Scriptures to Ponder

Do not let this book of the law depart from your mouth meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Joshua 1:8 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, so that it may benefit those who listen. Ephesians 4:29 The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward apprearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 1 Samuel 16:7 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29:11

Monday, January 05, 2009

Happy 2009!!!

Happy New Year everyone. The boys are back to school and "vacation" is over. And as expected I did not manage to get anyother treats or crafts done except for the marshmellows. I did manage to take them to Silver Dollar City after Christmas one day when it was 60 degrees out. Everyone else must have had the same idea because it was PACKED that day.

I also managed to get the boy to do their thank you cards - so if you sent us a gift, you should be getting your thank you soon.

I have no resolutions by the way.
For New Year's Eve, we went to downtown Springfield to do First Night. Several businesses open for you to do various activites. It is family oriented and there are a lot of music performances but also several other activities. We actually ran out of time & did not have enough time to do all that we wanted.
We started by taking the shuttle from the car to the first location. 1/4 of the shuttle was taken up by singers & people playing music such as this man here! We decided after that we could walk every where else.


We started at the YMCA and did the rock climbing wall. Or at least the boys did the wall. Neither one of them made it to the top.




At first Brayden did not want to go to the YMCA because he thought that we were going to me singing the song. Then even after we got there, he asked if we were still going to see YMCA. He knows more about the Village People then the organization.


We had our faces painted. We had to wait in line forever for that. There was only one lady & she was super detail oriented. Brayden's is a dragon.

We went to 1984, which is an arcade. We had fun but WOW have video games changed.


We stopped by the Discovery Center but we did not have a lot of time to go there, we just stopped in to see what it was like, we will have to go back another day. It looked fun. Our final stop before the New Year was ice skating. At the entrance was this monkey. The owner had a service animal sign next to the monkey. She looked fine & when Brayden asked what the monkey did, she said it is a service monkey!?








We watched fireworks & drank some sparkling cider to ring in the New Year. It was fun!


1 comment:

Ryan and Katie said...

A service monkey? There was a girl at OC with a service chihuahua. It had an orange vest but I always wondered what it did?

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