Christian sharing with William.

Choo-choo train. Looks like they enjoyed the ride.

Here I am. Mr GQ with our hot rod automobile in the background. It's a 2000 tan minivan (my dream car). It has been our only vehicle for over 2 years now.

More cute pics...

Here's Hollye modelling the latest double stroller with cup holder.

Who needs the latest lead-painted toy when a stick is just as entertaining?

Ever catch your children watching you to see if you're watching them? Christian looks like he's headed for trouble.

He saw it all...

I love music. Now that I'm in Tennessee, I like to listen to some bluegrass and gospel. My new favorite song is "He saw it all." I love songs with lyrics that are clever and actually mean something.
Check it out here: He saw it all MP3

The chorus is:
I was trying to catch the crippled man
Did he run past this way?
He was rushing home to tell everyone
What Jesus did today
And the mute man was telling myself and the deaf girl
He’s leaving to answer God’s call
It’s hard to believe but if you don’t trust me
Ask the blind man, he saw it all
Ask the blind man, he saw it all

Oaklands Historic House had a free day back in May so we decided to grace them with our presence. The free part really is appealing when you have five children.

Here is Princess Erilynn curtsying for all her fans.

And here is Alena (her nick-name is Saucy, by the way)

And finally Hannah acting like a refined southern girl. (She actually IS a refined southern girl).

Everything was going so well until they saw a tree and someone got this tabloid shot.

Fireproof!

We recently went to see the movie Fireproof with members of our Sunday School class. This movie, about redeeming a failing marriage, was made by a Christian church with a budget of 500,000 (tiny by industry standards) with a mostly volunteer crew. Critics laughingly said it would not even crack the top 10 list. We saw it opening night and the theater was sold out. It opened 4th at the box office and so far it has grossed over 13 million.

It is a movie with a theme so alien and contrary to what passes for movies today that I left the movie amazed and feeling really good. Hopefully we will see more like this from these guys coming up.

Speaking of marriage, here is Hollye - my lovely bride of 15 years (so far):

One of Hollye's favorite things to do is to relax and spend some nice quiet time reading a good book.

The Damage Magnet...

I'd like to introduce our resident damage magnet - Christian. A couple of months ago, Alena was swinging about as high as she could go on our swing set and as she was coming back, Christian stepped behind her. He got clobbered really good, got a concussion and had to go to two hospitals. Praise God he did not have to have surgery and was able to come home without an extended stay and had no long-term side affects.

Tonight, we were playing a game of tag in our house and Christian was "it" and was happily chasing someone (I don't know who). He tripped and fell and hit his head on the edge of our hall tree. It gave him a large, deep gash on the top of his forehead so we took him to the hospital again. They held the wound closed and glued it back together and sent us on our way. (I had some super-glue in the garage. I could've saved who knows how much money).

Here's a picture of the little angel. Doesn't he look so calm and careful? He loves flowers by the way.

Here's a picture of Christian and William (left to right). Notice the single and double cow-lick respectively. It's the easiest way to tell them apart, although I suppose now Christian will have a nice scar to help with that.

The Denninger family orchestra...

Since last year, the girls have been taking instrument lessons through the Northside's Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA). It is administrated by our church and has great teachers and reasonable prices.

Back in May (that's how far behind I am in blogging), they had a recital and all the children played for us.

Alena plays the guitar and did a nice rendition of "This Land is Your Land".

Hannah plays the violin (that's a fiddle for all you southerners) and played a French folk song.

This is Hannah's best friend Ashley. She plays the violin as well.