and know that I am God.
It's hard to do sometimes, isn't it?
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The rest of June...
The last part of June we got together with our family for a camping trip at Misty's. They have a beautiful home and their property has so many fun places for everyone to be.
A couple of years ago, we went camping at an actual camping site, but we quickly realized that it was just not a good plan for a family this size. We would much rather let the kids roam where they want and not worry about having camping neighbors within feet of your tent. Or listen to their loud music...or wonder if they would be fully dressed when they came out of their tent. :/
But probably the main thing was the showers! At the camping site, we had to pay 50 cents for a timed shower in this concrete "cell" joined with spiders and all kinds of wonderful creepy crawlers wanting to mooch off of your 50 cent shower....no thanks!
So it was decided that we would camp at the Peterson Ranch. :) They have a walk out basement with a full bathroom right inside the door, plus three other bathrooms, so we had it made in the shade!
We each brought our tent, staked out our little spot and set up camp. Wes and the kids put up their tent and stayed in the back yard, too. Misty let the babies (her twins and Ashlyn) sleep inside, so she stayed in the house at night. That made for a much better nights sleep for them - and the rest of the camp, too, I'm sure. :)~
A couple of years ago, we went camping at an actual camping site, but we quickly realized that it was just not a good plan for a family this size. We would much rather let the kids roam where they want and not worry about having camping neighbors within feet of your tent. Or listen to their loud music...or wonder if they would be fully dressed when they came out of their tent. :/
But probably the main thing was the showers! At the camping site, we had to pay 50 cents for a timed shower in this concrete "cell" joined with spiders and all kinds of wonderful creepy crawlers wanting to mooch off of your 50 cent shower....no thanks!
So it was decided that we would camp at the Peterson Ranch. :) They have a walk out basement with a full bathroom right inside the door, plus three other bathrooms, so we had it made in the shade!
My very talented brother-in-law made these cool picnic tables for the weekend and check out those booster seats.....you can slide them off and move them where ever you like! Genius!!
One of the days we went to a creek. It was a beautiful day and everyone had a great time!
The four-year-olds of the bunch. Cera, Megan & Kara
They have a big open-sided barn that Wesley strung lights in for night. We ate all the meals and did the cooking/grilling there - it was the perfect set up.
A perfect relaxing weekend, enjoying home-made ice cream.
One night, Wes got all the kids glow sticks and they took a walk through the trails in the woods. :)
Soccer game...boys against girls. Jeren and Owen were out numbered, so Grandpa helped them out. :)
Sunday, it was a bit warm, so we had church inside their house. It was a beautiful time!
I love this picture of Mr. Trent. :)
Watermelon-seed-spitting contest
Not sure why this ended up down here, instead of with the creek pictures. :)
Thanks, Misty and Wesley, for opening up your place for all of us. We had a GREAT time!!
More catching up to come - probably not today, though. :)
Thanks for stopping by!
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Hello?...Tap...Tap...Tap....
Is anyone there?
I know we've been completely off the face of the blog earth this summer, but I have thousands (literally) of pictures that I could share of all the wonderfulness we have been into these last couple of months. :D
Of course, I can't share all of them, but I'll try this week to share some of the high-lights of the summer.
Anyway, the exciting news of today is that it was the first day of school - already!!!
I know we've been completely off the face of the blog earth this summer, but I have thousands (literally) of pictures that I could share of all the wonderfulness we have been into these last couple of months. :D
Of course, I can't share all of them, but I'll try this week to share some of the high-lights of the summer.
Anyway, the exciting news of today is that it was the first day of school - already!!!
Kristyn - 3rd grade
Owen - 1st grade
(I have no idea why they chose the poses they did)
They don't look like it, but they were really excited for school to start.
Little Miss waved and hollered until they were out of sight. :)
They had a happy celebration when they got home - and they were only gone half a day today. Owen said, "Man, I feel like I went to college"
HA!
