Valentine's Day at the Ellison's

This Valentine's Day was unique. It all started Monday with plans. We had were trying to decide where we were going to eat to celebrate Valentine's Day. We had to celebrate on Monday because our church revival started the next day. As plans were being made Justin woke up......sick. So we went nowhere. The next day we ordered hogies from OIP and finished getting ready for revival. The best I could do was order a dozen red and white roses for my sweetheart and take a raincheck on dinner. When kids come along, nothing is set in stone any longer.

Excuse me young lady...

I was in the kitchen passing baseball with Justin while Vonnie was putting away some groceries. Vonnie happened to stand in front of Justin as he was about to throw the ball. That is when he said, "Excuse me young lady, I trying to pass baseball". Yesterday Don Hallenbeck, Justin and I had to run to Allen's True Value Hardware. As we were leaving, an older lady was sitting at the door trying to sell carnations for Valentine's Day. I told her I wasn't interested so she tried to sell Justin one. He said no and as he walked pasted her he continued to say, "You behave yoursef now, you hear." This kid runs his mouth way to much. He reminds me so much of his mother. Recently we were at a store and we were ready to check out but there was no cashier. A lady saw we were ready so she came to the register. Problem was, she was a midget and Justin recognized it and blurted out, "Look mom, she is a short one". Of course, at that time I started looking at other merchandise and gave Vonnie a look of scorn that would say, "Lady, I can't believe your child would say such a thing". Kids. Aren't they exciting?!?!

Sound & Spirit Christian Music Club

Recently I signed up with one of those music clubs. I got to pick seven free CD's now, pay for one later, then I recieve four more free with no more obligation after that. It's pretty cool. They have a pretty good selection of music. My first seven free CD's consisted of Philip, Craig & Dean's "The Worship Collection", The Crabb Family's "Live at Brooklyn Tabernacle", The Crabb Family's "Driven", The Brooklyn Tabernacle's "I Am Amazed...Live", Alvin Slaughter's "The Faith Life", Top Ten Southern Gospel Songs of 2005, and Mike Bowling's "Where I Stand". Other than a couple goofy songs, I was pleasantly suprised!

Youth Convention '06

In case you haven't noticed, I have been away from my computer the past few days. Reason being, I was busy. This past week we were in the hospital almost everyday for an average of 5-6 hours each day. Then we found ourselves at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Convention for the last 4-5 hours of our day. But today we found ourselves back at 2268 State Route 44. It was a very tiring week but it was a blast. The convention this year was great. God showed Himself every night and we are grateful for it. There were young people who found help, answered calls to ministry and rededicated their lives to Christ. It was truly and honor and a privilege to be part of this convention. One of the exciting things about convention was the privilege to work with some of my best friends. Eric Kuhns, Doug Rine, Aaron McCarty, Dwight Rine, Lucas Shrout and the James Plank family. They're were many times that I just sat there on the platform and thought to myself, thank you God for allowing me this awesome privilege. There were many times of laughter, but what a joy to join together and witness victories around the alter and join together in the battle to help our young people find God.