My 2 Kids For Him

• Oct. 7, 2008 -

I'm still here....it's been over a month since my last blog entry. Not a whole lot to tell since my last entry but I have do have some things to share. First I have a prayer request. Unless the Lord has other plans, my grandmother will not be with us much longer. One week and 2 days ago she fell and broke her leg. And from then on it's been a downhill battle. She was admitted to the hospital that day and needed surgery on her leg, but her lungs were not strong enough (she has COPD). Next day, they said she had pneumonia,  when that was better they still didn't know if she was strong enough for surgery but  they went ahead with it last Thursday morning. She hasn't been off the ventilator since.......until this evening. They unhooked her a little after 5:00 today. They said it could be hours or it could be days. Please pray for her to be comfortable and that she doesn't have to suffer. Please pray for my mother and her 4 sisters. I wasn't sure of Grandma's salvation, but my mom said Grandma said she was ready to go home. And Monday my cousin shared with me the time she gave Grandma a tract and went through the plan of salvation with her. My aunt said that Grandma always said a prayer that the lord would help her not to fall everytime she got her bath. She's 82 and  still living by herself, of course with someone checking on her almost daily.
Ds got his braces a few weeks ago. I had planned to get before and after pictures that day but I took the before and forgot the afters. For those of you who know him, you might not recognize him in this picbecause he's being normal:) But....I was wanting a picture of his teeth....so here's the next oneand here's pics I took tonight to use as my after pics:)He didn't want to stop doing whatever he was doing long enough to just give me a smile, but I finally got this

It's a fake smile but I'll catch him smiling later. I had second thoughts about these braces after 3 days of complaining from him. I told him I was taking him back and getting them off but he asked me how soon and would I go ahead and call them now. He told me he didn't need them anyway, his teeth were fine. But things are better now, the pain and discomfort is gone until the next appointment:)
Lastly I'll share a picture of dh's deer. You probably don't want to see it, but here it is. I must share his brags:)He bow hunts and he got this one hunting back behind our house.
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• Aug. 30, 2008 -

Last Sunday, after our morning church services, we left for vacation. This was our 20 year anniversary (which we celebrated on Wed. the 27th) gift to each other . First we traveled to Chattanooga, TN. In Chattanooga, we enjoyed seeing Rock City, The Incline Railway, and Ruby Falls. (Great history here, so yep, I counted these as school days)
What we didn't enjoy was the rain that fell nearly our entire vacation. (but thank you Lord, I know it was much needed)  Thankfully, we were still able to see all that we had planned. Also, while we were in Chattanooga, we did the Southern Belle Riverboat Dinner Cruise which we really enjoyed. From Chattanooga we went to Sweetwater to the Lost Sea. And from there we went to Gatlinburg to spend our last two nights. There we did Ripley's Aquarium, Hollywood Wax Museum, and we did the Earthquake ride which was a huge waste of money. Other than the Earthquake ride, we enjoyed everything (except dd did not like the Incline Railway), had a great family vacation, a great 20th anniversary and made lots of memories together.Thank you Lord for allowing our family to enjoy a great vacation and for keeping us safe!



