Song Evangelist

If anyone is looking for song evagelist for their church revival, I highly recommend this team...Justin and Kayla. Here they are during their first practice session.

You'd better take a picture.

This was Justin's comment to me when he asked if he could hold Kayla.

Anyone for Apple Pie?

One of Valerie's specialties is her crumb apple pie. Everyone always goes crazy over it. Of course she fixed one for Thaanksgiving. As the ladies were getting the deserts out after our Thanksgiving meal, I decided to stick one of Ronnie's paint balls into the apple pie. I doctored it all up and nobody was the wiser. But as my luck goes, this practical joke was about to be a dud. Wouldn't you know it, nobody wanted apple pie. All day long I asked people, "do you want apple pie?" The response was always negative. Finally, someone answered yes. My victim, Don Hallenbeck. As he was eating, he started making ugly faces and finally he discovered it. He didn't enjoy it as much as I did, but hey, that is how goes sometimes.

All Gone!

Today is a day of rejoicing around the Ellison household (except for Justin). We got rid of our last pup. She went to a lady in Mifflinburg, PA. I have decided to retire from the dog business. So until the next get rich scheme comes along, so long.

Thanksgiving 2005

Thanksgiving this year was with the Hallenbeck side. Donny, Becky and the kids came in Wednesday evening from New York. My mom and dad came to Laura's for Thanksgiving, so on Thanksgiving Day we all, including my parents and Laura, got together at Don and Val's. It was a fun day. We played King's Court, Ping Pong, and darts nearly all day. Then around 2:00 we stuffed ourselves silly. It definetly was great to be with everybody.

Nursing Home Ministry

Our church has services once a month at the Heritage House, in Lewisburg. This past Sunday it took on a new meaning. Wanting to try and get our youth involved we are having all who participate in the service over for dinner. Yesterday we had 13 people for dinner. It was quite an experience, but it was a lot of fun. We are looking forward to next time already, but then again, I'm not the cook:)

Justin's Orchestra Debute

Sunday evening, Nov. 13, 2005, Justin brought his guitar to play in the New Columbia orchestra. He took his place next to Keith Forney. He played approx. 3/4 of one song before making his departure. When we got home I asked him if he was going to play again, his reply, "No, all those people were just looking at me."

"Heroes"

This is the title of the new CD by the Issacs that I purchased with the last of my birthday money. If you do not enjoy a dobroe, mandilin, banjo, guitar and up-right bass you will not appriciate such a purchase. But, if you like this kind of music and good professional nasal singing then you would greatly appriciate it. The Issacs are one of my favorite Southern Gospel groups and this is the first CD I have bought of theirs, but as much as I like it, I am sure there will be more in my collection later.

Hay Ride 2005

Friday evening was the annual hayride for our church. This was the first year I was able to attend. What a blast. My wife and I along with Justin and Kayla and 50 other members of the New Columbia congregation met at the Zimmerman's farm and had an old fashioned hoe down. Can't wait til next year. Justin loved it. We drove through Neal Zimmerman's dad's cow barn. Of course that just thrilled him (and am I glad, you know he could get thrilled over Barbie). Yep, it looks like he is boy through and through.

PEEEUUUUUEEEE!

This was our response last night when we returned home from an evening out. The smell, well we thought at first maybe we had forgotten to taken out the "stinky" diapers. But no, wrong answer. We finally gave up the search and went to bed. This evening, the same thing. I went on a more diligent search. I wound up following the smell to beneath the dishwasher. With just a little effort we found the culprit...the momma rat of the 5 little ones previously taken. Ole' De-con had done its thing. It measured a mere 15 inches long. But thank heavens it's gone. I wanted to post a pic but was advised against it (mainly because my wife would not hold it up for me).

The Decision is Final!

After much debate I have finally purchased some new cologne. For the past while I have been living on samples that I have aquired from Boscov's, Kaufmann's and various other stores. You know, you act interested in a certain cologne and the lady behind the counter gives you samples. I know it sounds lame, but I wanted to be sure that I liked what I bought. My final three choices were Reaction by Kenneth Cole, Delicious by DKNY and POLO Black by Ralph Lauren. My final choice....POLO Black and yes I like it!!