Happy Birthday Noah!

May the force be with you!

More Snow...

Aubrey's ready to go out and play in the snow. The only problem was that with all those clothes on, she could barely move.


We got a lot of snow a few weeks ago. Micah hooked up the trailer to the four wheeler and pulled the kids around on it. Unfortunately, I only remembered to get a picture of Daphne and Kaylee.

Happy Birthday Kaylee-Bug!!

Kaylee turned 7 years old last week!! We had her birthday at a local gymnastics place. It was a great party. The kind where the parents don't have to do anything but watch and the kids get to run around and act crazy (while at the same time run off some energy!!)

On another note, Aubrey finally started walking the day before she turned 17 months! Here is just a cute picture of her showing me her belly.

Snow!!

So, I'm reading everyone elses updated blogs and think to myself, "Ok, I guess I should update mine as well."

Not much has been happening with us. We had a great Thanksgiving and Chrismas. I did not send out Christmas cards this year because after days of trying to get a few good pics of the kids, they won and I gave up. We spent Thanksgiving at Micah's parents' house in the bustling town of Bradford, Arkansas. Don't know where that is? Well, take Hwy 67 toward Searcy and Bald Knob and just keep on driving. If you come to civilization, then you've gone too far. We also spent Christmas Eve there and then headed back to our house for Christmas morning. People keep asking me if Santa brought a lot of toys to the kids and my answer is that Santa behaved himself, but our relatives are the ones who lost control! A couple days after Christmas, my mom, the kids, and I went to Memphis to visit my Aunt and to open even more presents. We are still trying to find a place for everything.
Christmas Slideshow #1: School Parties (No, there are not any pictures from Noah's school party. Yes, I did forget to take my camera)

Christmas Slideshow #2: Christmas Eve and Christmas morning

Christmas Slideshow #3: Chrismas Day

I wish everyone a Happy New Year!! I have made resolutions, but we will see what becomes of them.

Playing Catch Up

Wow! I had no idea that it has almost been two months since my last post. So, I figure that the easiest and fastest way to catch everyone up is with pictures.

First of all, never say never. I swore up and down that I would never (never,ever!) drive a minivan. But, a few weeks ago I gave in to the logical voice in my head and came home driving this..

a silver 2010 Dodge Caravan. I will admit that I like it. It has tons of space and the stow'n'go in the floor is pretty cool.

The past few weeks we having been spending what little spare time we have at the Airshow, Pumpkin Patches, and Magic Springs.

Daphne turned 8 years old this past Friday, October 29. To celebrate, we had a few of her friends from school over for a sleepover. It was a lot of fun. The girls ate pizza, painted, ate cake and ice cream, played a game, ate cheese dip, watched a movie, ate some popcorn, watched another movie, had a pillow fight, ate some more pizza,went to bed too late, got up too early, ate some donuts and more cake, and went home.

And then this past weekend, we attended Trunk or Treat at our church and then went trick or treating at a few houses Sunday night.

Well, that's just about everything that's been happening with us lately. We're planning on being at Homecoming at Harding this Saturday. Hope to see you there!

Camp Tahkodah Weekend

We got to spend this past weekend at Camp Tahkodah with Micah's family. We were all really looking forward to it. Unfortunately, on Friday night, Daphne, Kaylee, Noah, and I all got the same throwing up bug that Aubrey and Micah had had earlier in the week. That certainly put a damper on our weekend and we pretty much just layed around most of the day Saturday. Thankfully, we all felt much better on Sunday and Monday and were able to get in some canoeing and a hike up to the bluff. However, by then we had contaminated the cousins and Granddad so they took their turns lying on the couch all day.

Besides being sick and getting others sick, we had a wonderful weekend. The weather was beautiful as was the scenery. We got to spend a little time with Micah's brothers Mark and Marshall and their wives. I have not yet heard if they got sick, too. I'm really hoping they didn't. We got to play cards til late both Saturday and Sunday night which I really enjoy doing (as long as I can stay awake!). We also got to see some wildlife.

This is "Mousy the Mouse" that Micah and I caught in our bathroom Saturday night. Mousy does not like to eat cheese or apples. He would rather dine on some Garden Herb Triscuits. We were considering bringing Mousy home as a pet, but with our new kitten and some other factors, we decided that that would not be wise. Mousy was very cute, but he did not like it when I picked him up. To show that he didn't like that, he clamped down on my finger with his tiny fangs. Do mice carry rabies?
We released Mousy today right before we left expecting him to run off into the tall grass. Instead he ran up a tree. None of us knew that mice climbed trees, but now we do.

Our second encounter with wildlife was while we were canoeing. We got to see a big black Water Moccassin swim across the river in front of us. I wasn't surprised to see this considering that we were out in the middle of nowhere, but then we saw two more of them and realized that they had a nice little home made between some rocks. After seeing the second and third ones, I decided that there was no way that I would ever get in that water!



I have said many times how much I love Micah's family and feel love from them as well. I really cherish the times that we get to spend with them. Thank you to Steve and Gail for planning this little get away. We had a wonderful weekend!