Video from the Canoe trip!

Here is Amanda Scott and yours truly on the rope swing.  You just got to live a little!  Such fun - felt like a kid again.  Poor Lydia Smith was pooped (as were all the parents)- see the final video! 
Jennifer Crowe  

Middle School Canoe Trip!!!

Thanks to Amanda Scott for planning our first Okatoma canoe trip with the Middle School/High Schoolers and their families!  What fun!  Hope you enjoy some of these pics.  Sorry there are so many of my own kids - Feel free to add pictures here, if you want!  Jennifer Crowe

Kindergarten Graduates 2011

ReACHE End of the Year Video

I've got the Joy for Elementary Choir

This is the song we are singing in addition to How He Loves Me (singing and signing) for our service project and end of the year program.

Oh How He Loves Us-He is Jealous for me-ASL

This is for the elementary home school choir to practice to for our presentation at the nursing home.

Christmas Traditions

Well, I'm a little earlier posting for Christmas than I was for Thanksgiving.  I guess that's progress!  I would love to hear any traditions you and your family have during the Christmas season -- anything you do to celebrate the season. 

We are using an advent wreath for the first time this year, and it's been great!  It sits on our kitchen table.  We light a candle every night before dinner, pray a prayer, and read a scripture.  We leave the candles lit during dinner, which the boys (Boyd - 6, Randy - 4) love.  I've found it's definitely helping me focus more on the amazing lengths God went to so he could come to us -- to make a way for us to know Him by sending His only Son to this world for us.  What an amazing, wonderful God!  It's also helping all of us focus more on how we can serve others during this season.  We'll definitely make this a yearly tradition!

What about you?  Any traditions or Christmas ideas you can share??

Toni