tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90121372011-09-09T07:35:00.959-05:00Jennifer Crispinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09261174118092823377noreply@blogger.comBlogger2271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012137.post-52367572696656761392009-04-19T16:19:00.000-05:002009-04-19T16:19:00.483-05:00

National High Five Day

Jennifer Crispinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09261174118092823377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012137.post-52760328846086747362008-05-15T22:32:00.000-05:002008-05-15T22:56:25.967-05:00

Tonight was Cross Timber's Volunteer Appreciation, Casino Night. Dinner catered from Macaroni's Grill, Cheese Cake, fun playing with fake money and doing something that no "Christian" does... oh yeah, and childcare for the evening too! Who could pass that up? I've never played a card game other than skip-bo ,uno, speed or crazy eights... :) I learned Blackjack tonight... well sort of.It

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Awana Award Night!Hannah and Caleb were very excited about tonight.Caleb had come along way this year. We started out not saying any verses and hardly wanting to go - to saying his verse and looking forward to Cubbies! It takes him awhile to come out of his shell, but when he does he has so much fun.Hannah had a good year too. She didn't complete her book, but she had lots of fun! They look

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I ran sound for Jim Belushi & The Sacred Hearts band this past weekend. It was a fund raiser for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation held at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas.Not only did I help setup the entire audio system, I was hired to operate the Midas Heritage 4000 console for the band. 8 floor wedge mixes and Jim's stereo In-Ear Mix.Click the console pic below for a larger view. This is a

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Lindsey's baby is in the NICU. Please pray for Isabelle and Lindsey.*** all is well - Isabelle is home and well ***

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**Warning: Graphic pictures of a new born baby below**Lindsey is checking her list... twice... :) Making sure she has everything she needs. I picked up Lindsey at 5:30am. Very early!!! She needed to be at the hospital at 7am, but I woke up at 5 and thought if I went back to bed then I would for sure not wake up in time. I was surprised to see her and my mom awake as well. I ate breakfast in

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PEZ Candy was first marketed as a compressed peppermint candy over70 years ago in Vienna, Austria. The name PEZ was derived from theGerman word for peppermint...PfeffErminZ. Today, over 3 billion PEZcandies are consumed annually in the U.S.A. alone.If you are a collector you'll like this site.*This post is dedicated to my mom. :)

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Just some random sites that are great for wasting time. (As if I do a lot of that around here...)Etsy: This is a shopping site... but the cool thing about it is the color grid they have. You click a color and what they have for sale, that has anything to do with that color, pops up.(I use these sites with my kids in school. This one I do for color recognition with the littler ones)Jackson

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Yes, this will be a biased little note of appreciation for my wife. Yes, you probably have 100 things in addition to these...and you should add those in a comment below this post.So, what makes Jennifer Crispin so special?(5) She has great taste in men. (laugh) Well, her choice in marrying me makes her taste special to me. You probably do not know this, but Jennifer did a lot of the chasing in

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(I have pictures to post of today's snow day... they'll be here soon. You can see some pics on my facebook.)

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Today has been a great day! You wouldn't think so by the start... but truly a great day.Family day was declared today. There is a pizza place we'd been wanting to check out and took the time today to go. We got to the parking lot 15 minutes before it opened and were sitting there wasting time when I remembered I did not give the bank card back to Joshua and it was sitting in the back pocket of

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I've been reading the bible to my children before bed.This started as a way to get them in bed and asleep in a timely manner. My reading what I wanted and them seeing me and not talking... it wasn't meant to be a discussion starter.Hannah has been getting a lot out of reading God's Word and is even asking me questions. There have been some priceless discussions with her and I want to share some

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So I was sitting in the living room trying to watch a movie with the kids and Sarah was singing. Again. She sings all the time, anywhere, and loudly.It gets on my nerves to be honest. I've told her she needs to sing in her room, away from others that want to hear the movie... maybe she wants to BE the "movie" we are watching. :)Again I told her to stop singing and go to her room... and then

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I just had a wonderful day homeschooling my children and wanted to share.Hannah is reading and writing and spelling... at 5. It truly amazes me. And the thing that really blows my mind... I have taught her to do all this!!! Me... Jennifer who couldn't stand school and could never see herself teaching her kids... ME!I was doing school with Hannah today and it just hit me. I was calling out

