A friend of mine showed this video to me yesterday and I found it to be very funny because I come up with the exact same problem too!
I have been playing an arrangement of Keith Getty's The Power Of The Cross and the man that arranged the song hand big hands too.
Most of the time I only play half of the cords!!!
Anyway, here is a funny, rather random movie for all of my constant readers
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with Him again
Come awake come awake
Come and rise up from the grave
Let no one caught in sin
Remain inside the lie of inward shame
But fix our eyes upon the cross
And run to Him who showed great love
And bled for us
Freely You've bled for us
Beneath the weight of all our sin
You bowed to none but heaven's will
No scheme of hell no scoffer's crown
No burden great can hold You down
In strength You reign
Forever let Your church proclaim
O death where is your sting
O hell where is your victory
O church come stand in the light
The glory of God has defeated the night
Singing O death where is your sting
O hell where is your victory
O church come stand in the light
Our God is not dead
He's alive He's alive
"There's a person in my closet. There's a PERSON in my CLOSET!!!"
I feel like Rapunzel in Tangled:
"There's a cello in my room. There's a CELLO in my ROOM!!!"
Needless to say I am about as thrilled as anyone could ever be!!!
(Which you can probably tell because all of my sentences end in three exclamation points!!!)
After praying, and saving, and shopping for about two years I finally bought a cello this Saturday!!!
I have been playing it like crazy and juggling my violin playing along with it, so I have been kind of busy, but very happy!!!
And here is a picture of Ryan playing his new bass (aka:my cello:))
And yes, I put tapes on my fingerboard. I'm so embarrassed!
I love Spring.
And somewhere in this beautiful 50* weather I can manage to wish for spring.
But I have good news: Despite the fact that it is still January the Calorie Pears are just starting to bloom and the Daffodils are yellow and bright!
I am thrilled!!!
But Winter is still hanging over us and I can't help but recall the Sweet Days of Summer when my Roses were in full bloom and the Zinnias were there to greet me every time I walked out the back door.
Then I found these photos in the back of the files of the computer.
Here are a few photos of my garden from last year:
My favorite rose. (Shush. Don't tell my other roses...)
My wittle baby zinnias. Aren't they cute?
My very first Dalia I have ever grown.
I love these flowers that pop up everywhere in our yard.
My sickly rose. BTW banana peels are very good for your roses.
My Anonymous bulbs( I have no clue what they were).
And my awesome arbor that my dad built for me.
Well there it is. My Dear Garden.
I can't wait 'till Spring when I can start the whole process over again and spend time with my flowers again!!!
We pray for blessings We pray for peace Comfort for family, protection while we sleep We pray for healing, for prosperity We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering All the while, You hear each spoken need Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You’re near What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
We pray for wisdom Your voice to hear And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love As if every promise from Your Word is not enough All the while, You hear each desperate plea And long that we'd have faith to believe 'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You’re near And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
When friends betray us When darkness seems to win We know that pain reminds this heart That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears And what if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You’re near What if my greatest disappointments Or the aching of this life Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy And what if trials of this life The rain, the storms, the hardest nights Are Your mercies in disguise
The day before Sarah's birthday Daddy and Ryan were on a camping trip and the girls were at home cleaning when we got a phone call from a dear friend at church, Anna C..
As it turned out Anna's family(which I will now refer to as the "H" family) was in town and we had been wanting to meet them for a long time so this presented the perfect opportunity to FINALLY meet them!!!
So we had them over after church for lunch, a birthday party and a game of soccer!!!
Here are a few photos:
LtoR: Heidi, Rachel holding Margret, Mr. H.'s head, Mrs. H., Philip, and Josh and Anna.
William and Michael are just as excited as Sarah was.
Emily, Lydia, Jamie, Rebekah
The Wedding
So how did the wedding coordinating go?
The wedding went really well.
To start things off Rachel had a simply awful reaction to Poison Ivy the day before, but she made us promise to take photos... so we did!!!
Here they are...
With a few random thoughts from your truly.
Here are the wreaths of Baby's Breath. They were very simple and pretty which is something I really liked.
One of the bridesmaids curling the littlest bridesmaid's hair.
All of the ladies in the wedding together.
All of the groomsmen playing on the swing-set.
The lovely bouquets.
The whole wedding party.
And more of the wedding party.
Over all I really enjoyed the wedding coordinating.
It was a lot of work but it was fun work and I got to meet and work with new people which is always fun for me.
This wedding party was very fun to work with.
They were very laid back and had a good sense of humor and I knew a lot of them, which made it very easy to joke around with them and tell them what to do! :)
I can't wait for the next wedding on February the 25th!
