Tuesday, March 30, 2010
brag book
Since this is officially Lolli's Loves and it serves as my "brag book", I wanted to share 3 more pictures from the Saturday family party. I know, I know, I am a little biased, a little obsessed, a little crazy, a little enthusiastic, a little indulging, a little sugary, a little cheesy, and a WHOLE LOT IN LOVE with my grandchildren!
Monday, March 29, 2010
more about Saturday
Did I mention that there was a whole lot of things going on Saturday during our family party?
There was baby gifts being opened...and
walks to the pond nearby...and
little boys playing video games upstairs...and
children counting out Easter eggs and finding candy in them...and
cousins holding cousin's babies...and
sisters holding little Sawyer who busted his nose before he got to the party...and
granddaughters hugging granddaddys...and
great nephews eatting chicken fingers...and
great nieces shying from the camera...and
uncles and grandmothers holding little ones...and
children playing badmitton and bean bag toss...and
baby swaps going on constantly...and
three generations loving one another...and
two little sisters giving their grandmother a special moment to capture!
There was baby gifts being opened...and
walks to the pond nearby...and
little boys playing video games upstairs...and
children counting out Easter eggs and finding candy in them...and
cousins holding cousin's babies...and
sisters holding little Sawyer who busted his nose before he got to the party...and
granddaughters hugging granddaddys...and
great nephews eatting chicken fingers...and
great nieces shying from the camera...and
uncles and grandmothers holding little ones...and
children playing badmitton and bean bag toss...and
baby swaps going on constantly...and
three generations loving one another...and
two little sisters giving their grandmother a special moment to capture!Sunday, March 28, 2010
42, 18 and + ½
This past Saturday 42 of the Williams side of the family got together in Montgomery to celebrate the homecoming of Scott and Catherine Littlepage from Hong Kong (just for a month) and for the little one they will be bringing into the world later this summer! There were 18 children and ½(baby Noah on the way) for this party and it was a gloriously beautiful Spring Day for which my brother and sister in law,Tim and Penny, were so very grateful along with the rest of us 24 adults present!
For those of you who follow my blog and don't know my family, you will just have to wade through the next few minutes because with 42 people, I must make sure everyone is in some pictures here! And that was no easy job getting so many people rounded up for group pictures but anyways here are the ones I have:
1st is my 90 year old Daddy (2nd to the left) with all the outlaws!!! I overheard one of them saying that "they were the best part of the family"! I would totally agree except I happen to think that there are certain grandchildren that rank higher than they...but without these outlaw relatives, there would be no grandchildren so now I must agree!!!
Here are all of the original girl cousins of the Williams family- how fun that they could all be together this day for a family party -(Lindsey, Jessica, Jennifer, Natalie, Melissa, and Meredith) and they are staying in touch which makes me happy as I know how much my cousins have meant to me over the years.
5 of the original boy cousins that could be here - Lee, Scott, Chandler, Walt, & Parker
and last but not least of my group pictures here are 17 of the children getting ready to hunt Easter eggs and pointing to me to hurry up and take the picture so they can get on with the party!
Since you can barely see the littlest ones, I'll give you the pleasure of seeing them up close and personal.
baby Reese who is about to turn 1 is my sister, Barbara's granddaughter
and my youngest grandbaby, Knox is now 8 months old!
How about my cutie pies with their Pops here!
the twins in our family all born on the same day in August (Ray and Barbs, my younger brother and sister and Baylor and Walton who are my nephew, Walt,and Holly's youngest boys - they have 4 :) (they are Tim's grandsons)
Tim and Penny put on a grand party (check out the pacifier favors that Penny made out of lifesavers and jelly beans= tooo cute!)
Daddy has a lengthy history with redheaded girls in the family (starting with his aunt, his sister, then my mother and her mother, then me and now a great granddaughter :)!
can't close without mentioning a little red headed boy in the family too whom we think will have the reddest hair of us all! He is a beautiful baby with a pretty doggone handsome daddy if I don't say so myself!