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To round off last weeks Bible theme, here are a few sites that are Christ centered. I would call these sites fitting right in there with being in the world, but not of it. We can enjoy all the joys of internet without the sites that are of the world.One News Now is a news site and it does great at giving you the latest news of the week and the news that you may wish you knew about b/c it is

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Happy Valentines Dayfrom the Crispin's

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There are a few neat sites that are Bible related. Bible Gateway is a site that you can look up verses in any language/version and by topics. I use this site very often!God's Yellow Pages is an ok site. The layout isn't what I like... but I didn't make it! You can find the information in Bible Gateway, but this site does lay out by topics in an easy to see view.Bible Map is very cool! You

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So I've seen this "100 things about me" on several blogs and thought I'd give it a shot. I'm not sure if there are that many things about me... :) We'll see. Here goes!1. My name is Jennifer - a very popular name...2. I went by my last name throughout Middles School and High School.3. I have lived in 3 states that I remember; (of age to remember) Texas, Arizona and Michigan.4. I have 3

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I am starting a new series. A series I have wanted to do for a while now but haven't for whatever reasons. I am excited to introduce you to (da da da daaaa) Web Wednesday's!!!I love the internet! Love it! There are so many neat and wonderful things you can find. So on Wednesday's I am going to link to a few sites that I have found that I think are neat.We'll start with a site I found to make

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I put bobby pins in my girls hair today. (I wear them) As I put one in my youngest girls hair I thought, this isn't very kid like. I have some snap clips, but they aren't bright colors. I have some pony tail holders, but they don't fit in Abrianna's hair... I need some of those classic plastic clips that I had as a kid. You know, this kind:Though it has poodles and butterflies and that kind

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While eating our Mac and Cheese for lunch today my Sarah asks in her loud voice, "Does God cry?"Before I could answer her Caleb says, "If a shark bite him he would."Sarah then continued, "Or an alogator got him, he would cry and be so sad."Yeah, I laughed.I then tried to explain that Jesus did cry. He cried with his friends when they were sad and he cried when he saw his people disobeying. And

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A day in the life...I put braids in Hannah's hair. She like it, but told me Gail (a family friend that watches the kids) does it better.... yeah... I told Hannah if she let me practice more with her then I'd get better. Aside from that comment, we had a fun day together. Hannah helped me make lunch. Such a big girl. Won't be long till she is making lunch.Hannah liked her hair so much she

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It's funny how people you never thought you'd see again get put in your path... a little back story first.In High School there was this cool guy pursuing a musical carrier. I thought he was talented. He put together a CD pretty much by himself. I don't know all the details on how he got it made, but I do know that he did all the instruments and vocals and he even wrote the songs... amazing,

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Curiosity can get you... it can find you, it can get you into trouble, you can seek it, it can sneak up on you, it can bite you... curiosity bit me.I checked out Grey's Anatomy.Back in the day of my TV watching I liked ER. I must say that this show would have me too.But again, can anyone say adultery! Why is this so accepted? Why is it ok to sleep with someone other than the person you made a

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Some of you may know that we have chosen to not have TV. (TV channels, we do watch movies) A decision Joshua and I made about 4 years ago. That's 4 years of not watching TV... That's 4 years of not knowing what people are talking about because TV consumes most conversations... That's 4 years of not being desensitized to what the world is passing off as OK.I've recently got a membership to

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Birthday's again. We are rounding off the Crispin 7's birthday season. Sijah and I will be next month and then we take a 4m break. Abrianna had her day today. I did something different, less messy. Birthday cookie. I made a very yummy peanut butter cookie with peanut butter chips, chocolate chips, and pecans in it. Very good!Abrianna blow out the candles before we were done singing to

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Joshua had some music on and Sijah fell asleep on his lap. Cute. What more can I say?

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It's that time again, when people all over the US are making promises to their selves that they aren't going to keep. :)I am not making a resolution here, but I am here to say that I plan to do more blogging of my thoughts this year. It's nice having a blog about our crazy family and the fun we have day in and day out... but It's time to step it up a notch. (We'll still have the pictures of

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Joshua & I made our relatives a special Christmas CD with hand-picked Christmas music. We thought it might be cute to have our young kids tell the Biblical Christmas story edited into the front of a song. It is cute!This link (Click to open this Track in a new window.) is an MP3 of that song. Enjoy! [ Music by Michael W. Smith 2007 ]You can probably save this track to your computer by right

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Hannah asked Joshua today, "Daddy, will you take me to a ball?" while handing him a picture she drew of her and dad dancing. How could a dad say no?I told Joshua that there are church's and cities that put on 'Daddy Daughter' dances in February. I think they should go! We'll see.I have 3 princesses... wow!

