"I Simply Think of My Favorite Things...

"And Then I Don't Feel So Bad!"


I think that pretty much one of the boys favorite things to do is...

"Play Ball!"

They are both on a team in our community and they both REALLY enjoy it!

Buddy is all time pitcher with a fast ball at 50MPH.
Not counting the 2 games Buddy's team played this week, he has had 70 strike outs!!
He also is an AWESOME 3rd basemen when he is having to let his arm rest from a previous game.

Little Man is either short stop, left field or pitcher.
He says that he enjoys short stop the most because there is a lot of action there and he jumps right in the middle of it and has hardly missed any balls this season at all!!!
One night he had to play left field and was bored to death.
It was really funny to watch him dance around in the field but pay attention at the same time!

"Hit it boy!!"

"Did you see me?"
How couldn't we you were awesome!

"MAKE 'EM SWING BUDDY!"

Notice the brown blob on the left hand side of the picture.

Look at me Buddy!
"What'd ya say?"

THANK YOU LORD FOR MY LITTLE BROTHERS!!
THEY ARE SO AWESOME AND SO MUCH FUN!!

Many of you may already know about this but if you don't, I know that it is kind of long but please read and keep this family in your prayers as they go through this time of suffering.

According to the Tennessean, Steven Curtis Chapman’s youngest child died Wednesday afternoon after being struck by a car driven by her teenage brother in the driveway of the family’s Williamson County home.

Maria, one of the Christian singer’s six children, was taken by LifeFlight to Vanderbilt Hospital, which confirmed the death, according to Laura McPherson, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

The 5-year-old was hit by an SUV driven by her teenage brother, she said. Police did not give the driver’s name.

The teen was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser down the driveway of the rural home at about 5:30 p.m. and several children were playing in the area, McPherson said. He did not see Maria in the driveway before the vehicle struck her, she said.

“It appears to be a terrible accident,’’ McPherson said.

No charges are expected, she said. The accident was witnessed by two other children; the entire family was home at the time, McPherson said.

Singer/songwriter Chapman, who recently was inducted into Music City Walk of Fame, is one of contemporary Christian music’s most recognizable and most awarded names.

He and his wife Mary Beth have long been supporters of international adoption, having brought three girls from China into their family. Maria was the youngest.
The couple is so active in the cause that they formed an organization, Shaohannah’s Hope, to aid families wanting to adopt.

With his latest music tour, which came through Nashville in November, Chapman started a campaign called “Change for Orphans”. He asked audience members at each stop to bring spare change to the concert, where it was counted and given to a local family to aid in their adoption process.

“I don’t know of anybody who loves his children more than he does and is so committed to the adoption concept, and to lose one, no matter what the circumstances, is heartbreaking beyond all comprehension,” said John Styll, president of the Nashville-based Gospel Music Association.

“He talks about his kids all the time. That’s his life. His kids are more important to him than music, that’s for sure.”

The tragedy was announced during Wednesday-night services at Harpeth Hills Church of Christ, which the family attends. Maria had just graduated from the church preschool.

And word spread throughout the tight-knit Christian music community on Wednesday evening.

Styll got the news not long after Maria’s death.

“I’m confident I can speak for everyone in the community to say we will do everything we can to support this family, as we would do at any time, but especially at a time like this,” he said.

Most of the Chapman family was at Vanderbilt children’s hospital after the accident and could not be contacted. The long, gravel driveway leading to the home west of Franklin was blocked off by Williamson County sheriff’s deputies.



Please pray for this family and especially the brother that was driving the vehicle.

A Blessed Last Day of School!

We had a very blessed last day of school at the
Tennessee Aquarium!

"I got you wet!"
"I can do this!"

"Get it Deboo!"It was really cool to see the sting ray eat a piece of shrimp!

"Smile!"
Baby Girl and Sunshine!

M.T. was so good!

I bet he was thinking,
"I'm gonna get you wet!"

Sunshine LOVED the penguins!

"Look Mama!"

Me and my AWESOME Mama!!

"My muscle's bigger then yours!"

"Can I please just get in?!"

More Pictures From our Last Day of School

Sunshine wanted to touch the sting rays but was not quite as daring as some! ;)

This little fella wasn't scared of anything!

Little Mister was so good the whole time!

"I've got to touch it just one more time!"

Down the escalator!

"Boys, wait for us!"

You Know Your Family is Special When...

Your little brothers get excited because they get to ride in the back of a charter bus!And everyone gets VERY EXCITED about going to McDonald's!

For the "Buy a drink get a free chicken sandwich!"

I just thought you might like to hear about these HILARIOUS happenings Noel!
I have never seen Lacie laugh as hard as she did when Doodle Bug came in and said that we were going to go to McDonald's and we all got SO EXCITED because we were going to get to go out to eat!!!
Then when Doodle Bug said that we were going because if you bought a drink
you could get a free chicken sandwich,
we laughed until we cried!
The Lord had blessed us with the coolest family EVER!!!
Some people think we are kind of funny, err, strange, but most of the time we are laughing and happy to be around each other!
Have you ever met a family that was big enough to play telephone in the car and the line was long enough for what ever was said to get messed up?
That is what we did on the way home!
It was a blast! Thanks for hangin' in there with us Lacie!

A Sanctuary

In the right of the image below you can see a Sanctuary,
a Place of Worship and a House of God.
This is the church that we worked on last summer.
Earlier this evening we got a phone call from a man who is like part of our family from the church we worked two years ago.
What he had to say was very sad.
As I tried listen to him and ignore the noise in the background,
I heard loud and clear what he had to say.
The roof of their Sanctuary had been ripped off by a tornado, there was also four inches of water in the sanctuary and,
the tornado also damaged a smaller building on the church campus.
Later on I found out that the noise I heard in the background was men working on the church already!
As bad as I wanted to jump in a car and go help them,
he asked me to pray that God might keep the men working on the building safe as they worked into the night.
Please keep this church in your prayers and that they will have the strength to finish the roof.

Carpenters For CHRIST will be traveling to this church in the second week in June but not because of the damage done by the tornado.
The reason that we are going is that the building we helped them build in the past is to small!
PRAISE GOD!
Please keep this church in your prayers as they go through this time of reconstruction!

They are a faithful body of believers and this will not keep them from praising our Father in
heaven!

This church building looks much like the one that's roofs been destroyed.
Please keep them in your prayers!

Thank you all very much!