For those of you who follow my blog and don't know my family, you will just have to wade through the next few minutes because with 42 people, I must make sure everyone is in some pictures here! And that was no easy job getting so many people rounded up for group pictures but anyways here are the ones I have:
1st is my 90 year old Daddy (2nd to the left) with all the outlaws!!! I overheard one of them saying that "they were the best part of the family"! I would totally agree except I happen to think that there are certain grandchildren that rank higher than they...but without these outlaw relatives, there would be no grandchildren so now I must agree!!!
Here are all of the original girl cousins of the Williams family- how fun that they could all be together this day for a family party -(Lindsey, Jessica, Jennifer, Natalie, Melissa, and Meredith) and they are staying in touch which makes me happy as I know how much my cousins have meant to me over the years.
5 of the original boy cousins that could be here - Lee, Scott, Chandler, Walt, & Parker
and last but not least of my group pictures here are 17 of the children getting ready to hunt Easter eggs and pointing to me to hurry up and take the picture so they can get on with the party!
Since you can barely see the littlest ones, I'll give you the pleasure of seeing them up close and personal.
baby Reese who is about to turn 1 is my sister, Barbara's granddaughter
and my youngest grandbaby, Knox is now 8 months old!
How about my cutie pies with their Pops here!
the twins in our family all born on the same day in August (Ray and Barbs, my younger brother and sister and Baylor and Walton who are my nephew, Walt,and Holly's youngest boys - they have 4 :) (they are Tim's grandsons)
Tim and Penny put on a grand party (check out the pacifier favors that Penny made out of lifesavers and jelly beans= tooo cute!)
Daddy has a lengthy history with redheaded girls in the family (starting with his aunt, his sister, then my mother and her mother, then me and now a great granddaughter :)!
can't close without mentioning a little red headed boy in the family too whom we think will have the reddest hair of us all! He is a beautiful baby with a pretty doggone handsome daddy if I don't say so myself!
Friday, March 26, 2010
HONEY oh my WORD evening with the author!
Last year about this time, I discovered the HoneyWord Bible for kids through my friend, Barbara Herring. Her 9 year old granddaughter who went with us on the mission trip to Costa Rica was using it, loved it, and recommended I give one to our 9 year old granddaughter, Sydney, who was having her first communion that Spring.
I actually made a phone call to HoneyWord. Org to order Sydney's Honeyword Bible and ended up talking to Dr. Emmett Cooper, the author, myself in the ordering process! The Coopers live in North Carolina, right outside Charlotte. He and I exchanged common denominators such as his wife went to Auburn (I did too and live here:) and He went to Vanderbilt (my father did too), we love working with children and love the play on words to help learn scripture in a fun way! He and I have emailed since my mission trip and I was able to send him a few pictures of us using the HoneyWord Bible in Costa Rica.
(Barbara's granddaughter, Caroline and me with our HoneyWord Bible's in Costa Rica preparing to give a devotional together)
A year later, just this last week, Barbara had to order a few Bibles herself and she also made her order personally through Dr. Emmett Cooper, himself. ....Long story short, he was coming to Lake Martin to perform a wedding for a friend this weekend and Barbara invited him to dinner and offered her beautiful lake home for he and his wife, Lea, to stay while they were in our area. He accepted and here we are, Barbara, Emmett, and me last night at dinner at the Herring's home on Lake Martin.
The Bible is the New Living Translation with Emmett's highlighting of certain stories and verses in each book of the Bible and making a rhyme to help the verse click and stick in your mind. It is a great learning technique for all of us. I am hooked! My p-brain retains this method a lot easier than the plain way of memorizing. He also uses animals to narrate the stories,(which I love), and suggests activities (which I also love), to reinforce the lesson.
The evening was delightful and Barbara's dinner was like eatting at a 5 star***** restaurant served with all her finest china, etc... We all felt so honored to be together.
