Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you all a very Blessed Thanksgiving. I am so thankful for Jesus, my family, and my friends.

M2M Scavenger Hunt

Lisa from (The Preacher's Wife) is doing a Minister's Wives Scavenger Hunt. This should be a lot of fun. Thanks Lisa!

The Treasures

1. First Name. Linda

2. State and Country of Residence. Nevada/United States of America

3. Husband’s Ministry Title. Pastor

4. Length of time in Current Ministry Location. {IMPORTANT: There are several of you who may not be in a current ‘official’ pastorate/ministry, etc. That makes you no less a minister’s wife! You play along, girlfriends, and let us pray for you!} 8 yrs. Praise the Lord!!

5. Children? If yes, give gender and ages. Two wonderful sons ages 18 & 6

6. Number of unique homes in which you’ve lived during your marriage.
9 homes total ~ Germany (1), Pennsylvania (2) & Las Vegas (6). We have never owned our own home. Here in Vegas it seemed for a while there that we were having to move every year due to the owner of the home wanted to sell it. Our first home was the most unique, we were living in Wurzburg, Germany. We lived directly above our landlord who spoke only German. We had our own dialect going on, haha. Just living in Las Vegas right now is unique in itself, lol.

7. Cook Sunday lunch or eat out? Mostly we eat out. You can't beat Taco Bell's 39 cent tacos. I do a roast in the crockpot occasionally.

8. Typically on time for Sunday School or not? I am mostly on time. It all depends on how easy it is to get my mom up and out of bed. She loves her sleep, especially on Sunday mornings. I can get myself so stressed some mornings trying to hurry her up in a "Godly" way, haha . She has to read the paper every morning with breakfast so on Sundays I try to hide it so will get done faster, lol.

9. Favorite TV Show. I have a few ~ Lost, Heroes, American Idol, CSI Las Vegas & CSI NY

10. Something you watch/like/do that you would never tell the church people. (Except now you just did…lol) I can't think of anything. We are a small church that is very close, they know everything about me.

11. Most annoying church-related pet peeve. People doing something or saying something hurtful to my husband or kids.

12. One thing you need to throw away but can’t bring yourself to do it. A really small pair of jeans. I just know one day I will be able to squeeze back into them ;)

13. The one food you can not live without. Chocolate :) Is that considered a food?

14. Parsonage or have your own home? We are in the process of buying our first home right now. Praise God!!

15. Freak when the doorbell rings or always ready for a visitor? A few years back I used to freak out, now I love it! I am not home that much to get the door but when I am I love having company.

Pumpkin patch

This was the first year our family went to the Orchards to pick our pumpkins. We also picked some yummy green granny apples. We had a lot of fun.


There were rows and rows of pumpkins



Josh scoped them all out very carefully

This is it...

No, wait, this one...



Maybe this one?

He likes this one

Here James, hold my pumpkin

He has to check out a few more before we leave

This one looks pretty good

Here is one for my big brother

They were looking for eggplant. Most of the eggplant were squishy. We didn't get any this time.

Richard and Josh picking green apples.

Score!!


Happy Fall Everyone!!

One Mile Away

Here are some pics of my son James' band One Mile Away. They live "one mile away" from each other. Bet you couldn't figure that out right? ha,ha.

James, Taylor & Jimmy











This one is my favorite.








I am so proud of him. He is one amazing guitar player. Love you James :)

School's out for Summer

Joshua's last day of school. I can't believe my baby is finished with Kindergarten. He is growing up way too fast. It was a wonderful year with an excellent teacher. Mrs. Bailey did an excellent job with all of the kids. Joshua is reading at a 2nd and 3rd grade level. I am so proud of him. Happy Summer!

Josh was so excited to be the first in line on the boys side. This picture was actually take on the 2nd to last day of school.


Here are the kids on the last day of school playing musical chairs

Josh eating an ice cream sundae

All of the kids lining up for the awards ceremony. Their teacher asked them to cross their arms and put their finger up to their mouths. She has them do this whenever they are supposed to be quiet. It looks like only two of them heard her, haha.

Some treats I made for all of the kids in Josh's class. Me and my friend Koko went to the party store and picked out a bunch of things to put in their treat bags. The tag says "Have a great summer" on one side and on the other side it says "From Joshua and Jayden"


Eating pizza


First grade will be here before we know it. Have a wonderful rest of your Summer everyone!

Graduation Party

James and his best friend Taylor shared their graduation party together. My sweet friend Michele (Taylor's mom) offered her beautiful home for the party. It was so much fun. Everyone had a great time. Congrats grads!!!

Michele and I made picture boards of the boys. We had autograph books set up for their friends and family to sign

This was part of James' board

Here is the other side of his board

Me and James

Josh headed straight for the hot tub with Taylor's sweet little dog Buddy. This dog is so neurotic about his ball. If you could hear what he was thinking right now it would be "ball, ball, ball, ball." LOL!

James and his cousin Leighanna

James, Tommy, and Taylor

Me and my sis-in-law Tari

Our friends and DJ's James & Brady. This was a gift to James from them

Dance, dance, dance. The woman on the left is Beverly. She is like a second mom to me. She got the kids dancin'. Go Momma Bev!!

Emily, James & Calvin. Calvin was James' photographer for his senior pics and band pics




Me and my niece Leighanna

When the DJ's left the room for a few minutes Richard kept things running

Some of the kids/teens in the pool

Ending the night off with a little graduation cake


Thanks for being patient with me and my blog posts. I am slowly but surely catching you all up on things.