Watermelon

Back home you can't grow'em this big.

This picture does not do it justice.

This melon is about 2 and half

feet in length. It didn't take us long to eat it.

The Peppers and melons are growing like crazy.

The 4th this year was alot of fun, we spent the weekend in Townsend

(The Great Smokey Moutains)

We took the kids to a drive-in movie, Toy Story 3 what a late night.

During our camping trip we did a little bit of tubing, we floated the river 3 times

Cooper and Sydnie spend the afternoon trying to feed the gators.

and Fudruckers. The kids had a great time in Dustin.(No OIL)

The Garden

The Garden this year has done great. The kids and

I have picked sever bushels of cucumbers ,green beens,

Peppers and squash. This was a rare day having Sydnie

out in the garden. How dare she get dirty.

Cucumber bean and Tomatos

Toothless Sydnie

After many nights crying that she was the only kid in her class that hasn't lost a tooth, it finally happened! Sydnie lost her first tooth.

Our tooth fairy left her a golden dollar, we have a very frugal tooth fairy

You've Been Egged!

Tonight for family home evening we "egged" some friends home. The kids had a great time getting the plastic eggs filled with candy and planning for this fun evening.

We got in the van with our buckets filled ready to hit the first door.

Even Dad got into the spirit, as our "get away driver"

We left a note that said "You've Been Egged, now go egg someone else". Then the kids would knock and run.

Look Who Turned 12

I don't know where the time has gone... Everyone has said that a time or two. However, today it really hit me, Hunter is 12 years old. Where has the time gone?

10 mos old

1 year old

Hunter 3 years old

Hunter Pre-K

Kindergarten

1st Grade

4th Grade

5th Grade

Hunter, Happy Birthday! We love you!

Family that works together stays together!

I guess you would like to know the rest of the story... the sheet rockers are done now down to the paint job! I think David has more helping hands than he needs.

We all know the old Primary song, "When We're Helping" we are happy... Tra La La La La La

Look at these bright eye! I am not sure which one was more excited, Cooper or David?

Hunter and I thought there were too many painters in the room, we just watched and enjoyed!

Next we will be painting the base boards, then off to pick out the carpet.

Twas the Night Before Christmas...

We all know this famous story; Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even... oh what is that I hear above my head? David, nailing in boards up in the attic.

Yes, my wonderful husband is at it again! I thought that we were done with home projects for a while. Well, that lasted about a week or so...

David, feels that he need to have a "man cave", so off he went to Home Depot to buy 2X4 and started to pound away up stairs. He has been working every night this week until midnight or later, and then would start again at 5 am. Needless to say, I feel that I have had a constant headache for the past week.

Lets get back to the story, Twas the night before Christmas, when all throuh the house, the pipes for the heating and airconditioning were run. The sheet rock were hung by the window with care, in hopes that it would be done before Kristie pulled out all her hair.


Merry Christmas to all!

Down on the Farm

Cooper petting the little one!











Hunter and Sydnie "wishing" they could take them home...

As many have heard me talk about our next door neighbor’s goats who love to eat my magnolia tree and garden, well there are more!

I got a call earlier in the week from our neighbor, Natasha letting me know they had 5 baby goats, and wanted to have the kids come over to see the baby goats and feed them.

I wasn’t sure how the kids would take to them, since they are so scared of any little animal that comes within 5 feet of them.

David came home on Tuesday night and I gave him the task of taking all three of them to go see the baby goats.

They all really enjoyed getting to hold and feed the “kids”, even Cooper enjoyed it.

Now they all want goats for Christmas, I don't think Santa will have enough room in this toy bag!

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY SYDNIE

Sydnie waking up as a big 6 year old!

Sydnie's 6th Halloween Birthday Party!

This year Sydnie wanted to have a birthday with all her friends. So off I went to plan a Halloween Birthday Party, with the help of my Aunt Ann (she always has the coolest ideas)


I sent the invitations to all of Sydnie's class mates, a few of Hunter and Coopers friends planed all the activities: hay ride, pinata, outdoor games and lots of food! This year has been a very dry year, in the month of October I think it has rained twice and yes as you already guessed one of those days was the night of Sydnie's birthday party...


We had a great time, even though I had to stuff about 30 people in my home.

Sydnie's first field trip

Mr. Rust's Kindergarten Class

The Fruit and Berry Patch


Sydnie, Michelle and Jordan

This year is a first for a lot of things for Sydnie. Her first year in school with lots to learn, her first play date with her friends from school and best of all her first field trip.

All the kindergartens went to the Fruit and Berry Patch in Halls, TN (this is also the farm we get our fruit for canning). The owners do a great job for the local schools.

The kids got to go on a hay ride, minus the hay, go thru a corn maze, pick an apple from a apple tree, feed goats at the petting zoo, and last pick their own pumpkins.

Sydnie and her friends leading the way thru the corn maze

Sydnie had to find the just the right apple!

It's the great pumpkin Sydnie!

It was great to see how excited the kids were about this trip.

Mom and Sydnie

Picture Tag

For this tag you are supposed to go to your picture folders and go to the 4th folder over and pick the 4th picture out of it and post it.

Here is the picture.









Oops! Hunter has his eyes closed
This picture was taken at Custer State Park summer 2008

I tag Jennifer S, Melisa L, Michelle, and Maria C.

SHOPPING WITH IBU

The best gifts are the ones you get to pick out yourself.

Sydnie wanted a Hananna Montana Bear from Build a Bear Workshop for her birthday, so we set a shopping date with Ibu. At first my mom told Sydnie that I wasn't invited, that this day was just for her and Ibu and no one else (I was feeling a little left out) but Sydnie said that if I didn't go then she wasn't going (she is so true blue to me).

Our day started out with a Cinnamon roll and hot cocoa from Panera Bread, then off to the mall to pick out that special gift.

First Sydnie picked out the bear, the heart then the voice box to go inside the bear...

Then it was off to give the bear some stuffing, not before you make a wish and then put the heart in your bear.

Sydnie really enjoyed giving her bear a bath but could not wait to get her all dressed up!

As you can see Hannah got all the accessories she could possibly wear... Sydnie had a great time shopping with her Ibu!

Eaton Elementary Rocket Romp

Sydnie's school holds one fundraiser each year call the "Rocket Romp"

I really like this fund raiser, for the fact that the kids have to be involved not just the parents going to everyone they know to buy stuff they really do not want or need. The best thing about this is that 100% of the money goes directly to the school.

The Rocket Romp is an 3K event where the students collect donations for their participation. All the students will walk/run around the track and we had a DJ on the field playing music to motivate the students. (I sure could use the DJ every morning at 5am when I am walking my 3 miles)

The ROMP as two goals: to raise much needed money for the school, and to promote physical fitness.

I went this year with Sydnie's class and had a great time. Sydnie even ran two laps and walked 5 more with me... she may pass PE after all!