birthday wish

Danielle has a request for her birthday next month on Feb. 26th…



you can find our address to send her gifts on our contact page.

minivan fam

this year with CCC

Some of you may already know that our ministry with FamilyLife is part of a larger organization called Campus Crusade for Christ.

Through your giving you helped enable the following in our ministry:

Campus Crusade for Christ -- Christmas Thank You from Masterworks on Vimeo.

"Dad, this looks like a butt!"

lost my keys

i found this video of our three oldest girls singing a song together, while I was searching for pictures to include in our year end calendar. although time-consuming, it's always fun to take time to look back through all our pictures and relive the year.

this video was fun to see their personalities shine through.

Thankful

Here's a simple form I made a few years ago to use around our Thanksgiving get together.

Feel free do download it and use yourself by clicking the photo below.

The reason I created this page is because I feel it's important for us to recognize that when we're thankful, that thanks should be directed to someone. (God, our spouse, kids, friends, company, ministry, etc.) And we should also have a reason why we're thankful for the thing we mentioned.

what are you thankful for this season?

the turkey

turkey's done!

according to the chart I found online my 16 lbs. turkey should have taken 4 - 5 1/2 hrs. in reality it only took about 3. I've taken the temp in several locations and all well above recommended 165*.

Happy Thanksgiving!

coming to a fridge near you

we had Christmas pics taken yesterday. (thanks to Curtis Campbell Photography)

here's one I snapped with my iPhone during the shoot.

:)

stamped

this is a great idea. i'd love to get into it and have all my friends do so as well which is the real value in such an idea.

Stamped from Stamped on Vimeo.

but how many more social networks can an individual maintain?

I've gone ahead and signed up, find my username: abelara

learn more at: http://stamped.com/

Christmas came early for @deblara

Taken at Starbucks