girly night

Our college/career Bible study group had our very FIRST girly night where we were treated to Becky (and Ivy) doing our makeup, Sarah bringing and preparing her Arbonne foot soak stuff, getting to be encouraged in hearing why our walk with the Lord is like makeup, and getting to just sit back and relax and enjoy being ladies! Sorry, no boys were allowed! (Even Owen had to go to bed and couldn't stay up for it!) It started out being a very very VERY snowy night, but a few ladies braved the snowstorm and joined the fun.

Miss Becky did Ivy's makeup...

and then Miss Ivy did her own makeup!

Then, Miss Ivy did Mommy's makeup! (I must say it was quite relaxing!)

Once our makeup was done, we enjoyed soaking our feet in warm tubs of water!

So relaxing! So fun!

trooper ivy

If you asked our daughter what she does for work, she would tell you that she is a trooper (just like her Daddy). Here she sports her work outfit and poses for a picture before she heads off for a busy work day...

Can you tell that she created her uniform herself? I love her imagination and creativity. I'm sure her Daddy wishes he had a uniform belt like that instead of the heavy one he has to wear. Love it!

I'm not quite sure why she has to wear the bandana under the hat though, but she insisted it needed to be there.

daddy's hobby

Daddy has started a new hobby...

...vintage bike collecting...and it has now made its way into our home now!

I'm sure we will be talking about this hobby more in the future!

snow sculptures

This past Monday, we paid a visit to one of our favorite towns here in the Northeast...Jackson! Their ski resort had a snow sculpting contest over the weekend, and we went to see the work they produced on a very frigid Monday morning.


Here are a few of the awesome work these sculptors did...

I think we will be putting this on the calendar to actually watch the sculptors in action next year.

pranksters

One of the college students that attends the college/career Bible study we host in our home was having her boyfriend come to visit her for a few days over their winter break. There wasn't any room for him to stay at the college student's mom's house, so we graciously opened our home to him to stay in our guest room knowing that he would basically just be here to sleep.

While this boyfriend was staying at our home, it just so happened that we had invited two of the couples from the Bible study group along with another gentleman who is new to the area over for dinner.


The men of the group have sort of taken this college student (and a few of the other single girls) and adopted them as their own feeling like it is their job or duty to protect the girls and interrogate and/or scare away any prospective boyfriends. While over for the evening, the men decided that they needed to "break" this boyfriend in to all of the antics and practical jokes that would be coming his way. SO, the men decided to get a few pairs of his boxer shorts and sew the legs and flies shut and to sew in some "messages" and Scripture verses on purity!






This boyfriend perhaps will one day become a pastor, and now Nathan prides himself that this event and/or he himself will one day become a sermon illustration.

Meanwhile, we girls were innocently minding our own business and playing with the kids.


Needless to say, I don't think any more boyfriends will be staying at our house any time soon!