Aryna the Ballerina!

Aryna celebrated her 7th Birthday this weekend. What a fun time she had. Her Ballet teachers form our homeschool co-op came and taught the girls ballet. That was Aryna's favorite part! She loves Ballet!! And I have to say, she looks like a ballerina to me :-)
This year she collected shoes for an orphanage in Guatemala (Post to follow)

This is her invitation. I made a tiny tutu that went right under that cake on the invite. I thought it added a lot :-)

We had a great time! We had he party at the church so we could have a room just for the "ballet Studio" It worked out very nicely, but I have never had a party anywhere other then our house and it took some planning and preparation to get it all done and over there.


We had Aryna's favorite:
Chicken Salad with grapes and pecans, on cocktail crescents, veggies and ranch dip, fruit with yummy fruit dip, lots of candy and gumballs, and Chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese icing and yellow cupcakes with butter cream icing. YUMMM

Aryna's sweet ballet teachers Chelsey and Jordan even came early and helped me set up. They looked beautiful as they danced and did a great job with the girls!!
vLook at my beautiful Ballerina!!
And to end....her thank you card...
Thank you all who came and made her day so special!

Aryna and Ballerina....Collects shoes.....

Aryna had her birthday party this past weekend. What a fun time we had. Aryna loved what her brother did on his birthday and really wanted to do something like that for hers. This is a little devotion she did 4 different places about what was on her heart...

"For my Birthday this year, I want to do something special for someone else. I have been very blessed in my life with a home, my own room, a mom and dad, a brother, food, clothes, and even toys. I know there are kids who don't have any of this. I found out about an Orphanage in Guatemala called Cases Bernabe, by my mom's friend Kim, who is going there on a missions trip in March. My mom was going to go too, but she is having a new baby brother or sister for me and can't go now. We asked Kim at to ask the Orphanage if there was something I could collect for my birthday. Toni at the Orphanage told us that shoes are like gold to them, and she has 165 kids who need shoes. So, my goal is to get a pair of shoes for each child at Casa Bernabe. These Kids don't have a mom or dad, but they have a good home at Casa Bernabe with a loving staff who take care of them and teach them about Jesus. I hope they smile when they see their shoes.
Romans 12:10-13 says:
"¹⁰ Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. ¹¹ Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. ¹² Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. ¹³ Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. "

and Acts 20:35 reminds us of Jesus' words himself. It says:
"In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to
receive.’ "

I want to end with the song "Shine your Light" because I want to be a shinning light for everyone around me and for the kids at Casa Bernabe."


Aryna was able to give that devotion at Community Bible Study, at Wall High School for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, our homeschool Co-op, and our Church.
She has had an great response from people opening their heart and having the want to give! It has been awesome!!

And look at all of these shoes!!!

Wyatt's 4th Birthday!

Wyatt had a great birthday in DECEMBER! I know, I am late on this post, but I was about to post Aryna's birthday that just happened and I couldn't do that without posting Wyatt's.
So here it is!
We had a turtle Birthday! He loves turtles!
This was his invitation:


We had a friend who had these big tortoises and we were able to borrow them for the Birthday!
The kids thought they were very neat.


This year Wyatt collected toys for Toys for Tots. He kept seeing the boxes at Walmart and asked about them. When I told him they were for kid who don't have toys, he said that is what he wants for his birthday. So we asked the kids who came to his party, if they would like to bring a present, please bring a toy for Toys for Tots instead.
As you can see, he got a lot! And somehow, he also got some himself....stinker!


After the party, we brought the big box of toys to the Marines in charge of Toys for Tots. They thought it was so neat that he would do that.
We are very proud parents!!
These are his thank yous. And thank you all for coming and donating a toy!!