The last few weeks!

This is my new nephew. Isnt he adorable? They got to come in about two weeks ago and spend some time with me and he is sooooo cute. He would play on our airbed and rool off and still just as happy as could be about it. I love this child and his mommy very much.


This is a wonderful picture of a guy at a birthday party doing a "hog dive". Can anyone say "REDNECK"? We had a really good time and then i spotted some of this stuff going on so like the dork that I am I went diving for the camera. I just wonder what this guy would think if he saw this. I would guess he would be thankful noone could prove it was him. Ironically this was not the only "silly" diving board tricks I saw. We did have a good time.

This was the end result when you take a bunch of small children blackberry picking. My friend and her beautiful family just came to Tennessee. Never in a million years had she planned on spending a day like this but now that she has I will be willing to bet it will happen lots more. They had a blast! The thing about going into the woods hunting and picking blackberrys is of course, chiggars! My only way of not being over taken by them is to spray down with lots and lots of deet and this. As soon as you get home get rinsed off. I never have gotten into a bath before picking but they thought it was all the same and i just thought it was a great picture so we let them.


THis is the product of blackberry picking! No we dont hunt and bathe in bug spray and shower imediately after returning home just to sit and eat them. We made blackberry jelly. I got to introduce my friend from way out west to some southern delights. They had a blaast and got something out of it too. I believe it is a good thing to show our children how to be resourseful and to enjoy Gods little wonders.

The latest update is: they are enjoying their jelly and noone has chiggars! We will be doing apple jelly and apple butter next week. I will post on that too.

My week...or maybe "weeks".

So this is my sister. She is older than me and obviously very pretty. She just celebrated her 31st birthday today. Last year was a blast. "someone" and i wont own up to anything, rolled her yard with toilet paper and birthday streamers. They were up still during the whole thing...so they say! I had thrown her a surprise party at the same time as my daughters party. I knew she would come to her niece's b day party so it was the perfect time. I had a bunch of black balloons and a picture collage of all the embarrassing photos that she ever had made. It was something to see for sure.
Since then she has plotted and threatened to give me the most horrific 30th birthday i could imagine. I'm getting kinda nervous cuz she most likely really will make it just as bad as she is saying.
My point in posting all this is for you guys to know how my Monday was spent and also for you to know what we did this year on her birthday. Well she stooped in at my house on her way home from work and showed me what she is gonna get for my baby's 6th birthday and i was hoping to get to spend some time with her later but she said her and her husband had plans. So after Gabe went to work she wanted us to go out to eat with her and well of course we did. But...what i thought was wonderful is that instead of lavish gifts and a party all for her she let me in on the secret of what her and her husband was gonna do. Be sure not to share with our church family but we all took off and mowed our church's lawn. Yes she spent her b day doing a secret service for our church. She and her husband do not want to let the church folk know because it is their "service" to the church not wanting praise or thank yous just pure hearted service. That is truly something. She don't know but i do look up to her at least most of the time and i will have to say, i felt more satisfaction from helping her mow than i ever have sitting around spending time with her. I truly have been blessed by this and I know she is too. Happy B-Day to Tina!



This is our little angel. Her birthday is on Friday. She will be the big 6. We are having her a Hannah Montana party at our local park. I have invited lots of people and expect to have a great turnout. We are so happy about her growing up but it just seems like such little time has passed since she was just a baby. We are so proud of her. WE are gonna have to go back to the dentist this week for a baby-tooth that just wont loosen up and come out. Don't worry, she has been begging me to take her back to the dentist so its no big deal. I took her last week for her first cleaning(don't think I'm a bad mommy for waiting till she was 5) and she wont hush begging me to take her back cuz she liked it so much. Yippee, finally one dr she loves to visit.lol I love my baby girl. Happy B-Day to Shy!

Finally I am back.

Beautiful isnt it? This is my husbands way of showing that he supports me. See, I got this new, awesome, wonderful camera and My husband decided to take me to a place where he likes to fish and let me take pics. Beautiful huh? This is Calderwood Lake. I took this picture to show everyone how pretty this lake is. I had to take this one because it shows the veiw of the trees on the lake and its as clear as if you were looking directly at the trees. I believe I took almost an entire flash card full of pictures that are just a beautiful as this one.

Lots of things have been going on around here and I have so much to blog about but it is 3:30 here and i am just plain tired. SO I must go to bed and I will be on to fill you guys in when I get some rest.

This week...

Well this is where my little girl decided to go on Monday. She was forbid to have friends over and stuff because her daddy wanted to spend time with her. She had a blast. Im certian she has her daddy wrapped even tighter around her finger now. Since School has been out we spent the first two weeks camping, the next week he was working some overtime, and she had friends over, then my cousin passed away and we spent lots of time with the whole family. So now he has stoped his entire world to spend time with her. He made the big statement to her "where do you want me to take you" and well what else would a 5 year old with all the energy in the world say but "THE PARK". So off we went. I let them play while I want scoping out some good pics. We live in a beautiful part of the world and this is evedience. I thought it was georgous.


Nothing really picture perfect happened till The 4th. SO this is what we did in the afternoon before the firework show. We had gone to our local depot for the celebration. We obviously got way too hot so we came back and went for a swim. Sonce my ladybug can now get around in the water really good, we just finally got on a float and relaxed a while. Isnt she cute!?! She knows it too. lol Our little miracle!


So here is one of the fireworks. It took so good on my camera and I was proud. However, my ladybug was not impressed. She kept saying,"they're gonna fall on me". I didnt realize but it does kinda look like they might, but they wont. We have always went to my uncle's house and shot some our selves but since his son was killed, he decided not to have the festivities this year, so we went to our town's show. It was beautiful but definately bigger than what we were used to.


Here is a picture of the finally. It wasnt such a beautiful picture but it shows all the percusions that went all at one time. There was so manny and it felt like we were in a really small car with a really really big radio with lots of bass. It was nice and loud.


Here is a picture of the park they shot the show at. It is a beautiful park and it is huge. We do soccer and play ground there. Its really fun for all of us.

This week in my world!

Well, I cant say too much this time. I havent done much of anything. Its been really weird this week. I havent felt very good and even today I had a headache. We took our little one to the park and I got some great pics of her and her daddy and some ducks. They are gonna be great pics but I havent even taken the time to upload them yet. I am just absolutely useless. I am gonna try to get some stuff done tomorrow but I am not 100% sure that will happen either but Ill give it a shot. Have a good one and I will post some pics as soon as I get them on here.