Finishing up January post..really!

ICE SKATING

Dane and Cash a roo

Cool dude, Sterling

The coolest dude

My Man, Annelise, Brook (who seems to be having a tough time
keeping up with these speed skaters!)

The Great Dane

Channing and Landon (who are apparently stealing all the buckets
from the less fortunate children who can't ice skate..ahem..)

 

Anaya learning how to skate
Thanks Alec and Court!
(note Brook in the background taking pictures of one of the littles with  his phone)

Somehow My Man and his baby escaped the bucket thieves!

Cash a roo

Dane and Cash
A great team

Sterling on the go

Charming Chan

And she did it!!
Thanks Levi...

Landon the speedster!

Chan having a little snack on the ice

and there she goes
under the watchful eyes of her instructors

...and Brook

This marvel cleared the arena whenever he got going
(just kidding)

Dane and Cash
the ratio is perfect
one Big
to
one Little

Love this ice skating thing!

THE END

Finishing Up January Post

January is the quietest month in the garden...But just because it looks quiet doesn't mean nothing is happening.   Rosalie Mueller

January for us was full and fun!  Following little Channing's birthday we went to visit the relatives  at....

Free Day At The ZOO!

See the resemblance?

Me neither...

            And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (sounds like that includes monkeys, apes, baboons)

           So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 

Genesis 1:26, 27

                         

 

If I HAD to pick a zoo creature to be related to it would be this one...
Prettty n Pink...

...Or this one, hear me ROAR!!

How far can you jump?
 maybe this should determine who in the zoo we are related to!

Nan the kangaroo rat

Polar bear Al Baby

Grasshopper Court

Levi grasshopper

The early settlers

Bull riding at its best

Chan and the bird 

Three amigos

Me and my man

Oops..I mean, me and my man
 (can get confusing with all these relatives)

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy,
more loyal, than this our own country!
 Daniel Webster

JANUARY IS SWEET WHEN...

.                                                      .....your little cowboy turns "6"!

                                         HAPPY BIRTHDAY

                                       CHANNING HAVEN PAUL!!
                                      JANUARY 16


Thing One and Thing Two

                                          If we didn't have birthdays, you wouldn't be you
                                          If you'd never been born, well then what would you do?
                                          If you'd never been born, well then what would you be?





AnayaFaith, Channing, Annelise, Landon, Cash

                                         

                                                 ...Why you might be a WASN'T!
                                            A Wasn't has no fun at all. No, he doesn't.
                                            A Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present.
                                        
                                       But YOU! You are YOU! now isn't that pleasant?




It's your day of all days!  It's the best of the best!





Today you are you! That is truer than true!
There is no one alive who is you-er than you!



And your party goes on!
On and on
Till it ends!



I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in
secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How
great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they are
more in number than the sand!
Psalm 139:14,15,17,18



   In our home it is tradition to read Happy Birthday to You, by Dr. Seuss.

We also read the birthday Psalm, Psalm 139.

And of course we have to take a family photo because someday we won't all

be living under the same roof!

Happy Birthday to dear Channing!

A few of Channing's favorite things:

Landon

pancakes

his special blanket

rescue heros

a funny joke

webkinz

age of empires

ice cream

transformers

asking questions

legos

birthdays

tag

A few things about Channing:

he loves to laugh

the day after his birthday he asked Jesus into his heart

he loves to wrestle Landon

he focuses so hard on his play he could easily miss a meal

he is learning to read

he folds his tongue in his mouth and sucks on it to fall asleep

(he has done this since he was born)

he still snuggles with his blanket

he climbs on everything

he plays with bugs and collects them

he likes to watch things that are action packed

he embraces life fully but

can often be found watching it on his haunches

he doesn't fuss when he is sick

he is tender hearted

he is gentle

he is rough

snips

and

snails

and

puppy dog

tails

(and lizard, scorpian, tadpole, horned toad tails)

That's what Channing (Monkey Man, Chanamonk,

Chan Chan, Monk)

IS

MADE

OF

!!