Organization--Take 2

The cooking group with my church friends is flourishing. This week 5 girls participated. Everyone made one meal and quintupled it (is that a word?). Then we exchanged meals--resulting in a freezer with 5 meals, but we only had to cook once. Wonderful!!!

I have found a new housekeeping plan. I like it much better than my previous "list" plan. I stole the idea from a friend-of-a-friends blog. You should check it out. It's called the flipper by Sandra Felton. I also added verses to each of my 3x5 cards to meditate on daily. So far it is working brilliantly!

Lastly, I thought I would share two of my new favorite blogs. Super Healthy Kids has wonderful recipes and tricks for getting your family to eat better. I'm an Organizing Junkie has tips for staying organized. But my favorite part of her blog is Menu Plan Monday-over 100 bloggers share their menu for the week with links to recipes. I love to cook, I just hate trying to figure out WHAT to cook. This blog solves the "what's for dinner" question.

Fall

One of the many reasons we moved back to Arkansas was the climate.

In Texas it is hot, hotter and hottest! But there are four beautiful and distinct seasons in NWA.

As a result of the changing weather (40's during our morning walk), Kellen got to wear a coat for the first time this week. I love cool weather!

(Thank you Grandma for the coat!)

Funny Face

Tooth

Kellen cut his first tooth a few weeks ago. I have been trying to get a picture of it for a long time but can't. He always sticks his tongue out. Who can blame him?


Oh well! Here are my efforts.

8 Months Old

Below is my attempt to get a good 8 month photo of Kellen this morning. He wasn't very cooperative.

The poor kid has been photographed so much that when the little green focus light on my camera flashes, he squints his eyes in anticipation of the real flash.



I finally got a smile out of him!

Baptism

We had Kellen baptized this weekend. That's our pastor on the left and my dad standing next to us. My dad is a Teaching Elder in the PCA church, so we asked him to baptize Kellen. What a wonderful picture of God keeping His covenant promise--a grandfather baptizing his grandson!

I know that some of your are thinking. . . "WHAT?!? Protestants baptizing infants?!? I thought only Catholics did that!" If that's you, please click on this link and scroll down to the video entitled Why Do We Baptize Our Children. It will give an explanation for why we chose to baptize Kellen at such a young age.