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A Thanksgiving Blessing
While most of you were having a wonderful day celebrating Thanksgiving, we were holding a different celebration. Not all of us, since Russell and some of the boys were gone deer hunting but those of us who stayed behind wished… Audrey a happy 4th birthday! She wanted gingerbread pancakes for breakfast. Serenity made her some M*ckey Mouse artwork. Little Audrey is at such a fun age. Russell always tells her she’s a nice girl and his little princess. If he ever just mentions that she’s his little princess, she’ll tack on… “And a nice girl.” Our two girls are 8 years apart in age but were both born during the Thanksgiving week,…
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Birthday Wishes
What joys this baby girl has brought to our home. She was our first girl after having 3 boys. We were so excited when our midwife told us we had a baby girl. Then – 1997 Now – 12 years later – 2009 SERENITY = Sincere Enjoyable Restful Easygoing Nice Impressive ThoughtfulYouthful
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A Thousand Rings?
Russell was reading about Solomon in our morning devotions a few weeks ago, telling the children how Solomon had riches, houses, lands, as well as 1000 wives and in the end said, “All is vanity.” Justus (6 yo) looked perplexed when he heard that Solomon had 1000 wives. “He did? How could he fit all his rings on him?” 😀 LOL Of course, we had to do a little explaining. 🙂
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A Week of Organization
By the time you read this on Friday my 3 oldest boys, along with my husband, will most likely be home after being gone a whole week hunting for bull elk. They’ve had a good time seeing hundreds of elk and getting within a few yards of them, seeing them bugle and watching some cow elk playing, kicking up their heels. One morning Wesley saw a mountain lion with her cub walking along. Unfortunately, they did not bag their game. 🙁 I guess the elk have to win some of the time. 😉 I have been doing quite well, surprisingly, with only my 3 youngest and myself at home. I was…
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My Son Has Returned
My son has returned! Seth made the drive back from Ohio and arrived last night. Sometimes you just don’t know what your kids are capable of and he did surprise me. He seemed to handle the drive well; we made sure that we called him quite frequently to see how he was doing. The first day he drove 8 hours to my mom’s and stayed overnight. The next day I think he drove 12 or 16 hours and still wanted to go on but Russell booked him a motel room so that he could get some decent rest – and because he knows how dangerous it can be to drive when you’re tired.…
