It's carving time

I've shared my hubby's talent with woodworking quite often; in the last year he put on a deck in the back, built us a fireplace and put up a cute storage shed. He's also been working on more kitchen cabinets for our daughter Heather.  

Something else he does that I haven't shared lately are his woodcarvings.  He does caricature carvings and recently finished one for our Pastor and I thought I'd share it with you.

We had him and his family over for supper and they didn't have any idea what Bob had been working on.

Here he is opening it up.

and realizing what it is...

with Bob

and here's Pastor Doug with his carving.

Bob puts a tag on all his carvings that says the gift of being able to carve comes from God, which is why he uses the name 'By His Hands'. Every carving has a hand on it somewhere to signify God's handprint.

Here's the carving from above.

Here it is from the front.  The name of this carving is on the plaque in the front. It says "Preach The Word".  2 Timothy 4:2

Our Pastor was just thrilled with this, and you know what?  Bob was just as thrilled to do it and give it to him.  It was a very fun evening.

 

A trip to the Museum

Last week we had a fun outing with Cassie. She loves to go to the Museum and we thought it would be a good inside thing to do with the bad weather we've been having.

Cassie was happy to get inside and see that this "dinosaur" was still here. She remembered it from her last visit.  It's actually a mastadon that was found on a farm near Grand Rapids.

Cassie and Grandpa under the great whale skeleton

Our Museum has a fun area that is set up like Grand Rapids in the early 1920's. I love walking through it and feeling like I've stepped back in time.

This was a special exhibit that had rubberized tiny pellets that kids could dig in and pile up. If it was piled up, the lights made it look like mountains, and if you dug into it, it looked like rivers and lakes. Cassie had such fun with it.

There was a dress up section - here she's a bee.

Here she got to pedal this machine and help the bee fly to flowers to get nectar.

This is a giant Lego exhibit of Grand Rapids.  We could find familiar buildings, the Grand River, our famous Blue Bridge... It was incredible!

Look at the details!

The museum is built next to the Grand River so we could see it out some of the windows - and there is the real Blue Bridge.

Checking out the dinosaur exhibit.

Cassie and Grandma at the bug exhibit.

She was having fun trying to step in these big footsteps.

We had a fun time, and we met the rest of her family for supper. It was a good way to spend the afternoon.

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