Lake Millwood

Today we went for another road trip and took Mom to Lake Millwood in Ashdown, AR. This was about 30 minutes from home and was another beautiful drive on country roads. After the lake we went to the downtown area and took Mom to some antique shops for browsing. It was fun. I found a jacket for Marcus for $7! Enjoy the pics...

We were way out in the sticks when we saw this sign for the property. It reads "Poor Trash Ranch!"

Fireproof

Yesterday Mark, Mom, and I went to see the movie Fireproof. This movie was so powerful and had us all in tears through out. We knew it was going to moving, but we were not ready for this one. It hit home on SO many levels for us. We are so thankful to our Lord for restoring our marriage when He did. This movie reminded us how important the vows are that we took before Him on April 15, 1999. It reminded us of how our marriage is a constant challenge and that we have to keep working on it. That we have to keep each other the priority of our lives. We need to think of the other person before we think of ourselves. We are so thankful that our church encouraged us to get into counseling at all costs. Bottom line... this movie is a must see for all married couples, happy and not so happy couples. Check out the website: http://www.fireproofmymarriage.com/.

Road Trip

Sunday started with an awesome service at church. Then we loaded in the car and took off to Shreveport, LA for the day. The drive there was beautiful and was only 1 1/2 hours, not too bad for the boys. We saw this house and I had to have a pic of it! The first stop was Toys R Us so they could use their gifts cards.

According to Map Quest this building should have been toys r us. But instead it was a dead end with an out house. Not good. It was a nice scenic drive to get to this location and saw many beautiful houses and pastures.

We stopped and asked someone for directions to the toy store and we finally got there. Thank the Lord because the boys were getting ansie. Within two minutes of returning to the car they had the toys opened and on and playing. It was paradise!

Toys R Us was in Bossier City so when we were done there, we went across town to downtown Shreveport and spent the day walking the Red River Boardwalk, going to the Art and Garden Museum, and driving around looking at all the historical places and buildings. It was another good day!

Signs

WOW! They must mean business when they are playing Pokemon. This sign on the write board was sitting outside the bedroom door. And to top it all off, I have not heard them in the last 30 minutes at least.

Boy Scouts

Well the time has come for us to get our boys involved with "boy stuff" so today we went to a boy scouts open house at the local camp area run by the scouts. It was pretty cool and SO many people/kids were there. That tells me that Texarkana boys love being a boy scout. Marcus found at least 10 kids he knew there. There were stations around the grounds for the boys to participate in fun activities. Here are some pics from our afternoon.

Rock Climbing, Archery Shooting, Soda Bottle Water Bomb launching, and I even let them shoot a real bee bee gun!!

Games!!!!

Yesterday Mom and I went to have lunch the boys, went grocery shopping, napped for an hour and then did nothing for the rest of the day! Today we played games all day, after I woke up at 10:30!! It was so nice to sleep in. First we played 4 games of scrabble. I won the first one and then Mom smoked me in the last three. How can you win when she is coming up with words like these: whelch(to take back, lie or tattle) Yule(Christmas festival) Niles ( a type of river) Quip(snotty) Grue (??) and viol (type of paper)??
I knew I was in trouble when she started the board with YULE!!
My vocabulary is not good enough to play with her. I need to study more words. After I gave up on scrabble we started Yahtzee. This was much funner, quicker paced, and I won a few games. Then we got the boys and played Yahtzee JR. That was fun, but I had a headache from the noise of the dice. So then I decided that we needed to play Uno!! A game with no racket, except their mouths! After the second game lasted ah hour we called it quits. It is now 10pm and I am ready for bed. :-) It was a good day.

Mom is here

Yea!!! Mom is finally here. Plane got in safe last night and we had nice conversation the whole way home. It was a beautiful drive down to Shreveport!