The Z-Man playing with bubble stuff!

We recently took Zach to Monkey Joe's, which is one of his favorite hangouts. Zach and his daddy took another run down the enormous slide, much to the delight of the Z-Man!

Zachary's Valentine's Day cards

Happy Valentine's Day! Valentine's Day, Easter & Christmas are my three most favorite Holidays! A few weeks ago I came across a Valentine's Day themed Thomas The Train activity book at our local grocery store. Zachary spotted it as soon as I did! He went CRAZY over it! It had stickers, coloring pages, a few (not as many as I would have liked) Valentine's cards, counting pages, etc. Finally the time had come to put his Valentine's Day cards together. First Zachary colored each page then he got to chose stickers to add to the cards. He is getting so much better holding a crayon/marker. He certainly seems to be left handed! Also, he has more patience to sit and be creative! It wasn't long ago that he just didn't want to sit still long enough to color, paint, play with play-dough. Luckily we were able to accomplish his Valentine's Day card creations in one sitting before he was off chasing a ball down the hall with his inflatable bat!

The final cards, front & back...He did a fabulous job!! the Cards

Have a love filled day! xoxo

Lunar New Year Stamps & Final Party Pics

I recently decided I like to have pretty stamps on my hand made card envelopes. I figure, if I take the time to make a handmade card every aspect of the final product should be special! And, my current stamp collection is somewhat diminished. So, yesterday I was browsing the USPS website stamp section to make a few new purchases. Somehow I totally missed the news that the price of stamps has increased by another penny! Anyways, our local post office rarely has in stock any of the adorable stamps available on the website. So, over the years I have learned to go online for the best selection. And, I came across the most beautiful Year Of The Dragon Stamp!! Last year we purchased a few of the kumquat year of the rabbit stamp so it just seems fitting to get a few of the 2012 Lunar New Year stamps. I am excited that the Chinese NY stamps are even an option from USPS!! The dragon stamp is so pretty!!!

Also, thanks to my talented Father, here are a few of my favorite pictures from his camera during our Chinese New Year party...

This is just a quick post to let you know that SHADOW OF THE MASTER, the short novel collaboration between Matt and his mom, is now available in a print edition as well as the e-book for the Amazon Kindle. There is also now a study edition of the book available, also in print. This edition is intended for individual or group bible study and is tailored toward young people (7th grade and older).

Matt has his own "author" blog which can be viewed here. He has also set up an "e-bookstore" which gathers together the links to view or purchase the various editions in one place, just to make it easy, which is here.