Fall Playing and Sausage Stuffin'

The last few months have been super, crazy busy. But we have survived. Just getting behind in my blogging. So here's a quick recap of the last few months.

My little princess has decided she likes her hair in pig tales. Yeah! I'm thankful she finally has hair i can fix. =)

Trevor uses our garden as a place to dump the leaves from the yard. The kids decided to take advantage of it and have a little fun.

Burying Zion.

"Help!"

Trevor has been wanting to make deer/beef sausage, so one day last week he bought the stuff to do so. The kids had fun helping him turn the crank on the grinder while Trevor stuffed the meat.

We had lots of "meat sticks" when he was done. Then he did some "brats". I just forgot to take a picture of those.

Kids can be so funny...

Over the last few weeks, I've been trying to keep track of the funny things my kids have been saying. It's usually always good for a laugh. And sometimes it makes me so proud. So I thought i'd share a few with my fellow readers.

(A converstaion between Zion and Riah while on the way to church)

I don't know what started the converstation, but Trevor looks at me and says, "I think they are talking about Heaven." So i turned my kid ears on and began to listen.

Zion says, "There won't be any computers in Heaven. Or Wii's."

Riah says, "And there probably won't be any electricity in Heaven."

Zion says, "No...cause Jesus will be the light. "

Riah says, "yeah."

Zion says, "and He'll be very bright. But not blinding bright. Just a nice bright that will light up everything."

Riah says, "Brighter then the sun."

(and then we arrived at church and the conversation ended.)

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Trevor always tries to have devotions with the boys before bed. Sometimes I sit in on it and other times I don't. (depends on Glorianna) During this particialar discussion, I was glad I did.

Trevor is asking the boys, "Who came first...Noah or Abraham?"

Zion says, "Noah."

Trevor asks, "Who came first...Moses or Joseph?"

one of the boys (i don't remember who) said, "Moses."

Trevor asks, "Who came first...John the Baptist or Jesus?"

Riah says, "Jesus."

I said, "Are you sure?" to which Riah replys, "Yeah...cause Jesus just always was."

Needless to say, neither Trevor nor I could say that he was wrong when he put it that way.

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This morning , Glorianna comes running up the stairs looking for me.

"Mommy!" she yells.

"Hey Glorianna. What's wrong?" I ask.

She hands me a piece of paper that she has drawn a picture on and says, "The turtle is stuck in the page and he's crying. He needs a bottle."

I said, "Well, give him a bottle. "

She says, "I can't. He's mad at me."

"Why?" I ask.

"Cause he's stuck in the page. Can you jump in the page and save him?"

So then I say, "Well, why don't you skidoo into the page and save him?"

"Ok" she says. Then she takes her paper downstairs and trys to jump into it.

Pumpkin Painting

After our trip to hubers a few weeks ago, the kids have been wanting to decorate their pumpkins. We finally got around to it last Saturday. I drew a face on Riah's and he painted it. He wanted a pirate pumpkin.

Zion didn't want me to draw a face on his. He wanted to do it on his own. I have know idea what this is supposed to be.

Glorianna just wanted to make her's "pretty". So she used a lot of different colors and just painted the whole pumpkin.

The finished product. Each of the kids posed with their masterpieces.

Argggg.....

Cutie Pie...

And here we have them all lined up...the one with glasses is mine. =)

Scrapbook Retreat

Well...it's that time of year once again. The leaves are changing color, the air is getting cooler and that means it's time for another...

SCRAPBOOK RETREAT

This year's retreat was just as much fun as last year's retreat. There was lots of good food and lots of great fellowship with the other sisters.

The covered bridge welcomed us as we entered Wooded Glenn.

One of the beautiful barns.

The Main Building. This is where we spent most of our time. We had a huge room set up just for us to scrapbook in. We went downstairs to eat and upstairs for snacks and games if we wanted a change in scenery or just for a break.

The whole gang...minus Jennifer R. She was taking the picture.

Sis. Kathy P. joined us this year and brought her painting things. She did such a wonderful job on this one. She even taught a few of us scrapbookers how to paint. That was very cool. I may have found a new hobby. =)

Some of the beautiful "sitting" areas.

I love this corner shelf. I may have to get one for my house.

The whole gang again...this time minus Jeanene L.

A few of our finished scrapbook pages. We decided to vote on the best one. It was a very hard decision, since they were all very unique...but Emily F. ended up winning with the most votes. Sis. Sharon S. doesn't scrapbook, so she entered her cute little booties and matching hat that she made. =)


My painting. Believe it or not this is the very first oil painting I have ever done. Not bad for my first time. I was planning on saving this and giving it to Trevor for Christmas...but I was so excited about it that I just couldn't wait to show it to him. He was very impressed.

Over all , it was an awesome weekend. I'm already saving up my pennies for next years retreat.

Princess Glorianna

This is how Glorianna looks most of the time. She thinks she's a princess. Sometimes its rather annoying. Expecially when she dont want to wear any dress or skirt unless it twirls. Trevor has tried to convence her that she's a princess on the inside so it dont matter if her skirt twirls or not, but I dont think she gets it. =)

This picture was taken back during the summer. She decided she had to have a princess had one day and I didn't have much to go with. So i took an old cereal box, some scrap lace and scrap material, and there you have it.

She's not looking at the camera because she's looking at herself in the mirror. She's such a girl!!

Southern Baking Bug

I've been bitten by the "Southern Baking Bug".

Monday: White Bread...I also made "Angel Biscuits" but forgot to take a picture of them.

Wednesday: Chocolate Zucchanie Cake

Friday: "Buttermilk Waffles"

These are all made from scratch...no box mixes this week. Yummy!!! And yes...this stuff was all make within a week.

I also organized my cookbook corner. Isn't it cute...I think i need a few more cookbooks tho...what do you think?

So i bought myself a new cookbook...i was introduced to this one while in South Carolina. I love it. Its got tons of awesome recipes in it.

Its a good thing i've been getting up early every morning and faithfully exercising. Otherwise all this cooking and baking would really be a bad thing. But so far, so good.

Anniversary Dinner

Since our Anniversary fell on a Wednesday this year, we post poned our "date". On Thursday night, we headed out with Red Lobster on the brain. We didn't make it there...We were about 2 minutes away and Trevor asks..."How about Olive Garden instead?" I didn't mind...hadn't eaten there in a good looooong while. So Olive Garden it was...and am I forever greatful to Trevor for changing his mind. Olive Garden was THE place to be. The food was oh so good. There was so much , tho, that i got to have the leftovers for lunch today. It was still oh so good.

So here we are in our matching t-shirts, that Trevor bought, on our special date night.