Pride Goeth before a fall?

Hopefully it wasn't my pride that caused this panel to fall, but I did love it!

We thought this was in place pretty well. We had to squeeze it in, and thought it was tight enough to just stay up without anything else holding it. Lesson learned. This was the first of 2 panels of similar design which I made, and are in opposite sides of our dining and living rooms. The other is currently being held up by silly putty, and we may pick up some moulding today...

I had just come into the kitchen from the garage, and the kids and Kipp were already in the kitchen when we all heard a whump and some glass tinkling. I was trying to figure out what ornaments we could have that were over there, and realized that there weren't any. It took Kipp a few seconds also, and then we all ran over to look. Kyler saw it first. He said, "Well Mom, at least it's not your favorite one!" (I do like the second one I made a little better). The bad news about our new carpet is it's really thick and really holds glass shards well! My panel went from about 20 pieces to 120 pieces, and we picked up what we could and vacuumed the rest. The good news is I now have a new window to fill!

Ilea the photographer

Ilea just won the best photograph at her school for Reflections program with the theme of "Beauty is...". Her picture goes to the district level now and we are very proud of her.

Kyler's Church Camp Adventure

One of the tasks that Kyler has to do for his cub scout bear badge is to write a story about something he has done. Below is Kyler's story:

In the summer I went to church camp. We did stuff like art, swimming, sports, and cabin time. My team was the green team. On the first night we played capture the flag. I got close to my opponents flag.

On the second night we played counselor hide and seek. My team found 1 counselor. The way we found him was he was howling. The one that we found was are own counselor.

On the very last night one counselor from every team was stolen without anyone knowing . Then at chapel a note came. It had 5 tasks and after finishing each task we got some puzzle pieces that made a map. After doing all the tasks, we could get the final puzzle piece. The tasks were archery, obstacle course, making a bridge, getting fake armor, and a slip-and-slid. Then we went to the chapel and got the final piece with the X and found where Andrew was. We found our counselor first so we won!

BY
KYLER HOWARD

Ilea's Prayer of Thanksgiving

Ilea wrote this:

I thanks the Lord for all I see,
for He has gone and made it for me,
and every blade of grass is precious to me.
I love Him and He loves me.

(below was a picture of cooked turkey. It was great, and we used it for our Thanksgiving prayer this year).