Praise God!

God is so GOOD! Our church has been really growing since January when we decided to take a leap of faith and offer two morning worship services to allow for more seating room for our current congregation. We had 176 people in worship this morning. Now, for some of you that attend large churches, that may not be a big deal, but to us....it is GOD....simply amazing. It just proves that God can AND WILL do anything if only you have the Faith to Believe in Him and put it in His hands! Thank you, God, for the amazing work you are doing in our community!

I just realized how long it has been since my last blog. I worked the week before and spent this last week catching up! Our church enjoyed a V-Day banquet with Fireproof movie and Rick and I enjoyed a night away at the beginning of the week for a Pastor's Worker's Conference in Forestdale. The speakers were magnificant and we had a great couple of days to ourselves. Thanks to the family who kept our kids! We love ya'll!

Upward is almost over and it has been wonderful this year. This is only our second year and it is lots of work, but we seemed to have more people pitch in and help. We also had some great coaches. Thanks to all of you who helped make this year a success. We will have Awards Celebration on Friday night. Please pray with me that we will see the results of God's work with at least one profession of faith! That would be a perfect ending to the season.

If you don't hear from me for a while, don't worry. We have a PRINCESS that will be turning 3 on March 14 and is already wanting party details, so I have to get busy. I'll keep you posted.

Praise God for 70s

We had a blast yesterday in the Sunshine! Thank you God! Allee went home from church with NaNa BooBoo and Evan was down for a nap, so Aiden and I rushed out to enjoy the day. We got to ride 4-wheeler, play golf and wash the 4-wheeler. It was so much fun. I forget what it is like to have one on one time with any of my children. Then, when Evan woke up, he couldn't wait to get outside too. They both found the nasty sandbox, so I let them play for a while. It was a great day!

Shelby's First Day of School

We welcomed BFF Shelby to Chapel Hill Preschool last week. Even though she isn't in Allee or Aiden's room, they were so excited to have her come with them. We got to bring Shelby to school because her Mommy is in school, too! She did great! I felt like I was running a preschool myself be the time I got home! We love you Shelby!

Abbi wins!

Last weekend, my neice Abbi was in the Fayette Middle School Beauty Pageant. SHE WON the 5th grade division! Allee thought she was a princess. Allee had a ball picking out her favorite dress in each category and who she thought look the prettiest. We didn't always agree, but it was fun. Of course, we both thought Abbi was the prettiest in her purple dress! Congrats Abbi! We love You! AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

A "little Behind"

I was posting this as actually being "a little behind" on my blog, but then I remembered this cute pic of Evan I took last night. Allison bought him some cute jeans for his birthday, and although a bit to big, I let him wear to church last night. When we got home, he was playing so hard, he couldn't keep his pants up. This picture is a little more than "bustin a sag".

Allee's Hair Isn't that Bad!

Okay, thanks to having a sister as your hair dresser, Allee came out with a cute little haircut and if you had not seen her hair before, you probably couldn't even tell! Although, last night when we were in the bath tub, Rick came in after I had washed her hair and said, "I smell something burning." Aiden quickly replied, "No, Dad, it's just Allee's hair." It does still smell when you get it wet. Just like when you get a fresh perm. Ladies, you know what I am talking about.

Here are a couple of pics, before and after. Look closely at the before and you can see a wad of orange hair at the very bottom. When Janet brushed it out that afternoon, it went in a perfect angle up to one side...we cut about 3 inches to even it up and left some burnt up underneath (almost to the scalp) to grow out and cut out over several haircuts!

Allee's Hair

We had an interesting morning at the Taylor household. We were getting ready for school and Rick and I had an appointment to do our Taxes (yuck) after dropping the kids out, so the morning was busy! Allee and Evan were ready, Aiden was in the process. Rick was fixing breakfast (juice cups and pop tarts) and I was with Aiden. We have recently cut our heating unit off and have been using our gas wall heater, due to the rising power bill and our poorly insulated older house. Allee, for some odd reason, backed up to the heater to warm. Rick smelled a funny smell and looked up to see her standing to closely. When he told her to move, he saw her beautiful, long blonde hair all singed (or however you spell that) up in the back in a big ball of burned hair! It was awful. After panicking and near tears, I realized it was just hair that would grow back and made the call to MiMi for an emergency haircut. I couldn't get her on the phone and finally resorted to brushing the burned parts out and sending her to school. We are at MiMi's now about to examine the damage. I just praise the Lord that she didn't catch fire. So, be careful! Heaters are still hot, even if they don't touch!!!!! Will post pictures and more details later!