New Years DAY... spend it doing what you want to replicate in the year!

I SEE YOU!!!
how many times does this come to my heart?....
but yes, this is what I ask for this 2010... to have the eyes that SEE
May we have a year blessed with new plantings of the LORD...
like wildflowers scattered by the hands of our lovely treasures on the new tank
May the WATER be DEEP that gives us providence...
and May we KNOW from WHERE it flows.
May we be held tightly in arms that are safe and strong.
Arms that we've learned to trust and will never change!
May we know the safe places to be who we are...
places where it's okay to just go in and lay out on the tables...
tables that might be meant for banquets or celebrations.
May we be assured that WE are the CELEBRATION
and the pleasure of the ONE WHO made us and did it for HIS own special purpose.
May we recognize what is worth our gaze.
May we understand that what appears may not always be what is...
and may we WAIT on the LORD for what to do next!
(but sharing is almost always good:)
May we taste and know what is good!
May we KNOW our place and stand back to back with others allowed in our lives.
May our arms be full... filled with the treasures that come from the Maker of all good things!
New Roads... New water directions... New places to hold water.... WATER!!!!
I believe this new year will hold LIGHT and WATER!
May we make way and prepare for that which will come to fill us up to overflowing!

New Years Eve :Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other GOLD!

YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!!!!
I believe it precious ones... it is what we are CALLED to be!
and you allow it.... I SEE IT! I SEE YOU! and I love you each immeasurably!
Getting ready for NY eve, we have the Connells and Howells back in our Valley again!
(could we make this a song???? wonder what it would sound like?)
Sweet treasure of 2009
... Dylan... all that greasy food... and yet... I still needed a hug! thank you!
All the little ones begin arriving and then..
LET THE PARTY BEGIN!!!
KG holds court... and when you are 4 years older than all the kids... YOU CAN DO IT!!
Crosslands have a day before they hit the slopes with the college kids... yeah

... do good to see these guys connect again...even for a brief moment in time!
celebrations must have several items.... one is a sparkly drink!!!
another is sparkly people!!!

... another is....well, not necessary, but thanks Yall for all the sugar!!!
good talk
good laughter
good friends

a football game on TV!!
and a froggy kids cup beside champagne and homemade beer ala Dylan!
THAT'S THE WAY WE ROLL AROUND HERE!!! and I love it!
toasts:
1) significant conversations
2) freedom to walk in preordained places confidently
being who we know we are created to be in the body~
3) restoration of family
4) HOME>>>this feels like home
(may we know and experience home each time we are allowed to
connect in the body with our "family")
5) Fun, family, happiness, joy... and so many other blessings offered as word
blessings from various ones!
Thank YOU Jesus!!!
Happy New Year friends!

2010 comes in with a wintry BLAST!

Footprints of my big white protector .... signs of the season ..... snow ushers in 2010.
no swimming today!
shut down the windmills because these icy blasts will destroy the mechanics of these old friends!
My big white old friend....
and KG friend's new friend.... BOTH named Scarlett!
Trails in the neighborhood can only mean one thing!!!
I really didn't think they could lift the huge balls they'd created!
... I should NEVER underestimate the determination of YOUTH!
... and even though the head ball rolled right off...
they made do with a little molded one, instead of the big rolled one!
... and the moms just smile and say... we knew they'd get it done!
Happy start to a New YEAR!