First Day of School & our school room!

~I wrote this yesterday, but published it today~

Yesterday was our first official day of school!! Whoo hoo! It feels good to start!

This is view from the doorway, it was Noah's room before we transformed it into the school room! That is why there is the car border.

And the view from the window of the chalk board, which we don't use alot, but it's fun to have! It was actually in here before the room became the school room!

And here is the teachers area, which used to be my stamping area before I created on downstairs in the basement, I needed more space for all my stuff, I don't know how I ever worked in this small space!

Here are my awesome kids in their new threads!! It was so fun shopping for them<--insert sarcasm here

It's going to be a fun school year!!

Good Bye swing set, hello sweetness!!

I've got to start off by sharing some bad news!! Our beloved swing set, that we've had over the past 9 yrs, had lost it's battle with the elements last week. It was only a matter of time, with sometimes 8 or more kids playing on it on a regular basis, and the winter of 6 months or longer, that this day would come. It has done us good!! Little did I know, when I took these pictures, they would be the last pictures taken of the swings in use, a few hours later, a child who will remain unnamed, caused the untimely end to it's long and wonderful life. Onto other news, the fence is done and here is a picture to prove it!!

And a picture of the handyman himself!! Ain't he cute!! (Just putting this out there, I hate his shorts he's wearing in this picture, just hafta make it known)I absolutely LOVE this picture of my baby girl, Breanna!! It's so her personality!! I was taking pictures of the kids in the sandbox the other day, and they didn't know it!! My favorite way to take pictures, actually!And here is one on the new toothless smile! Yep, our last child has lost her first tooth. While we are on the subject, our third child only has one more to lose, and she's done! CRAZY! The same child, lost her first tooth, just days after she turned 4!!!

In my next post, pictures of the new, clean, rearranged school room!!!! I love it!!! We officially start school tomorrow!! We were out getting a few supplies tonight, and of course the new school clothes!! It's tradition now, every year, just as if they were going to public school, my husband wanted to do the whole new clothes thing, and I couldn't object!! Pictures to follow!!

And just on a side note, the hat Bre is wearing, was crocheted by her oldest sister, who it now selling them, along with other things, in her new 'business'! She has 2 customers!! :)

Stay with me for a moment

While I brag up my husband!! He works so hard! He's never built a fence in his life, or a deck for that matter, and he's not scared to try it, and is willing to give it a try. Sometimes it frustrates me, cause it would get done a lot faster if we just hired someone.But all the time he takes, prepping and purchasing, thinking and building, I just gotta love on him. It always turns out fantastic, and we are always proud to sit back and say, ya, we built that, and I know he's proud cause he's always asking for people to come and see it, sit on the new bench or see this or that. It may not be perfect, but life isn't about being perfect. If we tried to make something perfect, we'd be there forever, trying. He he sweeting HUGE this day, we rented a gas powered post whole digger, it was HARD to get through the clay...

Here is a card I made recently for a little girl in Arizona, who has a brain tumor. Her name is Kate, and she is soo sweet! (Click on her name for a link to updates regarding her health)

More pictures of the finished fence to come!!! Soo excited!!

September 1st tomorrow

Bet you all didn't know that, did you? It's hard to believe, but it's true. Quite a few kids have already gone back to school, some more today, and some next week Tuesday. I still haven't set a date to start for sure, maybe next week Tuesday! If we can organize the school room this weekend, we will try! I finally just got my 08/09 school reports in, last week Friday!! Yay me!

We got back from a fun camping trip with some friends this weekend, and had a blast! This is the second year we have gone with this family, and it is now annual event that I'm going to look forward too every year! Hope they do too ;) Camping season is almost over for the year, but my favorite time of year is just around the corner! The end of summer, beginning of fall camping!! It's so nice, not busy and we have the whole place to ourselves pretty much! Love it!

We are working on another project, yet again...start a new one when the old one isn't finished.....sigh The backyard fence. It was falling down, kids were climbing it so that didn't help, but it has been in need for a few years! So, after a bout of the weirdest flu, my hubby got started! It's a slow progress, I thought it would be up in a few days, and if we had a crew of guys helping, I'm sure that would be the case, but when it is just one man, and his wife, it's a little slow going! Pictures to follow, sometime! I have to find my camera, it got unpacked yesterday and I haven't seen it since!

Well, I better get back at it, getting this house in some kind of order, and not be so lazy, which I am very good at, btw!!

Oh, and no real update on the job front. The company he applied at wanted to start sending out his resume for contract work right away, but hubby turned it down, opted to stick it out at his present company till the end of December. There will be many more opportunities I'm sure, God has us covered, I can feel it in my bones!! ;)

Prayer Request!

Hi, I would like to ask for prayers for my husband!! He has a job interview tomorrow, and we are praying that the people who he is interviewing for would be accepting that he can't start till January 2010! Pray that all goes well and that he will be stress free and the interview will go smoothly, and that they will want him!!!! In January!!

Thanks so much!!

What I'm Thankful for today

I am thankful for my own bathroom today, and last night at midnight. Thankful I didn't have to walk to the park bathrooms in the pitch black of the night, with only a flashlight and my cell phone to protect me!!

But, anyways, back to regular scheduled posting! We went camping this past weekend, August 14th-18th, arriving back in town to celebrate our 14th Wedding Anniversary!!

Here are some pictures of our recent camping trip to Douglas Provincial Park:

I love cooking, chopping, preparing lunch, supper, and especially camping, it's so fun to prepare food outdoors. Everyone wanted to help, and I took full advantage of that!Sunday was a wet day, we spent the time eating inside, which is fine by me, it's kinda fun to do! We were having Ultimate Hamburgers for lunch this day, which just means hamburgers with almost everything on them, lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayo, ketchup, mustard, way better than just plain hamburgers!!

We spent the majority of the day keeping dry, even though it was still moist air! Yes, I know that it is rather pointless to have my dish towel hanging out to 'dry' on a rainy day, but by the time I noticed, it was way to late to try to bring it in the trailer...We had a couple towels!!

I tried to get a picture of the rain drops off the awning, it didn't work too well, this is as good as it gets.

Also on Sunday, we has some kids who weren't feeling so well. Not quite sure what it was, we went for a long drive that day, they watched a DVD in the truck, we went on a Ferry ride, so it could have been anything really. The next day, they were better!! Thank God!

I made Pizza for the first time camping...it was ok, I don't think I'd make it again though, unless I have a different crust.

We did have plenty of these, which is by far one of my favoritest part of camping!!

But we had lots and lots of fun!!!