I Heart Friday

The Dollar Tree

Who doesn't love getting things for just $1!! I love the Dollar Tree. You can find so many neat and great things, if you go the right time. Each Friday, my kids and I do our grocery shopping but before we hit Wal-Mart we always go across the street to our local Dollar Tree. It's so bad that the cashier's even know our name :) Eli loves it too. They have the little truck buggies so he gets to drive arond while I pick up some stuff.

While I was teaching this is where I got most of my decorations and other necessities for the classroom. They have a whole aisle designated for teachers. These days I buy a lot of my props there - especially holiday props. I tend to go alittle over board at the Dollar Tree around holidays. They have great decorative pieces and again who can beat a $1?

Today, I picked up some stuff to decorate my porch for the summer and for the 4th of July. I spent a whole $4 and I am very pleased by how my front porch turned out!

The following photos were taken with my iPhone.



I Heart Friday

Mt. Pisgah Printing Ministry

My Daddy isn't a doctor or a lawyer but he has one of the coolest and most important jobs in the world. He gets to print God's word on a daily basis. My Daddy works at the Mt. Pisgah Printing Ministry in Oliver Springs. The "Print Shop" is something that I love and that is so special to me. Growing up around the ministry, I sometimes forget the importance of their job and how awesome and special it is. They are able to print the Bible in several languages and then ship them around the world!

The Print Shop is where I spent my summers growing up. It's where my first "job" was and it was where I have so many fond memories. The Print Shop was where me and my two best friends, Rachel & Chad, would spend our summer days. Stamping Bible covers, collating the pages of the Bible and of course having fun. Now that I'm older I realize how honored I should've felt back then to be able to work in such an awesome place. I take advantage of it.

I'm truly blessed to say that my church prints God's word and even more blessed to say my Daddy does too. If you've never had the opportunity to go up to the Printing Ministry at Mt. Pisgah I encourage you do to do so. Go put a couple of Bibles together, go for a tour and learn about how a ministry here in little Oliver Springs, Tennessee is touching lives and reaching souls all over the world! You'll be blessed.

Each Memorial Day weekend our Print Shop has a telethon to raise money for paper and various projects they will be working on. If you'd like to make a contribution the numbers are listed below!

Here is the Facebook Status from the Ministry leader, HB Carney, about the Telethon.

"Remember all my friends at 6 pm to 10 pm tonight on www.wyshtv.com, Mount Pisgah Baptist Church printing ministry is having the annual telethon for Bible Publishing Month to raise $150,000 for the printing ministry. We are purchasing a CTP (computer to plate equipment) that cost $40,000.00 and enough money to buy approximately 3 or 4 truck loads of paper.  Also the telethon will continue on Saturday morning from 8 am until 12 noon. We will also be using the money to print a Gilbertese text for our missionaries Sam and Marybeth Snyder on the island of Kiribati for those people. Please tell others so that they to may have an opportunity to give so that others my hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and be saved. I will try to keep posted on how much money is raised periodically through the night and also tomorrow. Thanks for your help and May God Bless you all."

You can watch the telethon live on www.wyhstv.com or Comcast Channel 12. If you would like to donate you may call 1-866-412-8112 Long distance or 865-483-8112 for local. Our goal is $150,000.00. Please pray for God to supply this need

I Heart Friday

The Food Network

When the kids are in bed and the hubby and I are watching TV together, you will find us watching Channel 36. Comcast's channel 36 in Oliver Springs is The Food Network! I'm not a very good cook nor do I really enjoy it persay, but I love watching other people cook! We watch so much "reality TV" in our house and these food shows kind of fall into that catagory. It's real people, real businesses and real food!

I also love this channel because it's something that my hubby and I can both agree on. We both enjoy the shows and it gives us some time together. Watching TV may not be the best quality time but it is time where it's just us and we can just hang out.

I love to watch The Food Network by myself too though. I like most of the shows but there are some I like more than others. Here's my Top 5 shows on The Food Network!

1. Chopped

2. The Next Food Network Star

3. Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

4. Worst Cooks in America

5. Iron Chef: America

I just love the mystery of Chopped. It's so neat to see what they fix without knowing the ingredients ahead of time. I especially like it when they do Chopped:All Stars, when celebrity chefs are the contestants. They prove it's no easy task! The Next Food Network Star is one of our favorites to watch together. It only comes on once a year so it's a treat! We rush home on Sunday evenings, put the kids to bed and pop our popcorn just to watch and see who will win! Who doesn't love Guy? He just seems like he would be so much fun to hang out with and love seeing all the local Ma and Pop restaurants he visits. Worst Cooks in America, well I think I could probably be on that show! It's cool to see how much better they can cook by the end of the show. My family might enjoy it if I would go on there and learn some stuff! If Iron Chef didn't come on so late it'd be higher on my list. Although Alton Brown gets on my nerves alittle I still like it!

So there ya have it this week's, I Heart Friday - The Food Network! What's your favorite Food Network show?

All photos were taken from www.foodnetwork.com.

"I Heart" Friday

"I Heart" Friday is a new blog series that I'm so excited about! Each week I will tell you something that "I Heart", a material thing. I thought this would be so much fun and would let you know a little bit more about me. So here we go ... the first installment of "I Heart Friday!"

Photographs

How obvious right? But seriously, photographs is something "I heart". I remember my Junior year of college our English professor asked us to use a photograph and write the behind the scenes story from that photo. What was going on? What was the atmosphere like? She wanted us to share the emotion from that moment. I used a photograph of Scott and I on a picnic. It was our first photo together. In fact, it was the date that I knew he was the man I was going to marry. So many funny things had happened up to the moment of that photograph. You see, that photograph represented a memory that was literally frozen in time. Sometimes memories tend to fade away or they get placed in the back of your mind. But, if you have a photo from that memory - each time you look at it the memory will come to mind. You get to relive that special moment when the camera clicked. Each time I look at that picture of Scott and I, I am reminded at how much I loved just being around him, how he literally swept me off my feet. It makes me fall in love all over again.

Another reason I love photos is they can show you how much someone really loved you. I was very small when my Nana passed away. But there is a picture in my parent's house of me and her together. Everytime I see that photo I can see how much she loved me. The look on her face as she see is looking at me is priceless. Unfortunately, I have no memory of my Nana - photos are all I have. But that is something to treasure. I know she loved me because I can tell by looking at that photo.

Are photographs special to you? Do you "heart" them as much as I do? I want to hear your story! Leave me a comment and tell me why you "heart" pictures!