I'm So Excited!

Jacob and I did the funnest thing last night! For family Home Evening we put together the bed of our first garden. It is going to be so fun! We have already been growing seeds in paper cups and they are ready to plant. So Jacob got some wood planks and leveled them out and made a raised bed for our garden.
It was funny, before the night was over we had our neighbor from across the street bringing over all kinds of manly tools to help out and three little boys from all over the neighborhood kneeling down holding planks of wood and hammering things. I guess there is nothing like the sound of hammering wood together that brings guys from all over to your house :) It was pretty funny.
One of the little kids was about 4 years old and was scared of going near our dogs in case they jumped on him. I told them that, "They didn't bite they just might lick your face." and he said in his adorable southern boy accent, ' Way'L heere's ma face!" I loved it! It made me laugh so hard. I love being around kids.

Then the best part!

We have been trying to do something for a little while now, just for fun. And are now just planing it.
Do you remember playing the MASH game growing up? Well Jacob had the brilliant idea of playing it in a way of randomly traveling. Instead of MASH though we would have NSEW for North, South, East, West directions at the top. And then, well...it looked a little like this last night.

NSEW

HOURS
1. 1
2. 3
3. 2
4. 6


HIGHWAYS/FREEWAYS
1. I75 5. 41
2. 20
3. 27
4. 49



TURNS
1. 12
2. 6
3. 3
4. 9
5. 11

MILES PER TURN

1. 7

2. 8

3. 4

4. 5

5. 10

6. 8

7. 9

8. 9

9. 6

10. 11

We rolled dice to come up with the numbers under each category and then did the little circle thing to cross off numbers. So we will see where we end up Friday night! It should be a very lively three day weekend! I'm Excited!

And the Award Goes to...

Well, we finally did it...we dowloaded the pictures off our cell phones and printed them after 3 years. We thought we would go down memory lane and give out prizes to the best of them...

and the winner is...

"We Thought We Could Make it to Florida and Back/Or How to Change a Spark Plug Correctly"

Our spark plugs had been changed right before my sister and I went to Florida, well about two ours away from home on our way back...thank goodness....the car shut down. The good news...Jacob was in the area and had just left 6 flags. The bad news....(1)it was 5:oopm and a major wreck prevented not only Jacob from getting to us, but every tow truck in the area was rushing to the accident. (2) Jacobs Yonger brother and 2 nephews were with him ( I felt bad they had to be there) (3) Traffic soon came to a standstill after Jacob got there and saw the sparkplug burned off (above is the picture of what it should and shouldn't look like) we had to go through 2 hours of traffic to get to the next exit and buy parts (4) the stores didnt have what we needed and we ended up having to stay the night in a motel. Good news...every one we were with was super nice about it and Jacobs family came down and hitched our car on the back of the truck and towed it home...oh so crazy. That is why this Picture is NUMBER 1.

#2 - Best Neighborhood wagon


#3 - Best Smile




#4 - Best flood in our backyard ( notice the river connecting to the field in the back)

#5 - Biggest Christmas Tree So Far ( I figured hey they all cost the same....why not?)

#6 2nd Runner up for Best Sleeping position ( Our lab, Luck is on his back and Ella as usual wants to be all cozy asleep in my lap)



#7 - 1st Runner up for best sleep position...Ella with her head under the couch.

#8 - 1st place for best sleep position. This dog is NOT allowed on our bed, but we had piled a bunch of blankets on our bed and I think the heated mattress pad was on also, and it was just too much of a temptation. I came in the room because I heard snoring and couldn't figure where it was coming from...and well....here is Ella.

#9 - The Best trip together last year - Washington DC

#10 - Best Dance Moves

#11 - Most Adventurous Turtle - We found this Turtle on the way up the mountain trying to cross the road.

#12 - Most Memorable Anniversary - We thought that we had our nice camera charged but we didnt, we moved onto another smaller camera...the batteries were missing, the batteries in the drawed we dead...so the cell phone took the memorable picture of the night we ate a romantic dinner on the top of a cliff, Jacob almost flinging his ring on accident off the cliff, and jacob proposing again to me. Love it!

#13 - Best Cornbread Ever! - Who could for get my first Cornbread Festival? Fried cornbread, bluberry cornbread, Jalepeno Cornbread - you name it! And then add a buttermilk drinking contest and you have got a winner!

#14 - 1st Runner up - Best Resued Dog - This dog was found with no collar and COVERED in fleas, Ticks, and bites....Jacob rescued him, brought him home, gave him a bath and then took him to his parents house. Look at this poor Dog ... He didnt even want the bacon!....He recovered quickly in the country and was lovingly named Doorbell for obvious houndly reasons:)

#15 - 1st Place Best Rescued Dog - this 6 week old puppy was a drop off on our Porch and became our "Luck"

#16 - 1st Runner up - "Troublemaker" - Ella loves smores ...that is really all I can say about this.
#17 1st Place "Troublemaker" Luck also loves smores ( above) but he also loves Maple Syrup (below) and then getting into his bed and tearing the green fluff out of it and getting it stuck all over his furr.....he was one discourage puppy after trying his best to get it all off....

#18 Best laugh of the Year...my nephew Zach

Well I hope you have enjoyed our awards...Till next year...or two..or three...or four...

Mixing my Two loves...Kids and Photography

You know...I love love working with children and hearing their imaginations create new worlds for them. I love even more when I can help them create a little of that imagination into reality.
When the children showed up for Halloween I had them pose in whatever way they thought, the character they had dressed up as, would pose.
Then I took their pictures home and edited their photos. I then made a "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" book out of the pictures. The results were pretty astonishing, I'm having a bound book made as we speak by BLURB.com.
Here are some of the pics below...

If you would like a picture or your child in a similar way and either want to know how ( you must have Photoshop) or want me to do it for you...Just let me know! I would love to!