Dr. Cooper's dream is to have this Bible translated in to Spanish and for people like you and me to take into the world on our mission trips. For right now, I am using it in english personally and intentionally with my grandchildren and on my mission trips. Here's a sample of his writing from The HoneyWord Bible:
Genny the Jellyfish (Jellyfish sounds like Genesis). A jellyfish is clear, just like everything God created in the beginning. Genesis 1:27 So God created human beings in his own image.
Here is the clicker= Mirror, mirror, on the wall, God's image is in us all.
He gives a little piece about a mirror and how it reflects us and when God made people, he gave us the job of reflecting his image like a mirror. Everyone-including you-has God's image inside. You reflect what God is like just as your mirror reflects how you look!
And I love this take on Isaiah 43:25 "I-yes, I alone- will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again". Here is the clicker =It's pretty neat how God hits delete. Dr. Cooper suggests to the child to type this lesson on a computer. Underneath it, write a sentence about something wrong that you did that still bothers you. Now highlight your sentence, and with one hit to the delete button, erase it forever! God forgives all your sins just like that. Isn't He great?
I actually made a phone call to HoneyWord. Org to order Sydney's Honeyword Bible and ended up talking to Dr. Emmett Cooper, the author, myself in the ordering process! The Coopers live in North Carolina, right outside Charlotte. He and I exchanged common denominators such as his wife went to Auburn (I did too and live here:) and He went to Vanderbilt (my father did too), we love working with children and love the play on words to help learn scripture in a fun way! He and I have emailed since my mission trip and I was able to send him a few pictures of us using the HoneyWord Bible in Costa Rica.
(Barbara's granddaughter, Caroline and me with our HoneyWord Bible's in Costa Rica preparing to give a devotional together)
A year later, just this last week, Barbara had to order a few Bibles herself and she also made her order personally through Dr. Emmett Cooper, himself. ....Long story short, he was coming to Lake Martin to perform a wedding for a friend this weekend and Barbara invited him to dinner and offered her beautiful lake home for he and his wife, Lea, to stay while they were in our area. He accepted and here we are, Barbara, Emmett, and me last night at dinner at the Herring's home on Lake Martin.
The Bible is the New Living Translation with Emmett's highlighting of certain stories and verses in each book of the Bible and making a rhyme to help the verse click and stick in your mind. It is a great learning technique for all of us. I am hooked! My p-brain retains this method a lot easier than the plain way of memorizing. He also uses animals to narrate the stories,(which I love), and suggests activities (which I also love), to reinforce the lesson.
The evening was delightful and Barbara's dinner was like eatting at a 5 star***** restaurant served with all her finest china, etc... We all felt so honored to be together. 
Dr. Cooper's dream is to have this Bible translated in to Spanish and for people like you and me to take into the world on our mission trips. For right now, I am using it in english personally and intentionally with my grandchildren and on my mission trips. Here's a sample of his writing from The HoneyWord Bible:Genny the Jellyfish (Jellyfish sounds like Genesis). A jellyfish is clear, just like everything God created in the beginning. Genesis 1:27 So God created human beings in his own image.
Here is the clicker= Mirror, mirror, on the wall, God's image is in us all.
He gives a little piece about a mirror and how it reflects us and when God made people, he gave us the job of reflecting his image like a mirror. Everyone-including you-has God's image inside. You reflect what God is like just as your mirror reflects how you look!
And I love this take on Isaiah 43:25 "I-yes, I alone- will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again". Here is the clicker =It's pretty neat how God hits delete. Dr. Cooper suggests to the child to type this lesson on a computer. Underneath it, write a sentence about something wrong that you did that still bothers you. Now highlight your sentence, and with one hit to the delete button, erase it forever! God forgives all your sins just like that. Isn't He great?
Monday, March 22, 2010
cry like a baby
Anybody else cry like a baby when they watch "Extreme Homemakeover" shows on Sunday nights?
