Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, my friends!  Let's spend time with our family and friends and remember what happened on this day!

*All images via Pinterest except for the last one*

And I couldn't resist...we were talking about this issue this past week and lo and behold I get this in my email from Fish with Trish...

The Christians of the old church used to greet each other by saying, "He is risen."  The other person would then say, "He is risen indeed."

He is risen.

He is risen indeed!

God bless you guys and have a happy Easter!

Love,

Joy :D

Picnik!

Yes-that's what I've been doing my friends! Picnik.com is like your own little easy to use free photoshop!! I love their collage/scrapbook templates and retouching photos is a BREEZE!! So here's just a few examples. NOTE-Some of these are for Babydow, thus the cartoon babies :)

We're leaving soon! But before we go...

I want to show you this! First we will fly from our airport to Minnesota, then to San Fransisco, then to Tokoyo(YAY), then to Beijing. Then after Beijing for a few days we go to Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. We get Luke later, then after a few days we head to Guangzhou, then after almost a week we fly home!

So here's the map with arrows pointing where we are going:



We will be updating this: Journey to Luke. My mom and I will both be doing posts, so keep checking it!

To my friends who check my blog and have my email, email me and I'll email you back from China with pictures and updates!

I can't wait! I'm sooo excited! Please keep us in your prayers!

God bless!

Love,
Joy

New Pictures!

What more can I say? This boy is ADORABLE!!

Summer Is here!!!!!!

Really, I know it's been here for a loooonnngggg time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But we've had so much wish-washy weather that you wouldn't know it!!!!!!! Yesterday was so-so; Saturday was the same; Sunday it was soooo cool you would think it was spring or fall!!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!! I've been doing lots of reading, writing and just hanging out!!!!!

And yesterday Colt brought out his girlfriend and her brothers Caleb(6) and Michael(9), and sis Tabetha(11).



Colt's girlfriend, Amber, is the oldest of 8 kids!

They swam with us and it was really fun!!!!! Tabetha helped me with diving, and she and I chased Michael around the pool and eventually caught him. We all wrestled with Colt and Amber. I carried Caleb around the pool and he asked what kind of bugs were in our storage shed and got scared from the "Dragon Horses"! We told him over and over again.......Dragon Flies, Horse Flies, and he said "NOOOOOOO DRAGON HORSES". LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He ate some of our apples from our apple tree...he called them juicy apples.



HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's sooooooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My mom may have told you on her blog that I'm taking a summer Botany(Study of Plants) science class this summer. Well, on our first day we made "light huts". A seed needs three things to grow: Water(we water our plants in the Light Hut), Air, and Warmth(the light bulb gave off extra warmth and it reflected from the aluminum foil inside the "Hut". Well, I planted a Zinia........

It went from in here as a teeny weeny seed...



To a pretty little pink bloom. Pretty amazing, huh?



Wow! Botany proves God's beyond powerfulness over and over again. It's pretty AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, Here's some advantages of summer:

Flip flop season!!!!!!!!!! WOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




Sidewalk chalk



Pretty flowers




Swimming




Weeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL!

So whatcha doing this summer.....bloggers?

En"joy"!!!!!!!

Love, Joy =D

My Room

Hey ya'll. I just thought I'd show you my room. My dad made most of my furniture....the shelves, the desk, the bulletin board, and the shutters. Here is a overall view of my room.



Here's my shelf and shelf-quilt hanger. On the bottom shelf there are my American Girl dolls mostly, and on the top quilt-hanger shelf are my porcelain dolls and Great-Grandma's quilt. I think it is sooo pretty!



My door has a Jonas Brother calendar that I got for Christmas and a poster that my mom made for me that has my name on it.



My chandelier. I got it when I was 6 years old for Christmas. It has pretty roses on it.



My desk-dresser-closet view:



My bulletin board has a paper that says "Doodles by Joy" and a pic of a little boy at our homeschool group that I helped make smile for his school pics. =D



My dresser. I just really love this. We got it when I was little from one of my mom's friends.



En"Joy"!
=D