Pay It Forward

My friend, Kristi, and my sister, Michelle, have this on their blogs and I thought it sounded fun. So this is how it works..... The first 3 people to leave a comment on this will receive a hand made gift from me sometime during this year. When and what will be a surprise. There's a small catch...You knew there would be didn't you? Winners must post this challenge on their own blog, meaning that you will pay it forward, creating a handmade gift (anything) for the first THREE bloggers who leave a comment on YOUR post about this giveaway! Fun, huh? Remember, only the first 3 comments receive the gift. When you receive your gift, blog about it! If you are not one of the first three to comment on this post, you can still play along. Go ahead and start your own Pay It Forward chain, and encourage your blogging friends to do the same! It's all about paying it forward. (I combined wording from both of their blogs.)

Will you be my Valentine?

The kids had a great time putting together their Valentine's for their classmates and friends. You should see all of the loot they got! Suckers, SweetTarts, chocolate kisses and hearts, cans of soda, etc. So fun!
Katrina had a boy friend of hers ask if she'd be his Valentine. He gave her a pink t-shirt from his trip to Disneyland last week and a key chain with the letter K and Shamu from Sea World. Jim is going to talk to his dad (who is a good friend of ours) about his son courting our daughter. He needs to understand that she doesn't have a dowry! LOL!

What did you do this Saturday?

I am hesitant to post this because we don't want the family we bought our home from to feel bad, but it is just too good a story to pass up. Saturday started out with nothing much going on, but ended with a lot of mud! What can you do? Old houses have a notorious reputation for faulty plumbing. We had to replace all of our plumbing at our old house, I mean ALL of it. It was no surprise then when we had a leak here. I am so truly grateful to our dear friend (I won't name him by name, but he knows who he is) who came immediately to our rescue. He has bailed us out so many times. I can't even tell him and his family, who so willingly let him spend his Saturday digging us out, thank you enough. They are true friends! In just a matter of hours, he had a new main water line run to fix the leak. He is truly amazing!! (If I told you his name, he'd never see his family because everyone would be calling him to bail them out too!)


Man, that picture looks like a grave, doesn't it? Ha Ha!

My Sunday School lesson this week is on personal revelation. I guess the Lord thought I needed a good object lesson. I told Jim, my Mom, and my sister over the past few days that I had a bad feeling about our plumbing. I even told my Mom Saturday morning that I was preparing myself emotionally for the fact that we were going to have some major plumbing problems soon. I just had a bad feeling about it. I can laugh now, but I was in tears yesterday morning when I saw water coming through the wall where the main water line comes in to the house. Jim kept saying, "Why'd you have to say it?" I felt terrible, and yet, it felt kind of good to say "I told you so!" LOL!