Christmas has come and gone!

Christmas has come and gone but good thing for the Dietzel is we celebrate Jesus all year long!  

Christmas this year was spent at Mom like usual :D  This year being a Sunday Christmas the YMCA was closed so Faith Family did not have service.  However we got to go to church with my dad and mom which was nice.

•  Most of you know by now how the we do our Christmas... 3 gifts.  
• Something you Want
• Something you Need 
• and a Surprise!

In Lillies Surprise Box was an American Girl 

and in Autumns Want Box was a Basic Singer Sewing machine

  These were some fun aprons I got for my family :D  Why?  becasue I'm weird!

I tryed this new recipe for homemade eggrolls.... I turned out surprisingly.  You know with my cooking record that is nothing short of a miricle!

 So there you have it, Merry Christmas from the Dietzel Family!

Easter Sunday 2011

We were hoping for 200 people at Family Family this Sunday... We met our goal plus 6!  It was a packed house.

I have on idea how many kids we had this week but we made up 100 easter baskets.  They were all gone when I turned around :D

Then off to the park for an Eggsplosion!  Some of you know our system.  We hid the eggs empty, yup empty.

We hid 10,000 eggs and the kids collected them and took them to the egg redemption centers where the eggs were counted.  Then from there, they head to the Candy Centers.

At the Candy Center is where they recieved Candy based on how many eggs they collected.  It works for us!  We don't have to invest in eggs every year and we don't have to have an egg stuffing party.

We've been training our church on how to do Face Paining and Balloons for outreach!  

They are doing great!  What a team of people!

Just the Day before Easter (Saturday) we were in Maryville, Tenesseee doing a 3 day kids program ending with a 20,000 egg hunt.  They had 2,000 people in the park Saturday and it was a perfect 80 degress!  We then drove home right after arrivng home at 11:10 on Saturday Night!

Just in time for Easter Sunday at Faith Family.... What a weekend!

Hope you all have a great Easter!

A New Love...Norwex

I've been wanting to blog on this for quite some time!  I've been slacking on my blogging lately.  I know it's because I don't have a camera, sorry dad.

I love, love, love this product.  I just wanted to share.  I've been using Norwex products for 6 month now and I don't know what I'd do with out them.  Here are a few facts.

Norwex Antibacterial Microfiber Cleaning Products
Our line of cleaning products will save you time & money, improve health, and move towards creating a better environment.  Norwex microfiber goes beyond "surface clean" with the innovative use of silver particles integrated into synthetic microfiber cloth ensure:

• Single-celled micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi, yeast, and viruses cannot survive or adapt in silver exposure
• Surface-to-surface cross-contamination is eliminated
• Rapidly drying cloths prevent bacteria growth in the cloth itself

Cleaning with water only produces a healthy outcome for us and the environment.

Laboratory tests have proven that Norwex antibacterial microfiber reduced bacteria by 99.99% in 24 hours!  (copy and pasted from the Norwex website)

I started out with the facial-antibac clothes.   

The clothes are lined with silver... you use no face soap or chemicals.   I don't have time to explain so you'll have to read up on them!    They cost me $20 for 3 cloths... no more buying expensive facial products for me!

 To clean the cloths you boil them for 5-10 minutes.

After the facial clothes I tried the Enviro Cloth, antibac.  This is an everyday cleaning cloth.

The big test is to wipe butter on your window and take the Norwex cloth and clean it off!  Unbelievably it comes perfectly clean with no streaks using only water!

THis is not a review of the product but I just wanted to share.

I love them and I think you will too!

Happy Valentines Day!

A Faith Family Christmas

I know what your thinking!!  Where did you find an orange CHRISTmas tree???

If you don't know what our church colors are... now you do!!

We were ever so lucky to find in it Detroit at a place called Garden Ridge.

 Families decorated ordainments with Faith Family colors and placed them on the tree.  

We gave away a family prize to one lucky family.  It was a huge hit and every family participated.

 This years CHRISTmas celebration included...

 crafts... cookie decorating... brunch... wrapping gifts for a family that we sponsored... 

 Photos with Santa were a huge hit!!.  The mall Santa came to us!  

We didn't have to pay or wait in any lines!

We were so blessed with a local photographer who came in a did our families photos for FREE!!! 

Hope your CHRISTmas was a memorable one!!

MothersDay and Happy Birthday

Faith Family had a great crowd this morning. We had 76 in attendance!  It's so excited to see God working! Oh the story's I wish I could share!

