Thinking . . .

I know my posts have been far and few in between lately. I was thinking about deleting my blog but I don't want to lose everything I have on here about my dad and his accident and then passing onto glory. So until I can get everything off of this blog and saved into another file on my computer I will leave this blog up but I probably will not be posting anymore to it.
The reason I started this blog was so my family could keep up with us and see pictures of the kids and our everyday happenings. It served us well up until now.
Now, most of my family and John's family has Facebook now and we have been communicating so much more on that website. It has been so much fun and is more interactive since we can instant message one another.
So if you have a Facebook and would like to be friends, just send a friend request to me and we can keep in touch that way. Of course you can always email me! If you need my email address it is lenfestey5@aol.com. Come join us at www.facebook.com . . . . that would be so much fun!
God Bless!

5th photo in my 5th file

I was tagged by Chrissie...This picture is of John's sweet cousin Angi holding her newest grandson Israel Mark Swan shortly after he was born. What a precious gift he is to this family!

The Rules: go to Your Pictures file go to the 5th folder open up the 5th picture and post it then tag 5 people when you are done. I don't know why this folder ended up 5th on my files. It is a fairly new picture. I got a new laptop so when we transferred over the files, they got all mixed up!

Okay I tag . . . . . Cassie Tynan, The Brown Girlies, April, Mary Beth, & Lynn Wilson

Today . . .

Today would have been my parents 43rd wedding anniversary. I miss him so much.

Christmas Decorations

We just put simple lights up outside. The ones on the porch are from my dad. He gave them to me the Christmas before he passed away. There is a wooden snowman on the porch that lights up that my mother-in-law gave me a few years ago too.

This is the first time we have had a fireplace. It is fun hanging the stockings from the mantel! I love my skinny little pencil tree. It has served us well through the years. It is decorated with snowmen. I can't get enough snowmen. Although I dislike snow . . .weird I know.

Here is our dining room. I put a small tree in there as well. The tablecloth I got at a thrift store for $1. I love it! On top of the curio cabinet is a doll collection my mother use to always put out. She gave it to me about 3 years ago. I really love it!

Isn't it adorable? I think of my mother every time I look at it. I love you mom!

My sweetie and me

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had our pictures done for our new church directory. I love the one of the children. Time sure flies . . . .they are becoming so grown.

Hope everyone has a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Honesty Pays Off!

Wow, what a shopping experience the boys and I had today. We are having pictures done tomorrow for our church directory so I needed to buy the boys a long sleeved black shirt for our picture. So we went to Beall's and found just what we needed (really cheap too!). While we were there, Nicholas happened upon a $100 bill on the floor and went to Johnathan and said, "Look what I found!" Johnathan, took it from Nicholas and said "Nick, where did you get this? We have to give it back!" Johnathan then looked up and saw a young man pacing nervously around the store so Johnathan asked him if he had lost some money and he said yes! So Johnathan gave him the $100 and the guy asked where he found it so Nick took him to the rack of dresses where he found it and the man was happy to find the other $600 under the rack that his wife or girlfriend had lost while browsing for dresses! I had no idea all of this had happened so when this man I did not know came up and handed Johnathan a $100 bill and told him to keep it I was like "WHAT??" After I found out what had happened I told the man that the boys could not accept this money, and he said he wanted them to have it because they could have kept it all but was honest and returned the money. I told him that we wouldn't expect the boys to keep money that didn't belong to them that we teach them to be honest. He said "well honestly deserves reward so I want them to keep it". The guy walked away and we stood there dumb founded. Although Nicholas had a big 'ol smile on his face! I stlil can't believe it happened!