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We went inside and warmed up.Joshua got the tree out of the box and the girls went silly. "Our tree!"Decorating went ok... no broken ornaments... yet. :) They all enjoyed putting the ones they made last year on the tree. That is why I love putting ornaments on the tree. The memories you relive that could otherwise be forgotten. Don't you love how most of the ornaments are on the bottom. :)

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I didn't find my camera until later in the day so there are not many pictures of our fun day... I guess no one wants to see our food anyway. :)Yesterday the kids and I made thanksgiving crafts. We had a great time!Here is our Thanksgiving Tree. I asked all the kids what they were thankful for and we wrote them on leaves. Caleb and Hannah found the stick and Caleb filled the pot with rocks.

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A new trailer and new equipment for a new business. Joshua has a lawn business, the Backyard Barber. He bought the trailer from his brother and wanted to paint it. Then decided he wanted to make it a family paining session. The kids had fun.

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We were having an ordinary day of school, cutting and pasting things and I got careless and walked out of the school room with out putting the scissors up. Hannah took the oppertunity to give herself and Abrianna a hair cut. Yeah. A big deal for poor Abrianna who doesn't have much hair to begine with. So off to the salon for her. There was no way I could fix this mess.She did not like going

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Our church has a wonderful play area for kids that is open to the public some weekdays.Paradise Pond!Here are some shot of our kids having a good time.

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Dad had some extra mics with him today. The kids had a little fun.

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Quick notes from a weekend retreat at my church. We did Beth Moore's' Loving Well retreat. I had great fun. Joshua took care of the kids for the night and I stayed with my mom. My mom and I went to the retreat together. Good times, good times.Loving WellThere are 4 types of people that we are called to love:1) Joy - those who are a joy to love2) Testy - those that are hard to love3) Foe -

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We are fans of Larry Boy, you know... the supper hero. On his latest adventure, The Bad Apple, there is chocolate! Yes I said Chocolate! On the DVD's extras there is a recipe for chocolate play dough... Um yeah... we tried it, and we won't try it again. :) It was fun for a day but I do not recommend this unless you want to clean a big mess. The kids loved it as you can see here.If you feel

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A little family party for Sarah on her Birthday. Hannah and Caleb wanted to have a surprise party. Daddy took Sarah into the office with him while Hannah, Caleb and I got the kitchen ready. When Sarah come around the corner, she was surprised. How much fun!Good fun for the family! This lucky girl is going to have two parties. We'll have a special party later... stay tuned. :)

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Family Fun Night!!! We went to a park near by and had our dinner then looked at the ducks.Then off we went for the 'hike.'Then some fun at the park. After all the hiking a good run on the park is in order. :)This hike was for Awana. Hannah needed to go on a hike and find certain items and memorize a verse. We had fun on the hike and fun watching ducks and playing on a park... one stop shop!!!

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We got a fish! This is our class pet. We learned all about fish today and then went to the pet store and bought one. Fun fun! Caleb really likes guy. He named him Pluto. Hannah picked out the rocks... she likes the colored ones. Pretty. :)

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Caleb got a hold of the camera again. It's just funny. Enjoy. :)*** I was not really asleep! I was taking a rest. ***

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Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.Don't they have a human repellent made for use at NASA?

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Thank you Aunt Rachel!!!

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And now it's Hannah's Birthday. The big 5... every year is a big deal with us. :)(Joshua and I are both writing in this post so you can view his comments by the centering style.)Hannah and I went to Tom thumbso Hannah could pick out her very owncake! She also saw this giant balloon withAriel hanging inside. "Daddy...I like that balloon."If only you could have seen Hannah's face when she

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Boredom can lead to madness in parrots. When caged by themselves and neglected for long periods of time, these intelligent, sociable birds can easily become mentally ill. Many inflict wounds upon themselves, develop strange tics, and rip out their own feathers. The birds need constant interaction, affection, and mental stimulation; some bird authorities have determined that some parrot breeds

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Just sitting with my boy today and thought to take some pictures of us. He's such a cute boy!

