Happy Birthday, Daddy!

We had a lot of fun celebrating Daddy's birthday! I found this poem that reminds me of him. We love you, Daddy!

WHEN FATHER PRAYS

When father prays he doesn't use

The words the preacher does;

There's different things for different days -

But mostly it's for us.

Daddy and Sarah

Daddy and Abby

When father prays the house is still,

His voice is slow and deep.

We shut our eyes, the clock ticks loud,

So quiet we must keep.

Daddy and Sydnee

Daddy and Sherrod

He prays that we will be good (girls and) boys
And later on, good (women and) men;

And then we squirm, and think we won't

Have any quarrels again.

Daddy and Elly

Daddy and Selah

You'd never think to look at Dad

He once had tempers, too.

I guess if Father needs to pray,

We youngsters surely do.

Daddy and William

Daddy and Wallace

Sometimes the prayer gets very long

And hard to understand,

And then I wiggle up quite close,

And let him hold my hand.

Daddy's birthday prayer

I can't remember all of it -

I'm little yet, you see;

But one thing I cannot forget -

My father prays for me.

--Unknown

posted by Sydnee Rose

A VISIT FROM THE OLD SOUTH

Saturday we had a very nice visit with a dear family from our church. We ordered pizza and had great fellowship afterwards.

William had a wonderful time wrestling with Paton

The little ladies: Elly, Sarah Grace, and Selah

Selah, Paton, and Justin all enjoyed Brianna reading to them

Elly and Selah loved talking to Michael

Sydnee, Samuel, Sherrod, Michael, and Elly

Abby, Brianna, Brittney, and me

(we had a wonderful talk after dinner)

It is a blessing to have such a wonderful church family.

posted by Sarah

I don't know why she swallowed the fly...

Mommy told us all she could remember of this silly poem, then one day she found the book, so she bought it. Selah always wanted us to read it to her, but now she has memorized it (well, pretty close)!

posted by Abby

William's Blog

Daddy thought it would be a good idea to keep all of William’s stuff on his own blog, so Mommy created one and moved all of his information to his blog. To stay updated on William you can click on the link in the sidebar or you can go to causeme2hear.blogspot.com. Thank you for keeping him in your prayers.

posted by Sarah