Lydia's play "Salvation in God Alone"

The 6th through 10th graders of our home school group at church put on a play about "our God as the Sovereign who alone can save aa demonstrated in the Old Testament events described in the book of Esther and celebrated in the Jewish feast of Purim" which was observed on the day of her play. The king was Clay Wiginton, Queen Esther was Esther Kelly, Haman was John Naselli, his wife, Zeresh, was Deborah Dahlhausen, Mordecai was Chad Willis, and a many others.

During Mary Lu's visit, we went to lunch at the Brick Street Cafe, then we toured the historic Poinsett Hotel,
What a joy it was to have a family member come to see us! Thank you, Mary Lu!

my cute boys! he he

more snow.....that little, little, plant is the beginnings of my giant sequoia tree that I brought back from Californina last year.

Granny Keck's visit

Last Saturday, Granny and Uncle Gary came up from Anderson for a short visit. Preston is 6 weeks old here. You see how much Granny was enjoying him, he's such a little cutie pie!

Two of the fountains we saw that were barely flowing because of the cold!

We spent the afternoon in Gatlinburg looking in all the shops. The girls had lots of fun posing for pictures. It was freezing out there!

This is outside the Ripley's museum, a robot looking thing made of car engine parts

Herbie was beeping at everyone!

The weather was good and cold and this was the first snow we had seen all winter. The girls enjoyed themselves very much!

SKI TRIP TO GATLINBURG

Lydia, Emily and Heidi in the car on the way up to Gatlinburg. Noisy, very noisy

Valentine's Day

Lydia wanted to make a Valentine dessert everyone and Shiloh was her helper. Strawberry cake with jam filling covered with whipped cream!