thanksgiving @ grandpa and grandma s.

Some of the grand kids (all the ones that were there that day)

talking after dinner

picture time....smile

I only got 1 picture... but we played games, did a puzzle, along with talking, eating and more talking :o)

Sisters...Grandma and Aunt Helen talking and putting the finishing touches on the kitchen after dinner

Pie lots of pie

Aunt Helen and Cousin Darcy cutting pie

Turkeys, courtesy of Aunt Marlyn

Benjamin with his roll

Logan and Soren talking. (in the 90 degree room...grandpa likes a warm house:)
Soren is an exchange student from Germany. Who is staying with Logan and his family.

Uncle Joey reading to Maggie and Aden







There is nothing that bring a family closer together than cellphones :-)

Swapping and sharing ring tones, blutoohing pictures...and listening to music

playing with cousin Darcy's iPhone..(playing the trilling game squish the pig)




family gathering would not be complete without Grandpa bringing out his accordion.

This time he let some of the grand kids try their hand at it.

~Soren

~Mariah

~Stuart

~Logan

miss maggie is 4

Saturday     we celebrated maggie's 4th birthday (how time goes she had just turned 2 when we got her)

maggie enjoyed helping with her "pink" cake 

HI  ALL :o)

didn't have really anything to post so just thought i'd say hi.

"For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
2 Peter 1:5-8

Dear Mr. Obama

no pic.s :(

Dear subscribers, readers, friends and family :),

I was planning on posting pictures of all the fun I had this past weekend  down in Peoria at the Reformation fair but....my laptop has a rebellious streak in it, and has decided not to let me get online. :) So I have decided to point you to some other blogs of note that have more obedient computers.

yen family 

erber family

wendy h.

dawn b.

6 things.....

My dear friend Kathryn Yen tagged me so

here are the 6 things about me

1) My favorite movie is Horatio Hornblower

2) I love music and a variety of (which shows on my mp3 player:)

3) I like to read...one of my favorite books is "Marriage to a difficult man"

Half way done

4) if I was rich I would have a small convertible sports car, pickup truck, and some sort of SUV

5) I like any chance I can to laugh (its almost become a bad habit:)

6)mmmmm....my favorite colors are mocha brown, pearl white, sage green (and i love all 3 together)


ok there is 6 things did i do that right?

I tag

Jessica E.

Megan C.

Amber A.

Anna V.

Joanna E.

Dawn B.






~Here are the rules
-Link to the person who tagged you.*Post the rules on your blog.
-Write six random things about yourself.
-Tag’ six-or-so other people at the bottom of your post
-And leave comments on their blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.
-Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve written the post

this sunday

this past Sunday we had some friends from church over for a bonfire and volleyball.
It turned out to be a veryyyyyyy windy afternoon.
making for a very interesting game(s)

we played one game guys vs. gals and (lol :) the gals won

lots of pics

Okay, the top pictures are the most recent.

~this past weekend we had another test at karate....although I do not have any pictures of that, here are some from Tuesday night. When we were awarded our new belt ranks and also some of sparing ( treat that we don't get to do often:)
Erik getting his yellow belt
Evin and Zack F.
Sensei and I (always a most intimidating experience)
~Corn maze with the Hills

the 4 of us
looking out over the maze from the tower
view of the maze
Daniel (trying:) to ride a little peddle car thing

~The Little People Skit

we didn't get a whole lot of pictures of practicing for the skit but these are a few of my fav.

~Churches 10 anniversary camping trip

sadly our camera died about 8 min. after we first got to Erbers house Friday night so we have like no pictures of that fun weekend (so if there are any of you who would like to share some with us that would be great)
But we did enjoy camping out under the Erbers trees (in tents) and making "moments"

Ok, so that should bring you all up to date on whats been happening around here.

sorry all....I know it has been a very very very very very......loooooooooong time since I have posted anything worth while (or anything at all for that matter :) on my blog. so again I apologize from the bottom of my hart. I will try my best and get a nice juicy post with few words a lots of pictures up no later than this Friday.

(ok peaches now you can comment) 

tintinnabulation: a tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things,you develop the habit in the little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."

Collin Powell

Happy 11 B-day Evie (Evin)

-Smile-
-A breakfast fit for a king.-
Sausage, eggs, cinnamon rolls, and coffee what more could ya want. lol

oh so Stu.

Stuarts main chore this summer has been to keep the yard looking nice, that means anything from cutting the grass to weed waking.
So recently I looked out the window and saw him dressed in this most unusual weed waking garb and thought I would take a pic of it

Eleanor is 9

I like this picture.
There are more pictures on the family blog