I’m pretty sure my son is the only baby who gets these when he wakes up…
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| From November 2008 |
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| From November 2008 |
19
Nov
bed brows
This past weekend we took my family to the Oasis. We got there in time for sunset and the view was great. The food was okay (you can’t beat Pappasitos when it comes to Mexican!) But what really bothered me was where our waiter chose to seat us…and where my husband’s chair was in view of that (”honey, just keep looking forward”). I understand the whole mermaid statue idea at a restaurant that is near water…but seriously people, whatever happened to seashell bras? I cropped many of the pics I took of the sunset because I really didn’t want to see a mermaid’s nipples in the same scenic shot, but here is one pic to warn you to just stay away from the mermaid statue section of the restaurant!
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| From November 2008 |
From November 008
12
Nov
it’s coming…
I love, love, love receiving Christmas cards, more specifically the ones with family photos. To all my friends and family: I expect cards this year(and I don’t mean store bought Christmas cards that you just sign your name in-no slackers!) I’m already in the process of thinking what to do this year. Hmmm…
I’m pretty sure I won’t be doing this though.
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| From November 2008 |
Yes, I will claim them as my family.
As I was glancing around my closet today, I happened to look upon something I hadn’t seen in awhile…some might ask why I still have it…I wonder that myself.
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| From November 2008 |
Here is the lid to my collection of erasers from when I was in elementary school and junior high. You can see I’m quite the artist with nail polish!
So what do you find when you open it up…
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| From November 2008 |
BAM! You better believe I was proud of myself for this collection of 245 erasers!!! How, do you ask, do I know how many erasers I have? Well, of course I found an inventory I did on them all-DUH! (Friends who know me shouldn’t be surprised.) I even put them in catergories like “hearts” and “Christmas” and “places”
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| From November 2008 |
What makes me laugh is that I was so OCD that I even did inventory on the tiny erasers that you buy in bulk for a dollar.
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| From November 2008 |
People, I even have a toilet eraser. Geesh.
05
Nov
stumped
Rilyn asked what a ‘Christian’ was because she heard the word on the radio in the car.
I told her that a ‘Christian’ was someone who wanted Jesus to be King of their life and they realized that they are a sinner and need Jesus to forgive their sins.
She then asked what a ‘sinner’ was.
I told her that ‘sin’ was any wrong choices and that we all are sinners. (She told me she wasn’t a sinner so I immediately knew this conversation wasn’t going to be ‘her coming to Christ’ moment.)
She wanted to know how I sin so I told her “one way mommy sins is when I get angry at you or daddy.”
She then asked me if Jesus was a sinner and I told her “No. Jesus is the only person who has never sinned.”
She then thought for a moment and said, “What about when Jesus tipped over the table in the temple (John 2:14-16)? He was angry then and you said being angry is a sin!”
I told her we will talk about this later with daddy. How do you explain “righteous anger” to a 4 year old?
01
Nov
halloween
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| Cinderilyn From October 2008 |
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| Ella bug From October 2008 |
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| From October 2008 |
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| From October 2008 |
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| “Trick or Treat! Is anyone in there??” From October 2008 |
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| From October 2008 |
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31
Oct
getting my money’s worth
Rilyn age 5 months old-2004
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| From Rilyn’s first 8 month |
Ella age 10 months old-2006
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| From October 2006 |
Asher age 6 months old-2008
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| From October 2008 |
Who wants it next? This costume has plenty of “first Halloween’s” left in it. 
30
Oct
The pumpkin gospel
Just like us, all pumpkins are different. But there is something the same about every one of them - that yucky, slimy pulp on the inside!
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| From October 2008 |
The yucky, slimy pulp is like the sin that’s in us. Romans 3:23 says: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” That’s every single one of us.
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| From October 2008 |
So we clean out our pumpkin like the way Jesus cleans us out when we confess our sins.
God has made a way that all our sin can be forgiven and washed away. God even says He’ll cast them as far as the East is from the West. Romans 5:8 says: “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
After cleaning out the pumpkin, we give the pumpkin a new face! The Bible says God can make us a new creation too.
2 Corinthians 5:17 says: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
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| From October 2008 |
Then comes the really special part. The light is placed inside the pumpkin and it glows for all to see!
2 Corinthians 4:6 says: “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.”
And Matthew 5:16 says: “In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”
So we can become like that pumpkin - a glorious sight for others to see the love of Jesus!
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| From October 2008 |
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| From October 2008 |
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| From October 2008 |
30
Oct
cleaning it out
Ella has a thing about cleaning the inside of a pumpkin. She really hates it, but we make her do it because it makes for good pictures. (Yes, that is really the only reason-don’t you know me?) So here is the outcome of tonight’s “pumpkin clean” in pictures.
We asked Ella to draw a face to carve. She challenged daddy with this.
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| From October 2008 |
I accidentally got wrapped up in taking pictures of daddy carving Rilyn’s pumpkin and that meant Ella had the marker unsupervised for too long and well, she really challenged daddy with this face to carve.
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| From October 2008 |
Ella begins to pray as daddy cuts open her pumpkin that maybe, just maybe, this year she won’t have to scoop out the pumpkin guts.
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| From October 2008 |
No such luck this year.
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| From October 2008 |
“Oh gosh, this is so gross!”
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| From October 2008 |
Daddy can’t stand to see his beautiful daughter in such agony and so he rescues her. Ella’s pumpkin knight and hero!
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| From October 2008 |
stay tuned for more pumpkin pics tomorrow!
28
Oct
the bouffant and the bug
(yes I had to look up how to spell bouffant)
Here is a little sneak peek at what the two Paquette girls will be wearing this Halloween. Asher will be wearing the twice passed down pumpkin costume from his big sisters’ first Halloweens. (I promise this will be the only costume that will be passed down to him.)
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| From October 2008 |
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| From October 2008 |
