She does kinda look like Elle fanning, a younger version

Everyone says Abby looks like Dakota Fanning

You know you are mixed up when.....

You find yourself at 34 almost 35 years old buying blemish control products with line reduction ones. I was at Sprouts and purchased some new stuff by Burts Bees, they have an anti aging lotion called ageless, and blemish control oil with tea tree and other natural ingrediants. It was just a bummer because I never had pimples when I was a teen ager, in fact this is the first time I have ever purchased such a thing!! I have like 5 pimples currently and that is a first for sure.

Naturally Ageless Line Diminishing Day Lotion
Don't let fine lines see the light of day.
How it Works
Diminish the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles for soft, smooth, naturally ageless skin. This luxurious lotion is packed with antioxidant-rich pomegranate to fight skin-damaging free radicals and para cress to help diminish the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Mexican wild yam extract in the formula helps increase skin's firmness.
How to Use It
Use in the morning after cleansing. Gently smooth over your face and neck.
Featured Ingredient
Pomegranate Extract — Pomegranate fruit extract, from the tree Punica granatum, contains several polyphenols and anthocyanidins which are highly antioxidant, protecting hair and skin.
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Ingredients: Water, helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed oil, glycerin, stearic acid, sucrose distearate, alcohol denat., sucrose stearate, punica granatum (pomegranate) extract, dioscorea villosa (wild yam) root extract, acmella oleracea (para cress) extract, chondrus crispus (carrageenan) extract, lecithin, glucose, fragrance, xanthan gum, sodium chloride, glucose

oxidase, lactoperoxidase

Herbal Blemish Stick
Banish blemishes, naturally.
How it Works
This blemish stick contains 10 effective natural herbal ingredients including willowbark, nature's version of salicylic acid, which clarifies and gently exfoliates skin to clear pores and help prevent breakouts. Combined with tea tree and juniper oils, known for their antiseptic and astringent qualities, and calendula to reduce inflammation and redness, this concentrated formula keeps your skin clear, naturally.
How to Use It
For best results, apply blemish stick directly to the affected areas 2 to 3 times daily. Additional applications may irritate your skin because of the formula's potent botanical ingredients.
Featured Ingredient
Tea Tree Oil — The aboriginal people of Australia have long used Tea tree oil as an antiseptic. The oil is best known for its antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties.
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Ingredients: alcohol denat., calendula officinalis flower oil, borago officinalis (borage) seed oil, achillea millefolium (yarrow) oil, carum petroselinum (parsley) seed oil, salix nigra (willow) bark extract, citrus medica limonum (lemon) peel oil, foeniculum vulgare (fennel) oil, water, melaleuca alternifolia (tea tree) leaf oil, juniperus communis (juniper) fruit oil, eucalyptus globulus (eucalyptus

On Mason

What Mason told me.

"Mom I want to be a pastor of a big, fancy church. I want to tell them that we are not important, it is the ones who are in need that are important. They are like precious jewels that haven't been bought."

I am always touched when my kids have these random, independent thoughts. When they come to conclusions over breakfast and great ideas at lunch, verbalize hopes at dinner. It is fun to watch them establish their own thoughts and find that guiding compass I have asked God to give them.

WOW who could have thunk it?

Did you know metal detecting is one of the fasting growing out door sports?? I would have never guessed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzucUSPjm0k

It was a mongoose

I have so much time on my hands, because 3 kids, homeschooling, ministry work, Gary's birthday and adoption and a clean house and travel arrangements are not enough so I decided to research this little critter of Kona.

It is a mongoose, introduced to Hawaii by India to take care of rodents, Mongoose are considered pest in Hawaii and to top it off they are known for killing snakes but there are not snakes in Hawaii. snort snort.

Mongoose or weasle we don't know

Remember yesterday when I said Gary saw a mongoose outside of his window looking at him, well what did you think we were kidding? Gary was on an overnight in Hawaii and this is the little critter he saw. My life is not so exotic, I did see a wasp in our house though drinking from the drain in our fridge and that was pretty cool and how ya the kids found a cricket and I don't really know what they did with it, the last I heard they were talking about antennas and how ya I killed some flies that was exciting. yes I am being sarcastic.

Things I heard today from my family

"Honey I gotta go there is a mongoose outside my door watching me" Gary in hawaii

"I will take the cake and hold it so pirates don't get it" Judah

"Abby are you using that to wash your hands, well that is not soap it is hair lotion" Mason to Abby

"What is that smell? Did you spray her with hairspray?" me

"hubba hubba" all kids chanting

"I am scared I don't want to ever get lost in space" Abby

"Can I have honey dew crackers!" (gram crackers) Abby she is always messing her words up

These are just a few things that I heard today and some in the last hour.

now this is a cake!!

This is my friend Julies baby shower cake, yes the name of her blog is written on it, that is abou the cutest thing ever, www.fourplusmore.wordpress.com I want that living love out loud on mine, my good friend Aubrey said she would do the cake and I tell you she is the best in the west, she didn't do this cake but I will post some pictures of ones she does. OH the taste of them are heavenly!! The shower was great!! She will be bringing home her two kids from Ethiopia in a few months! How exciting.