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A typical pencil can write 45,000 words or draw a line 35 miles long.Does anyone still use pencils? I mean if you're not a teacher or in a class that it is required of you?

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It's August again and time for Caleb's birthday shopping spree!Joshua here to tell the tail:Caleb received a few dollars from Aunt Rachel.Joshua and Caleb had a guys time at Target.As they drove, Caleb strained to see Target come into view. Yes Caleb, calm down you crazy boy.He ran into the store and headed straight for the"dollar spot" where we usually do ourbirthday shopping.He starts pointing

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It's that time again... Birthday season! Joshua started us off last month and now it is Caleb's turn.Aunt Rachel sent the coolest card! It had punch-out animals (not to mention 4 birthday-dollars) that Caleb and the kids played with for hours... until the paper got into Abrianna and Sijah's mouth. :) What fun! (Caleb also received cards from Great Aunt Katherine, Grammy and Sheila - Thanks

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The name of the Internet's popular directory, is an acronym. According to the company, the name "Yahoo" stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."Do you Yahoo?

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A friend of ours needed some help and we let 2 of their boys stay the night with us. Our kids were just excited. I do want to say up front... the boys slept in the bed room and the girls were out in the living room.There were quite a few kids and well, what do you do? Eat! Mac and Cheese anyone?Play a little outside, play a little inside... it's fun!Pizza to go around! A full table. I'll

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We got a pool! Here we are setting it up.We let the kids play in the pool while filling it. They loved it. A slip-n-slide is the next buy!Here we are the next day and there is more water. It takes so long to fill a pool! We have it at about 1 1/2 feet here. (The pool holds about 3 1/2) We are not filling it completely for a couple reasons: Well the cost... and we want our kids to learn to

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Yet another funny story:Joshua had Hannah and Caleb with him while making one of our daily runs to WalMart. He got them a special cookie, being the nice dad that he is. Hannah really likes Cinderella. Her cookie was Cinderella. She liked her cookie so much that she wanted to wait to eat it so she could take a picture of it first. Joshua said she did so good... she only ate little bites off

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Joshua got me an iPod Shuffle! I can listen to music now while going throughout the house and not have to have it up loud over the children noise. A larger plus; I can listen to my audio podcasts! This gift was for our 6yr anniversary. Thank you Joshua!!!Here is my Lap Top and Shuffle meeting for the first time. :) (I still would like the Video iPod... Joshua says it is coming later...)

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Chocolate anyone?Chicago, Illinois is the candy capital of the world. Chicago has more chocolate manufacturers within a small radius than any other place in the world. This dates back to the 1800's when Chicago was a national hub for transportation and manufacturing, in addition to being very close to sources for key candy ingredients -- milk and corn syrup, it was also convenient to ship candy

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Night at Grammy's. Good times, good times.What a nice aunt to feed the baby!What a nice Grammy to make us (hard) brownies and ice cream!What a nice aunt to play dolls!Hannah like to play with Grammy's doll stuff. She has a doll house over there, but it was upstairs.Sijah is so fun. Just look at that smile!

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What a cute baby I have. A BIG baby! He is only 5 months and looks like he is 7m. The boy is healthy!His feeding has still not gotten better. The boy just doesn't get it. I am ready to give him formula from know on! I think he is ready for solids. He is really watching us as we eat and he has started waking up in the middle of night to eat. A sure sign!The other kids just love him. A

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4th at the Boy's Ranch! Annual Crispin thing... only we were the only ones there. :( It's not the same without our extended family but we had fun. Doesn't Sijah look like he is having fun?I took the kids to the free play area and we got balloons, fans, finger puppets, made sack puppets, and played with BIG bubbles. Great fun. The music was WAY loud so Joshua kept Sijah further away. Here

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It's that time again. Fire up the grill, lather on the sun screen and head out to the 4th party. Oh wait, DFW is flooded. Not much sun and it's not easy to grill when the rain is putting out your fire. :) So our plans are... watch the fireworks from the inside of our car. We did that last night. The kids loved it, they don't care where how you view them. We packed drinks and cereal for

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Will this crazy Texas rain ever go away? My kids are ready to play outside and I am so ready for them to! Here they are wishing...

