house building......

Today Daniel poured the concrete in his walls!!! Yay!! Sooooo we all went out to "help" work and cook burgers out in the woods! It never gets old doing stuff together as a family! Even my dad and Shirley were here as well as Dave, Kate, Lil' Mavie and baby Ahlgren due in Dec.! Good times with very special people! I am blessed to have all the children here and Caleb's wonderful girl, Kristen!!

                                                               they got their "own" things going on!!! Ha!!!               

                                                                      Mavie and Mercy!!

Happy Tuesday!!!!

yay!!

They are here!!! Caleb and Kristen came for a visit!!! Also my dad and Shirley are here too!!! So I guess its kinda like a party!! It feels good to have all 12  children home! They are so grown up as I look around! Adults!!! Their own lives, own journeys! Well, its wonderful the Lord gives grace to momma's hearts!

Caleb came with a purpose to work on his house to at least make it where the elements will not mess all what he has put into it and hopefully he will have his walls all ready for concrete by the end of the week or early next week! Daniel is pouring the concrete in his walls tomorrow so a busy day ahead!! And Kristen will be Supervisor!! :) Fun times!!

Hope your Monday is amazing!!!

instafriday!!!

How can Friday's come around soooooo fast???  Well, I am glad its Friday because I L.O.V.E instafriday!!!! So here is the week in iphone pictures!!!

                  went to an awesome wedding!!!

                                                                                                                       ready for the wedding!!!                           

                our barn!!

       no matching sox, but cute anyway!!!                                    

 

a few extra passengers!!

                                               

                      


            frog, prince and a princess !                                                              got my hair highlighted this week

                                                                                                                                             














                                           this was at the guys job site, 1800' s            

lots of old buildings in our town

 












  

friends, baking cookies and movies!!                                                                                                    
.......and this 66 foot soda bottle is at Pop's Soda/gas station bout 30 min from our house on historic route 66!!                                             

and we bought this DVD, they all loved it!

Hope you all have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by!!!

 

a walk!

Josiah had to take me on a mini hike this morning to see if it was a place he can go hunt! I told him it was fine but I also stopped along the way and took a picture!! There are some neat things that are kinda hidden but sometimes a walk with an 8 year old lets me see what we are really blessed with......a safe place for our children to roam and explore and more than that, to "see" God!!

Well, I thought I was toast!! My treadmill bit the dust!! I had been walking on the road, but its gravel and it really is not comfortable to do that, especially if you walk really fast! I seemed to always be close to twisting my ankle and not having a steady footing! Sooooooo, I checked out other options to maybe "go" to but finances hindered any other options right now! I got to thinking of our trampoline and I have never been a "jumper" like the children!! They LOVE it and not long ago we replaced it with our 4th mat!! That tells ya how much they LOVE it!!! I did some googling and found out this information!!!! SO if you have a trampoline why not get with it!!! Its really relaxing and I feel it produces a way better cardio workout than I was getting walking!! Let me know if you take it up!!

Hope you have a great Tuesday!!!

over the top wedding!!!

                    Anna's friend (mine too!!) Jamie!!!                               my dear friend Natali!!!

On Saturday we all went to a wedding!!! It was the most awesome wedding I have ever, ever, ever been to!! Do you understand??? ha!! It was near Guthrie out in the country!! Several things made it stand out!!! Course the Lords presence there!! Then so many really wonderful idea!!! One was at the guest sign table, they had this tree print framed and everyone inked their finger and pressed it on the tree!! The simple yet warm decorations of Fall and country mixed were amazing, like the manure/compost/mulch(my friend Natalie told me to go with compost instead of manure!!) piled around the trees with old doors, pumpkins, flowers. They had an old wagon for gifts. The reception was incredible!! A huge tent decorated with lights and tissue paper flower things strewn from the top to outer edges under the tent. The two things that were so awesome to me was the tiny little jelly jars made by the family as gifts to all that attended!!! I have never seen a "Pie Bar" at a wedding, totally authentic!! Everyone drank their tea or lemonade out of pint mason jars with tied with little rope and brown tags to write your name on and candy striped straws!!! And did I mention, they had a full fledge BBQ meal!!! There were round tables under the tent and the sweetest decorations on each table!! Lotsa candles, chimeneas, lights........this bride out did it!!! I was inspired!!! Wish you could have been there!!!

There is another BRAVE lady/family that lives upon this earth, besides my bestie Natalie.......Melissa's family/mom!!!! They are having us for dinner tonight!!! Yea for her, Yea for us!!! I dont think I mentioned it but Melissa, Elijah's gal, is in Wales!!! She is doing an exchange program and will be there the first semester!! We are able to text her and Elijah does skype with her, so that helps but we miss her soooooo much!!! But some fun news is Elijah and Melissa's mom are going to Wales in November to see her!!! Howza bout them apples????? Thing is.....I dont think he will want to come back, but will haveta!!!

But before the evening dinner engagement, two little girlies have a birthday party to attend!! Looks like our Monday is "booked!!"

The WHOLE family went to see Courageous last night!!! A must see!!! What a powerful message once again!! Hope you all have it in your plans to go see it too!!

Did anyone check out the Fall link I had in the Fall Ideas post????Anybody being crafty??

Ps 61:2 has been what I am seeking to cling to as of late, in all the changing season of my life!! From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than I. That last part is what I like! I feel so pulled down by sin, self, circumstances.......I want to be "lifted" up higher than all of that! So its a cry, a prayer!!

Hope your week goes well!