Gloria's life, family and friends

Saturday, April 18, 2009

March & April Blooms

I love Spring time.

All the new colors and the wild life becoems more active.

White cranes are so graceful! I love to watch them.

Spider Warts after a rain.

Purple Iris after a rain.

Ashley, Cinnamon & my Azalea's

Friday, April 17, 2009

Tabitha Team

Our care prayer group, the Tabitha Team, took an evening

off to go to Tyler for dinner and celebrate one of our dear Sister's birthdays.

We also visited the azalea trails and the Tyler rose garden.

None of the ladies had even been.

It was a great evening.

Sister Hoffpauir HAPPY B-DAY!!

Friday, January 30, 2009

Baby Shower 1/29/09

The Prayer/Care team #2 hosted a baby shower for

Sister Alba and it was just too cute for words.

The ladies did a wonderful job!

Sister Kelly's decorations were perfect.

Sister Kelly's party favors!

Crispy treat, dipped pretzels and Chocolate Kisses.

I made a paper bag scrap book for the party!

This is our guest book inside the scrap book!!

Sister Kelly's CUTE Centerpiece.

The theme was Baby's Bath Time.

The guest of honor and the cake table
Isn't it just too cute? (the table!)

Our guest of honor has a lot of unwrapping to do.

The object is to figure out

WHAT is in the dirty diaper.

Trying to decide.. Do I wanna do this???

Awe go ahead Sister Clark ....

All you can do now is laugh!!!

The object of the game is to guess how many

squares of T. P. it takes to go around Mom's

Baby belly!! It was 10!!!

Sister Clark measuring the squares...

Saturday, January 10, 2009

D. C. in January

I just wanted to share a FEW of the 700 and some pictures that

Jeremy & I took on our trip to D. C.

Union Station

The Library of Congress

The Capital from the steps of the Library of Congress

The main floor in the Library of Congress

The Library

The ceiling over the Library room

From the 3rd floor of the Library of Congress

The main stair case in the Library of Congress

The National Archives where we saw the Bill of Rights, Declaration & The Constitution!

You were not allowed to use flash because of the documents!

THE Lincoln Memorial

The Smithsonian Castle

The back of the Smithsonian Castle

Air & Space Museum

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

The White House (before the garden is planted)

As we were standing outside taking pictures

inside were the 5 living Presidents having lunch!

Presidents: Bush Sr, Obama, Bush, Clinton & Carter.

Jeremy standing in front of Jefferson

The Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Christmas 2008 at the Favors

Ashley & Jeremy do the honors of seperating the gifts.

Ready to dig in!!!

Cinnamon has her own stack in the middle!

She's wrapped up in the warm blanket..

They forgot the stockings!!!

(they've had these same handmade stocking all their lives)

Ashley's favorite gift Stacie Orrico

I got a new GREEN Driver!!!!!!!!

Jimmy has a lot of un-wrapping to do!!

Check out this shot! See the ball?

The trees are about 40 yards or more!

Jeremy's new bow!!!!!

Merry Christmas to all and Happy new year 2009!!!!

I am so glad I know the Master of the winds. What a comfort it is to know that when the storms of life come our way we can rest assured that He has His hand on us and will not allow more than we can endure come our way.

Saturday the 27th. we were hit by a storm that caused some damage to our shop and office building. But God kept His hand on us and it isn't anything we can't have fixed and be back in business, so to speak, in a few weeks. We were blessed to not have any damage to our home or family members. GOD IS GOOD!!!

The roof was torn off and parts of it was tossed over the building, hitting power lines and knocking out our power and landing in the side yard.

You can also see in the first picture, on the right side, a garage door that was pulled closed and the winds pulled it off of the tracks and into the yard. The picture below is a shot of the door from inside the shop bay area.