This Sunday was a busy one for sure.  I should tell you about those congas!  I looked everywhere for used ones and no one had any!  Months went by and finally I found some for $80.  It was an awesome deal new they are $250!  I used a Mr. Clean sponge and they cleaned up like new!  Yesterday was the first time they were used!  It was great to have someone to keep the beat!  Now we just need a piano and guitar player.  Oh and a music leader!

All the moms took home helium balloons for mothers day.  Pastor Paul did a great job on his Mothers Day service! (big proud smile, he makes me so proud)

This Mothers Day we celebrated husbands 40th Birthday!!  It is actually today but he was born on Mothers Day.   He is one old man who is hard to surprise!  He pays so much to detail!  

The church bought him this Giant Revive Bicycle.  He was so excited.  I wish you could have seen the look on his face.  Just the other day he was coveting Spongebobs friend, Squidward's recumbent bike on TV!

Now this old man can ride in comfort and style!

It was a great day Mothers Day/Birthday!  

Today I'm packing for Oklahoma.  We will be leaving on Tuesday bright and early.  Lacey is coming to stay with the girls for the week.  It's that time of year to get busy soon they will be able to go with us... Kids Crusades and Summer Camps HERE WE COME!


This is the video I made for husband for his big 40!

Easter Has Come and Gone!

Wow what a week!

The Easter Bunny Showed up at Faith Family! 

(Pastor Paul was to big to sit on his lap!  He would if he could)

And so did a lot of other people!!

Pastor Paul and I were so excited.  We had a record breaking crowd of 130 people on Easter Sunday.  What a treat!  God is showing us so many things through this new church plant.  We launched back in September and have seen new families every week.  We are finding that families love being together to worship in a fun, new exciting way!

Faith Family was blessed with a gift this week and we'll be purchasing some new banners, carpeting the stage and finishing up our trail that will carry a huge sign.   God is so Faithful and we are blessed to be used by HIM!

I got the Butt End of the Joke!

Paul volunteered at the school today for vision testing.  He asked me to bring Pizza for lunch for the 4 of us. I stopped at Little Ceasers for a Hot and Ready Pizza.  I bought gummy worms to put on top it!  I just thought that that would be such a cute little trick for April Fools day.  And mind you it would have been if it had worked!

Turns out the joke was on me.  Who knew that they would melt all over the pizza and leave green, yellow and red goo all over the top!  ewwww

This mother can never win when it come to food!

Valentines Day Goodies!

I found this great gift  about a month before Valentines Day!  I found them up North in Birch Run at the outlet mall.  I knew they would be a huge hit!

And as you can see, they were!

I love it when a plan come together!

These little stuffed animals are more than just a stuffed animal.  If you know me at all... stuffed animals around our house disappear if you catch my drift.   These little guys are microwaveable and keep you warm.  They are filled with a natural wheat and lavender.  The girls just loved them!  They are by The Cozy Collection by Intelex.  There are 18 different animals to choose from.

Will You Be My Valentine?

I found this great idea on a blog!  It was so simple to do! 

First I took a photo of the girls.

Then the Autumn punched holes in the photo and she and Lillie slid in the sucker!

You have to take the image so the arm is reaching out towards the corner of the photo.  Then punch 2 holes, one on top of the hand and the other on the bottem.

 It was a huge hit!  I wish I would have thought of that one myself!

Who needs Santa when you've got the Grinch

My dad dressed up as the Grinch on Christmas day. He sang the theme song and handed out gifts!!  The kids loved it.  I think the Grinch as to come every year now!  Granny Runt and Granddad have started a new tradition!

A blessed Christmas

Merry Christmas 2009

Christmas Pj's

Something you Need, Something you Want and a Surprise!

So Christmas morning when we got up there was no power!!  It had just went out so the house was not cold yet.  It was still dark and I wanted to hold off and little longer so I would have good photos.  I'm sure you know that their was no way on earth that was going to happen.  So the photos are bright and not the best,  but there are lots of great memories.  No video this year either because it was to dark.  The power came on about 1 1/2 hours later.

Stockings... My favorite!  I loved my stocking as a kid.

We were walking through Gordans Food Store around Thanksgiving time and Autumn fell in love with the sight of this HUGE jar of banana peppers.  She told us that's what she wanted for christmas!

Lillie love chocolate milk so as you can see... she was so excited to get some chocolate.  We had been out for several weeks!  On purpose of course!

Autumns Surprise gift.   A little notebook.

Lillies Surprise gift... a Lee Middleton doll.

Hope your Christmas was Merry and Bright!