Sunday, January 22, 2012

Michael's turn

Mallory's had quite a few friends over to play since we moved here and Michael wanted to have a kid from his class over. So Braylan came over last Saturday for a couple of hours and the boys had a big time. I am enjoying this about the small town. Lots of good clean fun with kids coming over to play. It's nice.






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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Go Eagles!

Mallory recently participated in a cheer clinic put on by the high school cheerleaders. They got to perform at half time of a basketball game.








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Friday, January 13, 2012

dsiPad

My dad and brother gave Mallory and Michael my brother's old iPad for Christmas. And Santa brought them a dsi to share. They are really enjoying them both as they did on Christmas morning here...








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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

East Prairie Hill

As you can tell from pictures it's pretty flat around here. The kids enjoy playing on this dirt mound in the lot next to our house. It's the closest thing they have to a hill or mountain to climb on! ha!










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Friday, January 6, 2012

EP Church Building Photos

I got these off the church Facebook page for a photo gift I did for someone for Christmas but thought I would share them here for anyone interested.

This is the front entrance to the sanctuary although there are a handful of different ways you can enter the building. I miss having just the one entrance we had at Frankfort. You could literally stand at the front door and see every person entering and exiting! Here you really don't know if you have seen who's there so you can't say, "missed you last Sunday" with much certainty!
If you look just to the left you can see the school where the kids go and I work. Mallory's class is right there and Paul's office window is directly across from her door.




This is the coffee room where people gather just before Sunday school to visit.



This is one of the Sunday School rooms.

This is the prayer room.


These two lots are across from the front entrance and the church owns them as well. There used to be a tabernacle on the slab you can see where camp meetings were held years ago.



What's not pictured is the Family Life Center which is a nice gym/kitchen where lots of events in the community take place. Also not pictured is the old sanctuary building which was built in the early 40s. It's a beautiful building but is in need a much repair. I love the wood floors it has and the little gas heaters in each class room.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Happy 2012 from the Missouri Mattes

We hope you had a good new year's weekend. Paul cooked a pork roast, made black eyed peas and I made a slaw for the cabbage. It's not that we're superstitious and believe in the good luck and all that. It's just tradition.

Paul's pork roast...

And black eyed peas...

Gotta have rice.

Lock jaw slaw...

Cornbread

and a lemon meringue pie for dessert!



Happy New Year!
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Our little sister

Paul and I got a new sister today...this darling little daughter of ours became our sister in Christ when she was baptized this morning. Praise the Lord!


We had 13 in all baptized today, what a wonderful way to start the new year!


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