My Little Grown-Up Part 2

Taryne loves feeding herself and she has been progressing really well with a spoon. She has been feeding herself finger foods for months and recently she has started using her spoon like a "grown-up".

Until next time...Gig'em!

Climber

Taryne loves to climb on anything and everything. She climbs on the dishwasher door while it is open, she climbs on the couch, chairs, plastic storage bins or whatever she can find.

She LOVES to climb on her table and chairs and I mean the chairs AND the table.

Until next time...Gig'em!

Dress Up

Taryne got a new jacket recently...a rain coat. I have been shopping around for a cute one, but found this one at Sam's. She picked it out and had to try it on once we got home.

She looks too cute with her pink strawberry pajamas and the pink polka dot rain coat.

Until next time...Gig'em!

My Little Grown-Up

Taryne has been trying many "grown-up" things lately....

Like reading books...

Cooking and serving us food....

Surfing the web, typing and sending emails...

Until next time...Gig'em!

The park on New Year's

So I am trying to catch up on posts from the beginning of the year. This should be fun. Our "family tradition" for New Year's day is to go out for dinner. Kyle and I have been doing that for years. We don't go out and party all night, we just have a nice dinner.

Now that we have Taryne, we can still continue that, but since that is the "evening" activity, we had to entertain her and it was such a nice, cold, cloudy day, so we took her to the park. She LOVES going to the park, but with our new work schedule and the short days, it has been hard to get to the park.

So for New Year's we took her to the park to burn off some energy. She wanted to climb EVERYTHING but she is not quite ready to this all by herself. So Kyle and I took turns climbing the jungle gym and going down the slides with Taryne.

Until next time...Gig'em!

Big Sale!

Thermal totes are on sale this month with Thirty One! You can get the Thermal Tote for $10 or the Small Thermal Tote for $8, both great deals. And to sweeten the deal a little more, embroidery for these two items is only $1.50. So, lots of savings!

These totes are great to use as your kid's Easter baskets, gift bags for birthday and Mother's day gifts or even graduation. Don't forget about your child's teachers. January is also a great time to fill up your stash of gifts for the year.

Some of the new patterns from the Spring/Summer 2011 catalog are making an early debut with the Thermal Tote Sale.

Let me know if you are interested in this awesome deal!

Soon I will give you a sneak peak into the spring catalog and some of the great products and patterns that will be available.

Until next time...Gig'em!

Something to talk about...

My brother-in-law, Zach went on a mission trip to Kiev, Ukraine a few years ago through a ministry called Let's Start Talking. While on the trip, he teaches English through God's word. How awesome is that! Well, Zach is going again this year and I am helping him raise money to fund his trip.

He is doing a fundraiser with my Thirty One products and I am giving all my proceeds on orders he takes or anyone that orders and specifies it as LST to help pay for his trip.

I have asked Zach to be a guest on my blog to share LST and his trip/goals with you.

Two years ago I went to Kiev, Ukraine for three weeks and absolutely fell in love with the Let’s Start Talking ministry and what God is doing through them.  I have once again committed to a LST summer project. Sharing my faith and the story of Jesus with others has now become a passion for me.  I asking that you help me meet my fundraising goal of $3200 to benefit this ministry.  LST has several deadlines set up to help me reach my goal, my next one being $800 by January 15, and then $1600 by Feb. 1. 

I will be spending another three weeks this summer in a country abroad, sharing myself, my faith, and the story of Jesus with people who are eager to come and listen.  I have total faith in God to help me reach this goal.  A donation of $150 will cover one day of my project.  If 32 people donate just $100 we will easily reach this goal.  If you work for a donation matching company, a $50 donation then becomes $100!  And don’t forget that every donation istax deductible.  Every dollar helps and every donation is a blessing not only to me, but also to those who I will be sharing Jesus with this summer.

This link takes you directly to my personal LST donation page where you can securely contribute to LST on my behalf.   http://www.lst.org/2011projects/zaachary.  If you would rather send a check, please make that out to the Let’s Start Talking Ministry with my name in the memo and mail it to:

Let’s Start Talking Ministry

P.O. Box 99321

Fort Worth, Texas 76199-0321

Be sure to include your name and address so that I will have it on file to send a letter expressing my gratitude for your help with this ministry.  Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.  I pray that God may bless you in all that you do.

Please forward this on to others who you might think would be interested in helping the Lord's work through Let's Start Talking or perhaps your missions committees at your churches.

If you would like to help, you can either visit his site and donate directly or you may purchase any item from Thirty One gifts this month and all my proceeds will go to help Zach fund his trip. If you would like to help by placing an order with me, please email me once you place your order so I will know that order is for Zach's LST trip.

You can view the current catalog and specials on my website.

Thank you and God bless!

Until next time...Gig'em!