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Creative outlet
I do not consider myself to be artistic. But I do love a fun project every now and then. It seems like it has been awhile since I have done a fun project and I needed a little outlet. About a year ago...
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Here Turkey Turkey Turkey
Since this is Team Southards blog and the captain of this team happens to be a hunter, it is probably appropriate to share his hunting success stories for memory sake. One thing I love about my husband...
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Easter
We had a great Easter yesterday. What a great day to celebrate Christ's Resurrection! Steve delivered a powerful sermon (yes I am biased) and then we had friends over later in the evening. This is the...
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Florida Trip
We returned home from Florida yesterday evening from a great time away as a family. It was our annual beach trip with the Wiens family to Anna Maria Island (I will do another post with picture overload...
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Wiens Family Beach Trip AMI 2014
Last week was one of my favorite weeks of the year, our annual beach trip with my whole family to Anna Maria Island. Being that we are the ones that live in middle of the country away from my parents...
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Stetson's shower
Yesterday my sweet friends had a shower to celebrate Stetson's arrival. He is due one week from tomorrow. I am having labor signs all the time, but I am mentally preparing myself to go late, since that...
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Stetson Edward Southards
Stetson Edward Southards Friday May 30th, 20141:26pm 9 lbs 15.7 oz 21 inches long15 inch headWe were supposed to be induced on Thursday May 29th, but the hospital was overfull with women who walked in...
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IYC in Nashville
We recently got back from a week in Nashville at The Opryland Hotel for IYC. IYC is a youth convention that we have been a part of for the last 10 years (it is every 2 years). Steve actually attended...
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Lake trip
2 weekends ago we made our first trip to the lake for the summer. We were late getting down there this year due to Stetson's arrival and traveling to Nashville. We love slowing down and just hanging...
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July Farm Trip and Wedding
About 2 weeks ago we headed down to both of Steve's family farms to visit grandparents and attend a family wedding. We first visited Papa and Granny Southards. We had a scare with Papa and his health...
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Kindergarten
Payton started Kindergarten last Thursday. She goes to the half day morning class. She really enjoys it. We are all getting used to having to be out the door early every morning. Preschool started much...
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This was my devotional this morning and it made me evaluate my reactionHELPING KIDS LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES Sometimes successful parenting is all in how you perceive a situation. For example, do you...
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Friends like family
I believe I wrote another post with the same title, but we so grateful for our friends like family, especially since we don't have family here. Steve and I had meetings out of town a few weekends ago...
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Team Southards is making a move
In November, Team Southards is packing up and moving to Ohio!That is the short version of the story, below you will find the much longer version (but believe it or not, somewhat abbreviated).This...
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Catching up and closing up
The packers came today and swarmed our house, it only took them 5 hours to pack our house where it would have taken me 5 weeks! I am so thankful we were able to have help packing. It is weird sitting...
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Christmas Time
Looking at my blog I just realized it has been almost 2 months since I have written a post. We have now lived in Ohio about 6 weeks. I am going to catch-up going backwards, starting with Christmas.I...
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Birthdays
In the last month we have celebrated Colton's 4th and Payton's 6th birthdays. Since as Payton so pointedly told Colton that he doesn't have any friends in Ohio yet we opted for family celebrations this...
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School
Payton has been loving school here. She has told us that school is her favorite thing about Ohio. She has a wonderful teacher and nice small class (only 10 kids). I wasn't sure how she would do with...
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Music for my soul
Music has a way of reaching my soul. An intimate time of worship is such an intimate conversation between my heart and God's. It doesn't even have to be in a church corporate worship time. Some of the...
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Friends like Family and Family
This past weekend we had a blast with all sorts of visitors. Our dear friends The Branton's made a special trip to Ohio to spend the weekend and celebrate Presley's 2nd birthday. We hung low most of...
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