Three Fold Cord: April 2012

N. GA in the Fall

If you make it to the end you see a video

Jason, Katie, Katherine, Larry, Sean, Me, Chad, Evan and Kait

The apple farm had chicks, goats and super slides!

Shhh...little chick I won't squeeze you to death

We gather with some amazing people we love and cherish to celebrate God's faithfulness to us throughout the year. On one particular night we dress up and have a love feast. We gather our food and worship our way up the mountain. As we stop at the top testimonies are given about God and the miracles he has done in our lives. We then pass through a beautiful curtain into a place in the woods that is set up for all of us to eat together. Milk and Honey, Bread and Butter, Grapes and Cheese. It was delicious! One lady, Cheris, made special loaves of mini bread birds with raisin eyes for the kids. Only the children could have them so they left the evening remembering what they got and we didn't ;).
This night was special in so many ways but for me it was the last event we participated in before returning to GA after 8 weeks on the road. One of my favorite memories was my sister running to meet me through the fields as we were overjoyed to be in each others arms again. We were pretty much inseparable that weekend.

ladies that are apart of our House church in GA. These are only a few of them. Jessica, Nicole, Me, Katie and Nichole

Sisters by blood and by the Spirit! One of my closest friends.

Katherine was proud to carry basket of food to the feast. She was very pleased with her outfit as well. She found the skirt in CA and knew it would be perfect for the Love feast.

Let us go up to the Mountain

Aren't they precious! Evan was given a cape to wear. He was flying that night in his heart!

We have entered the world of LEGOS

Pictures of the set we want for Christmas

The people we create at the store and the lego movies are all the rage around here!

Thanksgiving craft time

Nana comes over once a week. She is great at crafts. I like the break!

Toilet paper rolls, colored paper and glue. Little indians and pilgrims were the result.

Color Blind ?!

If you have spent any time with our family you would know that Sean is the funny one. His facial expressions slay me! He has the amazing ability to survey a room upon entering and within moments all eyes are on him and they are laughing. He knows this about himself now and is very proud when he gets us going. In one area this little booger had me a little scared. I thought he was color blind. After trying many times to do school with him and using lots of different fun activities he would always tease me and not point to the right color that I had said. I did not know he was teasing me until I had a great idea in the shower...

...melting crayons! I fooled this boy. I explained what we were going to do. Then I had him match each crayon to the color so he cut put all the broken matches into the mini muffin pan to cook. Ohh he was in. He started right away diggin in the crayon drawer matching up all the colors on the table. I started laughing out loud when he began to match every color I asked him to. When he figured out that he had been caught this was his expression. I am telling you I am going to need a lot of Divine help with this one.

While they were cooking he did every page just right. We finished the day with new crayons to play with and remind me, from that day on, to keep a close eye on this little buddy. Though I think I already knew that :)

Easiest cookie recipe with kids

We were at a house in Norcross from October to January. We were one mile from a shopping center called the Forum. It has great places to eat and shop. We especially loved visiting Barnes & Noble.

At the encouragement from one of my dear friends I have started including Katherine in the baking, cooking and cleaning of the kitchen. She is my second hand woman now. She made brownies start to finish all by hereself the other night. This could be dangerous y'all! But of course the boys want tot help too so I a was so excited to try something with them.

Love the Pioneer Woman! She has some great recipes amongst other hugely inspiring things on her blog. We decided to make her oatmeal crispies. It was such an easy recipe for the kids! The hardest part was waiting for them to harden in the fridge before we cut and baked them.

Aunt Robin and Uncle Steve came over for dinner. After serving dessert Uncle Steve asked for the recipe. They were a hit adn all the kids were so proud to say they had made them.

My plan

I am going to get caught up. So have fun looking back with us over the last 6 months as we have moved 3 times, celebrated 4 holidays, 2 birthdays and continued to homeschool the whole time. Wow! Just writing that post I am tired.