Pickin' a tree

This year we wanted to try the "cut your own" christmas tree farm. We got there and got our saw and tree sled. We were so excited! After we walked the whole farm we realized that we didn't really like those type of trees. The kids didn't care they just wanted daddy to cut down a tree, so we found a nice pre-cut tree that we liked and daddy pretended to cut it down.

While Jason got the tree loaded the kids played in the haystack fort they had there.

Thanksgiving 2010

Halloween 2010

Yes... I realize this is out of order, but I couldn't leave out the big holidays. I am so behind on this blog. Hope you enjoy the update :)

Enjoying Asheville with Mom and Dad

I am visiting my family in NC right now and my vacation is coming to a close. My sweet sweet husband took off from work to play mom so that I could go and have a much needed visit with my family. We have had a wonderful visit. The first days home were spent visiting my church family and sisters. We then headed to my parents house. My family has insured that my trip home would be filled to the gills with all sorts of fun activities. First stop was a new little restaurant my mom found called the Early Girl Eatery. MMMMmmmmm the food was yummy and all good fresh food. Even my orange juice was fresh squeezed!

I spent lots of time in book shops. This was a children's bookstore and this is where I love to be. I just love finding new treasures for my kids' bookshelves. I bought two books for my boys; The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stuart and The Blood Hungry Spleen and Other Poems About Our Parts by Allan Wolf.

Gettin' and Givin' LOTS of HUGS!!!

Easton's First Birthday

Well I am super behind on photos as usual. So here goes trying to catch up a bit. This is Mr. Easton's First Birthday. We went down to see our cousins for the day and celebrate Easton's birthday. They had a cook out at this awesome park, oh how I wish we had this park closer. It was very neat. We had such a great day visiting with our family, just need to make it happen more often!! Happy Birthday little Easton!

Church Campout

After VBS this year we went with the church on their annual campout. It was up in the Northern Cascade Mountains in Washington.

It was absolutely beautiful!!! There are just no words to describe it!! We went on a couple hikes with the church, one to a dam and then to some waterfalls. Honestly didn't want to leave... except to maybe get some clean clothes :) That and I think Layne (Jason's mom) was a bit cold. She spent most of the campout enjoying the fire.

VBS 2010

I have so many great pictures of VBS this year but unfortunately I can't post them on this blog because they have other kiddos besides just mine.

This VBS was my training to be the new Children's Ministry Director at Oak Harbor Church of Christ. It was the first time I have every planned a VBS by myself. Man I had so much fun with it!!! I picked the them SonHarvest Fair. You know that so FITS me, haha! The curriculum was all about learning the fruits of the Spirit. I am happy to say that even I learned something new. I have a terrible time memorizing verses and I was able to memorize 5:22

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Of course, more impressive is that the kids learned it too, haha!

It was a wonderful experience and I learned a lot about the planning of VBS that I will be sure to put into practice next year. Overall I think it was a success!

Double Birthday

This year Noah and I celebrated our birthday together. We wanted to make sure Mamaw got to be here for Noah's birthday and we wanted to do something special. The day Toy Story 3 came out at the drive in was on my birthday, so we took our "party" there. Noah and I opened all our presents in the back of the truck before the movie started. Noah has been wanting a "real" buzz lightyear so that was his big present this year. He was SOOOOO excited and watching the movie with his new buzz was the best! My momma got some great new cookbooks for me and the boys picked out some beautiful jewelry for me. It was a wonderful birthday for both of us!

New blog background

Felt like I needed an update today, so I fiddled around the the layout on the blog. I love this background with all the homeschooling and college work that is going on this really fits my mood right now :D

Day on Camano Island

One of our last big outings while my mom was visiting was a trip to the wooden boat club on Camano island. It turned out to be an absolutely beautiful day so I brought the boys swimsuits and let them go in the water.

Noah is in love with the water. You would have thought the kid had won the lottery. He was just JOY personified.

Abby loved gathering up all those beautiful rocks. I don't know if my washing machine can handle yet another rock collector, haha!

Oh and the little professor, his wheels are always turning!! A shell and a piece of driftwood, wallah, he's invented a "tool".

The water was a little cold, but thankfully the rocks were sooooo warm.

Sometimes the sunshine hits those blue eyes just right, wow... what beautiful kids I have :)

Thanks for a great day momma! Miss you like crazy!!