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• Aug. 16, 2008 -

Did you stay up to watch the meteor shower Mon. night/Tues morning? Our nephews spent the night and we waited and went out about 1:30 - 1:50 am and we were able to see some of it. If you look closely in the 1st pic, you'll see my ds and nephew. The next pic is nephew, dd and dh. Dd had her arms in her  t-shirt because she was freezing:)
Not much to share tonight so I thought I'd share some pictures of our pets:) First off I'd like you to meet Amos.
He is a Shih Tzu and he smiles. Can't you see his happy grin. He's very hyper. Next is Knikki....She is our biggest shih tzu, but still she's small...and sweet too. See Amos smiling in this picture with her? The next one is Angel, also a really sweet shih tzu... Our 4th and last shih tzu is one we have taken in and not yet had groomed. His owner was not able to care for him, so we took him and he is still not yet completely used to us. He has a really bad under bite, but he will be much cuter once he is groomed. Next up is my dh's baby. I say baby, but he's huge and will get much bigger. Meet Bruno He looks like those pictures they put on notebooks/folders:)) He really is a big baby. Here is our outside kitty, M&M...and here is our indoor kitty , Princess...She's sitting on the bathtub, admiring herself in the mirror. She's a beautiful cat who pretty much has zero personality. She's a touch-me-not unless she comes to you for a very short head rub....but never to sit in your lap. Last of all is a pic of dh's pet... No, not really. It's a black snake he found under something on clean-up day at our church fellowship building. YUCK! Yes, he's crazy for holding it....he carried it to the woods and let it go.
Now that I've bored you with pics of all our pets I want to tell you what I just went through an hour or 2 ago. My mom and I just cleaned out a refrigerator/freezer that was full of food and meat that hasn't had any power to it in....I'm guessing 4 months. (This person passed away and obviously no one felt the need to do it.) This was like NOTHING I've ever experienced and hope I never experience again. We had face mask and rubber gloves, but I just can't even begin to describe it.....for that fact you probably don't care to know. We didn't wash it yet....it will have to air out a few days first. We did spray it down with cleaner though. We're just hoping it can be salvaged, but if we can't get rid of the awful, horrible stench then it will be trashed:(  If you have any ideas to help completely get the smell out, let me know. I know we can get it to appear clean, but I'm worried we will never get rid of that smell. I'm sure it was a perfectly good refrigerator.
Well, I think I'm going to get in the tanning bed for a bit. We're supposed  to go to the water park Thursday and chances are I'll get fried if I don't tan some first. 
 
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• Jul. 23, 2008 -

It's been almost a month since my last entry and I can't remember what's happened more than 3 days ago , so I'll just write about my dd's birthday:)  On Monday of this week my dd celebrated her 14th birthday. We are so proud of the young lady she is growing up to be. She had about 21 kids (or should I say teens) over for her party Monday evening and 7 girls slept over. Well, actually only 3 of them slept. I expected them to stay up really late, but my dd and 4 others stayed awake ALL night. Yep, only 3 girls went to sleep.  Here is a slide show of her party and sleepover.

I made her an ice cream cake like the one I described below for ds's birthday. They played several games and I think a great time was had by all. The first game they played had 2 teams, had to put on a pair of boxers (over their clothing of course), get to the finish line with a balloon between their legs, pop it with no hands or feet, run back take their boxers off and the next person had to do the same thing. It was so funny watching them play this game. I think the next game was called dragons tail where they formed a line and place their hands on the persons shoulders in front of them, and the first person had to get the "tail" from the last person without breaking the "dragon". Then they played the lifesaver game....I think the Brithday Girl was the only one that couldn't get the candy on the toothpick. Sorry Chasity, I just had to tell that.  I'm not sure what the next game was called, but they passed around a trashbag full of clothing items, accessories, and even some lipstick, etc. When the music stopped, whoever had the bag had to pick an item from the bag without looking and put the item on. It was really funny. Then they went outside and played Sardines (basically hide and go seek for those of you who've never heard of it) until about 11:30. Right before the game of Sardines ds set off the rest of his fireworks he had left from the 4th of July. Then all the ones who weren't staying left and the girls played a few more games, and popped some popcorn and started a movie at around 1:30 am. I somehow managed to roll out of the bed at 7:30 to cook pancakes for the girls. On Tuesday, Chasity and her friend Kasey slept from 1:00 to 4:00 and woke up asking to go the mall:)
Chasity had a great 14th Birthday!
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• Jun. 29, 2008 -

Ds celebrated his 12th birthday a week ago. He had a pool party at my aunts house. Here is a picture of him and  his guest....
Several of his cousins and a few friends didn't get to come. I made my first attempt at making an ice cream cake....It was 4 layers of cake with ice cream between each layer and cool whip was the icing. It was actually really good
Happy 12th Birhtday Chase! I honestly can not believe he's 12.....just doesn't sound right. He mostly received money for his birthday and has been purchasing fireworks.

Saturday was dd's last dance competition this summer. It was the Dance Machine Nationals. And believe it or not my hubby actually rode with us.....only because we didn't stay the whole day:) One of the girls had lost an uncle the day before in a car accident so she wasn't able to come. This particular girl happened to be my dd's partner in several areas of the routine. So right before they danced, they had to redo those areas of the routine. But they still did really good. They received an Awesome Gold award.

