Boating in a Coffin

A couple Sundays ago, all us kids (and yes, I include David and Keslie in "us kids"!) went down to the creek to enjoy the lovely day! The kids went boating! Here are the proceeds of the afternoon! Enjoy!

Benjamin in his stock trough! It worked! ;)

The girls watching the funny sight! Lydia is enjoying the water more this year than she did last year! She's ready to dive in! LOL! Not really!

Here comes David and Taylor in the coffin....er...boat Taylor made!

All I can say is that it worked!

And there is Gracie in her water trough!

Ben took Lydia for a little ride but at first she wasn't quite sure she liked it much!

It wasn't so bad after all!

Our lovely creek! This is what sold us on the property! It is stunning back there!

Then after dodging rock from a gracious sister David and Taylor tipped the boat and both guys went all the way under the water! I am afraid us girls were laugh till our sides hurt! It was so funny to see these guys rowing around having fun and then to watch them spill over backwards into cold spring water!

Trying to stay out of the water!


Finally the guys try to bail out the water!


Sarah on her floating device!


Then the guys thought they should try out the main channel of the creek! (Looks kinda like Lewis and Clark! Kinda!)

Take a look at the homemade oars!

My little princess!

If you look hard you can barely see them coming down the creek! I took the kids down the road to pick them up!

But they wanted to keep going!

So we went further and sat at this bend in the creek to wait for them!
They did come down but my camera ran out of batteries! Oh well, at least I got pictures of the earlier part of the afternoon!

Baby Shower and Mother's Day!

The day before Mother's Day Kami threw Keslie a baby shower at the C family home. So mom and us 5 girls loaded up and took a drive to attend our first grandbaby/niece or nephews baby shower! I have to say it was emotional for us because this is my little brothers baby and for mom this is her little sons child! We know David isn't little anymore but we can remember him so! It's still hard to believe he is a father himself! Wow! And on top of it my dear friend is a mother too! Wow! Babies are such a blessing!

About 50 ladies and young girls attended the shower!

Everyone truly showered Keslie and baby with lovely gifts!

Little girls chatting!

Mother's looking at gifts! Mrs. C made this darling diaper bag for Keslie!

Then Gracie and a friend spent a long time folding all the tissue paper and bags!

We spent the night with them that night and then were going to head home the next morning to celebrate Mother's Day with our guys. The C's also came down to stay a few days with Keslie. But that night Willie the cat decided Lydia looked too cozy! At least she didn't know he was there since she didn't like it when he climbed on her before she fell asleep!

At home the kids needed to get rid of some energy so the girls jumped on the trampoline and the boys tried to lasso them! It was so fun to watch and David and Keslie sat there for some time enjoying the laughter and each other! ;)

Determination! He knows what he is doing!

A sweetie pie!

Girls turn to try a hand at the lasso!

Not quite as easy as it looks!

Did she do it?

Hummm...the guys make it look so easy!

There we go! She figured it out!

David takes pity and decides to help the girls!


Not sure how this happened but she sure looks cute!

Mother and daughters!

Another mother and daughter!

Apple Pie Day at the Capitol!

Every two years during legislation session we are able to have a Homeschool day at the Capitol where we deliver a homemade apple pie to each legislator and their staff. We always look forward to Apple Pie Day as it is a great time to see friends and make new ones! There were about 800-1000 people who attended this year! Here are some pictures from Apple Pie Day 2009

This is the hospitality room where food and drinks are served to those coming for the day. It's wonderful to be able to chat and catch up with friends.

Mrs. L was in charge of the food table and Keslie helped all day. They did a wonderful job!

Dad and Mom were in charge of setting up the tours of the Capitol and the Supreme Court Building for the day. Mom had almost 200 emails to answer! Dad handled most of the business of gathering people into the proper groups on the day of, great job Mom and Dad!

The boys practising for the color guard.

The rally on the Capitol steps started out with lovely weather. There is a Homeschool band that played some lovely songs and also a state wide choir.

Some of the crowd, just on the upper section.

Here is a picture of the choir from the side.

See those ominous clouds? We will hear from them soon! Yikes!

The color guard did a great job!


Mr. H, a friend of ours led the choir.

Then it began to P.O.U.R.

Up popped umbrella's, out came the coats, some ran for the building and still others braved the down pour with water streaming down their faces! As you can see by the empty seats, part of the band ran indoors to protect their instruments!

Mrs. K braved the weather even with her camera! She is quite the homeschool leader HERO!!!

Then as quickly as it started, it stopped, the sun came out and dried most of us off! It was amazing how quickly it went from pouring rain and dark clouds to sunshine and fluffy clouds!

Mr. P (in the red tie), and his son, and Mr. and Mrs. B, are on the homeschool board here in our state. The B family did a great job putting this whole event together! Thank you for you dedication and hard work!!

T.J. Schmidt came to speak for us all the way from VA! He is a lawyer for HSLDA.

Well, I hope you all enjoyed this post! Thanks for stopping by!