Our week

Now for a more recent update.Here are just a few pictures of things we did this week.
Emilee is working very hard on schoolwork and is doing very well on the tests she has taken so far.I am very proud of her.
While she did her school,the boys and I picked up three loads of sticks that were blown all over the yard from the winds we got from hurricane Ike.They were great little workers but Austin's favorite part was when he got to drive the tractor.we finally got enough sticks picked up so that we could mow.
Friday night my very helpful father-in-law brought his bobcat and did a bunch of demolition/escavating that needed done on my yard and my husband has not had time to do.It doesn't look great right now but it gets me a fresh start to landscape it the way I want it.

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More Zoo Pictures

Here is a continuation of the previous post.I didn't choose a big enough scrapbook.

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Summer zoo trip

Here are one group of pics from our zoo trip in august that we enjoyed immensely.It was very hot so I took plenty of water and some frozen fruit dish things along with other snacks, and we had a great time.

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The terrible,awful,no good,bad day

or something like that.

Yesterday started out like a normal day except that Aaron had taken off work to rebuild a motor at home.I worked inside the house for a while then went out and was helping him on the motor.He had determined he was going to have to make a trip to Columbus for more parts so we were just finishing what we could before we left.
Before we got ready to leave,Daniel and Kristin stopped by so they could get fuel for their truck.All of the children took off to the creek to play.There is absolutely no water in the creek so I was not at all worried that they had gone down there.However,after several minutes we heard what we thought was Emilee screaming bloody murder.I was not even sure,though,if it was her or if she was playing so while the guys went running down the dry creek bed to where they were at, Kristin and I were still trying to decide if it was serious enough for us to go.We finally started hearing more children start crying so we decided we better go back and see what was going on.I met Austin part of the way back so I picked him up to try to console him as he's saying "Jozalyn is lost".I got him to quit crying then headed back into the woods carrying him part of the time.Sure enough Kristin was trying to get the other children into the yard while Daniel and Aaron were desperately searching for Jozalyn.I sent Austin back to where the others were so I could start my own search.For those of you who are not aware,our woods are very small and border a mowed yard and house on one end and fence rows up a good ways on both sides so we could not imagine why we could not find her.We began to get just a little worried about the pond at the neighbors even though she is a very avid swimmer.After several minutes(but not a long time)of looking Aaron said,"we better put an emergency call in",so he called 911 and gave her description and everything then we went back to where the children were to try to get more information out of them as to what was going on when she disappeared and stuff.While Aaron and I were with the children Daniel and Kristin were yelling her name more and more frantically all the time and when Daniel yelled once I knew I heard something so I yelled at the children to be quiet so I could here it again and sure enough it was her so Aaron took off in the direction that we had heard her and then I directed Daniel that way and he took off.Right as they yelled to let us know that she was,indeed, found,the police showed up.Quite the excitement!
With that situation over with,we headed to Columbus to grab a bite to eat and get parts.On the way,a noise that we had been hearing in the suburban got louder.We got to the shop and Aaron put it on the lift to check it out,only to find out that we couldn't drive it home so thankfully his dad's truck was there and we were able to switch everything to it and head home.When I was getting my final load out of the suburban and Aaron was getting ready to move it I slipped in a gravel patch and fell down.I was afraid Aaron would start moving and run over me so I hollered real loud to make sure he knew I was down.After he helped me in the truck we started our trip home,we realized ,as we were at the edge of town ,that he had forgotten the main thing he had gone for.We did finally make it home by 11:30 or 12:00,I think.
This is probably not your favorite post of mine but it's a little peak into my life that I thought my long distance family would be somewhat interested in.

I know this is way past due,(Like a whole month)but maybe ya'll will forgive me for at least three of those weeks since this place was a hectic drama.
I am going to try to do some catch up blogging so I will be posting several from the last month.
Austin wanted a "cars" birthday up until the time we went to the party store and he saw the John deere stuff so I had to revamp my thinking at nearly the last minute to adjust the cake accordingly.So if you notice the cars cupcake papers with farm animal cupcakes that would be why.We grilled for supper at the park.Nothing fancy just what he chose to do.It was really enjoyable.

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The lost battle

This is what Bryce has looked like ever since he lost a fight with gravity while he was playing on the slide.In six more days he should have a different look.We're counting down even though he is doing really,really well with the cast.

Another Project

This is one of the projects that I did over last weekend.I got these chairs given to me so to make them coordinate with my dining room better I recovered them.It was actually very quick and simple but I was happy with the difference it made.



This is what they look like since I got done with them.

This is what they started out as.