Happy Earth Day!

Well, I was going to write a whole blog about how we need to take care of our Earth and God's Creation, but I went to check out Passionate Homemaking today (she always has something inspirational) and she did such a good job saying what I wanted to say that I am going to send you over to her site to check it out.
http://www.passionatehomemaking.com/2009/04/considering-in-gods-creation.html

I have some green living tips for you. Feel free to comment and add any others you might have.
Recycle
Reuse when you can (think of a fun art project)
Just buy what you need- No wasting
Turn off your lights and open the windows during the day
Knock that thermostat down a free degrees in Winter and up a few in Summer
Only wash a full load in the dishwasher
Wash laundry in cold water
Use a wool dryer ball to speed up dry time
CFLs
Plug electronics into a power strip and turn off the strip when not in use
Cut back on tv time Go outside and enjoy the gift God has given us
Reusable bags (grocery, sandwich, snack)
unpaper towels
Get rid of one use bottles

So, Go check out Creation today






Ok, so now I have to vent for a minute. I got on Facebook today to say Happy Earth Day! and was saddened at what I saw. One of my "friends" who is a self proclaimed woman of God just doesn't care much about the environment. Or atleast that is way it seems to me. I sent her an Earth Hour invite last month-You were supposed to turn off your lights for an hour to send a message that you cared about the environment and were going to be doing your part (atleast that's the idea in a nutshell). She e-mails back and says she won't be participating, but that she will make sure to have every light in her house on for earth hour. The next day she wrote on facebook that she did indeed have all the lights on. Then today she gets on and says she is going ot turn on all her electronics to make a magnetic field to celebrate earth day. Ooohhhh it just makes my blood boil to hear someone just talk out of their butt like that. I just want to get in her face and scream pull your head out of your a** and start taking care of what God has given you! But, I bite my tongue and wonder how someone so into eating farm fresh foods can try so hard to be difficult and destructive. I do not like it! Well, thanks for letting me vent to you.

Happy Easter! (a few days early)

This week....

Well, we had a busy week. We all went to a birthday party at Freemo's which was fun and then we went over to the chiropractor's house (the one Jarrod works with). We were there pretty late, but it was a lot of fun. Sunday we visited Missoula Alliance Church. It was a nice church and the kids program is great. I just didn't get that homey vibe. Everything was nice, but it just didn't feel like "home". I know some of you don't know much about my "vibes", but they are usually pretty spot on, so when we find "that" church the one that we belong in I will know. The vibes haven't failed me yet. So, let's keep my vibes in your prayers. This weekend we visit Missoula Bible Church and the Kriegs have invited us over for Easter dinner.

Kaitlyn started school on Monday and we had a P/T conference yesterday to meet her teacher. She is a really nice lady and she said Kaitlyn has been doing great. She has made a few friends and she has fit right in with her classmates. The only thing that needs work for now is getting the lock on her locker open the first time. She's got the numbers down, just not the directions. Becasue they really don't have a drop off/pick up site at school she gets to ride the bus everyday. Thankfully her stop is on our corner otherwise I'm not sure I would be able to handle the whole bus thing. Emma will have to ride it next year.


This week we have also visited the Carousel and Playground. The kids had a lot of fun. That Carousel is crazy fast. Even I have to hang on pretty tight. Jude does pretty good on it. He wigs out at first, then he starts staring at the wall and getting this dazed look, so I try to keep him looking at me and talking ot me so he doesn't get sick. He looks like I feel when I try to count the cars on the train as they go in front of me instead of counting from far off. You know, that dizzy queasy feel. We also went to the library which was nice except for the parking. They have this huge building and like 20 parking spots. It makes no sense whatsoever. I drove around for like 20 minutes and finally someone left. You could park on the street, but it was full too. I could've parked about 3 blocks away, but that's no fun with the kids. It is also downtown, so all the streets are one way streets and I just LOVE oneway streets.


I stumbled across a link on Debra's blog to a really cool blog. The link was her 7x7 picture. The post it takes you to is a great post about praying for your children. It challenges you to pray for your children 7 times a day each day for a week. I am going to try it, but I am not going to stop at just a week I am going to keep it going. For those of you like me that have no idea where to even start with that, the blog author gives you the 7 times a day you can pray and she also gives you prayers you can say at each time. I am going with her times and prayers for now, but you special people out there can definitely come up with your owm 7 times and your own 7 prayers. I am really excited about this and hope you'll join me. I am going to go right now and add the link so you can check it out for yourself.

We're Here!

We got to Missoula last Wed. afternoon and have been steadily unpacking. The house is a lot smaller than our old one, so we are unpacking and then repacking some things. So far all the people we have met have been really nice and helpful. I think we will like it here. It has snowed off and on for a few days and it has been really cold. The kids asked over and over again in TX whne we would get snow and now that we have it they want to know when it is going to stop. There are a lot of things that we don;t have here that we do miss lots though. Like CiCi's, Joe's (pizza and coffee shop), Chik fil A, good Mexican food and Sprouts just to name a few. So, if anybody wants to move up here and open one of those up you would atleast have 6 happy customers (hey, it's a start!). Well, gonna go let the kids update their blog.

all packed and ready to go

We are now all packed up and ready to go. The caravan is as follows - 2 in the big Budget truck, 1 plus 2 kids in the Expedition and 2 plus 2 kids in the Avalanche with trailer. Our whole lives are packed in the Budget and the trailer it's amazing that it all fit. We had a great group of guys from church help us load up and we are thankful to them all. We head out tomorrow afternoon after lunch. We will try to update the trip every night when we get to hotels here and on facebook.

Last week

Well, we are down to our last week in Texas. It will be a sad week. We are going to finally have to start packing boxes today, not sure where to start yet. We did have a good get together at church with friends and family. It was really nice to get to see everybody and spend some time together. We will miss everybody tons. They are all our family. Next Sunday will be our last Sunday at church, it will be really hard to say goodbye. The journey that we begin that day will be tough. I hope all goes well though. Well, gotta go start that first box.

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