Pulling out the soap box.

Got this from Deanna,
What was I ranting about the other day? Watch this.


You go girl!
I have heard it said... "I've never met anyone who was for abortion who hadn't already been born."

A prayer request

I dare not speculate which one, but here is one of them loving on Fred, Shannon will probably be able to tell at a glance. I think I have avoided this post because it makes me sad.

A little over two years ago, my sister and her dear husband , and their three children (two girls and a boy) decided to enter the ministry. Not your typical ministry, but yet a very important one. They agreed to become foster parents. They decided there was a little boy out there who needed the love their family could give. Specifically a boy, to room with their only boy. However, God in his sense of humor decided to give her a hand full... Identical twin boys 13 months old, 12 days before Christmas.
These little guys own us all. We love them so dearly. If you ask them,"What does Aunt DaNella say?" they will say "Smile!" because I am always chasing them with my camera.
The part of this post that makes me sad is in March they have a court date, and may be reunited with their bio mom. If this is best for them, as hard as it will be, that is what we all want. However, a part of us would like to pray that they will be ours for good. Help us to pray for GOD'S will and not our own. We are claiming Jeramiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for the twins, says the Lord, plans for a hope and a future". He cares more than even we do.
So if you think about it, and get a chance pray for the "twinlets" as I call them.
My mom pointed out, if nothing else, if they are placed back with bio mom, they will ALWAYS have someone, several someones praying for them.

We will always love you twinlets!

Puleeeeeeeease!

Say it ain't so. There is a local guy here who hid and embombed body for two years, because the family hadn't paid for the cremation. Sure I understand he needed his money, but my goodness don't hang on to the body. Now he may face 5 to 10 years in prison. He is charged with a felony something about mistreating a corpse... Please give me a break. It's legal to kill a baby in the name of convenience, but my heavens, let us not do anything to a dead body. Don't get me wrong what he did was wrong. But what is this world coming to?

Thank you to Amanda West Grund for letting me use her cat picture to create my cat gasp picture.

Here is what I am...

I told you this one was easy. Kiwi... Sam made me a dessert pizza for my birthday, so I swiped a Kiwi and played with my "new" lens... lol

This is the header for my new blog... I thought it turned out pretty good. What do you think? Be brutal... I can take it.

What Am I?

Ok this one is easy... I just think it is sooooooo cool. I love my "new" lens.

I do have another blog now... also. Yeah I know I really needed another blog. It is something I have been considering for a long time, I wanted to start one for my Photography, but I didn't want to have nothing to post until my business picked up. Then I heard about Project 365, your year in pictures. So for filler I will post everyday pictures. So here is a link.

Fun Photo Stuff!

This is a fun photo "class" I love it. To those of you who find me thru Mr Linky, my name is DaNella, and I am a pastor's wife with 5 kids. I love photography!

Wow this is scary...

Listen to the quote it is by Ezra Taft Benson the secetary of agraculture for president Eisenhower. I heard this on Rick and Bubba yesterday.

Promised birthday pics

Here are some glimpses from my card from my most wonderful Hubby. Mostly I just like playing with my "New" (Becky said I can call it new for at least a year...) Lens... And well it was sorta a married-peoples-only-understand-card... and I know a lot of my readers are 11-14 (my Nieces and my kids namely)

I will tell you the last line was you are that special someone who makes my life complete.

Coressa from church gave me this lovely three candle tree. I love it!
Sam searched me out some Daffodils! Everyone knows those are my favorite flower!
Sam made me a dessert Pizza for my Birthday.

Nana was kind enough to break a confetti egg on my head.

Also, Q made me some WONDERFUL Pepper Steak for supper! Yum. Thank you everyone! I felt very special.

Wonderful Birthday... pics to come.

love u guys... thanks for all the wonderful birthday wishes.

Not Bad For 36...

Thanks to all my friends for the Birthday wishes. I don't look half bad if I do-say-so-myself. I am 36. Yes I admit my real age. I have earned all 36 of my years.

My darling son and daughter went scavenging in the woods and found a daffodil growing wild, and dug it up, bulb and all and planted it by the porch for me... My favorite flower is the daffodil... Awww.

Here is my precious Nana, she is 12 now, going on 16... sheash... too pretty.

Oh and yes Aaron, it is Moss. You guys are hardcore! I will have to try harder to fool you. My Niece Rebekah also guessed correctly.

What Am I?

Good luck on this one!!!

Suzannah is 14!!!!

My niece is 14... Gee I remember when she was just a little whipper snapper... Here are some pics from one of her recent basketball games

Love you girl!! Happy Birthday! The best Valentines Day Present ever!

Love meme... I love friday the 13th!!

COUPLES SURVEY!!!

♥ Fill it out and let's learn about you and your better half!

♥ What are your middle names?
Jean and Leroy

♥ How long have you been together?
15 years married 16 dating

♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating?
a month

♥ Who asked who out? Um... I asked him out and then stood him up... Whole 'nother blog...

