Fall...

I'm posting these pictures for my sister and Elise, who live "way down south" and do not have the colorful world like we do this time of year! :)
The flowers have just about all given up, but there's a few hanging on and still blooming.
We found this today...a long ways from our house (thank the Lord). I think it's a hornet's nest. We had never seen one in the wild before and I certainly didn't realize they were SO BIG!!! We didn't stick around too long. :)

We had a fire the other night and couldn't resist this picture. No, she wasn't IN the fire, just beside it.

Here's your flowers, Elise! There are LOTS of them and they are very pretty!
I'm afraid this will be the last rose until Spring. :(

Can't you just smell Fall in the air?


Maybe that will make you feel better, Elise! Hope the rest of you are enjoying Fall in your own little corners of the country. :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday, Bethany!

Happy Birthday, Bethany!! We hope you have a great day!

(I don't know why the picture is so small....probably because I stole it from your blog, Bethany. :) )

Keith's sister, Bethany, is having a birthday tomorrow, so hop on over to her blog

and wish her a Happy Birthday!!

We love you lots and lots!!!

Happy Birthday, Mandy!

Happy Birthday, Mandy!!! We hope you have a wonderful day!!!!

We love you LOTS and LOTS!!

Since she doesn't have a blog (A-hem, hint, hint) you can leave your comment here, because I know she reads them and that would make her day. :)

An Update...

Not a lot has been happening here. Just normal "Mommy stuff", but I thought I'd give a little update for my family that likes to "see" how everyone's doing. :)

Kristyn loves to have tea parties, so we had a tea party while Owen and Megan were napping. Mom, the blue is the new set of dishes you sent me for my birthday. :) We like to mix them up to make them more colorful. :)




Another great tea party, tucked into our memory box. :)

We've had an abundance of apples this year.

After canning apple pie filling the other day, I had a tiny bit left in the pan, so Kristyn asked if she could make a pie for Daddy. I made up some dough and she dumped in the pie filling and plopped it in the oven. She was quite proud of her accomplishment and Daddy thought it was yummy, too.
Here's my apple pie filling and more jars waiting to be filled. Today it's going to be apple sauce and apple rings. Hopefully, by the time I get all those done, we'll be out of apples. :)
Our newest little kitchen helper!

Hope everyone's having a great day. Thanks for checking in on us. :)

This and That...

Thank you for all my birthday wishes. I had a very nice day! Don't you all think I married the absolute BEST man in the world? He totally surprised me with his "post" on here.

I need to make something clear. Someone told me the other day, "You just have the perfect family and life. Your kids probably never do anything bad." (stop laughing, Elise) So for the record, we DO NOT have perfect kids. We are trying to raise them to be good people, but they are still just kids. Yes, I have to scrub marked up walls, clean up broken eggs off the floor, have "talks" about being nice to each other and some days, it seems like that's all I get done. But if I'm going to take time out of my day to share with you, I'm not going to dwell on the bad things.... :) So that's why you'll mostly see fun things on here, because I like to think about good things. :) I mean the Bible even says, "Whatsoever things are...good...think on these things." (okay, so that might be stretching it a little) So I hope you enjoy our blog anyway.

We have been blessed with a little man in our lives. He is the only boy out of 12 girls on both sides of our family, including Megan and Kristyn. But he is not the bravest little man you've ever seen. He doesn't like the dark, or anything scary. The other night I went to check on the kids before I went to bed and he wasn't in his bed....this is where I found him. :)

Last Saturday we went to the creek for a picnic and this is what greeted us. (just so you know we went to an entirely different part of the creek before letting the kids walk in the water. ) If we've ever had a "perfect" afternoon, this was it. :)

Kristyn is related to her Mommy and loves to look for neat rocks. :)

I was trying to take Owen's picture and all of a sudden he said, "There's a bear!" I think he was trying to distract me, so he could get out of getting his picture taken. He is so hilarious!!

Keith had the wonderful idea of taking the tripod to get a family picture! What a guy!
Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a great day!!

Happy Birthday

Crystal,

Just in case everybody doesn't read the comments, I wanted to wish you a Happy Birthday. You turly are the woman of my dreams and I am proud to say I am Crystal's Husband. Sweetheart, you are so special and you just get sweeter with time. I love you more that these words can says and I am looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together.

Yours only always and forever,

Keith


This picture was take by our budding photographer, Kristyn. Crystal with her Brithday flowers.
The happiest day of my life, when I married my sweetheart and best friend