What we've been doing lately

Cole caught this huge catfish at the lake by grandma's house. He is totally obsessed with fishing and feels like he don't get enough fishing time. The kids fishes at least 5 days a week!!
Rezin did a "Boy's Only" art camp for a week and loved it. He also got to work with clay everyday:) He is such an artist.
Rezin helping knead dough for supper.
Moses & his pacifier:) How will we ever get him to give it up?
Rezin & Moses having a picnic in the dining room! I love it when the kids have fun together.

Keeping It Real!!!

I do have a really sweet friend, Janell and with her there's no pretense, if you're invited over your gonna eat what their family would eat every night and the house is gonna be like it always is, and I LOVE that about her, I love being invited over to be part of the family!

This is what my really good friend Cyndi wrote about me on her blog. You should really check out her blog "www.oldtimecyndi.blogspot.com" and read more on what she had to say on us moms/wifes and all we do, want to do, and want others to think we do! Anyway it got me to thinking.
I could post just this pic of Cole reading to Moses and talk about the wonderful sides of homeschooling and how I love to see my kids help each other out. Only show pics of my house looking tidy, all my kids smiling, and photoshop pics of me if I knew how. So often we only let others see what we want them to see. We don't keep it real.
So many times us moms only see that part! It is so easy to notice what others are doing and what I am not doing. I realize that Satan so wants us moms to either be caught in the trap of being focused on our shortcomings, compared to other Moms, or he wants us to be on the other side and put our focus on how we want to look on the outside. Like Cyndi was saying, wanting others to see us, our homes, families, abilites, etc so much more than they really are. I think that this would be called pride and pride sucks. It is debilatating!!!
Lets keep it real!!! There are only 24 hours in a day. The kids need us, our husbands, friends, we need time with the Lord, house needs cleaning, bills need paying, school needs to get done, and so on. You get my drift.
Moses I just love this kid. He loves, I mean loves his pacifier, and blanket and we have no idea how we will say goodbye to the pacifier.
Little boy booty crack is so cute!!
Cole found these frogs at the lake. They were in the process of mating and he tried to seperate them but daddy frog held on tight. He put them in a tank and the next day we found them still together and the momma was laying a ton of eggs.

What we have been up to...

On Memorial day we took the kids to Amicalola Falls and the kids swam and fished in the water. Moses was not content to be in the mellow pools of water. He really wanted to make it to the raging rapids. He calls swimming - "swimim" !! Dan and I spent the day being pulled by a really strong and determined two year old.
Everyone but Moses and I caught at least one fish!!!
This is so funny. It was pretty hot out and the boys had been out a lot that morning. They wanted to go back out while I put Moses down for a nap. I was fine with that as long as they both wore a hat. This is what I found when I looked out my bedroom window. They are going down into the creek looking for frogs and snakes, one has a winter beenie (which will NOT protect the face and neck from the sun) and the other has one of my sun hats on. I had to laugh and I still smile when I see this picture. At least they listened.
Can you guess what this picture is? I wish I had awesome gifts to give to the first person to guess correctly, but I don't so I will tell you....GOAT BALLS!!!
I told you that they were kinds cute! I can't believe that I just said that.

All Before 10AM!!

Our days are always filled with "adventure" and there is rarely a dull moment. Today has been no different.
Cole, Moses, and I went out to feed animals, let the chickens out of their coop, let the goats into the back pasture, and hang the clothes on the line. While I was hanging the clothes on the line I pulled a pair of jeans out of the laundry basket and something feel on my bare feet. You will for sure NEVER guess and let me guarantee you that it would have NEVER happened in California. GOAT BALLS!!! Yes you read that right. When Dan made our male goats wethers he used the band method. You put these heavy duty bands around their ...... you know and they eventually fall off. Rezin found something cool in the yard yesterday and brought them to me. I told him what they were and he decided to save them in his pocket for daddy to see.
So I washed them, not knowing of course and I know that is gross. But, I am glad that I was on top of the laundry because that could have been really bad left in the laundry room.
I found Moses in the creek. When you let him out he makes a beeline for the creek. He brought some "inside" toys out....which means they probably will never make it back in. When I finally got him out, his cloth diaper was covered in mud and poop!!! He cried all the way to the bath because he would rather stay in the mud and poop.
Rezin was on the back porch and was peeing in a fish aquarium that he had tadpoles in. GROSS I know!!! I don't think that the tadpoles would make it. I have no idea what makes them do these things. I made him pee in the grass and not the tank. This afternoon we will be cleaning that tank, I assure you.
Just think if I updated daily how much adventure I could share with you:)

Misc.

Rezin's first choir performance!!
Moses was so stoked to be at a party with a table full of sweets. He just kept helping himself.
Dan's teeth don't usually look like this. This is the first time Dan has seen our used to be dog "Savannah". She now lives with family that loves her and we love them. Not that we didn't love her. The goats didn't love her and neither did the chickens. She just wasn't a good farm dog.

Stuck in the Mud!!!

This is Moses taking a bath after he fell in the creek. You will understand as you read on.
My tires just kept spinning!!!
This is exactly what I warned Dan about!!!!
Do you think anyone will notice?

The only problem is that it was me who did this!!! I keep telling Dan not to drive through the pasture because it has rained and he will tear up the grass. Well, Dan was out of town. (this sort of thing always happens when Dan is gone hunting or something) The kids and I were going somewhere and I had them changed and "clean" which is a big thing around here. I realized that the animals hadn't been feed yet. I knew that the kids would end up in mud, in the creek (Moses), or something of a dirty nature so I had the great idea of driving them, buckled in, to the chicken pen and then I would run and take care of the animals and the children would be secure in their seats (really long sentence). Well that worked fine and no one got muddy until my big beast of a vehicle got stuck. There wasn't any mud until my car tore up the grass and made some. My tires just kept spinning in the GA clay. All I could think of was me telling Dan he shouldn't do this. I was thinking of all the times I've gotten stuck with him, he was driving of course. We've been stuck in the desert, at the beach, in the mountains. He has been stuck a lot!!! Which I role my eyes and say way do you do this???? I think that I have received a well deserved "FACIAL ". Hopefully we all remember that saying from junior high.
Thank God for a really nice neighbor, who is usually home when things happen while Dan isn't home, came over with his 4wheel drive hunting car thing and got us out. Kevin has saved the day for us more than a time or two. I think that he could start a blog about living next to these CA gone GA people!!!!

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.