caller and he was a riot.


Bruce's mom had a good time. I think this was the first time she had ever played a game with our family. We'll have to do it again.


My mom won the first four or five games before Bruce made everyone change cards. LOL


Bingo...who would have thought it was so much fun?

They didn't stay 'til midnight, but that was ok. When they left we watched a movie with the kids. It was over five minutes before midnight. So we counted down the minutes and HAPPY NEW YEAR! It was 2011!! Can you believe it? Wouldn't it be great if the Lord came back this year?

For New Year's Day we went to Bruce's mom's house for her traditional New Year's Day meal of ham, blackeyed peas, and greens...with other fixin's of course. I do not like blackeyed peas, but if you'll look closely you will see my one little blackeye pea I ate. I didn't even chew it. Just popped it in my mouth and chased it with water. LOL

Bruce's oldest brother and his family were bringing in the new year in England and his younger brother and his family were bringing in the new year at their home in Virginia. So his oldest middle brother and his boys were there. This is Barry. You'd never guess he was Bruce's brother, would you? ;)

My sweet Hannah-girl.

My nephew, Elijah.

My nephew, Zach.

My silly son, Harrison.

My sleepy son, Justin. :)

My sweet mother in law, that cooked all that good food....and the blackeyed peas. haha

My silly husband. Like father like son. You know?

Bruce and his baby girl.

It was a great couple of evenings with our families.

HAPPY NEW YEAR'S TO YOU TOO!!!

Games

Hey, in case you didn't notice, I put a two games in the sidebar.

To play Hangman, click the little box and type the letters you're guessing. Once you've completed the game, click your refresh button to begin a new game.

Under Hangman is Brain Tuner. I think it's math all the time. I don't know if it updates something different everyday. I guess we'll know tomorrow.