College - indeed!!
Talk to you again soon............
(You're welcome, Kathy! :) )
Monday, June 18, 2012
Our Week......
This was yesterday - Father's Day.
We had a good day. We ate, went to bed and slept all afternoon. :) That's why we all look a little groggy.
If you care to take a look at the posts below, you can see WHY we slept all afternoon. :)
Here's a preview
Thanks for stopping by. Have a lovely week!!
Praising God for His Protection - *Warning* if you have a weak stomach
Friday, we were helping out with setting up for a benefit auction and most of the kids were playing outside. We had just gone outside and Keith came running to me saying Owen had fallen and cut his head and he was going to the Emergency Room.
Of course, I went running, too, and when I saw Owen, a dear friend was holding him tight with something on his head. When he took the handkerchief off of Owen's head, my heart went into my throat. (We'll get you another hanky, Duane) :)
He had fallen through some doors down about 8 feet, head first onto concrete. I came running home and Elise was here and she immediately asked what she could do, and I told her I wanted to go with Keith. She said to leave the kids with her (BLESS YOU, Elise)
We rushed him down to the bigger hospital and they classified him as a level II trauma which automatically calls the helicopter and trauma surgeon to be on standby. Not very settling for a Momma's heart.
The nurse and I cleaned him up and she put some numbing gel on his head.
One funny thing that Owen did was he wanted a picture of everything. He wanted to "see" it. He wanted to see his cut and the gel and his bandage and his stitches and everything in between...... :)
She wrapped his head so that he could go get x-rays and CT scans, he said he wanted to be a pirate.
They x-rayed his head, neck and right leg (he was complaining about it hurting) and did a CT scan of his head.
After we got back from that, Mrs. Jackson, was there. She was SUCH a blessing just to be there.
When the results from the x-ray's and CT scan came back the Dr. came and asked to talk to Keith outside the room.
He said something was wrong in the x-ray of his neck. He said sometimes it can be like that in a growing child, but sometimes it can mean something is terribly wrong and if so, he would need to be sent to the big children's hospital in St. Louis.
He wanted to do a CT scan of his neck before they sent him down there just to be sure.
Mrs. Jackson immediately had prayer for Owen that he would be completely healed.
They came in a put a neck collar on him and asked him not to move and took him to CT scan.
He was trying so hard to smile for Daddy.
The Dr. came in and out to check on him and when the results of the CT scan came back, the Dr. came and told us his neck looked completely normal - PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!
Then he got to work on cleaning and preparing for stitches. He said there was road rash all the way to the bone. :(
His nurse was Brenda and she was exceptional. We couldn't have asked for a better Dr., either!
Owen was SO brave!!!!!!!
After getting 4 stitches inside and 6 stitches outside, the Dr. released us to go home.
We are SO grateful to God for His protection and for allowing our sweet Owen to still be with us! I understand someone put him on Facebook, so THANK YOU for all who prayed for him! We appreciate that so very much!
He is healing good and other than a little pain and needing to be calm ( that's a hard one ) because he had a concussion, he's back to his normal self - except that Mommy has to keep him inside so he won't sweat.....ouch!
He asked me to take a picture of his "reward". Angie, that made his day when you gave that to him - THANK YOU!!!
We are so thankful for God's goodness to us!!!
Of course, I went running, too, and when I saw Owen, a dear friend was holding him tight with something on his head. When he took the handkerchief off of Owen's head, my heart went into my throat. (We'll get you another hanky, Duane) :)
We rushed him down to the bigger hospital and they classified him as a level II trauma which automatically calls the helicopter and trauma surgeon to be on standby. Not very settling for a Momma's heart.
The nurse and I cleaned him up and she put some numbing gel on his head.
One funny thing that Owen did was he wanted a picture of everything. He wanted to "see" it. He wanted to see his cut and the gel and his bandage and his stitches and everything in between...... :)
They x-rayed his head, neck and right leg (he was complaining about it hurting) and did a CT scan of his head.