♥Who said I love you first?
I did. We were riding in the car one day on our way to work, (we worked at the same place so I would go over to his house since it was on my way, and ride with him) and he was saying I love your hair and I love your eyes, and I love... several things about me, and I just looked at him and said, "Well, I love you."

♥ How old are each of you?
I am 35, and he is 34

♥ Who's siblings do/did you see the most?
Mine because his is sorta MIA... We don't know where he is.

♥ Do you have any children together? What do you mean by togeather? 4 that we bio parented, and 1 that we adopted

♥ Did you go to the same schools? Nope... not really

♥ Are you from the same hometown? No I'm from Alabama he's from Kansas

♥ Who is the smartest?
Depends on the subject.

♥ Who is the most sensitive?
Me

♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple?
Where ever Barb, Jerry, Yavonne and Bill are going on sundays... which is a diffrent place every week... Never seen anyone with such a well worked out rotation...

♥ Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Kansas

♥ Who has the worst temper?
Um... that is a hard one... Both of us?

♥ Who does the cooking?
We share it equally.

♥Who is the most social?
I am

♥ Who is the neat-freak?
He is

♥ Who is the most stubborn?
Well we call each other Muley and Mulette

♥ Who wakes up earlier?
He does

♥Who has the bigger family?
me

♥Do you get flowers often?
NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!! and it makes me sad...

♥ Who do you spend the holidays with?
at home with our kids mostly. We do go to my mom's for "her Christmas"

♥ Who sings better?
Me

♥ Who does/did the laundry?
We share it equally.

♥ Who’s better with the computer?
Both

♥ Who drives when you are together?
He does – I hate to drive

♥ Who picks where you go to dinner?
We both do it pretty much equally. We take turns.

♥ Who is the first one to admit when they’re wrong?
Me cause it takes the wind out of his sails, and I love it...

♥ Who wears the pants in the relationship? My husband

♥Who eats more sweets?
Me!!!

♥ Who cries more?
Me. He only cries at births... He cried at the birth of our four children, and he always cries when someone gets saved.

♥ Are you still together?
Always!

Just some pictures

This is a close up of a prayer cloth... Sigh... I love it.

Yeah... my new lens... So how long after you have had something is it no longer new?
This is the scene behind our baptistry at church.
Anybody notice my new header(other than Gee)? I designed it. I was delighted with how it turned out.

Here is what I am...

Have I mentioned that I LOVE my new lens? It is awesome!!!! Here is the rest of the picture... that colorful blob in the background is my darling hubby...

It's a sweet gum tree ball.

What Am I?

Here we go again! Personally I think this one is much harder than last week's... But we'll see some of you guys are hardcore, yall can guess anything. I'll save you a guess it isn't bird beaks... although that is what it looks like to me.... If... I didn't know better!

I have a problem...

(Doesn't really fit, I just love the picture!)
Hi, my name is DaNella Auten, I am 35, almost 36 years old and I have a problem. I have S.S.S.R.T.A. Singular Section of Song Repeated To Annoyance. Ok so I made up the name but the problem is real. There is this stupid song that some secular person decided needed a Grammy, that annoys the snot out of me. The song is about an ungodly action that is now accepted in this society. It is something that is clearly unchristian, but who says this is a Christian nation anymore?
My biggest problem with this song is my SSSRTA. I only know a section of the song, but I will repeat this singular section of song over and over and over and over… You get the idea. It is so bad I have gone to great lengths to avoid hearing it. Since some silly person decided it needed a Grammy, the Grammy awards commercials have been on tv all the time lately, so if I see that commercial come on I will grab the remote and change the channel long enough for it to be over. The other day the remote wasn’t near, but I so desperately did not want to hear the song that I literally put my hands over my ears, and started singing… “la la la la la la la la” My husband looked at me as if I had lost my mind and said what are you doing? So I explained to him that I didn’t want to hear that song, or I will start singing it. He understood.
A day or so later in another conversation the song came on tv again, and in the middle of talking he stopped and started saying “la la la la la” at first I kinda looked at him, but then I realized he was trying to help me avoid that song.
As I was laughing at myself for taking such great lengths to avoid a silly little song, it occurred to me that we don’t try nearly as hard to avoid sin. Think about it. We all have that “pet sin” the one that is hardest to give up. We know it is wrong, and we know we shouldn’t do it, but we justify it by pretending it isn’t as bad as we know it is.
God tells us

1Co 10:13 There isn't any temptation that you have experienced which is unusual for humans. God, who faithfully keeps his promises, will not allow you to be tempted beyond your power to resist. But when you are tempted, he will also give you the ability to endure the temptation as your way of escape.

He has provided a way out, but it won’t fall in our lap, we have to work at it. We have to want to let the sin go.
What sin are you “petting?”