My homemade christmas gifts...

Here's a couple of the gifts I made for Christmas last year.

This is what I did for my 2 sisters-in-law. The other one looked just like this one except it had Beth and Ron's names on it.

This is what I did for all my nephews. For my nieces, I embroidered their names and butterflies on the denim background.

Everybody loved the gifts. I was so glad because I worked pretty hard on them. We didn't have alot of money (read "none") to spend and, even if we had, I hate buying people stuff that I know they won't care anything about. Know what I mean? Anyway, gotta try to get some inspiration for this year's gifts before last minute like last year. That was stressful to say the least!!!

Update and Prayer Requests

Living in South Central KY, our electricity was off for almost a week. I'm so thankful we had the wood stove put in a while back. We were able to have heat and I put a big stock pot of water on top of the stove so we also had enough hot water to keep the dishes washed and to take sponge baths. Alot of people had it much harder than we did. There are still people who don't have electricity yet and the utility workers have been working 16 hour shifts so we still need to remember them in our prayers.

I started a diet on January 22. My weight was 157.5 and my BMI was 27. I haven't weighed again but I sure do feel better. Here's a link to the diet: No S Diet. I don't even crave sweets anymore.

I've decided to go to a 4 day school week with Dusty and just school year round. I want his education to be more realistic and to be part of our lifestyle not something we have to stop what we're doing to get done. I don't know if that makes sense the way I worded it, but it makes sense to me! LOL!

We're having a singing at church Sunday. We've been in service with these singers twice before and have really grown to love their spirit. They are the Hawkins Family from Ohio County, KY. I'm really looking forward to it. Praying for a full house and that hearts will be touched and lives will be changed through a good Holy Ghost service!!!

Our pastor's mother is real bad sick and in the hospital. Last I heard, they weren't completely sure what's wrong with her. She's 82, so Bro. Johnnie is pretty worried about her as is the entire congregation. Bro. Johnnie also has been struggling with a decision for a while now about his ministry. He's talked to my husband and I about it some, we're just praying that the Lord will help him to make the right decision and give him peace about it.

Remember my daddy, too. He's really got alot going on with his body and his mind and the Lord is dealing with him, too. So, he needs all the prayers he can get and so does the rest of the family to be able to deal with him right now!