This is a pillow that I made this week. Canaan had drawn an adorable picture of an octopus. I then transfered it to the fabric and stitched it. It turned out so fun!! He is so proud to have his artwork displayed this way as well!
Check out my (Megan's) blog at http://hiphome.blogspot.com as well.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANAAN!
Its so hard to believe our little boy is 4 years old. He is such a joy in our lives. We are so blessed.

I seriously can't get enough of watching Canaan create. Whether it is painting, tinker toys, cooking, or digging in the dirt. It is so facinating. This morning he has been painting while watching a Johnny Cash DVD my parents sent a while back. So it has been some strokes of paint and a bit of dancing to the Man in Black.

so here is the new 'go listen to' web site
http://www.philwickham.com/
the player is at the bottom of the page and it will start playing automatically. i might suggest that you load it up in the background while you surf the web..

Canaan's Art and Coral from the Sea

Here are a couple pics from the home today. I love when Canaan paints. He likes to paint and I think that his little paper towel blotting pad is so precious.
I also took a picture of some of the fun things we found in the ocean (literally) on our cruise. They were IN the ocean. Mike dove down and picked them up off the ocean floor. The water was so crystal clear that he could see them and then dive down.

It is so stinkin cold out these days.... Canaan pulled a typical kid thing and exclaimed that he wanted to go play in the snow! So of course we spent 30 minutes digging in the closet to find his snow pants, boots, mittens, etc...... and FINALLY he was ready for the snow----
only to come back in 5 minutes later because it was too cold. Oh well. For those brief 5 minutes he did bring in a cup of snow to make a milkshake.
Things in the Smith world are good. We are still suffering from a bit of travelling depression after returning from our cruise. Oh to be sailing the ocean again with the warm sun on our faces and eating yummy food all day long....
But we're back in the "real world" again. Not a bad real world considering the world that many live in today. We are so blessed to have a nice home in a great neighborhood. Canaan goes to a nice school with a wonderful teacher. Mike has a job that he enjoys with a boss that likes him. And we all have our health, which we should never take for granted. In recent months we have found a wonderful church body that we have been longing for now for over 2 years. We are making friends and getting involved as time allows.
Still our hearts yearn for full time ministry again. We pray continually that God makes us content here but not too content that we aren't willing and ready to go when He says Go! It is scary to see so many people around us (including Christians)who are complacent and only having earthly goals. Yikes!!! I want to say " Wake up!! We aren't on this Earth to fulfill our own goals." As Randy Wood, one of our dear friends always says, "Its not about you!" Indeed, it isn't about us afterall!
Ok, I am off my soapbox now.
So that wraps it up from here. Keep in touch.