Four Wheeling Anyone?

This land that surrounds our neighborhood is up for sale. 89 acres for $179,000. This is where we go four wheeling when Cameron brings his four wheeler over to our house. 

Homeschooling Tip

Brittany has been having a hard time with her cursive writing. A lot of times, I will put my hand over hers to help her out as she writes. The other day, she was playing around with her writing but was using a crayon instead of a pencil. I could not get over how beautiful her writing was. Since that time, I've been letting her use a crayon and she has done wonderfully. The only disadvantage is that you cannot erase mistakes made with a crayon, but she has not had a whole lot of mistakes. It might be something you might want to try for your little homeschooling angel.

Happy Birthday!

Today is Sierra's 2nd birthday. Her party will be this coming Saturday at a children's science museum. The kids will get to play and then see a demonstration of live lizards. One time we were there for a party and the demonstration was on snakes. That didn't go over so well with my kids. Maybe the lizards will do better.



PS I have a picture of the birthday girl to go with this, but I forgot that I had taken the memory card out of the camera, and I don't have the software to download the pictures. The camera is not mine..........did you figure that out.

What A Weekend

Our minivan has a peculiar problem. Whenever it drives through a nice sized puddle of rain, the drive belt falls off, and the van is practically undriveable until the belt is put back on. The Sunday before last, it rained all day long, and right before we got to church, we hit a big water puddle. We had a suspicion that the belt had fallen off, and we found out for sure when Spencer went to turn into the parking lot of the church. There was absolutely no power steering and the engine temperature was getting hot. Spencer and his dad were able to get it fixed the next day.

Spencer took off this last Friday and today to work on completely redoing our bathroom. On his way to Lowe's, he stopped by the car dealership just to see about test driving a Tahoe. When he got there, they were having a red tag clearance sell, and the Tahoe's were marked $4,000 off the sticker price, but amazingly, no one waited on him. He went on to Lowe's like a good man should. When he got home, he decided to check out how much payments would be. After that, he ended up at the dealership for a couple of hours, and brought home a vehicle for me to see.

We then went back to the dealership and haggled over prices until we almost walked out the door without anything new. The dealer finally made a good offer, and we bit it.

I didn't tell Spencer until afterward, but posted on the door was an advertisement that said, "Red Tag clearance, The Price You See Is The Price You Pay." :) He said he never saw it.

Future Rodeo Girl

Sierra loves horses. Daddy is training her to be a bronco rider. See, she even loves it when she falls off! 

What A Little Liar!

Sierra did not want to finish her supper last night, but she wanted to eat grapes and cookies. I would not let her get down until her food was gone. She finally called me over there to say that she had eaten her food. I looked on the floor and on the bar to see if there was any food thrown around (usually her way of getting rid of food), and there wasn't. I was so proud of her, and told her so. She was looking at me saying UH HMMMMMMMMMM (her way of agreeing that she has done something well.) Then.........I looked in a plastic cup, and her food was buried in a lake of water. I resurrected the food, put it on her plate, resalted it, and made her eat it. She was not happy with me. Of course, I wasn't really happy with her either. 

Reclaiming Your House Week

What a week! Starting with the three aforementioned birthdays and a week of revival does not leave much time at home. Throw a messed up vehicle a few other things in the mix, and you are glad the week is over. Needless to say, my house is a plain wreck. My sister, Revka, is having the same problem with her house, and she came up with the Reclaiming Your House idea on her blog, ourfamilyporch We've always been competitive, so I'm going to take her challenge and see who can get done first. If anyone else would like to join us, just mention your progress in the comments section of this post, and we'll see what we've accomplished at the end of the week. If there are no other takers, Revka and I will duel it out between ourselves, and have a clean house to boot. May the best cleaner win!

This was not really flattering

You Are Italian Food

Comforting yet overwhelming. People love you, but sometimes you're just too much.

What Kind of Food Are You?

Will Be Writing More Later

Things have been really busy this past week and will not let up till the end of the week. We had three birthday parties and a two hour play to see this last weekend. Right now we are in revival at church. I'll write more later when I have a little more time.