When Your an Addams

This past weekend I went to GA for a visit.  While I was there I had the awesome opportunity to see The Addams Family at the fabulous Fox Theatre.  I went with my sisters, mom, and aunt, and we had a blast!  The show was hilarious and we had so much fun!  If you get the chance to see it I definitely recommend it!

B.I.T.S.

The kids & I have been enjoying this new silly song.  Enjoy!

Thrusday Concerts

On Thursdays in May the arts association sponsors concerts on the square. We have gone the last two weeks and have been having lots of fun. We meet up with some friends from church, picnic, and enjoy the music for the week. Last week we listened to some of the local high school bands and today was a local country artist. Levi loves eating lunch outside and dancing to the music. Today he made up a game where he tossed leaves and sticks into the hole of a curled up garden hose that was left behind. I absolutely love his imagination in times like these. The bottom picture is his reaction when he made it into the middle (the object of his little game). Priceless! Its been so nice to relax in the sun and enjoy an hour or so together with good music.

Eating our freshly popped popcorn.

The Hills Are Alive With...

The Sound of Music is my favorite movie of all time. Seriously - my favorite. I absolutely love the story and of course the music. I probably have every single song memorized (and most of the dialogue at that). I'm not sure what exactly it is about this movie that makes it so wonderful, but it has always had a special place in my heart. Today on Oprah (disclaimer: I do not normally watch Oprah, but heard this was going to be on so I made an exception) they had a Sound of Music reunion show. I loved being taken back to that moment when I first watched it and hearing about all the behind the scenes stories. If you haven't ever seen it I strongly recommend you do. I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to snuggle on the couch and watch this with me. Here are a few clips from some of my favorite scenes.

Family Worship

We have been reading this book for our small group at church, and all I have to say is WOW! We are only about halfway through the book and it has already challenged me in so many ways about how I parent as a Christian. I'll keep all my nuggets of knowledge for another post once I finish the book, but I wanted to share something we've started in our family. Part of the book talks about family worship. Family worship is basically just what is says - time during the day when the family worships the Creator together. We do ours in the evening for about 10 minutes. We read a devotion, a passage or story from scripture, pray, and sing songs. It has been a challenged to do this every night because of our schedules sometimes, but realizing the importance of it we try to schedule everything else around it. Our favorite part of family worship is the music. Thanks to some friends we've found these awesome songs from Seeds Family Worship. The videos are lots of fun, the tunes are catchy but not annoying as other children music can be, and best of all it is straight scripture. Be sure to check out their website. They've got lots of great tools and ideas for teaching little ones the Bible. Here's a video of one of our favorites so far. Hope you enjoy! Be sure to scroll down and turn our blog music off before you start the video :)

Big Thanks AMY!!!

Thanks to my talented sister, Amy, I was able to enjoy the Hillsong United concert this past Wednesday. In case you haven't heard the story...

Amy won 2 tickets to the concert off the radio. She called into This Fish and had to make up a song including several words they gave her, and then sing it on the radio. Anyways, they loved her song about rainbows and unicorns and gave her the tickets!! Sadly, Amy had a prior committment to teach on Wednesday night, so she generously gave Beth & I the tickets. We had a great time at the concert, and owe Amy big time for it! Thanks for letting us go in your place!

P.S. This is my 200th post! Yay me!