Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Palm Sunday



This is a song we sang on Palm Sunday at church & has been stuck in my head ever since. So much truth & power in these words. Here's a link so you can listen to the song too.   http://prostopleer.com/#/tracks/1707884iHH6

Savior I come

Quiet my soul remember

Redemptions hill

Where Your blood was spilled

For my ransom

Everything I once held dear

I count it all as lost



Lead me to the cross

Where Your love poured out

Bring me to my knees

Lord I lay me down

Rid me of myself

I belong to You

Lead me, lead me to the cross



You were as I

Tempted and trialed

You are

Te word became flesh

Bore my sin and death

Now you're risen



To your heart

To your heart

Lead me to your heart

Lead me to your heart


Song by Hillsong United









Sunday, April 1, 2012

Potty Training!



We've started the process of potty training. I've come up with a chart & stickers with a prize after 5 stickers.


The prizes after earning 5 stickers

Adding sticker number 5!!

So excited about what could be in his prize box!


Small green turtle bath toy!


So far it's been a good start over the weekend. We'll see how he does during the week.  He's saying no potty till we put him up on the potty then he's fine. Sings songs and gets very proud when he does go potty!

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Happy Birthday Papaw!


Happy Birthday, Papaw!

Nothing makes the birthday boy much happier than spending time with his best buddy!

Papaw & Mamaw
Mamaw & her sweet boy!


Ringing the dinner bell

Great Mamaw let Joshua use a spoon that Papaw Bruce used a little boy! So special!
Two happy guys!!
Great Mamaw Bar Bar & Mamaw
Playing "gate" with Great Papaw's cane
Great Papaw showing Joshua his Great Grandma's cane. (So this would have been Great Great Great Grandma) This is a short cane, but this is how tall she was. Pretty neat that Grandpa has it & that he let Joshua hold and play with it!


Shop! Shop! Great Papaw Shop!! **insert jumping up and down here**

Great Papaw sure walks slow.... will he ever get to the shop?
Inside Great Papaw's shop !
Auntie with her tongue out - her normal pose :P

I don't remember what they were laughing at, but I sure love this picture!
Happy as can be!


Monday, March 26, 2012

Outside...in shorts....in MARCH!

 We've been taking advantage of the unusually warm weather for this time of year. Hard to believe we've been in shorts for a week in the middle of March!


Joshua's bike (as he calls it) attaches to daddy's bike.


We've been enjoying some family bike rides. Joshua yells "fast, daddy, fast"!





  
Taking a break!




 
Joshua was trying to do everything daddy was doing. So sweet & so cute!


Daddy rented a truck to get some compost for the new raised garden bed.






There was one excited little boy when daddy came home with this big truck!


Duke sunning himself & watching all the action in the garden.



 
Joshua (with seed packed under his arm) telling me how they were going to plant veggies in the new box.

The new garden box finished!!



Spinach, lettuce, onions & cilantro are planted & starting to sprout!





Monday, March 19, 2012

Spring Break!

This past week was Purdue's spring break. Daddy took the week off and Mommy actually took 3 1/2 days off too!!!

We wanted to make the most of our family time!

We started at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis ( http://www.childrensmuseum.org/)

We bought a family membership & plan on making lots more trips here over the next year!!


I love this picture - the true awe & pure joy of watching a choo choo run on a track above his head.


This is the area called playscapes. It's for 5 and younger. Great area for the little ones!!




At this point he was saying "my tuck"






Of course in Indianapolis there's an Indy Race car!


I LOVE this sign! So very true!!


On the way home from the museum. One tired little boy!


Helping daddy in the garage


Well, if we aren't going to go sledding, we can at least have snack in our sled!


Mamaw & Papaw got Joshua this cart. It hooks on to Daddy's bike so we can go for family bike rides!
Thanks Mamaw & Papaw!!



We also spent a day at Fair Oaks Farms (http://www.fofarms.com/en/home)

Joshua on the Moo moo bus listening to the guide tell us what we are about to see.

This is the milking carousel. There are around 2800-2900 cows. They are milked 3 times a day & it take 7 hours to complete 1 full milking. It's a 24 hour operation. They have an hour to break down, sanitise and set back up and start milking again.



Cheese!



This is the sign outside of the birthing barn. The yellow light says "hoofs", Green as you can see below says "head". This tells you what's going on in the barn. They have 20+ calf's born each day on the farm. We got to see 2 born while we were there.





We had grilled cheese sandwich, chocolate milk & ice cream when we were done looking around. All the products were made at the Fair Oaks farms. Yummy!!


It was my honor to get to go to my dear friend's promotion ceremony while on vacation. Chris has been with the Lafayette Police Department for 24 years and just became one of only 3 captions on the force.





Chris is a great father, husband and man of faith.


Chris was an usher at our wedding & their girls (who can both drive now) were our flower girls!


So blessed to have great friends like the Downard's!