Life on the Farm

Congrats to Cole and Josie, they are engaged!!!

Yes, we are all so excited for the both of them. Looks like some time in April of 2013!

New Years Day 2012

Off to worship we go! No better way to begin a new year than with the Lord and his family! Finished up the communion, went to class and it was a great class.

I do not think that we ever stop needing classes on marriage! It is always a new season in a marriage, of one kind or another!!!

After church the communion had to be cleaned up, WB and Kylie went on ahead and me and many others finished up the cleaning! A big thank-you to Jay, Clyde and Kathryn, and the Jackson kiddo’s for their help! The Jackson kids really got me tickled!!! And I so appreciate their assistance! Cute kids!!!

Back home to begin to prepare for tonight!

WB is cooking a standing, oysters, rib roast and baked potato, I am cooking black-eyed peas and corn bread! I also made a fruit pizza dessert.

We celebrated with the birthday boy and gifted him. Then he went coon hunting later on and we visited and played with sparklers!

We enjoyed all of their company on this first day of 2012!

Happy Birthday Ryan!!!

New Years Eve

Up early so we can get to the church and fix the communion for tomorrow!

Next, stop by and pick up some oyster’s. We will be celebrate our son-in-law, Ryan’s 22nd birthday tomorrow! It is on the 29th, but he was working, then celebrating with his family…so we do it when we can!

I made him a strawberry cake that fell apart, so I just put it in a casserole dish and iced it….Strawberry crumble cake would be a good name! But it is good!

We decided to stay home and ring in the new year with our dear friends Bill and Mary Jane! Bart and Casey and the girls came by for a little while and we enjoyed them so much!

We enjoyed our time with family and friends and welcome 2012!

Isabella

I got to keep Isabella a little while today! Boy has she gotten mobile. It took her a little while to walk, but once she got it…she was running!!! She walks very fast or runs where she wants to go. She is pretty quite, walks around and looks and takes in everything! If she is in to something she is really quite!

She can sing the Barney Song and Happy Birthday…….you can’t really understand the words but you know the tune!

She loved my Christmas decorations, she would stand in front of the tree and dance back and forth! She walked and took it all in. When she came the other day, she was looking for the decorations! Too cute!

This girl adores her Papa!!! And, he adores her and eats it up!

Stomach Bug Round Three

Yep, Cole had a touch of it, even though he would not want to admit it!!!

Looks like we are done with it!!! Let us all hope so!!!

Stomach Flu-Round Two

It took Cayden about 8 days to get shed of his bug. Next, came sweet little Isabella. Poor thing!!! I just hate it so bad! She got better pretty quickly, then it was Casey’s turn. I went and got Kylie and kept her trying to keep her from getting it! She spent most of the week with Papa and Ma J.

Then Bart got it! Next came Kimberly, Buddy and Tripp, then Laura.

Decking the Halls

Cayla and I got my tree up pretty early this year. Kylie decorated most of it while Cayden and Isabella undecorated it…lol!!! I bought shatter proof ornaments years ago when Kylie was a baby.

One- I do not want my ornaments broken. Two-Christmas is for kids and I do not want to stay on them about the tree. Now, Cayden did get in a trouble a little because he would get a hold of the lights and run with them!!! LOL! He tried his best not to touch them, but they were just so pretty!!!

I really did not have enough shatter proof ornaments for this fat tree! It needed help! More ornaments-check!

Stockings hung-check!

Tree Number 2-check! I really enjoyed this tree!

Breakable Ornaments in a special place-check! Isabella loved looking at these!!! She loved all the decorations!

Elf on the Shelf-check! Kylie got so excited about this, we had to open and read the book in the car!!! The spirit of a child---priceless!!!

Tables and porch decorated-check!

Pringles and Santa checking on the naughty and nice-check!

Pringles in Kylie’s stocking! She thought this was the funniest thing!

Now, ready for Christmas Eve!!!

Happy First Birthday to our “First” Grandson----“Our Little Man”!!!

Happy First Little Cayden Man!!! You are 1 year old….yeehaw!!! You are a such a sweet and funny little boy!!! You have learned so many things in your first year! Rolling over, crawling, walking and saying a few words. You love to ride on just about anything with wheels and that moves! You love to ride the tractor with Ma J, you will not ride it with your Papa unless I am with ya’ll! You love to wrestle with me…..you pull hair and think it is funny, and you try and bite! Yes, you think that is funny too!

Your Mom tells you no, no…..and you just look at her and grin! Just like she did!

You love for Papa to play his guitar and sing to you!

You love outside!!!

You love your cousin Kylie bunches and you attack her…..with hugs, hair pulling, kissing and biting! And poor Isabella, you have pulled her hair since way back, pulled her skin, got her toys…you better watch our because one day she is going to have enough!!! LOL!

You do not like for me to hold anyone else, you and Isabella have to both sit in my lap!!! But I love it!!!

You enjoy Sunday School most Sundays!

You love to watch Nemo in the car!

You are learning to swim!

You cut your top two teeth first!

You had your first virus at the same time your Mom did and you got sick in my car…yuck!!! LOL!

You spent the night with Papa and I at the Suwannee River and rode in the boat. You loved the water!

You also stayed when you were sick because you Mom was to sick herself to take care of you! You wanted to get on the couch, I put you up there and you laid on the pillow like a big boy! The I laid down beside you….you cut that brown eye over at me and began to stroke my hair….right before you pulled it, and laughed!!! You little stinker!!! It took about 8 days for you to feel like yourself again.

You were not feeling well at your first birthday party, but you did enjoy it anyway!!!

You have been a Mama’s boy for the most part of your first year! And that is just fine, as you get older you will have lots of men folks to follow around!!!

Papa and Ma J love you bunches!!!

Fire Place

I have been without a fireplace cover for almost year. Got rid of the brass one, finally! Just could not decide what I wanted, so we have had a black hole with candles and greenery. Then a table in front of it to keep the babies out of it!

Well….I finally got something! I must say it looks better!

Since my hubby wont build a fire….I made my own!!!

The box sat on the pool table for a week. Then I opened it and brought a quilt to the closest door, sat in on it and the pulled it to the den! Now, it stayed there for a couple of days…got sick! On Sunday afternoon I decided to read the directions. I am getting it…slowly. WB came through and offered to help prop it up with a chair, then left!!! I finally just quit for a while! Then went back, took the doors off. One part said you could remove them, further down, it said….not to remove the screws…too late!!!

Got the doors off, WB came back by…decided I needed help. (He told me I could get one, but that he would not put it in!!!) He just has a hard time getting on his knees.

He climbed in the fireplace to install this thing, oh my!!! He got it and then I had to reinstall the doors….a problem for sure! You were supposed to loosen the screws, but not remove them!!! Lets just say….lesson learned!!!

Kylie posing in front of the fireplace!!!

Cayden’s “1st” Birthday Party

Your Mom has worked on your party for weeks trying to make it special just for you! I think she did a great job!

She wanted to make your cake, we bought all the supplies…it would have been cheaper to order one, but she wanted to do it. Well, guess what? We all got sick and just could not do it…so we ordered it, maybe next year!!! And oh, the cake she ordered did not look anything like what she told them! But it is cake!

Your invite!