Even though they are extreme, they know how to move the human emotions. I just can't help from crying each week when I watch it.
I plan to watch the new Dancing With The Stars tonight and American Idol this week. I am pretty sure they will not have the same effect on me :)
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Once Upon A Time...
...There was a party happening on the first weekend of the Spring of 2010 for 3 girls in one family who have birthdays within 5 weeks of each other...
there were balloons, colored streamers and party blowers and...
...a very excited Lolli to see her family, hold the girls and celebrate the blessing of each girl being born and woven into the depths of her heart...
...and the sunshine made everyone so very happy...even the pansies perked up for the happpy party...
...and the birthday girls had talked SIL into packing their party jeep too since it was such a pretty day to ride around :) and Lolli and Pop's driveway was the perfect place for driving in circles and testing out the "new drivers licenses".
and then there were cupcakes after lunch to please each birthday girl...
...kitty cats for one little "big" girl who can put her shoes and socks on now all by herself...and likes to say "I VeRy LuV U so VeRy VeRy much AlwAyS"...
and puppy dogs for the littlest one who can take her diaper off and run through a room bare bottomed...and laugh, throwing her head back, with no cares of a room full of people...
and bunnies for all 3 born around Easter time...
and finally coconut easter ones for the oldest birthday girl :) who can put shoes and socks on everyone in 3 minutes and would never run through a room bare bottomed :) but will throw her head back laughing at her little funny family :)
and once upon a time there was a delight to see such happy little birthday girls upon their first glimpse of the assortment of cupcakes!
..and there was so much fun blowing out a few candles and tasting the candy upon the icing!
...and there was a few presents...
and there was a little 2 year old so excited to receive a new toy!
...and she loved the playing in the paper...
...and there was a traditional walk to feed a horse named Tess...
...and yes that is a lollipop treat in one hand...
...but Tess got a carrot pop instead...
...and of course there has to be a game or 2 played at a birthday party...
and a little ball paying and then the party...
...starting pumping up to another level...
...and once upon a time there was a craft time at a birthday party that brought out a few creative moments in vivid color...
...and last but not least, there was a little bunny named Peter Cottontail who came to the party...
...the end!
there were balloons, colored streamers and party blowers and...
...a very excited Lolli to see her family, hold the girls and celebrate the blessing of each girl being born and woven into the depths of her heart...
...and the sunshine made everyone so very happy...even the pansies perked up for the happpy party...
...and the birthday girls had talked SIL into packing their party jeep too since it was such a pretty day to ride around :) and Lolli and Pop's driveway was the perfect place for driving in circles and testing out the "new drivers licenses".
and then there were cupcakes after lunch to please each birthday girl... 
...kitty cats for one little "big" girl who can put her shoes and socks on now all by herself...and likes to say "I VeRy LuV U so VeRy VeRy much AlwAyS"...
and puppy dogs for the littlest one who can take her diaper off and run through a room bare bottomed...and laugh, throwing her head back, with no cares of a room full of people...
and bunnies for all 3 born around Easter time...
and finally coconut easter ones for the oldest birthday girl :) who can put shoes and socks on everyone in 3 minutes and would never run through a room bare bottomed :) but will throw her head back laughing at her little funny family :)
and once upon a time there was a delight to see such happy little birthday girls upon their first glimpse of the assortment of cupcakes!
..and there was so much fun blowing out a few candles and tasting the candy upon the icing!
...and there was a few presents...
and there was a little 2 year old so excited to receive a new toy!
...and she loved the playing in the paper...
...and there was a traditional walk to feed a horse named Tess...
...and yes that is a lollipop treat in one hand...
...but Tess got a carrot pop instead...
...and of course there has to be a game or 2 played at a birthday party...
and a little ball paying and then the party...
...starting pumping up to another level...
...and once upon a time there was a craft time at a birthday party that brought out a few creative moments in vivid color...
...and last but not least, there was a little bunny named Peter Cottontail who came to the party...
...the end!
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