Marc Eckel: The Splat Experience

This guy came to our church last year and performed his beautiful gift! It was amazing. I found this on youtube from another performance and wanted to share it! It is pretty neat! You must listen to the words being spoken and song while you watch Marc at work...block everything out and just think on Jesus and I hope it will move you like it does me each time I see it!

I takes 8 minutes and 44 secs for the video so don't start it unless you have time to watch the whole thing!

Carolyn's Baby Shower

Keli, Kim and I hosted a baby shower for Carolyn at my house Saturday night! This will be Marcus and Carolyn's second baby (2nd boy), whose name will be Jacob. We had a "Dipes & Wipes" shower...needless to say, she got lots of diapers and wipes of all sizes/brands.

I think the petite fours (from Hermitage Bakery) were THE cutest things at the shower so I had to share a photo. The regular butter/vanilla ones have blue and brown polka dots and the choc/choc ones have little blue booties with brown bows. Also, I'm adding a couple other photos or the layout! We had petite fours, pizza bites, chipotle chicken cornbread cups, chicken salad sandwiches, chips and salsa, fruit bowl, cracker and cheese tray, spinach dip, water (w/orange slices), small bottles of Coke, Diet Coke and Sprite.

Everything was beautiful (if I do say so myself)!!

You can click a picture to make it bigger!

Carolyn and the Hostesses!

WE CAN'T WAIT TO MEET LITTLE JACOB!!!

(Carolyn, I will honor your request and not put your prego pics on facebook; but you didn't say anything about the blog!)

Stephen's FIRST 1/2 Marathon

Today was the Music City Marathon in Nashville TN. Stephen has been training for months for this event! His goal was to finish his first 1/2 marathon in 2 hours. He did it in 1 hour and 56 minutes. I am soooo proud of him...and he wasn't dying at the end...which was good cause we had to walk a couple miles to get to the car afterwards! I was able to get to over the to finish line early enough to find a spot on the fence right on the finish line!!! I tried to get a picture of him crossing the finish line and this was the best I could do! They had professional photographers there also so we'll check those out in a couple days when they are available!!

Here, if you look to the right of the finish line, you'll see Stephen (green shirt, navy shorts) actually stepping on the finish line. Although it's not a "great" pic of him crossing, at least I got it.
The clock over his head was set when the first wave began the race. He was in the second wave of runners that they released so that clock only shows how long it had been since the very beginning. So although it says 1H 58M, he actually did it in 1H 56M.

This was just a shot I took early in the race with the finish line and downtown buildings in the background.

This was at the very end when we finally found each other. There was a total of 30,000 people racing today!

I was waiting for Stephen to come through the end of the race...after they cross the finish line, there was quite a path for them to take to get out to the rest of the public. Along the way they had options for medical treatment, sports drinks, apples, bananas, protein bars and other stuff. I spotted him as he was coming out...see center picture in green shirt and navy shorts.

I thought this was funny even though it was very smart and I was glad to see all the appropriate snacks being set up for the runners. Publix (a grocery store) had two rows of tables stacked high with tons of bananas. I couldn't resist getting a couple pictures.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MY AWESOME HUSBAND ON HIS FIRST 1/2 MARATHON!!

Easter Weekend 09

LSU was playing AL in Tuscaloosa so some of our family decided to all meet in Tuscaloosa for Easter weekend and go to the games (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday). We had some from LA, some from GA and us, from TN. We had a BLAST!!!

The whole Easter Gang!

Mrs. Nell brought "Gummy Rabbit Teeth" for everyone...

Wii party with the Hammonds!

Saturday night Brian and Kim had baby sitters (grandparents) for Parker so they came over for an "Adult Night Out"...and of couse what "adult" thing did we do???? Well, we played video games! :-)

Kim had never played Wii before so we let her try out a couple games...whew - should have seen me and her playing tennis...it was so totally NOT pretty! But it was funny!

Another funny moment was watching her get stuck on Mario Kart trying to make a U-turn to get back in the race!! Luckily, I caught it on video! Kim's in the top half of the screen and Brian is controlling the car in the bottom! Brian finished 3rd in this particular race!! Great job Brian!

The video is just shy of 3 minutes...but if you can watch at least the first minute and a half you'll get the picture of how much fun we had watching the Hammonds play! I'm sure with our Wii and the Ramseys and the Christoffersens Wiis they'll get plenty of practice!!

We had a great time Saturday night with the Hammonds!

New Wii Game...Mario Kart

We recently cashed in some credit card points for a gift card to Best Buy so we could purchase Mario Karts!

Best Buy rarely has it in stock so Stephen's been checking their website everyday and yesterday they got some in so he called immediately and reserved it and went by last night and picked it up!

So we finally have that...I foresee us and the Ramseys racing each other via online on those nights when we can't all meet at one couple's house!! Gotta love that ability to play friends through the internet!!

So we now have plenty of games to choose from...the sports pkg that includes boxing, tennis, bowling, golf and baseball; then we have We Ski, Mario Galaxy and Mario Kart...good to go for now...plenty to keep us busy!

Fatithful Provisions

Please check out the link on the left of our blog...Faithful Provisions.

http://www.faithfulprovisions.com/

A friend sent me an e-mail and I just got a chance to review it and I think it would be a great website to share; especially for my local friends that may be interested in taking a class...I think all the classes are taught at Fellowship Bible Church, in Brentwood, TN. But she has recipes and freebies that family and friends elsewhere may be able to benefit from as well!

I am going to try to start following this...I've already printed out a coupon for a free Arby's sandwich (just have to purchase a drink - not bad at all).

Please feel free to share with others who might enjoy some help stretching their dollar...my friend said that the lady that runs this program feeds her family of 4 for $160/month!! WOW!! Stephen and I can't do that with just the two of us!!!

Incase you ever want to find this link again, it will always be down the side of our blog so don't worry if you misplace this link or this post...