Here are the totals!

Ok so here is the final total from Judgement House '09! 151 Salvations and many many many rededications! God is Awesome!

Judgement House!

Quick post about the first night of Judgement House '09!!!! Get this 27 Salvations! Not rededications, which are great, but 27 NEW members of the Family of God! Isn't that amazing! PTL! Our God is an AWESOME God! More updates later!

Current Events in pictures!

Here are some pictures of what has been going on with us the last couple weeks. Between sick kids and sick hubby it has been a bit crazy.

Here is Eli and Alyssa in there Georgia best. This pretty much consumes our Saturdays now! This was during the Ga Sc game, wheewwww!! What a game!

Here are some pics of Halloween '09. We dressed as Shaggy, Daphne, and Scooby Doo, but of course Alyssa has a mind of her own and had to be Ariel! Oh well let the fun begin!

These are pictures from my bestfriend/cousin's wedding. Jaime and Danny were married on

Oct 2, 2009 and I was the Matron of Honor and Alyssa was the flower girl! It was beautiful.

Well that is a quick run down on the hectic life of the McConnell's! More to come......

Oh Happy Day!!!

Just wanted to wish my BFF Heather a Happy Happy 30th Birthday!!!! Love you so much and hope you have a great fun filled day and soon a fun filled weekend!! Yeaaaaa!!!! Cant wait to see ya!

One million and two pictures.......

Here are a few pictures of Eli's 1st Birthday Party!!!!!! We had a great weekend and everything went off without a hitch!

Eli's cake and him and his sister, Alyssa, enjoying the mess

Eli was such a mess he had to be hosed off! Jason what is so funny? :)

The girls!

Poppie and Bubba

Party goers!

Papa and Poppie loving on bubba,

More party goers...

Alyssa and Camryn's photo shoot!

Even Mrs. Stacy got in on it~

Deep in thought about party preparation

It was a great day and we just wanted to thank everyone who came to celebrate with us! We love you all!

Happy Birthday Eli!!!!!!!

Happy 1st Birthday to the sweetest baby boy I know! We had a great time this weekend with great friends and family all here to celebrate Eli's birthday! Hopefully I will get some more pictures posted on here but also check out my facebook and I hope to get some on there as well!


The Family!









Eli loving his cake!!!

VACATION!!!

Well we are off again for our 2nd 1/2 vacation! (Panama didn't count because it was too cold!) As soon as Allen gets done at VBS we are off to Myrtle Beach! Cant wait to hit the sand and sun! VBS was great fun this week! It is always a busy week and we are wore out after, but we always have so much fun. I miss the kids when it is all over! You see everyone for a week straight and now we wont get to see them until next Sunday! We will miss everyone! I know it is alot of work, but I am so impressed every year at the hard work that EVERYONE does to pull off a great week! Alyssa had the best time, anytime she has an excuse to learn and sing new songs and play games she is a happy camper! But she came home every night and told me all the Bible stories she learned about and I knew she was really listening. My favorite from the week was the story of Moses and the burning bush. She told me the whole story and got to the part where God told Moses to take off his shoes, so I asked here why do you think He told Moses to do that, and Alyssa said it was because He didn't want Moses to stand ON His presence! I just laughed and she was like what??? They listen really good but sometimes things are lost in interpretation! I love her innocence though! But, we had a really great time and hopefully when I get back I can post some more cute beach pictures!

Well here here are finally a few pictures from our first beach trip of this summer!

Alyssa cheezin for the camera
High School Musical jump! She loves doing that!
Little man enjoying the sand! He only got one good mouthful and realized yuck!! He did better than I thought!

Sleepy boy!
I love this picture! He owned that beach! What a cutie!!

More pics to come once I have more time! About to go to church for the 4th of July celebration!!!!

Yes it has begun.....

I promise I am going to post some pictures of the beach on here soon, but let me just show you what I walked in on after taking a short break from doing the dishes! I stepped away for one minute only to come back to a munchkin in my dishwasher! Yes he climbed INTO the dishwasher and proceeded to "help" me unload the dishes! He is into everything! He is definitely all boy! Gotta love that sweet face though!!

At the beach!

I just wanted to let you all know out there, I AM AT THE BEACH!! Yea! I am so glad to be away from the go, go , go and gotta get here gotta go there, etc...... Just a few days of peace and quiet.......well except the kids!! Both are having a great time. Alyssa just wants to be going all the time and Eli is seeing everything for the first time which is always cool! But, I do plan on posting some pictures on here, that is if I can find the time in my busy schedule.......:)

Here come some more random pictures of things that have been going on in our lives! As always our life is a blur so I usually end up posting a huge post with some pictures so here it goes!

The first pictures are of the trip to Carowins with the Miller Family! Marty is the Youth Pastor at New Prospect church. We had a great time! The guys had fun riding the "scary" roller coaster and Jen and I ventured out and tackled one "scary coaster". Alyssa and Kenzie had the best time of all playing in the kiddie park.

This next picture is Alyssa trying to teach Kenzie HighSchool Musical dance steps! Thanks Emily!



The next few pics are of Alyssa "playing" in the dirt.......opps sorry I meant playing T-ball~

But she did look cute in her uniform!
Also cute loving on the "coach" she is a little partial and don't tell, so is he!:)

The "boys" according to Alyssa.....

So here is the latest "gospel" from Alyssa:

I was putting her to bed the other night and after we got done saying our prayer, which BTW we had to pray for Pweacher Steve because he is having surgery soon so keep him in your prayers, she said " Mommy I did good I kept my eyes closed the whole time"! I said "Yes you did very good!" She said " When someone is praying we don't start talking, " I said that was right when we talk to Jesus we should be respectful. Alyssa stopped me and said "No mommy we are talking to God this time." I told her that God and Jesus were the same, wow Trinity discussion to a 4 year old, amazing that she got it and some adults cant! Well, I told her how God was the Father and Jesus was the Son, she then said, " Yeah Mommy you know Noah? He is one of the "boys" too!" I just grinned and told her she was right! How great it is for all of us to be "one of the boys"! Thank you God for giving us sweet children that put everything into perspective!

Worlds worst blogger!!

Ok so it has been forever since I have blogged so to all you nay-Sayers out there, here we are! Sorry for the delay! Just wanted to post a few random pics of all that has been going on here lately, sorry for the randomness but pictures take so long to download on here it would take forever to get caught back up!

This pic is Alyssa at Panama City Beach........what isn't it warm at the beach! Not a chance! It was ice cold bummer!! Thanks for the jacket Emily!

The next is Alyssa at Awana Derby were she won 2nd place for best looking car! Thanks Dad!

These are just some crazy pics of Alyssa at the beach with some of the girls! So it was almost warm enough to swim one day, but still pretty cold!

Yeah really too cold to be swimming but you cant tell from the pictures!!:)

My two beautiful children in there Easter best!!!!


Eli with no shoes or socks! As usual!:)

Trying their best to get dirty! What is it about wanting to get dirty in Easter clothes! Eli spit up on his right before we walked out the door! Yuck!

The whole family! Sorry it is a little dark, not sure what was up with the camera! And yes, Allen did have on a suit! Thought the youth were gonna have a heart attack!

So that is a quick review of what has been going on with us lately! More to come............sometime!:)