Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Happy Thanksgiving to One and All!


We want to take a minute to say how very thankful our family is on this Thanksgiving 2009. God has richly blessed our family with each other and His love. We are thankful to be ALIVE today and being blessed to sit at a table with juicy turkey, succulent ham, sweet potatoes, and all the other delicious trimmings! Enjoy this day with those who are close and dear to you and make some memories! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Homeschool Spirit Week

Our kids heard from of their friends who attend public school about how they were going to be having Spirit Week and get to wear crazy clothes, hats and ect. So, they begged me to have a Spirit Week for them and I agreed. What resulted was a wild and very crazy week! Here are the pics to prove it!

1st day: Pajama day

2nd Day: Hat day


3rd Day: Favorite Pal Day
Ben has had the black stuffed dog since he was
2 and named him "Strawberry Eating". No clue why?!
For some silly reason Abby felt the need
to crawl under her desk for her pic. She chose
a Polly Pocket and a pink dog that she hardly ever plays with!?
I have no idea where the babydoll she drags EVERYWHERE was at?
Becca chose a squishy pink cat. She loves squishy things!
Group pic of Pal Day. Caleb has his beloved' Buddy'
that you can't see on his lap.


4th Day: CRAZY Day
I have no clue who these children are!?? LOL!!


What can I say about this one...?!!
Silly Abby!
Believe it or not, but she worked hard to put this
wild outfit? together!

A second entry for Ben wearing daddy's
clothes.....
5th day: Costume Day

Ben the bat!


Abby was a 'Princess Shopper'. She came up with
this one by herself!

Becca was 'Supergirl Flowers'!

Caleb as a football fan! He was giving the football a hug! Aww!

Saturday, November 21, 2009

100th post!

Hard to believe that this is the 100th time I have posted on this blog! So HAPPY 100th Posting to all our faithful readers! :o)
We have been BUSY as usual and here are ALL the pics to show what we have been up to the last few weeks.

Farm Fieldtrip:
The first part of this month we visited a good friend of ours farm. They raise lots of different breeds of chickens: Americanas,Rhode Island Reds and Buff Orpingtons. We enjoyed visiting the chicken pen and getting to see how to collect fresh brown eggs. The chickens are free-range and produce cholesterol- free eggs as a result :o) Each one of the kids gave an oral or written report on their trip as well as did research on different types of chickens. We now buy fresh brown eggs from them every week and enjoy delicious omelets and scrambled eggs without worrying about cholesterol..yeah!
Abby was happy to carry the egg-collecting basket....


Caleb LOVED all the kitties and chickens! He kept saying
"Awww!"

'Farmer Ben' dressed appropriately for the trip to
the farm. He is gathering his first egg.
The girls spy more eggs to gather.

Michelle shows them how to carefully pick up the eggs.

This is either a Buff Orpington or an Americana.
Whichever one he is handsome for a rooster! LOL!
I couldn't resist snapping this sweet pic. They
were trying to find Susie the cow....

Becca takes a turn toting the eggs and one
of the MANY cats running around their farm.

Michelle showed us how they sterilize the eggs in bleach water.

Becca dips the eggs........


Odds-n-Ends pictures:

Becca and Ben built this cool LEGO MAN!

Yes, he is walking! Like a drunken sailor! LOL!

...and climbing on everything!
Heaven help me! ;o)
There are LOTS more pics but I will save them for the next post...check back soon!

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Our Cartoonist/Comedian Son

Benjamin, our oldest son, has quite a gift for drawing and a CRAZY sense of humor. He see's something funny in the wierdest things and it often gets him in trouble especially when he is goofing during schooltime! He is a hard kid to discipline because the whole time I am trying to be serious, he is cracking joke after joke trying his best to get me to smile. I hate to admit it, but he succeeds many times! What to do with a kid like him?! LOL! Here is a post dedicated to him, his drawings and his humor. Enjoy!

Ben Incident #1: Danny took the kids to go see the animals at the 4-H displays. And the whole time, Ben was disgusted by the smell and was holding his nose. Danny asked him what would he do if we ever moved onto a farm and had animals that smelled? Ben replied that he would just take duct tape and tape their behinds shut!

Ever since Ben was 3 yrs old, he has been FASCINATED with monster trucks. He began to try his best to draw them and begged anybody who would to draw a monster truck for him. He soon learned how to draw his own monster trucks and has moved on to hot-rod cars, super heroes ans most recently Transformers.


Here is a Veggie Tale picture in honor of Caleb's infactuation with the silly veggies.
It hangs over Caleb's crib and he loves it!

Here is Bumblebee, his fav Transformer. He is hoping
that Santa will bring him for Christmas!

Here are all of his Transformer pics.
Please excuse that nasty black spot!
We have tried everything to get rid of it!
We are going to have to break down and
buy a new camera.


He has invented many comic strip stories. Here
is the Title page of one of them.


Here is a Treasure map that he created. He used real sand and seashells from Florida ;o)

Here he is showing more of his art work. The
pic on the right is a cartoon of a guy getting blown up
and one of his famous monster trucks on the other side.


Here is our comedian/cartoonist playing daredevil
at the TOP of the monkeybars.
Ben Incident#2: Ben had a bad bloody nose one day and I found him standing over the trashcan
letting his nose drip. I asked him what he was doing and why was he not at the sink? He looked at me and said in the most pitiful voice, " I don't know, I am just falling apart!"

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Busy baby boy!


Cruising along the couch...........


"Come on,Daddy, open up!"


"Yes, I am as ORNERY as I look!"


Discovering books...........


Traveling with his bottle and cart......


He is literally eating in his sleep!

Hanging out with landon S.


Precious baby all worn out!