Sat. night we gave dh a surprise 40th birthday party.
I think maybe that's the camera strap on the side of the picture....not sure. If you can see the chair he's sitting in, his brother made it for him. Anyway, we just invited family, which was still 30 people. I didn't really think we'd be able to pull off the surprise part of it, but after having told a few lies we managed. Fri. night dd and I decorated the church fellowship bldg., and he kept asking what was taking us so long at Wal-Mart:)
Happy Big 4 0 Birthday to my hubby!
One last thing before I head to finish laundry. A few hours ago my SIL that lives behind us through the woods had a big black snake in the cage with their baby chicks. He had already managed to kill 3 to 4 chicks, but we had no idea how to get him out of the cage. Remember.....2 ladies who are VERY SCARED of snakes.......
She finally was able to pin his head against the wire and we tried to shoo out the babies but only one came out.. She jumped and the shovel came off his head and he went down to the ground and we just screamed....and screamed some more. He couldn't get out of the cage.....he was getting stuck where he had a chick in him. Anyway, to make a long story short....she had a shovel, I had a shovel.....and we finally killed it. I hear "you shouldn't kill black snakes"....but what do you do? Let them finish off all the chicks? SIL said they hadn't had any eggs in 3 to 4 days....now she knows why....
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• Jun. 19, 2008 -

Wow, once again, it's been a while since I made an entry. A lot has happened the last several weeks. I don't think I've posted since the homeschool covention.....I've finally decided (and purchased ) on the upcoming school years curriculum. I'll share what I'm planning to use and if you'd like to make any comments please do . I'd love to hear your experience with any of these.   Dd will be in 9th  and ds in 7th.
Together:
 we will do our morning devotions straight from the KJV:)
 we'll  be doing a refresher on NC in a Nutshell
 Trail Guide to US Geography
Dd:
Analytical grammar....doing this over 2 yrs.
Apologia's Jump In for writing
continuing with Spelling Power
Vocabulary Cartoons SAT Word Power
Teaching Textbooks Alg 1
Notgrass American History...we will do the history, bible, and Literature reading but will skip the writing assignments. I also purchased dd 2 devotional books to add a little more for counting the bible credit.
A Beka Physical Science.
Rosetta Stone Spanish.
Piano lessons
She takes 2 to 3 co-op classes one day a week (choir, drama)
2 to 3 dance classes
This may sound like a lot for her, but keep in mind she will not do every subject every day.

Ds:
Growing With Grammar level 6
He'll continue practicing Cursive w/ HWT
Sequential Spelling
Teaching Textbooks
Drive Through History (American) and A Beka History
Apologia Science
Reading library books.
I may slowly add in Jump In, taking it slow.
He takes art with co-op 1 day a week.

So, I'm excited.... a little nervous about high school, but excited:) I also plan to purchase  Homeschool Tracker to help with organization, grades, etc.

Now on to other news......dd's drama performance was last week. It went great. They all did such a good job. It was based on the book Little Princess. Here a couple of pics....
For those of you who've read the book......dd is on the left in the top picture....she was Ermengarde, her friend played Sarah on the right. The below pic is the scene of Sarah's birthday.


Other news.....because of the rising gas prices, dh and I have been discussing for quite some time now getting another vehicle. Las week we traded for a Chevrolet HHR.  It's not a car I would've ever imagined myself in, but I have to say, I absolutely love it. It says 30 mpg, but I've read several reviews online where people are saying they're getting better than that....so we'll see. It's light grey....I couldn't find a picture online:)
 
We sold our camper this week. I had a hard time agreeing with this decision because I love camping so. But dh wasn't loving the pop-up life of camping. We had not used it since 06'. We used to have a huge travel trailer with a double slide out and we sold it because we couldn't justify making a monthly payment on something we didn't get to use but a couple of times a year. So we bought the pop-up....no monthly payment...but dh wasn't loving no bathroom....and to be honest I don't know if I could ever get used to being able to hear all the noises outside. Last time we went to the beach in it, a squirrel kept getting on the canvas, right over my bed.:)

Well, I need to get off this computer now.  I'll try not to wait so long before another entry. Ds will be celebrating his 12th birthday this weekend and dh will be celebrating his BIG 4 0 next weekend, so maybe I'll have something to share.


