CMPS State Bowl

Creation Museum

Today we took a little drive over to the Creation Museum created by Ken Ham's ministry, Answers in Genesis.  What an awesome educational experience for all of us!  The displays and movies and exhibits explained so many biblical concepts in ways that I've never really imagined.  We had a wonderful day learning about God's creation including a lot about Noah's Ark, the flood, and dinosaurs.  

Did you ever realize how much food & supplies Noah & his family had to pack for a year on an ark?

Easter

Some pictures from our Easter Sunday celebration with our family...

Mom and I made a homemade Angel Food Cake using our old recipe from Sister Duck in Paris, Illinois....so yummy!

This seems to be Evan's favorite dessert!

The Easter Bunny found us at Grammy & PawPaw's house this year!

My sweet boy!

Grammy & PawPaw

A few of the grandkids...where's Caleb?

The best we could do for our family picture...

My sister & brother

Ethan hunting his Easter Eggs from PawPaw & Grammy...he had so much fun!

A few of them were a little challenging for him to reach. 

Mauri was sweet to let him help her hunt eggs too.

PawPaw helped Ethan count the money from his eggs.

Evan's favorite part.

We had a wonderful time celebrating Easter together!

Boy Scout Court of Honor

Wow! It's been a long time since I've posted on my blog...life has been quite busy this semester...perhaps I will have time to post pictures at least soon.

For now, I wanted to show you Evan's Boy Scout Court of Honor.  He looked like such a TEENAGER!  So grown up and handsome in his uniform!  We were proud that he went from Scout to Tenderfoot to Second Class Rank all in one night! :)

More Homemade Christmas Gifts

I found a really neat inexpensive gift idea on Women Living Well blog before Christmas.  I LOVED the idea and wanted to make this for my parents!  Being the procrastinator that I am, I waited until DECEMBER 23 to get it together.  By the time I cut out the letters, took the pictures, got the pictures printed, and found the frames at Michael's, it was Christmas Eve!  This just shows how easy these cool picture frames really are!  We even made one for my brother since he's the uncle to all 4 of the grandchildren.

For my brother and sister-in-law, we spelled out "McCarty."

We spelled out "Grammy" and "PawPaw" for my parents.

The suggestions on the Women Living Well blog said to print the pictures in black and white, so you don't have to worry about coordinating colors.  And I matted the pictures with this cool 4x6 black cardstock that I found at Michael's.  Made the work even easier!  

Our other inexpensive gift for the family was homemade ice cream kits and homemade hot cocoa kits.

The boys made these for our extended family.  We put all of the items in a plastic shoebox lined with Christmas tissue paper.