Thursday at the Fair

Joel

Lily

Naomi at the kids bracelet selling stand.

Location: our front yard.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

A Quiet Sunday

What a nice day it was out today!!

A few of the kids and I walked home from church this morning.

I really like our church.

We stopped at By the Way gas station to pick up a walking home treat on our walk home from church.

I know I did not get the most flattering picture of the kids but you get the idea.

It was a nice walk.

We also had the Real Group we are involved in outside today.

We had a fun time of eating and learning from the book of Mark.

I really like our Real Group.

It was just an all around nice day.

That is how Sundays should be, I think.

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A few other highlights...

Josh took this real cool picture of Joel.

A skirt project in progress.

It will be very pretty when it is done.

Some flowers Joel picked for me.

The flowers are resting on another half finished skirt.

So much sewing...so little time...

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Weekend Snap Shot

Saturday's farmer's market was fun.

I just loved reconnecting with friends and meeting new people. It is the favorite thing for me at the farmer's market.

I met Stacey the author of the blog Down To Earth Digs. I really enjoyed chatting with her!

Sunday afternoon we had our Real Group meeting. Now that really was an enjoyable time! We are so blessed to have such amazing friends.

This evening I started a new set of projects since I was finished with my quilts.

I pulled out these two cute fabrics. I have been waiting to make something with them.






I thought I would make a dress from this book.



So far I have traced the dress pattern onto interfacing kind-of stuff.



Now maybe this week I can get to sewing.

Oh, these two dresses are going to be SO cute!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

We Did Something Kind of Radical

After many years of the most of the family gracing the doors of Christ Community Church here in Waseca we decided to start attending another church in town as a family called Real Life Church.

It was both a very difficult decision but yet an easy one all mixed up together. How can that be? Christ Community has seen our family through many transitions and as a church served us beyond anything we could ever repay.

There have been relationships that I have felt very loyal to.

I am glad that Waseca is a small town and that the Body of Christ goes beyond physical church walls.

Thank you Christ Community for your years of service to our family.

Thank you Pastor Chris, Pastor Howard,and Pastor Zack for your love for Christ and laying down your lives for us brothers and sisters in Christ in the way you do.

Of course, the kids will still be participating in youth group at Christ Community. A few of the older kids will still be helping with AWANA and going to Club 180 on Friday nights. And that awesome gym!! The boys (and Joyce) can not get enough of it.

Why Real Life?

Before we moved down to Waseca we lived in the Twin Cities area and attended Evergreen Community Church. Close to two decades of our lives was spent laboring for Christ with Evergreen (and Jeff at one of it's sister churches down in Iowa). When we moved down to Waseca Evergreen was too far to drive to although we made the Sunday commute for two years until gas prices got too high.

I walked into Real Life and right away I was at home. It is very much the style and vision of church we left behind at Evergreen. Those who know me well know I personally struggled over these past years after leaving Evergreen. Greatly. I am home, now. I am settled. I am at rest. This quirky, odd, broken person is home.

I can write a whole lot on the nuts and bolts of our decision (some pretty and some not so pretty) but the bottom line is it was time to continue forward on the race that was set before us.

For Seven years that race brought us shoulder to shoulder with some wise, Godly, self sacrificing people at Christ Community and we are very privileged to have run along side of them. Now we look forward to running this new stretch of the race.

Grace, Lily, and Joel chillin' in the snack area at Real Life this morning.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy