HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!!

Thank you all for the gifts! We had a great weekend, starting with the gifts on Sat. Then we went to the Steak and Oyster feed with MaMaw, Papaw, and Great Grandma Walsh, while the kids stayed with Sara and Jeff. They took us there for my birthday, I like the steak and potatos and Tina likes the oysters and green beans. Then they have a raffle and we got 2 bottles of wine ,just like last year. We have to take a picture of the one bottle, it is huge!!! Then Sunday we had church and I put on the new shirt, tie and jacket! Hope everyone likes the pics, there will be more to come over the holiday!

KFC From Outerspace

An 87,500 square-foot image of Colonel Sanders in the Nevada desert in an image released to Reuters on November 14, 2006. REUTERS/Kentucky Fried Chicken/Fred Harbuck/Handout

NEW YORK (Reuters) - From space, extraterrestrials and astronauts can look back to earth and see The Great Wall of China -- and KFC's Colonel Sanders.

The KFC Corp. on Tuesday launched a rebranding campaign with an 87,500 square-foot image of Colonel Sanders in the Nevada desert which the company says makes Kentucky Fried Chicken the world's first brand visible from space.

"If there are extraterrestrials in outer space, KFC wants to become their restaurant of choice," KFC President Gregg Dedrick said in a statement.

The logo consists of 65,000 one-foot by one-foot painted tile pieces that were assembled like a giant jigsaw puzzle.

"If we hear back from a life form in space today - whether NASA astronauts or a signal from some life form on Mars - we'll send up some Original Recipe Chicken," said Dedrick.

The logo also depicts an updated version of KFC icon Colonel Sanders who wears his signature string tie but with a red apron instead of his classic white double-breasted suit.

The logo was built at the remote Area 51 desert near Rachel, Nevada, which KFC said was known as the UFO capital of the world and famous for its association with UFO conspiracy theories.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MaKayla!!!!!!

Well that time of year again when 3 B-days in the Family come and Christmas is on the heal of it all, with Thanksgiving smashed in between. I hope no one skips over that like the retail people want us too. It is very important to give thanks to GOD for everything he has blessed us this year with. We have a ton to be thankful for. And we hope you enjoy these pics of MaKayla's B-day as much as we do. We had a Harvest Festival at our church on her birthday so it was very special for her!!! There was a bounce house, hay ride, face painting, cake walk, dart game, and many fun things that they loved. We really had a great time and wish more of you could have been there. Mamaw & Papaw came for a short while and we saved her Bible to give to her there! Thank you all for sending things for her and making this day special for her!

More pics will be coming in the next few days. Pics of the PA gifts and the Festival. So look for them over Thanksgiving break!

Barn Project

Here are some pictures that the kids took of me and the barn I was fixing up last month for them to play in this winter! I have finished it for now though there are a few more touch ups that need to be done, and the roof needs to be sealed. But we will see if I get a chance to do it this year! I want to take better pictures to show you the progress, but the sun beats me down from work and I haven't got a chance to take any yet! I should be able to get some by next week.

MaKayla also sang for the church with her class and the younger kids in the school at the church and I added those pics. We will have to show you the video next time we see you guys!

Click on the top picture to see them all and the bottom on you will be able to see bigger if you click on it!

Garfield's a Tale of Two Kittens

We rented this over the weekend and thought it was pretty good. Not as good as the first one of course, but not many sequels are as good as the original movie. It's a movie alone the lines of the prince and the poper story. Where a prince and a poor man switched places and they looked the same, just had way different personalities. It had some funny parts in it, and MaKayla liked it along with the boys, but I don't think it will be one that we buy. But, it is hard to find a movie that is be clean forkids and that the whole family will enjoy. So, if your wanting to rent something and you want something like that this is right up that alley. Enjoy!!!

That time of year again!!!

SCOTT ESTERLY
and TINA ESTERLY
Wish List
Dec 31, 2012
MARYSVILLE, CA

Registry ID: 26774027975

Well that time of year again when Mom starts asking what we would like for Birthday's (fyi: MaKayla's is 11/10; 9 days before mine) and X-mas!!! I pasted on to her that we have a wish list on walmart.com. Most of that list is movies and in our growth right know we much rather be the ones to decide what movies we would get. So I've been putting cds on the list that we haven't found at the store. I also will put toy ideas up for the kids so keep and eye out for updates and maybe I'll post a blog here when we update the list!!!!

As for me I told Mom that the Xbox has been down since early this year not for any reason, but one day it just stopped working! So, I really would like to get that fixed by the end of this year. And with our focus on paying our debt off this year I really can not bring myself to drop $150 to get it fixed. But if any of you would like to contribute towards that to make it a smaller payment for me that would be a great gift!!!! Mainly because after I get it fixed I'll have a 30 day window to get insurance on the system (which I should have done in the beginning) and I believe that will be an additional $60 for 2 years of insurance. So, if something malfunctions again, in that time frame, then it will be covered!!!

We also put stuff in a Best To You catalog that we will have sent to you guys so watch your mailbox!!! Or you can look at the catalog by going to the site and looking at the Oct. 2006 book. www.besttoyou.com

I also sent you emails from christianbook.com that has veggie tales movies that we don't have yet. Those are always a good thing to get. Sky & Morgan would even like them. They teach good lessons in there short shows!!!!

We found a learning toy for MaKayla in the barn!! I can not find find it on Walmart.com so here is the list of books she has already and the link to get more if you want! She has: Blue's School, School Skill's, Ernie's Neighborhood!

http://www.fisher-price.com/us/powertouch/default_flash.asp

Life Chain

This Sunday we participated in the Life Chain with our church family. I must say it felt good that we were standing up for something especially when it is something that God wants us to stand for as well. The boys stood with me as well. And I feel it made them feel really good, because as kids they hear about bad stuff going on in the world and would love to help but simple can not because they are to young or small. Well this is something that they could do and they may never know what impact they had on someone driving by!!! So, hear are the links for more info on what the Life Chain is all about and we hope you can join us next year standing for children who don't have a voice!!!! I got a chance to talk with Chris Kaufman a photographer from the Appeal-Democrat newspaper, so I put the link here as well!

http://www.nationallifechain.org/

http://lifechain.net/

http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/2006/10/02/news/top_story/news1.txt

Bishops Pumpkin Farm

Friday Tina & I got to help out with MaKayla's 1st field trip. It was to Bishop's Pumpkin Farm and it was great. We have plans on going back, with the boys, on a Sunday later this month!!! It was one of the most fun trips that we have taken. Alot for the kids to do!! A Train Ride, Pig Race, Hay Ride, Picking Pumpkins in the Pumpkin Patch, Corn Maze (Which we didn't do), Mine for Marbles, Giant Slide, and a Petting Zoo. Plus they have a couple of small shops! And it's cheap, I think to do everything it's about $9 a person, but Tina and I won't do the Coyote Mountain!!!! So it will cost us less!!! We took pictures of the Field trip and they will be up on the frickr site. It was Tina's 1st time there as well!!! Well we miss you all and we can not wait until you guys come out so we can have a fun filled week with you!!!!

See you At the Pole 2006'

Psalms 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. KJV

See You at the Pole™ is a student-initiated, student organized, and student-led event. That means this is all about students meeting at their school flagpole to pray—for their school, friends teachers, government, and their nation. See You at the Pole™ is not a demonstration, political rally, nor a stand for or against anything. See You at the Pole™ is scheduled annually on the fourth Wednesday in September, which is September 27 in 2006. The suggested starting time is 7 a.m. If that doesn't work for your school, choose a time that will work for your school, but let everyone at your school know!

See you at the pole

Need more of hollywood to be saved!

This was good to hear, actor Stephen Baldwin is in the news and is now an in your face "Jesus Freak" All I have to say is Amen, and I'm happy to hear that God is working on the hearts of actors in hollywood like this!!!!

The youngest of the famed brothers Baldwin, actor Stephen Baldwin is an in-your-face Jesus-freak who has taken his share of blows professionally, financially and personally since professing his faith about five years ago. Since then, he has gone to bat for President George W. Bush (an overtly radical move in liberal Hollywood), launched two youth ministries (Livin It and Breakthrough Ministry), written several books and shared his faith with his celebrity brothers and even Tom Cruise. Why did he risk fame and fortune for faith? He says it’s simple—really!

To read more click here!!!!

Goal!!!!

We rented this and watched this last night! Wow, is what we have to say. What an incredible story and it's just the beginning! Goal 2: Living the dream is in theaters soon, and Goal 3 will not be long after! This story follows Santiago Munz's life from a young boy to getting to a pro team in England! He goes through quite the journey to make it, over coming obstacle after obstacle to just get a chance for someone to see something in him! He had many chances to quit and give up, but his belief in himself came out in others when he needed to be picked up again. I felt inspired by his story, because of my dream for our family and Primerica. I just need to keep going and soon I’ll break through my walls of doubt and score the winning GOAL!!!!!

Long weekend of fun!!!

Saturday we went to a new park in West Sacramento, "Bridgeway Lakes", about 30-40 minutes from the house. That have a water park there instead of the typical swing sets and slides. The kids had a blast and we could have stayed longer, but we only brought enough food for lunch, not dinner. Check out the pics on our flickr site, we would have had more pics but the batteries went dead in our camera!

Sunday we had church and did somethings around the house, chillin out! Monday we had our Annual Church Fish Fry at our church and we got in a long game of flag football with about 10 of our church men and teens and 10 of our church young kids all mixed in. It first looked like a blow out with the red team (Anthony's team, I was on the blue) ahead 2 TDs-0, but we started to get in our grove as a team and tied it up 3-3 with me actually constructing some key drives that ended up in scores. Another teen and I were switching on and off on QB/WR. We connected for a big pass when he was QB on a one of our first drive. Red team left me uncovered and we made them pay for it! But, I didn't see any action as WR after that, they covered me for the rest of the game, plus towards the end I was QB more since I was able to get us down the field a little easier! I just spread the ball around and even ran for some yards to get away from the rush!!! We ended up losing the game 4-3, but we didn't let up with out a fight. All the guys & girls played well and no one got hurt, a couple bumps, but nothing more then that! Praise GOD for a good weekend and fellowship!!

Take the Lead

We rented this over the long weekend and I much say that it was better then I expected! It had some real good teachings in it and you really don't need to be concerned with the language. I don't think there was any really foul words used at all. Which is amazing considering it is a true story from the New York area! I feel it would be real good film if you like positive inspirational stories, with good morals as a focus. We all enjoyed it. Now a days Tina and I are screening the movies before we watch them with the kids. So we saw this one twice and enjoyed watching the kids get something out of it!!!

Back to School

All the kids go to school starting today! Anthony is in 5th grade this year, wow amazing next year he will be half way through school! Christopher is in 3rd grade and MaKayla is going to K4 at our Church Academy! It is our prayer that GOD blesses us enough to get them all into Christian School. We know it would do them so much good in finding what it is GOD put them on earth here to do! Plus at BBCA they have the "BECKA system" which is more advanced then most public schools, and will prepare them for college better! We hope you all enjoy the new pictures that we put up! As usual you can click on the above photo to get to our Flickr site!

New Music

Wanted to post this to encourage you all to give our music links a visit! We are going through some life changing things to get ourselves closer to our LORD! And you'll see the affects hear as we talk about them and notice things changing on the site as well! Our hope is that you start joining us and letting yourselves be open to change in your lives. We know this has been a change that has been in the works for 2-3 years now, for us, and we are so excited about what GOD is doing in our lives right now! So we don't expect to see you change just like that. But, we do look forward to the possibilities that are out there and that GOD knows all and has a plan for all of us! We just have to live our lives everyday to find out what his plan for us is!!!

World Trade Center

This movie came out today and we are looking forward to seeing it! True story of Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin, two Port Authority police officers who rushed into the burning World Trade Center on 9/11 to help rescue people, but became trapped themselves when the tower collapsed. A race against time ensued to free them before their air ran out. And it acts as a reminder for us who might have forgotten about what happened nearly 5 years ago! We will wait til it comes out on DVD and it is one we will be adding to our collection, simply because we lived through this and it changed the way we live so much!!!

Weekend of breakdowns!!!!

This past weekend we had a bunch of things breakdown! Saturday it started with our Jimmy. The boys and I were on our way down for Training in the Sacramento office and I basically lost 4th gear in the Jimmy. I figured that because the RPMs were coming up with curse control on and I had to turn that off so I would blow the engine and then I couldn't go over 50 MPH! So, I stopped at a AM/PM to get ATF and put in 3 qts. After training same thing, couldn't go over 50, and then about 1 mile from the house, after I pulled off the freeway onto Plumas Arboga, I lost 3rd gear. So, we finished our final stretch going 25 MPH. Thank you lord for letting us make it home. So the 1st photo is the new used car we got on Monday! A 2005 KIA Sedona with 3770 miles on it, almost brand new! Click on the photo to see more pics of the car!

Then Sunday we had a boat trip planned to Orville about 1-2 hours from the house! They had a lot of house boat there, a huge lake; about 6+ miles long and it's a damn as well! We didn't get that many photos of up there because Jeff's boat broke down after giving Anthony his first ride on the raft! We spent most of the time trying to fix it and keeping the kids entertained by swimming in a calm part of the lake! The pic of Jeff and Sara is when we were towing them in with Dad's boat! I got hurt around the same time as the boat braking down, because we were in a rougher part of the lake and the boats were going to bump together so I jumped in to push Jeff's away and hit a step that he has on his motor (it is there to make it easier for people to get in)! I didn't know it was there until after I hit it! So, it was a adventurous weekend and we had some fun, but it wasn't without some trials!

Happy Birthday Anthony & Oma!!!!

We got to take a PA trip in June for Oma's 50th & Anthony's 10th Birthday's! We want to thank all of you for the fun we had. It was a busy trip and I don't think we got to see everyone we wanted to, but we got to talk with and spend time with 70-80 of our closes friends and family, and everyone had a hand in making it memorable! We had a lot of time with Mike & April as they were nice enough to have us stay with them for the entire trip. We were in and out visiting people everyday, and they were understanding enough to make us feel right at home doing what we wanted! We can not thank them enough for everything they did for us during our trip, we are truly blessed to have them in our lives as a brother & sister, Uncle & Aunt, and friends!!!! Great job on the house, and achieving Master Electrician (He got his license during our stay)!

Knoebles Party was Awesome!!! The park did an A++ job on getting it ready for the weekend and the picnic/party happened as planned! It was great seeing most everyone make it out to help us celebrate Mom/Oma's birthday and Anthony's birthday! They really felt special that day and you all had a hand in making the day special for them! Enjoy the photos!!!!

Pirate of the Caribbean: DMC

This is the other movie we were able to see! And is was great, Disney pushed the limit as far as PG-13 rating goes, but very funny script, no blood spray or nudity is what kept it out of R rating. MaKayla was scared at some parts, but she sat with Daddy and fell asleep with about an hour left in the movie. The boys had a great time, and I think the fact of theater hoping was cool. We did that one other time in PA where we wanted to see to movies so I took off work and we made a day at the theater. All I'll say about this movie, other then what I've already said is that the adventure isn't over!!!!

Superman Returns

It's been a while since I posted a review and now you get two at the sametime! I'll start with Superman. We saw it yesterday at 1:30pm, and everyone liked it. Special Effects were great, along with the storyline. It did have spots where it moved slow and the MaKayla lost interest, but all and all, it was good! Tina was not really into the idea of it, because she didn't like the previous Superman movies, but she liked this one!!!! Side note: keep your eyes open for the trailer of Spiderman 3 our if you have a fast enough internet connection check it out on Spiderman.com.