First Ducks of the Season

It is hard to get a close up shot of these guys. They are very ski-dish, and my camera doesn't have the best zoom for far away.
They are called Hooded Mergansers.

Kristys Fall Creations

And finally my Granny Smith apple pie. These apples are the ones that I got from Blue Ridge GA. This was my first attempt. Turned out great!

Yummy!

A baby blanket I crocheted for my cousin Bridget's new baby girl, Madison Ilene Ellis. It was actually folded in half, I couldn't get far enough away to talk a full size picture. I loved the colors!

Lost Bluff with The Whole Party

A great pic of Joshua so proud of himself, doing the stairs like a big boy.

Look at these stairs! Talk about good exercise. Can u see the top way up in the tress. WOW!

An overlook. We have never seen the view from this side. We are usually driving over on the dam. You can see Grenada Lake behind the bridge.

She is a leaf rain deer.

My threesome sitting on a lookout with the Yalubusha River behind them.

Love pictures taken behind my guys walking. Can u tell? :)

Brothers holding hands, so sweet. By this time Joshua was worn out! We told him if he walked the whole way he would get a treat when we got home.(instead of us carrying him)

The kids being silly with Mommy.

Pipe Update

Our Big dog and Aroara taking a break from working to play catch. Brenden says Big is looking more like a chocolate lab than a yellow lab.

One of our craw fish from the hole.

The guys surveying the situation

Maybe 75 feet? View #1 off porch.

About 150 Feet View #2 from front porch.

Well after two days straight of hard work we have no water leak. PRAISE GOD! I called Josh Friday and told him we had plans for the weekend and he said oh yeah what? I told him we just got a $100 water bill, they usually run about $25. We were trying to wait until money wasn't so tight but that water bill was going to break us! I am going to go to the water dept. tomorrow, the water meter reader said they will adjust it for us. (Fingers Crossed) So 300 feet of digging, baling water and mud and $200 later we are fixed. We had to lay new pipe due to not being able to find the leak with all the rain and standing water. My house and yard are a disaster. Mud everywhere! I will share pictures of the yard but not the house . Ha Ha! Praising God again for holding the rain off, and making it a beautiful day. We caught 3 craw fish in one water hole. We saw a flock of snow geese flying over the house we were really hoping that they would land in the pond, they didn't maybe next time.

Happy Halloween 2009

My Indian, Barbie Princess, and Spiderman. Ps Josh and I made the Indian costume last year. :)

The kids attending a Halloween birthday party at McDonalds. It was pretty neat face painting, pumpkin painting, cookie decorating, and costume parade with contest.

Joshua with their bounty. We went to a few houses after the party and they each filled their buckets up quickly!

Fall Walk 2009

We have never done this trail before, I was avoiding it after hearing how tough it was. The kids were up for it and we were looking for something new so we braved it. I am so proud of them for toughing it out! After all the hiking we did on vacation I knew they could handle it.

Right when we got on the trail.

A rare picture of me Joshua was to busy to participate. Ha Ha

Here is Tayler with my first baby Cynder, he will be 10 next week. We had to carry him up the stairs they were so steep.

The boys look really thrilled here don't they? They were worn out! I really enjoyed this trail and would love to do it again. I don't think that I will be talking them into doing this one again though. We had fun it was just a bit long and rough for them. Didn't help that we were rushing to get before dark either.

Fall 2009

This is my favorite tree in the fall, this was taken on the back of out our pond. I love the colors fall brings and look forward to seeing this tree every year. I also like to take the kids on a fall nature walk every year to see and play in all of the leaves but am thinking this year it may not happen due to all of our rain.