Cuties

I had taken these pics on my phone and have not had a chance to download them until now. The one of Riley is old. The Lizzie was taken this morning.

Lazer Tag Buddy!



Piggie Tails!

Galatians

Well,


It's that time of year again. I am beginning to prep for Sunday school. Last major series I helped out with was the book of Numbers. This time I will be working through Galatians, which is really great considering all the NPP stuff going around over the past few years.









I'm going to try something new this time around and see how it works. During my preparation, I will be posting "NUGGETS" from the commentaries that I am reading. So far I have made it mostly thought the first 2 chapters of Galatians in the commentaries. So, I have some backlog to do.

For reference I am using the following Commentaries:

1. Calvin's Commentaries - John Calvin


2. Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon - William Hendriksen


3. Galatians - Reformed Expository Commentary - Phillip Ryken


4. Galatians (Paul's Charter of Christian Freedom) - Leon Morris


5. The Message of Galatians - John R.W. Stott


6. Let's Study Galatians - Derek Thomas


7. Geneva Series of Commentaries (Galatians) - John Brown

Of these I highly recommend 7 & 2 if you want to get into the meat of the book. For devotional purposes, 5 & 3 would be better suited.
Please feel free and comment on the nuggets as your input will help me in planning my lessons.

Brice

Cousin Reunion

We recently went to Memphis for my grandfather's funeral and got to do some serious catching up with our cousins! We've missed cousins Nadine and Lucie, and we took the opportunity to pose in (matching, natch) our new shirts from Aunt Katie.

ABC's and 123's

We've had all kinds of new beginnings this month. Mom started teaching preschool at Grace Community School. Riley is going to the four year old class and Lizzie gets to learn sign language and other uber-important baby socialization skills, like don't hit your neighbor with your shoe, and don't eat your paper.
Porter started school today at PCS. Kindergarden is sooooo last year, and he feels very big eating lunch in the lunchroom with the other big kids. So we've got a house full of teachers and students.

It's a bird, it's a plane... no, it was our camera.

Two weekends ago we took some really great pictures of the kids frolicing on the beach at Dauphin Island, Riley flying a kite with her Papa, touring a WWII battleship in Mobile. Picture the sand, sun, and surf in your mind- and then let the image linger for awhile because there will be no snapshots uploaded to the blog. As we were crossing the bridge that takes you from Dauphin Island back onto I-10, we heard (and saw) something dense- something heavy-fly off the front of our car. Too large to be a flyer for free dry-cleaning, and too small to be anything but- our beloved camera. Somehow it made it from the beach to the hood of our car... and now...somewhere along the interstate, or, I like to think, plunged into the ocean. We hope to soon buy a replacement to capture the first day of school and pre-school snapshots, but until then... imagine how cute Riley would be flying a kite.

The End of an ERA!!!!!!!

Well,

Today is the end of an Era. The Truck I have driven, and my dad drove since 1989 is being signed over to someone "outside" the family. Fortunatly, I am selling the truck to a friend.

Goodbye my old truck!




Brice

Porter's Famous!