Friday Night Practice at HEFC, Sunglasses, and Sprouts

“ Therefore prepare yourself and arise,"

Jeremiah 1:17a

One of our close friends is getting married this Friday. We know her as Ms. Miller and soon she will be becoming Mrs. Glass! :) She has a beautiful servants' heart and loves Jesus with all her might. I've wrote about her before on our blog (http://http//solidrockranchupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/fun-with-millers.html), so some of you may know who I'm talking about. Anyways, Momma, Hannah, and Alexis will be playing music and singing during her wedding (I'll be doing what I like - taking pictures! :) so we wanted to go up to HEFC (friendlychurch.org), our old church that they're getting married in, to practice music and lighting. We finally arranged (after countless emails!) to go on Friday night with Ms. Miller, her fiance Mr. Glass, and some of their children coming along too to listen. After dinner that night (this was last Friday) we all piled into our oversized van and made it to Hanover Evangelical Friends Church (a.k.a. HEFC) 15 minutes early! We went through the gym, winding through the many halls, until we reached the sanctuary. I had forgotten how big the church was! Once in the sanctuary, Hannah and Momma started playing and practicing different songs while I took pictures until the Millers and Glass' arrived. Daddy and Mommy used to play on the worship team at HEFC so they knew what to use, where they were located, etc. so we were okay for a little while but once they arrived, Mr. Glass was a big help in turning things on like lights, speakers, etc. since he does the soundboard at HEFC.

Alexis and Lydia

Yes - Lydia's socks are falling off! :)

This is what I mean by "I had forgotten how big the church was!" I just kept going "Wow, this is huge!" :)

Eden


Caleb and Seth playing around while waiting for the Ms. Miller and Co. to arrive.



Daddy being my "model!"

Momma, Hannah, and Alexis singing.

No, it wasn't that dark in the sanctuary but I wanted to practice silhouettes! :)

Lydia decided she wanted to help Momma play the organ.

First she tried to crawl beneath Momma's legs but it wasn't very firm, so she got a little scared, backed off and then whined until Momma picked her up (she was hungry! :).

Hannah giving the "That didn't sound right," look.

Momma singing and playing the piano.

I had forgotten how pretty Mama's voice was - of course my sisters sounded great too! :)

The end result was that we all were a little bit more comfortable after practicing (I was really excited about photography and Momma was more sure of the music and singing!)

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Lydia with some cool sunglasses!

She'll be 1 in two days!

Eden with some neat sunglasses too!


Daddy went back to the RiteAid that was going out of business, and he found these cute, kid-size glasses on sale! They'll work perfect for Eden, Josiah, and Lydia! :)

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A year or two ago we got a "Freshlife" sprouter from Bread Beckers. Lexi has become the official seed-changer and bucket washer/cleaner. Momma figured out that sprouts have the benefit of being chock full of anti-oxidents and various trace minerals that are found nowhere else but in sprouts......so....... sprouts are on the menu.

Lexi cleaning the "buckets."

The sprouts (those little green-white things).

The blue thing at the top right of the picture is the waterer which spins around, watering the plants, every 15, or so, minutes.

From these sprouts, Hannah and Momma have come up with many different salad variations. One of those "salad variations" had pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, carrots, spinach, sprouts, cabbage, French dressing, cauliflower, and broccoli! :) And it actually didn't taste that bad! :)

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We have a full weekend up ahead. Thursday night we're celebrating Lydia's 1st birthday, Friday we're leaving our home early to go to HEFC for Ms. Miller's wedding, and Saturday we're going to my cousin's 12th birthday party in Rocky Mount, VA (3-4 hours away). I'm thinking I'm going to make a slideshow of Ms. Miller's wedding, so it might be a few days before those pictures get to the blog. Same thing with Lydia but I'll try and get her pictures on as soon as possible!

Overjoyed to belong to Jesus,
Kimber :)