Saturday, May 24, 2008

Ok Peoples I am really looking vain here...



I am just a proud parent... Well, what is a book parent? An author? Isn't there something that makes me sound more parental and less braggadocios?? Oh well, Go read the post...


Aaron has struck again... Iron Sharpens Iron...Click on his nose for the link...

Posted on May 24th btw in case that doesn't take you strait to it. You have to hit the nostril just right u know...



DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Friday, May 23, 2008

Just A Tease






Here is you a tease Sanna...




I did a photo shoot of a two year old today...


Turned out really good!


Here are a few.


DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Prayers Answered!!!

We found Fred!!! He was on the side of the road.
I didn't tell you the whole story, Tymothie was out side playing before church, and he accidentally forgot Fred and left him lying on our back bumper. When we left for church, Fred was still on the bumper. Tym didn't remember him until we got to church. He checked then, but of course, Fred was gone. When we got home from church, we looked all over the drive way, and in the house and couldn't find him.


He looks like he has been run over... and is all scratched up. This morning we got up at 6:am (the first day of summer break, the first day I can sleep in, well until 8 at least,) and went walking up the road trying to find Fred. We had no luck. I drove all the way to the church, and we didn't see him. I had some errands to do, but on the way home, we slowed down, and looked again. As we were passing, Tym said he saw something on the west side of the road that looked like Freds clothes, and so I turned around, and as he was looking on the west side, I saw Fred lying on the east side of the road . I quickly yelled "I found Fred!" and pulled over to park so I could run back to get him. Tym said he though I was just teasing him... until he saw Fred.
We are happy, yet we are saddened by the news from the Chapman Family. Keep them in your prayers.

DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Prayer Request.


This is a bonus Microburst... Fred is missing again... Pray that we find him, Tym is VERY upset.


Fred Doesn’t Have Any
Hair onOn His Head!
For Christmas this year, Tymothie (7) got a cabbage patch kid preemie, a boy, and he named it Fred. Tymothie is a wonderful father; he feeds Fred, and takes care of Fred, and Tym even gets mad at me if I just let Fred lay on his bed all day while he is at school; I have to play with Fred.
Recently, Fred disappeared for a few days. Tymothie was in tears; he was so upset. The worst thing of all was Tymothie knew we were going to be moving from that house in a few days, and if he didn’t find Fred now, he might never find Fred. I was, of course, concerned too. I hated to see Tym so upset, but we had looked everywhere we knew to look, and just couldn’t find him.
So, I prayed, “God, I believe that you care about Fred, simply because you care about Tymothie, so I am asking you to tell us, or show us where Fred is.
Lord, you tell us in your word, in Matthew10:30, that every hair on our head is numbered, so I know your care about details, please show us where Fred is even though he doesn’t have any hair.”
Later that day, for no apparent reason, I took a shortcut across our yard in the car. I was just being silly, not uncommon for me. God can use silly because guess what I found? Fred! He was in a part of the yard we don’t often go, and since he is a little brown baby, and we are having a drought in central Alabama, we would have never found him because all of the grass is brown right now.
As if to show how much He really cares, a few hours after God lead us to Fred, it started to rain! We haven’t had rain here in almost a month! God is sooo cooool!!!

Every hair on your head
has been counted.
Matthew 10:30


DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

One More...

I love this man...
DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Engagement Photos

Ok, so they are 14 years late... Still was a lot of fun.










DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6
Yes technically I took these pictures... although my daughter pushed the trigger...lol

Love is not a feeling, It is a choice.

As Promised, here is the second Microburst I am posting in honor of my anniversary... 14 years.

I Choose…
It’s all a choice; life is simply a choice. We choose to love someone or we choose to hate someone by the choice thoughts we choose to think about them. Think about it.
This year my darling husband and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. In this day of micro marriages, that is a rare occurrence.
For that reason, it was a very special day, right? So, you might wonder how we celebrated such a special event. Well, on the very day, probably even at the very moment that we said, “I do,” he was yelling, “Fore!” (For those of you who are golfly challenged, he was playing golf.) Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I was surrounded by screaming children.
I did a good job of making that sound pretty bad, didn’t I? The truth of the matter is I chose to let him go. I had to work at the daycare. Yes, he was playing golf probably at the same time we said our I do’s, but we didn’t have a nighttime ceremony. We eloped, and were at the courthouse one morning before noon (that same date 10 years ago to be vaguely exact).
I chose not to be upset that the most memorable moment of my tenth wedding anniversary is him golfing without me. The Bible says we need to let our yes be yes and our no be no. I told him he could go.

