Happy Valentine's Day

It's Valentine's day tomorrow! Love is in the air :) Do any of you have any big plans?
We are going to church and then relaxing afterwards. Nothing big going on over here, just being together is fine with us.
This has been a fun week for all of the kids at Josh's school. Lots of valentine projects going on.
I just love having a little one in elementary school. I love being able to make treats for Josh's first grade class, help out with the parties, read with the kids twice a week, and make valentine's.
This year Josh had to make a box or bag for all of his valentine cards that he could present to the class. His teacher wanted him to decorate it and explain why he chose to decorate it the way he did and tell if he did the project on his own or will help. How many first graders that you know could do a project like this on their own? Not many that I can think of. I'm thinking that these projects are meant for parent/child bonding. We had a great time creating our box.
Josh is really into Pokemon right now so I thought we could make a Pikachu box using a shoebox. Pikachu is one of the characters from Pokemon.

Here is the head that we found on the internet and printed out. I traced the head on a file folder, cut it out, and glued the pieces together.

I wrapped the box in bright yellow wrapping paper that I found at Party City and then I made arms using card stock and then overlaying it with the wrapping paper.

I made the feet the same way as the arms.

I cut a slit on the top of the shoebox, tucked in the paper and taped it.
I added a tail on the back .

Josh had to bring 18 valentine cards to class. I could not for the life of me find any Pokemon cards so I made some for him.
This is the front of the card. I found some blank cards at Michael's in the dollar bin. I printed out a Pokemon image on cardstock, cut them out, and glued it to the front of the card.

I stamped the inside.

This was for his teacher Ms. Dunn. I found this cute container at the Dollar Tree. We filled it with yummy candy, made a tag for it and added some curling ribbon.

Here is Pikachu getting ready to be filled with valentine cards.

I wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day

Blogging

Boy am I getting bad with my blogging. I hardly ever put new posts up.



I spend more time looking at all of your wonderful blogs then on my own. You all are so creative and informative and some of you are just plain hilarious.



My blog just seems so boring.



I have been so busy lately that all I have had time to do is visit you all very briefly.



Besides being busy I have started exercising more. I have been running and walking on the treadmill.


Is that a good excuse for not blogging?

Well, I plan to keep up with this blog more. I know a lot of you are busy too, but you still seem to keep your blogs fresh and fun.

Wish me luck!!

LOST - The Final Season

Tonight's the night. The first episode of the final season of LOST will air tonight.



I have waited for what seemed like forever for this show to come back on. I can hardly stand the idea of it coming to an end though. This will be one crazy season for sure.





Enjoy watching tonight, I know I will :)

Good-Bye 2009

I have been on a blog break for long enough wouldn't you say?
I thought I might as well say a little something before the year is over.
The year 2009 has had it's ups and downs for me. I can't say that it was my best year, and I can't say that that is was my worst. Let's just say that I am looking forward to 2010 and what it will hold for me.
I wish all of you a safe and Happy New Year!!!

Here are some highlights from 2009

James' Graduation

Meeting up with Kerry, Mary & Marcy here is Vegas for the first time

Our trip to Disneyland

Joshua's Baptism


Mom's Baptism

Michaela's Baptism (Joshua's best friend)

Our Praise team singing at our local sister church

Joshua's first day of 1st grade

Joshua's Fall Festival party at school

Joshua & Michaela Halloween night

Rich carving the turkey on Thanksgiving

Mom anxiously waiting to eat the turkey

James diggin' in

Traveling to Williams, AZ

Riding on the Polar Express in Williams, AZ
Here we are with the Conductor. We had someone
else take our picture so we got their finger in the pic
too, lol

Joshua and Santa. He gave Joshua a bell just like
on the movie


Josh with his bell and ticket that says BELIEVE

Enjoying the snow


Mom keeping warm

Anniversary night. Rich and I celebrated 21 years
of marriage on Dec 22nd. We went to the Bellagio for
dinner. The fountains were so cool, they played "It's
the most wonderful time of the year" while the water
danced to the tunes.


Happy New Year everyone! May God richly bless each and every one of you in ways that you could never imagine this coming year.

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!!