Blog giveaway

You all know how much I love handmade bath and body stuff! My skin is quite sensitive to chemicals that are always present in store bought stuff.
I found this giveaway for body butter, and I just entered!


Also I am having a giveaway of my very own at my other blog, Etsy Treasure Chest, for 3 bars of handmade soap. Check them out and be sure to enter!

Hmmm

I find it sadly amusing how someone can be so worried about people killing animals. And yet, they could care less if the animal kills people.

Funny, isn't it?

And since when did unborn babies become less than animals? I mean, first they where put on the same level as animals. Now, we have to save the animals, but can kill all the unborn babies we want.

Yeah, right.

And haven't people noticed the harder we try to get rid of God, the worse things get? No, of course not, who would figure that one out? I mean jeez, it's all God's fault that things are bad, never mind things where just fine before we tossed him out the window.

People never get it, do they?

Our Church Website

Lately I have been doing a lot of work on our new church website, Grace Baptist Reformed. Today I did quite a bit with it, since we where at our friend's the Castille family today for fellowship, it was convenient to work on it after lunch while we where all together and could figure out what needed to be done.
Since I am the "computer dude" at our house right now, the job of website building has fallen to me. I really don't mind, since I enjoy playing with webcode.
Though I must say, seeing a long line of code characters in my sleep now is somewhat disturbing.
I still have to run to my older brother for help every now and then, and I have grown quite close to google as well (please don't stone me!) but all in all, I think I'm starting to get quite familiar with this language like so:




And like so:



Copy and paste has befriended me as well...but don't tell anyone I said that!

Fun isn't it?

The difference between "Dolce" and "Dulce"

Since there tends to be some confusion concerning the two, and which one is the correct spelling, I am going to help you understand the difference between the two.

Actually, there's a big difference!

Dolce is Italian for sweet. It is a common musical term, and often used when one is to play the music in a sweet manner.

This is what the dictionary has to say about it.

dolce |ˈdōl ch ā|
adverb & adjective Music
(esp. as a direction) sweetly and softly.
ORIGIN Italian, literally ‘sweet.’

Dulce is another thing entirely. Dulce does mean sweet, but it's meaning is slightly different since it is directed at food.

The dictionary says this about it.

dulce |ˈdəlsā|
noun
a sweet food or drink, esp. a candy or jam. [ORIGIN: Spanish.]
adjective
sweet or mild. [ORIGIN: from Latin dulcis.]

Now you know the difference between the two...and why my blog says Dolce instead of Dulce! I am quite certain after all, that my music is not food!

Cake!

This is a cake Elise made. Isn't it elegant? Not much more I can say. Not that you would read it anyway, you'd be too busy looking at the pictures, so I won't say anything more!

Up close and personal with Natasha

Here's a few pics of Natasha I took, the eyes being the main focus.

The old ibook...gone forever!

My ibook finally died. Crashed. Bit the dust. Gave up the ghost. 'Course, the thing is only 8 or 9 years old and used to death to do way more than it was meant too... Nevertheless, it's kinda sad, it was such a good computer for me! I edited hundreds, maybe even thousands of photos on it, ran my business on it, played on it, took it with me everywhere, and now, finally, it's gone. Logic board is no longer logical. Mother board no longer feels motherly toward me...

I took it into Fairview and got a few bucks for the old hunk-uh-junk from someone who owns a small computer service business, he's going to salvage the parts that are working. Uh, did I say hunk-a-junk? I didn't mean it, honest!
Plus, I still kept the hard drive, which is really nice, cuz it'll give me plenty of extra storage.
My next investment, I believe, will be a powerbook. Yeah, I'm way behind I know, macbooks are all the thing now, but those'll have to wait!

Untill then, I get to use Dad's imac. Oh dear, I think I'm getting addicted...

Our Trip to Texas

Since going to Texas to visit some friends, I have been trying to find time to process some pictures between all the orders I have been getting at my etsy shop, and finally here they are!

While we where there, we did some fun things, including visiting the creation museum.

The trip down.





That's a weird building!


Ummm, hello giraffe!

At the museum, this is a large human footprint. Um, very large actutally.

Typical reaction to the camera. Sigh.






Boaz gazes at a dinosaur's footprint.




Ancient artifact at the museum! Uh, wait, that's my dad!

All of us together.


At the New's house, Elise and Katie play the fiddle.

The boys get some wrestling instructions from Gabriel.

The majority of us at the dinner table. A few of us are missing :(

The promised Conference photos

Ok, here are the pictures I promised I would post from the Conference.

Yummy food!

Megan Valenti
Rachel Castille and Brittany Smith
Chicken salad.
Megan Valenti
Molly Valenti
Katie Valenti and Megan Roach
The West ladies entertain
Oh Sean, that's very bad for you!
Mmmmm, is that mexican food?
The crowd cheers for the West ladies
It's a perfect pose, and he doesn't even know it!
My Dad

Cece and Hannah West
Ken Carpenter, of Franklin Springs Family Media.
Kevin Pine
All those computers! Toss the notepads and pencils!
Someone I'm not familiar with, Nathan Bolinger, and my brother TJ
TJ, working hard...at least he's pretending to work hard! And did I mention the pretty Macs?

Natasha Grace Portraits!

Ok, so these pictures of my niece may seem a little degraded in quality. I was having a difficult time getting enough light, so I had to use a pretty high ISO, so when I sized them down, they seemed to look a little weird.

Nonetheless, enjoy!