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What does your mouse pad look like? Mine was black... boring! I made this image to be printed on a mouse pad. Just thought I would share. :)

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Caleb got the camera again! These he took without me knowing. Not bad... the ones that I posted anyway. :)

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Our other children were not yet old enough to join in on the big kid fun. They stayed in the nursery and had their own fun.One day Joshua let Caleb hang out with him for awhile. As you can see, we may have a future audio engineer on our hands. :)

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This year Joshua was asked to run the sound, so we were not able to work together as we did last year. Here he is doing his thing.And I'm doing my thing. I had a group of 4yr old girls. (An age I know well.) Here we are heading to our rotations.First up, bounce houses. I got in them too. Not as easy as it use to be! I even got a "slide burn." Ouch. But the girls loved it and I think it

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It's summer and time for VBS. Or an equivalent to... :) Cross Timbers had their version and we had a blast! A Vertical Blast! This is all about Hannah's time.Here she is with her class going to the rotations.It's the "creative cabana." Hannah loves making crafts. She was able to bring the bucket home with her weeks crafts today and she has enjoyed talking all about what she made and the

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Do you like comedies? Do you like to laugh? Me too.I watched a DVD with Christian comedians, Thou Shalt Laugh, the other night. It was pretty good.In the mist of the funniness there was a thought provoking statement by comedian Jeff Allen:"Teenagers are God's revenge on mankind. It's as if God himself looked down and said, 'Hey, lets see how they like it, to create someone in their own image

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This is a book by Hannah. For school time today we were working on writing and making stories and I asked Hannah what story she would like to tell. She said she would like to tell the story of "Jesus goes to Heaven." I was like, yeah! So in order to keep her attention longer I decided to write her words for her and then she illustrated it. One page had an object that looked like circle type

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What’s in your iTunes podcast?Here is my list:ABC News Ahead of the CurveABC World NewsBest of YouTubecommandN h.264CreativePastors Blog & PodcastCross Timbers Community ChurchDiscovery Channel Video PodcastsDragenflyTV PBS KidsFamilyFun TVFielder Road Baptist ChurchFirst Baptist GrapevineFocus on the FamilyGeekBrief.TVMobuzzTVLiving on the Edge with Chip IngramNational Geographic Video ShortsNBC

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Hannah has completed one year of Awans. She has had so much fun going to church every weeks and playing with friends. Best of all she has memorized a verse from the Bible every week. WOW. She has a great memory, and even has some still memorized. (They didn't all just get memorized for one week.) Her fav and the one all the kidsmemorized is Luke 24:34 "The Lord has risen." (Awana Kid

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This was not staged... Joshua looked at Caleb and saw a "picture perfect" moment.

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As I was changing my oldest child's diaper at church (this would have been 4 years ago, when she was 8m old) I happened to say how much I really dislike diaper changing. A well meaning lady promptly offered me this advise, "Enjoy it now, you'll miss it when she's older." I can honestly say, I do not miss changing her diaper! I was thinking about this yesterday while I was cleaning Abrianna's

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Jennifer Crispinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09261174118092823377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012137.post-89033969668820052662007-05-02T22:53:00.000-05:002007-11-16T20:12:59.412-06:00

A child's imagination is a great thing. This is some imagination in action.Here we have the bear fight. My 3 strong defenders of the house are 'killing' the big daddy bear. (a little violent I know, but how silly!)Caleb is so strong he thinks he can take down our tree. Good try! :)Hannah made a swing for her stick baby. She had fun helping her stick have fun. :)Oh the things that bring joy

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I've noticed Sarah hasn't been in many pictures lately. Here is a blog just for her!Joshua was mowing the lawn and decided to leave a patch of flowers (weeds) for Sarah to enjoy. She did enjoy them. She loves flowers almost as much as bears. She ran in the long dandelions and she sat in the purple ones. Such a beautiful princess (her name meaning - Sarah Belle)

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We are a park loving family! We try to go to new parks for variety. This park is in a friends neighborhood (our friends that no longer live there b/c they moved very far away). I know it has an official name, however we've named it the Johnson Park. Here are some photos to enjoy.Hannah made a friend while there. Some girl that was 5 years old - that is all the info I was able to get from

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Joshua and Caleb were cleaning the driveway of sticks today and found many neat things. They found a snake (I didn't have my camera at that time) and this lizard. Very cool for Caleb. Then we called Logan (our dog) over to get it. Very fun for Logan.

