Boys On The Beach

After a long, fun day--What's better than ice cream before bed? :)

What Do YOUR Kids Do When You Send Them Outside?

New Year's Drum Circle

So, when I heard folks trying to pound holes through the ceiling (thus ending my "nap") I figured it must be near midnight. I wandered upstairs and found it was only 11 pm...

Caylee and Don (Caylee, Joy, and Andrew are siblings. Don is their uncle)
Bear (who belongs to Lorna)

Mom and David (David belongs to Sue)

David and Janis

Philip

Nate on the didgeridoo

Andrew and Zach

Joy(dancing) and Sue(videoing--is that a word?)

Joy

Rowdy (who belongs to Janis) and Renee

Renee

Sue and Lorna (mom to Elijah, Zach and Cameron)

Dad:)

Mom

Janis and Mom

Don and Danita (they belong together and their kids are Alisa, Elizabeth, and Lydia)

Mom and Janis (don't they look like they are having fun?)

After we counted down midnight we went out on the deck for a few minutes and made crazy noise out there (the neighbors called the police!). Then we came inside and had communion.

A little more worship first...of a quieter sort

Then communion together, in the quiet, dim room, in the best of company...

Thank you Father so much for showing us Your love in so many wonderful ways. Thank you for friends who are like family. Thank you for the Gift of Your Son to us. I love You!

New Years Get-Away--More Pictures

Still Friday :)

Dancing to worship music while cooking dinner

Oh, wait, you're taking our picture?!?!?!?! Aaauuugh!!! At least let us POSE!

Downstairs movie watchers...

A really, really cool lamp

Happy
Do you think these ladies are excited to be together? :)

I just love watching the big boys play with the little ones:)

The really cool lamp compels you to Touch it...

Philip, who's pictured here came back and wrote on facebook about the wonderful weekend with friends, worshiping God and fellowshipping, and how God's been teaching him about family this year...and I just happened to have this great photo...

While on the deck taking pictures of the beautiful beach I turned around and was struck by the warmth and friendship visible through the windows...

Not terribly well composed, but I thought they were fun anyway:)

More dinner making

Elijah--dancing and clapping and singing and running from room to room saying hi to everybody. Soooo sweet and cute, I loves him:)

The drummer girls and Nate (Janis got her drum for her birthday and Mom got hers for Christmas and they are excited for any excuse to use them together:)

More to come:D Next, pictures of our midnight drum circle/worship session. The boys slept through it even though our bedroom was downstairs and it sounded like they were literally pounding holes through the ceiling!!! Woke me up. I didn't actually want to be asleep and miss the New Year's celebration anyway, I just couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. So, I was Glad to be woken up. I was really excited my kids stayed asleep though ;-)

New Years Get-Away--A Few Pictures

From the first part of Friday:)
Janis and cartwheels:)

Mom's fav thing to do on the beach--run barefoot!

Observing tag being played (Alisa)

Just enjoying the ocean (Joy)

Running for a hug from the photographer!

Playing tag! They drew "islands" in the sand and you could only run on the islands. If you run out of bounds (or get pushed out!) you are it(as well as if you get tagged of course).

Nate, Joy, and Caylee

Bear and Cameron

View of the game from the deck of the house

More to come... :)

(Come on! No one wondered about the limo???:D )

A Teaser...

Coming Soon To A Blog Near You...

We had a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful weekend away with our friends and family!!! Pictures are coming soon! :) Facebook first so that everyone who was there can see their pictures. It takes so long to upload them, even on our fairly fast computer. And you know I can never pick just a few... Well, if you knew how many hundreds of pictures I take, you would see that I really DO pick only a few. Ahem. ;-}