2 Days. It isn't too late!

I just dropped off 32 tickets for the movie Fireproof to our local fire station. To be honest I was a little nervous how they would the tickets would be received. I wasn't sure if they would be like, "Okay, thanks." I thought they might be kind of like we get stuff all the time attitude. I was also wondering if another church had already donated tickets.

I have to say, I was just about brought to tears with how appreciative the three gentleman I spoke too were. It made me wish that I had gotten them all popcorn and drink vouchers as well as providing even more movie tickets. They were so grateful, very moved and even though they didn't know what the movie was about they were already trying to figure out when they could go. It was as if it was one of the nicest thing anyone had ever done for them.

So, to those of you who think it is too late to do something- it isn’t and you will be glad you did.

Proud to be an American

My Challenge to You

My Challenge to You:

On Friday night Clay and I had the opportunity to attend a private screening of the movie Fireproof at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. For those of you who haven’t heard of the movie it is by the producers and writers of my favorite movie Facing the Giants. We got to meet the Kendrick brothers, Alex and Stephen, who wrote and produced the film. Alex was the star of Facing the Giants. We also got to meet Jim McBride who played Bobby Lee Duke in Facing the Giants.

I cannot say enough wonderful things about the movie. When was the last time you went to a movie and you felt better, inspired, happy, moved, motivated, etc? This movie did all of these things and more. You will laugh, possibly cry, get mad (my friend and I were wanting to yell at the screen), etc….

I am asking all of my friends out there with blogs to please post something about this movie on their blog. If you don’t have a blog, please send out an email to everyone you know. We need to get as many people as possible to see this movie opening weekend which is September 26th. Why you ask? There are a few reasons:


· First, it is a Christian movie and we need to send a message to the people in Hollywood that these are the types of movies we would like to see.
· Two, Sony is distributing this film and they see it as an investment. If it doesn’t do well, they will pull the plug on it which means that it will be incredibly difficult to get another movie like this distributed again. While Sony sees this as an investment, they are not giving it the advertising budget they would normally spend on a movie. So, the makers of the movie are relying heavily on people getting the word out everyone.
· Three, if it does well opening weekend it will stay in the movie theaters longer and get more press and will send a bigger message to Hollywood.
· Four, it is an amazing way to reach nonbelievers with the message of Jesus Christ.


With my challenge to my fellow bloggers to put it in their blogs I also challenge you to get a group from your church to see the movie opening weekend. This past Sunday at church I posted the times of the movie on the white board and passed around a sign up sheet for people to sign up for a day and a time they could go opening weekend. I also had a column for people to offer to donate as many tickets as they wanted to our local fire department. I collected the money and am going to get the tickets for everyone this week. As of right now we have 15 people signed up to see the movie opening weekend and 30 tickets have been donated to our local fire department. You don't have to do this but this is what I did and it worked well. I had people sign up for times that were convenient for them since I knew not everyone would be able to attend as one big group.


So, let’s see how many people you can get to go see this movie opening weekend and how many tickets you can get donated to your local fire department! Let’s see what God can do with this movie!!!!!!!


I can't wait to see this movie again!

Germantown Fire Department's Open House

Here are pictures from the Germantown Fire Department's Open House. It was a lot of fun and hot! Every year they have a bunch of fire and rescue vehicles for the kids to look at as well as some animals from reptile world. Today, when we drove by the fire department Clayton asked to go see the snake. He doesn't understand that the snake doesn't stay there all the time.

Poor Andrew, he pretty much stayed in the stroller the entire time since it was just me there with the boys. He did however really enjoy his cotton candy until I took the cone away from him when it was all gone. It is one of the most pathetic pictures ever.

Clayton looking at the turtle.

Why did you take away my cotton candy?

He made this face for about 10 minutes I kid you not.

Clayton getting dressed to go shoot the fire house. Andrew seemed pretty excited.

Clayton in front of the police horse. This was one of his favorite things all day.

Clayton's Clubhouse and Andrew's Hundred Acre Wood

I finally found the cord I needed so I could download the pictures from the boys party! Clayton had a Mickey Mouse party where we turned the backyard into Clayton's Clubhouse. The kids had fun playing in the moon bounce, in the sandbox, with all the beach balls, and even the toys inside.

The following friends attended Clayton's party: James McCallam, Jack, Brennan, James Frankauski, Maya, Sophie, Taylor, Jake, McKenna, Lexie, and MJ. Andrew had a Pooh party.

We turned the basement into Andrew's Hundred Acre Wood. His friends had a lot of fun on the roller coaster and in the ball pit. The following friends attended Andrew's party: Malachi, Noah, Quinton, Harrison, Ava, Ben, Jackson, Gracie.

I made the boys cakes which was a little bit of a challenge making two big cakes for one day. After I got through the first hurdle with Andrew's cake if finished it and put it in the dining room to keep it away from Clayton. A few hours after I put it there, I went back in to check on it and to my disbelief, the arms had fallen off the cake and it had split in two at 8:00 at night! I ran to Michaels to get more supplies in case I couldn't repair it. I used melted chocolate to "glue" it back together and glue the arms in and it worked. So, Pooh looks a little lumpy!

I couldn't have pulled off the parties without the help of the grandparents and my wonderful husband Clay!

Here are the pictures from the party- they aren't in any certain order

Andrew eating his cake. He LOVES cake!

Clayton in front of his cake.

Clayton eating with a few of his friends.

Clayton eating his pizza.

Andrew with his smash cake.

Mommy with Andrew and his Pooh cake.

My attempt at getting a group shot with Clayton and his friends. I don't know why I thought I could get a group of 3 year olds to sit still infront of a moonbounce.

Andrew on his roller coaster by his trees in his Hundred Acre Wood.

Andrew loves balloons now and he screams everytime he sees one!

Family Photo infront of the entrance to Clayton's Clubhouse.

The boys with Nana and Pappy. Pappy's shirt has a picture of Grumpy on it.

The boys with JanJan and GradDoug.

Clayton's Mickey Cake.

Andrew's Pooh Cake and smash cake.

Food: Spinach salad with strawberries and toasted walnuts with homemade vinegrette.

Pasta salad and yummy Costco Pizza.

Entrance to Clayton's Clubhouse. This is where everyone entered the party.

Shot of the backyard as the guest started to arrive.

My New Hero

Who Taught This to My Child?

I am trying to figure out who taught Clayton how to break dance. We did not teach him any of this or tell him to do the ending.