More Catch up - Lillie's Birthday

LILLIE'S FIRST BIRTHDAY

August 13th, 2008

Happy 1st birthday LILLIE

Her cake was home made chocolate zuchinni cake!

YUM! YUM!

That was amazing!

Time for a Bath!

This was the cake for everyone else. Chocolate Zuchinni cake with choc. frosting!

We love you Lillie! And so happy God gave you to us.

Love, Mommy and Daddy, Joe and Andrew

A great giveaway

Sharri's Snapzshotz is having a great giveaway. The movie is called Inherit the Land. I have been wanting to get this movie to watch, but finances have left he high and dry. So why not blog about it and win it! It looks like a great movie and I so hope I win! If you would like to get in on the fun too, go over to this blog and enter to win! Have a good night!

Where has the time gone? Cherries everywhere!

It's been a long time since I have blogged! Boy, time just flies when you are working and have 3 kids. Lets catch up! My last blog about my family was gardening, so lets start in the summertime! This was a beautiful cherry tree in our neighbors yard. They did not want the fruit, so we picked and picked and picked! We gave plenty away, but also had fun finding ways to preserve them.

We picked buckets and buckets and coolers full! Aren't they beautiful!

Here is Joe helping pick! He was such a great helper!

Joe thought I needed a pic too! So here I am pulling down the limbs to get the cherries.

One way we preserved was pitting them and drying them. Boy was that a mess and very time consuming, but they tasted soo good!

I can't seem to find the other pictures, but we also canned and froze them. They were so tasty! We will miss that tree! It was chopped down to build a new house!

I hope you are all doing well and plan to have more posts to get all caught up!

A great giveaway!

Go on down to Kelly's blog and enter a great give away! It's a DVD set from Vision Forum. The DVD set is called: "Reclaiming the Future". I entered it and am so excited and hope my name is drawn!

Haven Monday

I have decided to try Crystal's Making You Home a Haven Monday Go on over to her Blog to see more!

1) Refresh Your Spirit (5 minutes)

Three things I am thankful for:
1. Our home, although we don't own it and it is small, I love that we have a big garden and it is still cheeper than most housing around here!
2. My family. My parents and in-laws for helping us through our hard times! My silly kids and working husband.
3. My true friends who are there when I need them.

2) Take Time to Plan (5 minutes)

My to do list:
1. Laundry room. I need to make room for the dog crates. The 4th is coming and and our dog need a safe place to be quiet.
2. Livingroom clean and vacuumed
3. All dishes done and put away

Dinner tonight: Spaghetti, garlic bread, and salad
(the meat is thawing right now)

Before and after pics of the laundry room to come later!

Oh me, oh my.....we have a crawler!

Look what Lillie did today! Please excuse my gross carpet, yes I know it needs a good cleaning!

I can't believe my baby is growing up! ;(

And the funny thing is ... it isn't even her bottle. It's her cousins, but she wanted it so bad!

More on Gardening (Part 2)

Joseph and I planting the front yard. We also added steps because the kids all think it is okay to walk through the flowers. Hopefully now they will walk on the stepping stones.
Say cheese! I got so sunburned that day!
Here are the boys filling up there wheel barrows.
Lillie enjoying the beautiful day.
Andrew learned how to drive the tractor. The boys had a great time and daddy slept well that night! Our garden kept growing and growing. Now it's about 1/2 of our back yard and I love it. Next we plant and make a fence to keep the dogs out!