ohio winters

well it has been over a month.... i am not very good at this blog thing. I'm going to try to give you a rundown of my life weeklyor more consistantly from now on. :) As they say, "even the road to hell is paved with good intentions." I do not think I'll go to hell for my bad bloggin'
My month since I last wrote. Well two of my niece have had babies, a boy and a girl. My Friend Mary moved to Mississippi. She has a cute little apartment she is slowly making even cuter. We had youth group 2 times, went to Columbus for a youth conference, took 3 students to that. Youth group is in transition right now so the numbers are down. My prayer is during this time those who come will be encouraged in their faith and grow deep and then begin to reach out wide. This has been a difficult month in some ways. You know winter in Ohio is tough. The Lack of sun and snow up to your eyeballs causes a bit of depression. But we are moving past that, even though today the snow is falling again. We had three days of sunshine and no snow for the weekend so I can be optimistic that winter will be done soon.:)
Oh i also went to a churchwide dinner around Valentine's day. We had lots of fun. We played this game call musical clothes and each time the music stopped you had to reach in and put on the article of clothing you pulled out of the bag. At one point all that was left was this really bad wig I pulled it out and said "I don't need this here pastor" i gave it to Pastor Ed, (HE is a bald man) so it was a hoot. We laughed a ton. You know laughter s good medicine, especially when you have been trapped by winter for it seems like six months:). We played several very funny games. Thanks Jane for planning those crazy games.
On Sunday my family got together because my niece who lives in North Carolina came up for the weekend. Her Little guy Christian was here for a month and she came to get him. Many were heard saying welcome to the baby convention at my mom's on Sunday. We have at the point 3 baby's under 7 months old. You must remember my family is about 30 people give or take a few when you include all the spouses of kids and grand kids of my parents. It was fun seeing everyone and holding the babies. oh by the way there are still 2 more babies "cooking" (as we like to say)due in May and June. My family are like rabbits:), LOL. I love them and I really love the fun we have when we get together. The boys being Ninjas, the girls playing Hanna Montana, and the big girls chatting in the kitchen while the guys 'watch' the race. Really i think they were all sleeping. Our chatting can sometimes be hurtful but thanks to pastor's sermon on our tongue we all kept our tongues in check which is a good thing. I love my family they are all so different but such wonderful people. I really adore them.
I have decided I have no pics of these fun and exciting events in my life so i guess i should either use the camera i have or go get a good one, but get some pics. sorry just a reminder to myself.:) oh by the way did i tell you its snowing again, and man is it coming down today... it looks pretty, good thing i don't need ot go anywhere today, actually tonight i have to go to my 3rd shift job, i forgot about that. OH well it shoudl be ok by then.
See you next week... ill try to get pics of life's' events.
reading a great book today, "The Kingdom Focused CHurch", by Gene Mims