Maddie's Thoughts

Tonight, like every Sunday night, we settled in as a family to watch Extreme Makeover Home Edition.  We started watching this as a family a couple years ago, and we really enjoy the messages, the stories, and I guess the goodwill it shares.  It is not uncommon to see a few tears shed.  Tonight was a special 2 hour edition...probably a little too long for Kenzie, and Maddie was starting to fade as well, but with Spring break this week, we let them stay up for it.  About 1/2 way through the show, we noticed that Maddie had taken a notebook and cleared out some of the scribble pages and was writing.  We can always tell, because she asks for help in spelling some words.  Anyway, after the show was over, she wanted to share a "song" she wrote called "Life is Happy."  This is ALL HER.  We had nothing to do with it, which makes it even more special to hear.   We asked if we could put this up on the Blog because it meant sooo much to us to hear her thoughts...our only wish to her (and we told her)...is that we hope that she always feels this way :-)

Life is Happy

Things are happy, so is Life.  I love it every night.  Life is very happy!

God gave me Life so I love it and I cry life is so happy!

I Love my Life.

Since this is pretty "deep" we thought we try to uncover what all made her life happy....and see what was going on in that little, almost 8 year old, head.  Here is the list she rattled off:

1) Everything

2) Family

3) Church/Sunday School/Jesus/God

4) Nice Home

5) The Cabin

6) Friends

7) School/P.E.

8) Sports (Softball, Soccer, Basketball)

9) Nice Neighborhood

10) Arts and Crafts

11) Animals

Pretty Cool.

COOKIE TIME!!!

OK...calling all Sweet Tooth fans, here is your chance. Your chance to have 2+lbs of pre-made cookie dough at your fingertips. When that urge is there to bake some cookies, simply scoop, bake and eat. How easy is that!

Maddie's School is having a fundraiser where they are selling Otis Spunkmeyer (I love that name) cookie dough. They also have, pretzels and brownies. There are about a dozen different types and all are $15 each. We have about two weeks (April 7th) to collect as many orders as possible. So we need your help. Here is a link to the "brochure"

If you have any trouble accessing or viewing the brochure we can send it to you via Email.

Of course we would love everyone to buy multiple tubs, however, there is 1 snag. When the orders come in, they come to us....so as much as we would love to have those of you in California, Arizona, Louisiana, etc. buy a few items, it might be a bit tough getting 3lbs of frozen cookie dough to you. That being said, another idea is that you buy a Tub as a donation, and we will find a local group that could benefit. A WIN WIN WIN situation.

So, that is it. After looking through the brochure if you find your mouth watering for a cookie, simply drop us an email (mjandsj@comcast.net) or give us a call and we will work out the ordering details. Again, we only have a couple weeks, so hurry while supplies last!!!

March Snow

Well, there is A LOT more to report on, but we just had to get out there some pictures and video from the surprise we woke up to this morning.  I guess we heard that there was a chance of snow, but these flakes were HUGE.

View out the front of the house...

View out the back of the house....

Videos of the monster flakes....