Monday, November 29, 2010

Thanksgiving in Henderson

We had a great Thanksgiving in Henderson with Chad's mom. Gramps and Grammy were able to travel from Montgomery to be with us for a couple of days. We spent lots of time eating, watching sports, and playing games. It was great being together!



Cooper and Gramps

The boys jumped on the bean bags catching football over and over and over! They were quite entertaining!





Cade and Gramps

Chance and Gramps

Cooper helping himself to some apples and peanut butter!

Chance was very interested in the project Grammy was working on.

We are so thankful they got to come for a visit!!

A Great Thanksgiving

Spent Saturday in Savannah at my sister Amanda's house with about 40 or so other family members enjoying great food and fellowship!
Getting ready to eat!

Cade with his "cornucopia"

Time to eat!

What Cade spent much of his time doing! He's been loving football lately!

Sarah and the boys. They took pictures together last Thanksgiving so Sarah decided to make it a yearly thing! Once again she got great pictures!

I took these "cornucopias" for the kids (and adults) to enjoy!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

What Books Have you Read from this list?

Copied this post from my friend Becky's Blog. As I looked through the list I realized how many books I started and never actually finished! Maybe one day I'll go back and try them again! Several of these I read in high school.

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.


1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - How have I NOT read this one? I am going to though!
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert )
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola (About to start)
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving with Cody and Lauren

Last weekend Cody and Lauren came for an early Thanksgiving visit. As always we enjoyed their visit very much....it just wasn't long enough! We look forward to seeing them again in a few weeks for an early Christmas celebration! I didn't get very many pictures but here are a couple we got before they left on Sunday.


Pilgrim craft

Our last craft for the Thanksgiving week was making pilgrims. I had Cade and Cassidy both out of school on Wednesday so we had a full house. They love doing crafts just as much as my other kids do so I saved this craft for when they could do it with us.




Friday, November 19, 2010

What to do?

What do you do when you have 3 empty toilet paper rolls BUT you need 4? Well, you do whatever it takes to get a fourth! Even if that means emptying an entire roll of paper just to get it!


Did I really do that?? Yeah I really did! We remind the boys often not to unroll too much toilet paper and then what did I do...I unrolled the entire roll on purpose!! Don't worry, I reminded them again how they shouldn't do what mommy did! It was an emergency...I needed that roll :-)! Chad, of course, was thrilled when he came home and saw this. I don't know what the big deal is. It will get used just like it would have all rolled up nice and neat! Hey... I had 4 kids ready to make a turkey and only 3 empty rolls. That just wouldn't do! Could we have waited until another day to make our turkeys? Yes of course, but we didn't want to!

And just look how cute they turned out! Definitely worth the mountain of toilet paper now sitting in my bathroom!




The boys liked the turkeys and were really excited to show Cade the big pile of paper as soon as he got home from school. I heard, "Hey Cade, come look in mommy and daddy's bathroom. " Cade said, "whoa!" Chance said, "mommy had to do that so we could make turkeys." Ha! I may need to remind them again how we shouldn't pull off too much toilet paper...unless mommy says it's okay!

Raindrop

Last night the 1st graders put on their first annual Thanksgiving program. It was obvious the kids had worked hard on their program. They did such a wonderful job. Each child had an Indian name for the program. Cade's name was Raindrop! He was so cute in his Indian costume that he decorated himself!



Me and my 3 indians!


We were so glad Rah Rah could join us....


..and Papa and Clara Ruth


Cade with his wonderful teacher Miss Amy!




As soon as he was free to go he raced back to Chad's office and changed back into play clothes! Boys!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Turkey in disguise

The first graders were given a project where they were to disguise Tom Turkey so that he wouldn't be hunted for Thanksgiving dinner. Rah Rah helped Cade with his project. Cade chose for his turkey to be disguised as a farmer! He did a great job.

Popcorn creation

With Thanksgiving just around the corner we have started enjoying some thanksgiving activities here at the house. Yesterday the kids made these pilgrim hats using popcorn. It was a fun activity for them and they got to eat the leftover popcorn which they enjoyed!



Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Ladies Day!

Aprons- Tied With Love

This past Saturday I was blessed to be able to attend our Ladies Day. What a wonderful morning it was. Laurel Sewell spoke about our relationships with other women, our husbands, and our children. She is an excellent speaker and left us all with plenty to think about. She gave us an acrostic to help remember her main points. I'm not going to go into detail about each letter but I will share what each letter stands for. To go along with the theme she spelled out APRONS!

A- attitude of kindness (Colossians 3:12)
P- pure (James 3:17)
R-respecting and submitting to their husbands (Ephesians 5:33)
O- organized- workers at home (Proverbs 31:27)
N- nurturing, loving their husbands and their children (Ephesians 6:4b)
S- sensible, sober-minded

For Success in Relationships
1. validate One Another
2. Avoid being critical of each other
3. Do not show contempt for one another
4. Avoid being defensive. Don't bring up the past
5. Resolve conflict peacefully
6. Avoid assigning negative motives to the other person

The decorations for this year of course included aprons. I loved the tables which were decorated by different ladies of the congregation. Here are just a few of the tables we got to see. There were 21 tables and they were all lovely!

Each table was different and I know held many memories for the person who decorated it. I don't know who did these first 2 tables. I wish I would have gotten a picture of all 21 tables but I'm sad to say I didn't.




Chad's mom decorated this table.


My friend Becky decorated the coke table.


And to top off an already great morning..I won a door prize! I got to take this apron home with me!!