Birthday

Well, It's been a while, but I thought I'd finally post about Jacob and My birthday July 18th. It was a very relaxing and laid back. I worked duri

ng the day, but that night my family took us out to Mazzottis, a delicious italian restaurant then to an ice cream shop down town. From there, we walked around Old Town and our Boardwalk with our ice cream. It was really fun!

Does anyone know how to upload the picture so we

can have captions with it? I've seen other blogs where people upload the pictures and there is a box around it with captions. Just wondering...

(I just thought these two pictures were cute..,

She fell asleep with a crown on)

Payton feeding the birds

The Boardwalk

Madison and Miranda
The Five Seelye Kids
Birthday Twins!

And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.” ~ 1 Peter 4:8

New Carpet!

Well, it's been a while! Last week we got back from a trip to relatives house in Petaluma for four nights, and then a stay in Willow Creek for four nights. It was a very relaxing vacation and great to soak up the sun, but boy, were we ready to come home by the end!

Today, we just got new carpet!!!!! (Thanks Carpet Express!) We had a furniture moving party Sunday after church with some of the boys in our church and got all the furniture moved out, so Monday they could install the carpet. The fun part was that we were basically camping in our house that night with matresses on the floor and empty bedrooms :) It is so nice and makes the house look much nicer! I added a couple pictures so you can see the difference.

Lately I have been hearing that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. I would easily fall into condemnation about things I say or think or do, and cannot in my own power over come that. (It is truly just a trick to get us caught up in ourselves, so that we cannot see others around us) Thankfully, I have faithful friends and parents who can see that in my and call my sin out and then forgive it! What a freedom it is that we do not have to carry our own sin, but Christ became sin for us. We can then be free of that and actually serve and love our neighbors (even the unloveable) :)

Recent Pics

I have been playing around with my camera and settings on the computer... Here are a few pics.

Yard Sale and more...

Well today, Payton, Jacob, and McKenna decided to have a yard sale! What a great idea for a Tuesday afternoon, right? :) It was so funny, they sat out there all afternoon and waited for "customers".... They made $2. Everytime a car drove down the street, Payton would perk up and say, "Customer?!" and to his dismay, they would pass right on by. Even at the dinner table, Payton heard a person outside the house and got up and looked out the front door hoping it would be a customer... they are so funny!

My little friend, Eleanor :)

Isn't she cute?!

The Grand Yard Sale!

Payton sitting and waiting, and waiting, and waiting....

On another note, hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

iPhone!

I just got an iPhone for my birthday!!!!! So excited! I just thought i'd do a quick post of the first picture taken with it (no flash, obviously) :)

A Day On The River!

Well, my dad and I just got back from a full day of rafting with 10 of our young people and Mr. Salinger. The rapids were a blast, and we had fun pushing people out of the rafts or jumping out; we even got to float down the rapids with our life jackets. We hope to make it an annual thing! It was also about 100 degrees there too! The most important thing is fellowship, though; just getting to enjoy eachother and God's beautiful creation...

C.S. Lewis Quote

Here are a few quotes that we read in school and were very blessed by...

"Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other... God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

~ C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more.” (p. 131)

Christ says "Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.” (p. 196)

“Give up your self, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” (p. 227)

“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.” (p. 134)

I still have alot of videos I want to post, but we'll see when I can get them uploaded :)