Funny

Georgia Washing Machine is the name of the president on the dollar bill according to Rezin!!! He will fight you to the death he is so sure!!!

Stone Mountain

This Santa before he was fondled by Rezin. They are willing to sit by the fake Santa but will go nowhere near the "real" one that isn't really real.
Rezin you little stinker!!! Notice Santa's glasses are in Rezins hands and not on Santa's face where they belong. He looks so guilty.
Such a pretty tree. I so wanted awesome pictures amongst all the decorations but, as you can imagine I was the only one willing to sit still. I need to learn to photoshop them all into the same picture.
This is how kids get sick!!! They were decorating cookies at Stone Mountain and just like every other kid they can't help but lick some of the icing as the make a mountain of it on their cookie.
God please bless their immune systems:)

Mating Turtles

The boys found mating turtles!!!! Poor turtles. They decided to let them go so that they could "keep mating". Lucky for us there were no questions asked. They are learning about the birds and the bees from our chickens, goats, frogs, lovebugs, and now turtles.

My "Flippin" Hat

They decided to throw gang signs for me. What can I say they were born in Santa Ana!!!
Rezin was running down the hall yelling, " I found my flippin hat!!!!!" As you can imagine his wording caught my attention. When he came into the room I realized that he had on a skateboard hat that he is really excited still fits on his rather large brain:) The skateboard is doing a trick so he called it his "flippin" hat. Some things just sound sooo different coming from a four year old.

Boys # 3

While I was getting everyone and everything situated so that I could help Rezin cook, he was going through the utensil drawer. He found the meat thermometer and tried to "plug" it into the wall!!!!! Oh my gosh, you can imagine my surprise when he said "momma why won't this thing plug in?" Oh crap!!! (Cole will discipline me on that word) Then I remembered that when he was trying to use it I said that the batteries were dead so, the next logical thing to do was to try and plug it in.

Rezin Can Cook

Rezin loves to cook. Since the boys watch me in the kitchen following recipes on the computer we decided to make up his own. So here is Rezin cooking Cole and himself eggs for breakfast. Enjoy!!!

Ghetto Blogger

I don't fully know the ins and outs of blogging. There are things that are frustrating me but I don't have it in me to figure it out right now. The foremost frustration is that the laundry story is out of order. There is probably a way to flip it but I don't know it. I also don't know how to put a few sentences under each picture. I will figure it out eventually, maybe. I know that you all know me, I sure know me, and we are all not that surprised I'm sure!!!

Moses' reaction to the laundry

The excitement woke Moses up 45 minutes into his nap, which we all know is no good. (that is marker on his face, drawing helps keep him entertained while we homeschool) And guess what, he had WET the bed!!!!! He was all wet and sad. God is so good though. The first thing that can to my mind was, that children are heritage from the Lord and blessed is he who has his quiver full of them. Then I thought what did women do when they had 12 kids and no washing machine? They were the washing machine!!!

Laundry Gone Bad Con't

I sent the boys outside to play while Moses was asleep so that I could work on my laundry mission. When they got to the door to leave the garage they found this water issue. They were of course loud about it and we were all convinced that our garage fridge was broken and leaking. Until I noticed the water dripping from above us.
The chicken feed got wet!!

Laundry Gone Bad

I have fallen a "little" behind in my laundry!! Between cold weather clothes, excessive bed wetting, cloth diapers (which I really do like), Dan's hunting excursions which require him to layer to the extent of half a load of laundry, and just normal family stuff, I have been trying to find a legit reason to get a front loading washer. Our washer works "worked" perfectly fine until today. I woke up ready to conquer this task today with much ambition. (there are more laundry baskets that the wall is blocking)
P.S. Notice the pee on the matress cover. Oh, my goodness our kids have huge bladders.

Soccer

Moses & Cole Homeschooling

Moses wants to be a part of everything, all the time. He wants to make his mark on everything that we are working on. I think that I spend half of our homeschool day taking him off the table and erasing his pencil marks from Cole's papers, my lesson plans, or whatever else he can get a pencil on.

The best daddy

Dan and the boys reading bedtime stories.

Rezin as Hulk

Hulk Smash!!! You're making me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry!!1

Pow Wow Demonstration

These pictures are of the demonstrations. There were too guys, one represented the east and the other the west. So much more fun to see things then to learn about them in a textbook (we love homeschooling). They described how their tribes were similar and different. They showed us how to make weapons and tools.

Indian Pow Wow

Today we went to an Indian Pow Pow at Stone Mountain. Dan found an arrowhead in our backyard (he has been looking for 3 years, our neighbor has found a handful of them in his yard). This was so exciting for all of us and ever since then the boys have been into Indians. Rezin has decided that this is the reason he doesn't want to wear shoes, him being an Indian and all. We hope to fine moccasins for him. Anyway, the Pow Wow was SO cool. There was a dancing contest for the Indians and they were amazing. You can feel the pride that these people have for their culture. It made my eyes water a bit:)

Fish Heads in my pocket - Boys # 2

A few weeks ago Rezin came to the house crying he was cold. He was all wet and upset because it was cold. I helped Rezin out of his third outfit by 1pm. As I was taking them off I realized there was something in his pocket. Remember: (I hate the smell of fish). I stuck my hand in his pocket and felt cold, slimy, and I just knew smelly grossness. I pulled out FISH HEADS. My first response was a common one, WHY WHY WHY! Cole said, "Oh yeah those are for our chum bag to catch catfish! The boys let me know that I was overreacting and them showed me a ziplock bag of DEAD fish, lizards, and whatever else that they had been cutting up and saving in the fridge downstairs. I guess catfish like gross, smelly, nastyness. Another reason I don't eat fish. I am sad to say that I don't have pictures of this but, I am also sad to say that I don't think that this will be the last time this happens.
Just picture super cute Rezin and Cole looking at me like I'm the one that is weird and Dan trying not to look at me at all. Punk!!
Dan knew about the fish heads and thought that it was SO funny. He was excited to see my response to the heads in his pocket.

More Hiking Pics

Looking for Frogs

Fall Hiking

We went to the mountains to see some fall leaves. God is so good!!!! We are amazed by His creativity. Nature keeps us all in awe of God. We thank God for kids that notice the little things in nature that we could have missed.

Halloween Pics

"We are camping out in 30 degree weather?" Moses is thinking I'll just sleep inside.
Moses you are sooo cute!!
Dan looks like he has been working in a coal mine.

More Halloween Pics

Rezin was the Hulk.

We waited to take a picture until all the kids were done. They were tired and ready to go home after a night of FUN.

Boys and Fire

Ihad tea lights to safely light the pumpkins. But, they had a better idea!! They stuffed the pumpkin with dry grass & hay and then they put burning hot coals from the fire inside. As you can imagine this was very exciting for the ten boys and a few dads at the campout.

Boys #1

I will start with our most recent boy treat let for me (momma). I got in my car for the first time in two days on Saturday and these little treats are what I found. Look at the windshield wipers!!!! You may not be able to tell but, there is a lizard on each of my windshield wipers. I don't know exactly how long they have been there. The sad thing was that they were still barely alive when I tried to rescue them.

Cole & Rezin

Moses & Daddy