Getting ready...

We sat outside on our deck for the first time yesterday in shorts and a t-shirt! It is WARM here! Yeah! I'm getting tanner.



Well, Easter is tomorrow! Just thought I'd send a few pictures to show you what we'll be eating. Wish the whole family was here!

Menu:
Ham
Rice
Green Beans
Homemade bread
Potatoes
Yams
Jello
Relish Tray
Fruit
Chocolate Cake

Thank you!

Parents are great, aren't they?

We're so thankful to have two great sets of parents!

Even when we get older, they send gifts and notes in the mail and they encourage us when we call home.

This week we received two wonderful Easter notes with thoughtful gifts inside!

Thank you, Mom and Dad Lanning & Mom and Dad Hildebrand!

Greater yet, we have a wonderful Father in Heaven who sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, to Earth. Jesus humbly died for our sins. That's amazing love. Hallelujah! --- He rose again and lives today! That's why we celebrate Easter!

Sweet rolls

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• Jason's office always has fun celebrating birthdays... usually each person brings some type of food. I usually send sweet rolls, so yesterday I decided to make my usual batch. Unfortunately, when they came out of the oven, they just didn't look right! I had used all purpose flour instead of bread flour and I had switched the kind of yeast I am used to. I tasted two of them and they tasted great but didn't look as good. At 6:00 PM I decided I'd better go to the store and buy the right ingredients for a second batch. I finally finished them by 10:00 PM. They turned out much better and I frosted them in the morning!

• The first picture is how they're supposed to look except I took the picture before I frosted them.
• The 2nd picture is the batch that didn't rise much!

New Haircut...

Guess I'm not too good at taking self-portraits, but I got a free haircut today. Cool.

FINALLY!

Jason finally decided to throw away his 1997 Grove City College shirt. I've been after it for a few years now.

Just a few pictures from Dad Hildebrand to show us Mom Hildebrand's 60th birthday cake that a friend bought for her!

We're glad you are doing so much better, Mom, and that you can even go to work!

I have a hope...

Look for "I have a hope" at
http://www.tommywalker.net/videos/index.html


Our church has been singing, "I have a hope," by Tommy Walker during a series in the book of Ruth by our pastor, John Munro. Tommy Walker sang at BGEA a few weeks ago and we just looked at his website tonight. It's a fun song... hope you can listen to it!

Zoo Day with Brock

I always have fun when I have a chance to visit Brock and Rebekah in Lexington, SC. Thursday was a beauiful, sunny day... perfect for going to the zoo in Columbia! Brock got pretty excited to see the three gorillas' 11:30 AM feeding!





Brock saw this brass turtle, but it was pretty hot to sit on for a picture!




We even took a trolly to the Botanical Garden side of the zoo. This fountain was just beautiful!

Happy Birthday, Sweet Micah!

My nephew, Micah, turns 1 on March 6th! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Babysitting....

Babysitting! We've been asked quite a few times to babysit here in the south.

We bought some gingerbread kits and put one together with our friends, Liam & Lilly! After eating some pizzas together, we all went to see the Wizard of Oz at Nation Ford High School. I'm playing the piano for the show and we have our final performance today.

CHEESE!

I love cheese ... but I especially love dubliner cheese.

I like cheese so much that I received it for my Christmas gift from Jason.

Romantic, eh?

What's even funier is this video from Rebekah which shows my cool 1 year old nephew following in my footsteps. Go Brock!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mACs8P8FqOo

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JASON!!!

February 20th, Jason turns 29!! We ate the chocolate cake a bit early, though! Nana is with us this week to help celebrate! Happy Birthday to my friend, Sheri, too! She makes better chocolate cakes than I do!

Celebrations...

The new Hildebrand Studio!

Last Wednesday we had our closing.... we had a 9:00PM celebration at Jack in the Box and got some great milk shakes. Jason also bought a pizza for $3.

Just a few pictures of the house....

SIM Retirement "Party" for Don & Barb Linsz

I got to go to the Linszes' retirement party at SIM this morning!!! What a joy to hear how they have been used of the Lord all these years. So many mentioned their gifts of encouragement! Mark is here from London and Dan & Corrie and their kids were there, too! I accompanied Corrie as she beautifully played her violin. It's Barb's birthday today!

Did you vote?

Last week we got to see Mike Huckabee in Rock Hill, SC! We each shook his hand and told him we were praying for him before he got on the bus to leave. Cool. We were standing right next to ABC's national news reporter when he was live on TV at 6:36 PM.

My famous sister...

I love this picture!! My adorable nephew (who we'll see SOON!) is watching his mommy who teaches English to Taiwanese students via TV!

4 addresses in 11 months... home sweet home

Praise the Lord! We found a home and will close on January 30th.