Amazed by Grace

On Thursday we spent the night with our cousin Faith for her birthday. We had so much fun! We took tons of pictures. I got a lot of pictures of them singing in their basement with Faith's boom-box. I tried to video tape them but they kept stopping and messing-up so I deleted them. They were singing "Just a Closer Walk with Thee". They were doing really well but they would laugh or do something that would make them stop and want to start over. I was going to sing "In the Garden" but we ran out of memory card so I didn't get that either. But here are lots of pictures from our spend the night. Thank-you so much Faith! We had so much fun sharing your birthday celebration with you! Love you so much! This is Faith opening one of her birthday presents surrounded by Caroline, James, her brother, and me.
Faith and me decorating chocolate chip and m&m cookies very late at night! That was so much fun.......and very delicious! We tried to make diffrent colored frostings by adding food coloring. We had pink, blue, green, and we tried to make purple.......but it turned out kind of an unappetizing gray. But the rest turned out well!
Then we had a cookie contest. Caroline won the award for most festive, Faith won the award for most creative, I won the Sandra Lee award, and then James won the most beautiful award. he couldn't believe it! He kept asking my aunt why he had won. He was so cute!
This is a picture of Caroline and Faith with their aprons and bandanas on.

Caroline and Faith singing their hearts out. I love the words to that song,

"Just a closer walk with thee. Grant it Jesus is my plea. Daily walking close to thee, Let it be Lord, Let it be!"

I need to go to bed now so I'll post the rest of the pictures later!

~Layne