WOW!!!...It has been a very long time since I posted on here.  Didn't realize how long it has been.  LOL

We have slowed down a bit.  Our summers and fall are so stuffed full of gardening and yardwork and football.  Josh played his final year of JFL.  Luke played his first year of JFL.  Aaron plays flag football. And the two highschoolers are in the band for the football games.


Our oldest Katelyn is a Jr in high school.  In a couple of weeks she will inducted into the Beta club. She is .25 of a point behind first chair trumpet, which is her boyfriend....lol

Jip is a sophomore and plays one of the bass drums in the drumline.  He is having a ball!! 

Josh is in 8th grade, he has been chosen to help some younger kids who are struggling with reading and paying attention in class. 

Luke is playing the tuba in 5th grade band.  Such a big instrument for a little fellow...lol 

 Aaron is doing great in 3rd grade.  He is taking piano lessons. 

Josiah is in 1st grade and loves to read!!! 

Janae is still at home with me.  She will be 4 in December.  She is going to make me old or keep me young....LOL

I can't believe how fast life is going.  I remember as a kid, my birthday is in May, thinking it was FOREVER to my birthday and FOREVER to Christmas. My kids have commented this year, "it is almost Christmas already??!!". If they say that, I think time is flying!!!!!

Thanks for catching up with our family. Hope you are having a good week and have a great weekend!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was our Valentines Day supper....we had steak, fried potatoes and spinach.  The kids and I had a ball.  Josh brought me home the flowers from school.  He was so sweet.  Josiah in the bottom picture had just tried to comb his hair before supper...lol  And Janae had already started eating....lol

I love doing this for our family!!!!  Hope you had a great Valentines Day!!!

Buck of 2012.....

This is my trophy for the 2012 hunting season, an 8pt buck.  Katelyn (my oldest daughter) was hunting with me and this guy was with 2 does.  I was counting on the does coming out of the woods because that is what Katelyn can shoot.  But he came out on his own, so I took the shot!! 

Three of our boys went out with me to haul him into the truck.  So I took their picture.  (Josh, Luke and Aaron) 

Im really hoping that Katelyn gets one this evening!!!

Til next time..............hope you are having a good fall!!!

Fall at our House.....

We have had a very busy fall. Josh played JFL again this year and Luke played Flag Football this year.  They both did really well.  But WOW it was very time comsuming!!! Plus Katelyn is in marching band. So between the three of them, I met myself coming and going!!!...lol It is slowing down just a bit.  Katelyn will be done with marching band in a week and a half, but Jip made the 8th grade basketball team....lol  So off and running again!!!!....LOL But I'm thankful that my kids have the ability to be part of these things!!

We are having a really pretty fall here.  We have alot of hardwood so alot of the time it isn't really colorful.  But the trees surrounding our little place is very colorful this year!!! The picture above was taken yesterday looking over the pond.

We are still getting tomatoes and green peppers from our garden....WHOO HOO!!!  I'm planning on making crabapple jelly today. Our tree is LOADED!!!!  Next to strawberry...crabapple is my very favorite jelly.

Well I need to get off of here and get busy....lol.  Hope everyone has a wonderful day!!!

On the 4th of July we went to my best friends house to celebrate our country's freedom. Tammy took our family picture out in the their backyard.  It is very hard to get 9 people to all look at once!...lol

We are so very thankful for the inch of rain that we got yesterday!!!! We watched our yard start turning green.  For real, you could actually see it coming back to green!!!!!

My bestest friend came today and took Josiah's 4 yr pictures.  She did such an excellent job!!  This is just one of them.

We are having a busy summer.  Im starting to can beans. The kids are sssooo excited about that.  NOT!!!...lol  That is not their favorite job!!

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer

This is the cabin that we stayed in while we were on vacation last week in Tennessee.  We had an awesome time.  The weather was PERFECT!!!!. We went to the Ripleys Aquarium, Cades Cove, Clingmans Dome...Katelyn, my Mother-in-law and I went to the Titanic Museum.  Katelyn has studied alot about that and it was a wonderful museum.  It was very well done.  I really enjoyed it. On our last full day there we went to a creek along side the road and had a blast playing in the water!!!!.  AND WE SAW A BEAR!!!....That was what we were all waiting for!!...LOL.  Im so glad that we were able to go!!!