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• May. 28, 2008 -

After about 50 attempts (well, not quiet 50) I have made a slide show to tell you what we've been up to.  I also had my entry all typed up, and lost  it in the process of trying to do the slide show.
 My sis-in-law graduated her ds after homeschooling all the way through. Not only should her ds be proud, but so should she. And not just proud of her son, but proud of herself. It's a great accomplishment! Congratulations to Tyler and his mom! The next few pictures are of Chasity's dance recital. I spared you the pictures of the clogging since I've already shared some pics from the competition. And lastly....we were able to take a vacation....and it was great!




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• May. 8, 2008 -

Dd's piano recital was tonight. Yay! One more thing off our countdown to summer freedom.:) Everyone played really well tonight. I thought I'd share a video of dd's 2 pieces she played. This first video was a duet she played with another girl. And this is sad, but right now I can't remember the name of it:)

And this next video is her 2nd recital piece which I can't remember the name of it either:)) I'll try to come back and edit this post tomorrow with the name of the pieces. Anyway, you'll notice my camera (or me) kinda lost the subject that was being videoed for a few seconds:)) I was managing 2 cameras at one time.

And a picture of dd with her piano teacher and her trophy she earned through the points system. She was actually only  5 points away from winning the 2nd place trophy.
Hope you enjoy the videos.
We came home to a bad hail storm and are currently still under a tornando watch. Here is what was on our deck to give you an idea.....

I'm going to watch the weather for a few minutes. Good night:)
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• May. 4, 2008 -

Well, as of the last couple of days, my blood pressure readings are finally showing normal numbers. After about the first 5 days my Dr. doubled the dose and that seems to be working.
We've been super busy, but things are drawing to an end. The only thing left is piano recital and dance recital. A few weeks ago was dd's homeschool choir performance.
And last weekend I endured another dance competition. I say endured because I left my house at 6:30 am and returned at 10:00pm. And dd only had to dance ONE time. We had to wait until awards and then it was 1 1/2 hour drive home....in the rain at night I might add. I felt I had heard enough music and seen enough dancing to last me a lifetime:)
Yesterday we spent the day at the lake with our church outing. It was a beautiful day, but my kids are suffering from all the pollen they inhaled all day yesterday. The sunburn is nothing compared to the allergies:(  My ds atayed in the canoe practically ALL day long. Needless to say, he went to sleep as soon as his head hit the pillow last night. Dh and ds got up at 6:30 to get there early and fish, but neither one caught a thing. Here is dd in the back paddle boat....she didn't want to attempt the canoe after seeing someone flip theirs two times....and yep, it was the same person both times:)
We're back into babysitting full swing.....well full swing is 2 days a week for us:) Here is dd doing piano practice with her little helper....Isn't he a cutie. He loves the piano.
And lastly ds's baseball season has come to an early end:(  We let him quit. Something we've never let our kids do before. They know if they ask to do something, they don't ask to quit. For some reason ds was very unhappy with ball this season. He had made this clear to us over and over and I told him if after 2 games he still felt the same he could quit. I told him this thinking he would love it once the games started and not mention quitting again. But I was badly mistaking. We tried to encourage him but we didn't feel we should make him play as unhappy as he was. Last season he absolutely loved it the whole time...never complained from the beginning to the end.
Well that's what has been going on with us. The next 3 weekends will be busy too. And our homeschool conference is in less than 3 weeks now! Yay! I can't wait.....I'm still undecided on next years curriculum and hope to make a decision by then.
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• Apr. 19, 2008 -

It's been an interesting week. Well, I guess you would call it interesting?.... I was hit with the finding that I had high blood pressure. Never had an elevated reading before. Circumstances led me to check it....actually the advice of someone else led me to check it:) Anyway, while I was at Wal-Mart getting groceries I happened to see the blood pressure machine and thought, well I'll just see. And....it was high. The top number was near 160 and the bottom 110. I was floored. I checked it 2 more times that day at my moms.....still high. I checked it 3 times the next day....still high.....top ranging from 149 to 163 and bottom ranging from 110 to 116. So.....my mom (who doesn't do Dr.'s visits unless she feels it completely and totally necessary) said I better go to the Dr. So on Friday I made the appointment and the BP reading was even higher. Once by the nurse and once by the Dr. Then I had an electrocardiogram and a kidney test and just generally checked over. So, I'm just asking for prayer that I can get it down. I am taking medication now (first time I've been on medication) and am seeing some slow results, but results none the less. I hope to be able to come off it completely. A friend recommended flax seed....I may give it a try too.
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