Simply say yes or no. Anything more than that comes from the evil one.
Matthew 5:37

DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Monday, May 19, 2008

Love and Marriage...without cats.


Tomorrow is my 14th wedding anniversary, in honor of my marriage , here is one of two MICROBURSTS! on my marriage I am going to post.

Forgive and Forget?
Okay, at least forgive and bury it. Way back in the beginning... well almost. Way back in the beginning of mine and Que’sour marriage, we had a cat that shall forever be known as the worst dumbest cat in the world.
A pet store was giving away free kittens (it was a bad sign for her that she was free), and they were long haired so I wanted one! Well, Que didn't feel my passion for this kitten, especially since we had a cat and a dog. However, I begged, pleaded, “pleased,” and made puppy dog faces until he gave in.

You have to have forgiveness to give forgiveness and you have to give forgiveness to get forgiveness.
Honestly, I think the kitten was brain damaged. That was the dumbest cat in the world. Dumb as dirt. At any rate, after almost a year and more than enough grief, the cat went away. Praise God.
Nevertheless, her legend took a lot longer to die. For five or six years, every time I wanted something that my husband didn't want, he would say, “Remember the cat?” and I would give in.
Obviously, he had better judgment than I did!
That isn't really true. My darling Que was using the cat to manipulate me so he could get his way. He has since repented and realized,

True love keeps no record of wrongs!
I Corinthians 13:5

Maybe you can’t forgive and forget it, but you can forgive and let it go!



DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Movie Review: Prince Caspian


Awesome!!! Totally Awesome.
DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6
I don't usually recommend movies, but I would this one.
(I did not take this picture...)

Is Blogging About a Blog About Me Bragging?

Oh well, It is a chance I am willing to take. My friend Aaron bought one of my books. He hasn't even read it all, but he really likes it, so he posted a blog on his blog site "Iron Sharpens Iron" about my book, so YALL (Emphasis for Aaron's sake) go read it! (SIDE NOTE... I did NOT "take" this picture of Aaron, I did "take it" from his myspace...)
DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Shout out to Cinderella

My darling Juliannah is a blonde among blondes... She has her moments. However, even when she is a little daffy, she is brilliant. She got her name mentioned three times in this weeks news letter from her class. One for bringing the most box tops (thanks to Grammy), another for staying on blue (the best behaviour color) all week, and thirdly and most important, for having an A average in AR for the entire year!
You go Cindy.
Story behind that one, when Juliannah was about four she told me she had decided to change her name to Cinderella, but I could call her Cindy for short... lol I love the girl.
DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Monday, May 12, 2008

Tymothie is 8!


Can you believe my baby boy is 8? I can't.



He is such a special little guy. He is so precious. He is tender, and loving... unless his older brother makes him mad. He is very intelligent. They recently tested him for the gifted class, and he scored 134. WOW look at the table below and you will see average is 90-109... He scored up in the very superior...

Descriptive Classifications of Intelligence Quotients

IQ Description % of Population
130+ Very superior 2.2%
120-129 Superior 6.7%
110-119 High average 16.1%
90-109 Average 50%
When he was just 2 I was putting him in his car seat one day and he looked at me and said (and this IS a direct quote), "Don't drive so fast this time!" and as I recovered from that, he continued... "Do you even have a drivers license?"
Every since then, we taught him to say "I'm exceptionally smart..." and he is.



I love you Tym-tym!
Love Mommy

DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Sunday, May 11, 2008

My Mothers Day



My darling husband is sooo sweet. He got me a MP3 Player for Mothers Day! All of my sweet little kiddos gave me change (all the money they had) so I can buy music online... awww make me cry. And, it is blue! Does he know me, or does he know me.





Here are my children, and my sister's children. She has adorable foster twin boys, but it is illegal for me to post them online (in spite of all the AWESOME adorable pics I have of them.) so that is why the two weird shadows...

DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Pretty Peaceful Picture...


Just a nifty place to go to relax... Looks like it. Wish it were mine...
Don't forget to vote, only 20 days left on the poll...

DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Rough Weather

Lightening struck this big tree in our front yard. It was pretty cool, busted a water pipe too. (Q didn't think that part was too cool, especially since he had to fix it...

DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Make a Wish!

I wanted to find a verse with wish in it, to celebrate this cute picture... this is what I came up with.





Job 13:5 I wish you would keep silent. For you, that would be wisdom.

DaNella
Proverbs 3:5-6