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Well we've done it again. Our spring science project. If you remember from last year our caterpillar Hermie, then you will be excited to meet this year's 'Shottie.' Hannah named it. She is really into making up names. Hannah found one and we made it in a temp home (I didn't have the big box that we used last year to give it a 'proper' home). She was so excited about it. Her and Caleb got

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A storm came threw tonight! I good size one at that! The city sirens were going off, Hail pounded our house and the kids went screaming nuts. For many reasons there was screaming:We needed to turn off the TV so we could all go to the closet. That sent Caleb screaming. Abrianna decided it was time for milk, NOW. So she was screaming. Hannah didn't want to go to the closet because the light

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We had Grammy, Mark and Lindsey over for Easter. Michelle made a surprise visit! Very nice to see her. We had lunch together and Lindsey and I hid eggs for the kids to really hunt. Grammy had Easter gifts and she gave me a Reester Bunny from Reese's. It was the best! Good times, good times.

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Another church egg hunt! We were running late. They started promptly at 9:15. Why so early?!?! As I was getting the kids shoes on and getting the baby bag ready I didn't think of looking outside to see what the weather was like. As we were heading to the car I was thinking, 'it's kind of chilly.' I was glad we had our winter stuff in the car. As I was putting Sijah's seat in the car I was

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Easter Party at Cross Timbers. Good Times! The egg hunt was different than we have ever experienced. The church recycles the eggs, so once you've had your hunt you empty your eggs in your bag and put the egg shells into large tubs for use next year. It works out well. Instead of asking the church body to buy eggs and candy, they provide the eggs and you stuff them. :) They had neat tables

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Joshua got the kids rackets that are their size. We are the Crispin 7 Tennis Team!Caleb just loves to hit the ball, so much I was unable to take a picture of him. :) He was all over the court.Here are the girls playing:After running around in the court they desided to run around at the park... busy little kids! Where do they get that energy? :)Sarah was "flying" in the swing and Abrianna

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Happy Birthday to Grammy... Happy Birthday to Grammy... Happy Birthday to Grammy... How old are you anyway. :) Ok so I changed the song up a bit. :)Cookouts are one of my mom's favorite things (watching my kids is her top favorite!) This park we are at has a dock for fishing. Caleb was looking very hard for fish that he could not see.Abrianna, again, thinks she can do everything the other

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Paintings that Hannah and Caleb did at Cross Timbers church. Hannah is getting very good at staing in the lines and Caleb, well, he just likes to paint.Hannah like all forms of art. Sidewalk chalk is lots of fun!

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What a little joy in our home! He sleeps well - you know that is all baby's do. :) And things have been going pretty well. I am tired - and our home looks like the maid quit on us - but things are really going well. I've heard people say once you have 4, you might as well have more. This transition has been the easiest. Sijah fits right into our family and we have not missed a beat with our day

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This is Joshua's latest work for MissionForce. Just wanted to show off my husbands creative work. :)

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Going home soon. Just waiting for the wheelchair to come get me... not sure why they do that. I have to walk when I get home. :)At home the first thing that Hannah wanted to do was hold Sijah.My mom made shirts for the kids that say "Sijah's big sister/brother." Pretty cute.Home in his own bed.Sijah has not latched on to me and that is not working for me! I am having to pump for every feeding and

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My little Sijah Nathan Crispin.Yep, that's his middle name. :)We are having a hard time feeding. Those of you that can, please be praying for us. I finally figured out late today what our deal was. Sijah's tongue is far back in his mouth when he is trying to latch on, so no latch happens. He got so frustrated with me last night. :) He hasn't been eating very much and that puts him at risk for

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Sijah is here!Photos for you to enjoy!!!

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Hello everyone, Joshua Crispin here with a running update of Sijah's delivery at Baylor hospital. Jennifer here commenting in yellow. It is 10pm and I have some time to write.6:30 am:We arrive 30 minutes late at the hospital.Talked with nurses and the doctor.Lots of questions and papers to sign, after they put the IV start in my right hand. :) I am not a good lefty.7:30 am:Doctor breaks

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