Family lost home and 2 children to fire

A family in my church and community suffered a terrible loss this weekend. Please visit their blog at themarkleefamily.blogspot.com - Also a link on the side of my blog.



Anything you can do to help- prayers donations etc.

Thanks- Niki

Our kids and technology

So this isn't the greatest picture but lately I have been thinking about how "connected" technology wise our kids are and how good our kids have it.
Things we never dreamed of are here for them. Thursday night I couldn't find Elle (our 3yr old) I thought " maybe she went to bed all by herself" Sure enough as I went into her room I saw her little figure under the blankets. It was so cute... then I went to fix her blankets and found she wasn't asleep. Not CUTE!
She had taken my Iphone and went up and hid in her bed to play a little game on there!I couldn't help but giggle a little bit. She is 3 and she can turn the thing on and scroll to the right page and start the specific application she wants. So this picture of her and Jaden both playing Iphone games with our phones reminded me of that night.

I remember wanting a phone line in my room as a teenager but this is way cooler! Our kids have so much in the future for them! Its amazing! I am glad to be alive now instead of being born 100 years ago. I don't think I would have done the pioneer thing very well without AC and wifi for laptops and cell phones with texting and data plans etc....

Halloween

The kids had to much fun this year. They had church parties, company parties, school parties and trick or treating. What fun they had! Chase was kind of to cool for a real costume so he just threw on a wig. Ian wasn't sure if he was the grim reaper or a dementor from Harry Potter. Jaden was the same skeleton that Uncle Mark was as a little guy. He thought that was pretty cool. Elle of course is a princess. She told me that I couldn't be a princess because I didn't have glitter on my eyes. But later she came up to me all concerned and loving to tell me she'd share her glitter with me so I could be a princess too. I love holidays!