Birthday Cakes

Promise's Cake

Laurie is an exceptional baker and she has determined in her heart to bake a home made cake for each child's birthday. Considering that we have 8 kid's this is no small task. But even more, Laurie doesn't just bake a cake, she bakes a piece of art. The insides may be marble or the layers may have be different colors, or checkered. I am amazed that many times the gifts that God give us are better then what we would give ourselves. Now, mind you I like my wife cooking, her confections are yummy, but she'll agree herself that these cakes a better than she would bake for the family.

Mercy's Cake

If we purchased these from the grocery store they would not be as beautiful or delicious. Creation like these come from specialty bakeries.

I just recently re-committed to post God's blessing our family. I found these picture on our camera. These birthdays were in October.

Being Thankful Again.

I have many times referred this site to Christian friends and to Bible study groups when I wanted to give proof that God does keep His promise to take care of His children.  Although I have not posted anything here in quite awhile. Believe it or not I got bothered with all the posting. First I passed the job on to my kids. Then after a while I was bothered with reminding them to post. So I let it go. We did it for over a year and I thought it was a good exercise of displaying the goodness and provision of God.

A couple days ago while in prayer I was reminded about this blog and felt conviction of my lack of thankfulness to God, that I would think it was a bother to record His goodness in a simple post. It so easy to be ungrateful. I will try to be more grateful in the future and start posting records of God's provision for my family again. I think it is fitting that this should restart during the Thanksgiving season.

Sent Food

Some friends of ours sent us some really cool Italian food while we were busy working on a group project.

Birthday Party Leftovers

These are leftovers from Reggie Smith's birthday party.

Baney video tapes

We have two little boys under 3 years old in our family who love to watch Barney, several of the children older then them also like to watch Barney, but are too embarrassed to admit it.
So as you can imagine most of the family was very glad to get the new Barney videos.

Colored Marshmallows

Shotsy our good neighbor does a lot of nice things for us. He often brings us food and mows our lawn, asking nothing in return. This time he brought over some colored marshmallows.

nilla wafers and ritz crackers

Mary gave these to us when we went to her house.