After we got back from that, Mrs. Jackson, was there. She was SUCH a blessing just to be there.
When the results from the x-ray's and CT scan came back the Dr. came and asked to talk to Keith outside the room.
He said something was wrong in the x-ray of his neck. He said sometimes it can be like that in a growing child, but sometimes it can mean something is terribly wrong and if so, he would need to be sent to the big children's hospital in St. Louis.
He wanted to do a CT scan of his neck before they sent him down there just to be sure.
Mrs. Jackson immediately had prayer for Owen that he would be completely healed.
They came in a put a neck collar on him and asked him not to move and took him to CT scan.
He was trying so hard to smile for Daddy.
The Dr. came in and out to check on him and when the results of the CT scan came back, the Dr. came and told us his neck looked completely normal - PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!
Then he got to work on cleaning and preparing for stitches. He said there was road rash all the way to the bone. :(
His nurse was Brenda and she was exceptional. We couldn't have asked for a better Dr., either!
Owen was SO brave!!!!!!!
After getting 4 stitches inside and 6 stitches outside, the Dr. released us to go home.
We are SO grateful to God for His protection and for allowing our sweet Owen to still be with us! I understand someone put him on Facebook, so THANK YOU for all who prayed for him! We appreciate that so very much!
He is healing good and other than a little pain and needing to be calm ( that's a hard one ) because he had a concussion, he's back to his normal self - except that Mommy has to keep him inside so he won't sweat.....ouch!
We are so thankful for God's goodness to us!!!
Kristyn turns **8**
I had visions of a beautiful post about my lovely daughter, but my brain has left the station, so I'm just going to leave it at this so the grandma's can at least see her on her birthday. :)
It's hard to believe that our first little lady is EIGHT years old! She turned eight on the 14th and we had the day all planned!
She wanted to have French Toast for breakfast then go to the creek for the rest of the day and come home for supper and then have cake and home made ice cream. :)
Shortly before we left for the creek, Megan, who had just learned to ride without training wheels, had a little mishap with the bike and needed to be stitched. So Keith took her to Urgent Care and Elise and I took the rest of the kids to the creek.
It was a beautiful day!!
No, that is not a snake in the water right there by Jeren (above)
Mrs. Jackson bought this and the kids have had SO much fun with it - "THANK YOU, Jackon!!" (that's what Jeren calls her)
Elise decided the water was too tempting and dove right in and played with the older kids. :)
Keith and Megan joined us after she received her one stitch and she was very certain that she couldn't get wet, so she entertained herself by coloring rocks. :)
Then we came home and got cleaned up and made Kristyn's cake which was a family effort - we all pitched in. :)
We invited some of our church family to help us eat the cake and ice cream.
Kristyn was so excited that she got a mountain bike from all her grandparents and mommy and daddy. That's all she wanted for her birthday. :)
She had a good day and Megan is healing nicely.
It's hard to believe that our first little lady is EIGHT years old! She turned eight on the 14th and we had the day all planned!
She wanted to have French Toast for breakfast then go to the creek for the rest of the day and come home for supper and then have cake and home made ice cream. :)
It was a beautiful day!!
No, that is not a snake in the water right there by Jeren (above)
Mrs. Jackson bought this and the kids have had SO much fun with it - "THANK YOU, Jackon!!" (that's what Jeren calls her)
Elise decided the water was too tempting and dove right in and played with the older kids. :)
Keith and Megan joined us after she received her one stitch and she was very certain that she couldn't get wet, so she entertained herself by coloring rocks. :)
Then we came home and got cleaned up and made Kristyn's cake which was a family effort - we all pitched in. :)
Kristyn was so excited that she got a mountain bike from all her grandparents and mommy and daddy. That's all she wanted for her birthday. :)
She had a good day and Megan is healing nicely.
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