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January 16, 2009

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of all ages...

Bonnie Mancuso Discussion Group Leader

Years in MOPS: 3 Children: Hunter-4, Stone-13 mos

Brooke-3,

Neighborhood: Coles Crossing Special Interests: scrapbooking, taking pictures, NASCAR (Jeff Gordon) As a mom, I couldn’t live without… other moms to get advice from and to lean on. My favorite fair food is… a big, greasy cheeseburger.

Brenda Croucher Pastor to Women

Years in MOPS: 6 Children: Brant-27, Lauren-26, Ashley-23, Benjamin-21 Neighborhood: Plaza

Tower

Oaks

Special Interests: loves to travel, garden, and read, was a school principal and teacher, and started and directed a preschool My biggest surprise about motherhood was… I was constantly surprised! Now I can’t believe how fast my kids grew up! When is comes to amusement park rides… I like the “shows” (singing and dancing).

Children's photographer Lisa Jane (daughter of Jane and Earl Melton!) has captured the magic of childhood through her lens for more then 25 years. Her unique and creative style has earned her nearly every honor and award in professional photography. After earning her bachelor's degree in photographic education, she went on to earn her Master of Photography, Master of Electronic Imaging, and Photographic Craftsman degrees from Professional Photographers of America.

She lectures to professional photography organizations both nationally and internationally, and to scrapbook conventions. Lisa Jane's presentation to MOPS will include tips from her book, "How to Photograph Children", as well as lots of great tricks for achieving better photographs of your children for more creative scrapbook pages. She will also have lots of fun prizes and door prizes for us. For more information or photographs check out her web page: www.lisajane.com

Welcome to the Adventure MOPS wants to welcome two new moms that are joining us this semester, Karen Becker and Rebeca Navarette. Remember, there are still moms on the waiting list. If you are going to miss a meeting, notify Jennifer Coates, so they can borrow your place in MOPPETS. Time flies when you are having fun. Happy

New Attractions:

Electric Light Parade:

January Birthday to:

Valessa Anastasha Wong born January 6th to Ashiana Wong. 6 lbs, 10 oz; 19.5 inches

MOPS has a website!

Jody Boudreaux

1/28

Suzanne Werth

1/30

www.cypressbible.org/mops

MOPS has a blog! www.cypressbiblemops.blogspot.com

MOPS has a Myspace! www.myspace.com/cbcmops

That’s The Ticket Start saving up items to donate to the MOPS Garage Sale on March 7th. It’s a great opportunity to clean out the closets and toy boxes… and there are always lots of good finds to fill them back up. There will be a committee meeting in the Commons on Thursday, February 5th at 9:30 am for anyone that wants to help with the garage sale. Don’t forget that we are recycling batteries by discussion group for our April 17th “Go Green Day” meeting.

Coming Attractions You can also recycle your issues of the MOMSense magazine, by bringing them to the next MOPS meeting to donate to Care Net Pregnancy Center. Clean out under your bathroom sink too and donate your hotel freebies, in the marked box at each MOPS meeting.

Kiddie Corner A special thanks to Pump It Up for hosting our MOPS December outing. over two dozen moms come out for lots of inflatable fun with the kids. What a great way to work off some of those pre-Christmas goodies and get the kids ready for naptime!

Cypress Bible Church 11711 Cypress-N. Houston Rd. Cypress, TX 77429-2817

Feb. 6th Marriage with Brian Carroll Feb. 20th Health with Kelly Ulanday

Center Stage If you’ve noticed The Mom Song that plays after the opening prayer during our MOPS meetings, then you’ve heard the group, Go Fish. They boast “great music for kids, that won’t drive parents bonkers.” And they are coming to Crossroads Baptist Church in The Woodlands on Saturday, January 24th. The show starts at 4 pm and tickets must be purchased in advance for $7.

We had

http://event.crossroadstw.org/go-fish