tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33094943272189006702011-07-08T00:52:11.588-04:00Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06326496704609645580noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309494327218900670.post-7445191611731043062009-12-31T15:58:00.003-05:002009-12-31T17:19:02.577-05:00

Here is our family Photo --taken out of the farm. I set the timer and RAN and jumped up on the tractor. How funny.

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EEEEEEKKKKK - Run!

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September: While working in CA, My little sister and I visited a Castle Winery. August: My little monsters start school (her first year)August: Worked in DC. The capital building tour was amazing!July: Went to Kerr Lake, VA, for our family vacation. Great fishing! July: We harvested our first honey. YUM!June: Took Daniel and Cousin Casey to the Pacific for the first time.

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Our new family adventure this year is "Beekeeping". I have learned that 11 year old boys have no fear! See my husband all suited up? See my son in shorts and short sleeves. This frame is covered with bees and the bee hive is right below on the ground with a second hive beside of that. How crazy it that! In this shot they are looking for the queen. She is shy and hard to find.Meme-type thing:

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I went to Salt Lake City and heard the Morman Tabernacle Choir. (WOW!)Installed our first ever bee hives! (no one's gotten stung yet)We caught our first fish of the year. (Can you see it???)And got all dressed up for Easter. (ahhh she loves her shoes)

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First weekend - A foot of snow. Second weekend - - 70's & flowers comming up. This weekend - - expecting snow flurries. Welcome to March!

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Did you have a wonderful pancake dinner Tuesday??? We sure did! Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday celebrates the beginning of Lent (pre-Easter Season) and refers to a day when a thrifty housewife would use up certain food items in the house to prepare for the Lent Fast (which would start the next day). Pancakes are a great way of using up those items. I just love to have the pancakes to celebrate the

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After a week of working and rainy weather . . . my workshop came to an end and the sun decided to shine. I'm flying home tomorrow!

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I leave Saturday for business at Asilomar Conference Grounds, CA (which is near Pebble Beach). It's quite beautiful there. Here's a photo from my last visit.

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Her first ski tri. . .My dear friend tagged me for "6 random things". So, here goes! KATHY'S 6 RANDOME THINGS I love taking pictures! So the only blogger I know, http://pardon-my.blogspot.com/ told me about Wordless Wednesday. It's exciting to get comments back about my pictures from people all over the world. I don't like cold weather! I just like plain things. Plain burgers and sanwichs- just

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My crew enjoys a local hike through the holidays. It's a great way to get out of the house and do something physical after consuming all our Christmas candy. This year we made the trip to Mt. Lake. The lake is one of the few natural lakes in the US. This lake, at full level, is usually about 25 acres in size. The water exits the lake through the natural rock springs under the lake. Unfortunately,

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From me and my crew - - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to ALL of you out there!

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I can’t believe he’s 20. Oh my gosh!!! I'm so proud of him! It's amazing to think about our journey together. And the wonderful people who helped us along the way. It seams like just yesterday that I found out I was expecting. Not in a traditional way. I was an unwed senior in High School with no plans for parenthood at the time . . . I saw a young mother in a local grocery store soon after I

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Fall! A fabulous time! But it doesn't last long enough. Has anyone else been up to the Cascades? It's in Virginia only 25 minutes from Virginia Tech. It's a great 2.5 hr hike. To see more pictures click read more below. And here's a few more.

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Visit http://skyley.blogspot.com/ for more great sky pictures!Our first garden was a WONDERFUL success this summer. For the first time our cabinets are full of food we grew on our own. The corn was unbelievable. And that was even after part of it blew down in a rain storm. Click below to read more and see more pictures! I picked green beans until we had canned over 70 cans. We could have got

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Took my country boy to Philly. It was his first large city trip. He loved the fountains and statues. At this fountain, he just had to see how cold the water was and before I knew it HE WAS STANDING IN IT! (he he he) To be a child again! It's been a crazy month. Unfortunately, finding time to enjoy this bogging picture adventure has had to take the back seat! In summary - - 1) Went from

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She's my girly-girl. But sometimes I see a little tom-boy in her too.THERE SEAMS TO BE A SKY PHOTO THEME GOING ON TODAY! SO HERE'S A SKY SHOT TOO! ("Skywatch" http://skyley.blogspot.com/)Monster #1 is very little like me. She loves ribbons and bows and pretty little dresses. She likes to sit in front of the mirror after her bath and comb her curly hair and put perfume and powers on. It's so cute

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A year ago someone mentioned there may be a bear in the area (a small one). We giggled and said "sure". My husband caught this on his field camera. Unfortunatly, the camera dosen't have a very fast shutter speed (sorry for the blur). Click on the "read more" button below to see the "Rated-R" one! I just couldn't believe it! We couldn't have caught this if we were trying. My hub and I

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Summer started off a bit crazy but we had a great vacation at Buggs Island!What a summer! As my children finished school in June, my father went into the hospital. This seamed to bring time and life to a stand still. He had open heart surgery and for 2-3 weeks his life was dangling between with us – or onward. Thank goodness he came through and continues to heal as we go through the summer.

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Can you see the past . . . present . . .future??       Oh, the things that I see. . . As I look at this old barn I can see the past . . . I remember a time when there was a fence around it to keep the cows out, and how we plowed the field. I remember planting the tobacco plants in the ground when they were only a few inches tall and hoeing around them all summer long.  I remember all the family

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He's wanted one for so long! He offered to pay for it himself. He promises he'll be careful.I just couldn't say no any longer. Monster #2 often gets treated differently do to my experiences with his older brother. Monster #1 use to fall and get hurt often. Once he broke his arm in 3 places WHILE AT CHURCH (being on the rescue squad back then was very helpful). BUT that's a different kid right

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I had a business meeting in Galveston TX last week. This is a great place for a family vacation. It's on an island approx. 1 hr south of Houston TX. I stayed at Moody Gardens which is a WONDERFUL Hotel!! On the hotel property there is an Aquarium, Imax Theater, Rainforest, Water Park and more. Their web site is http://www.moodygardens.com/ . I took these pictures in the rainforest. They also

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I took a photo of monster #3 and "Adobed It Up" today. I'm just learning this program and this simple change took me FOREVER! What do you think??This is a picture I took of one of my little monsters with her new umbrella last week. She thinks it's so special! I wanted to add a little something extra to it for WW so I played around with it in Adobe. - - Which can be a great program but sometimes

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Happy Birthday Daddy!! (Turning 77) At the party down by the creek . . . Monster #3 Sat by the creek and sang.Monster #2 couldn't sit by it, he had to get in!My Dad is such a wonderful man! When I think about what I want my boys to grow up be like, the first thing that comes to mind is my dad. Strong, hard working, a good husband, a loving dad, a provider, a hunter, strick when he had to be,

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(To read about my trip click the "read more" button.) It was time again for another business trip. My meeting was in New Orleans. I wasn't looking forward to the trip as I continiously hear of the crime rate being high, and how many businesses had not returned. But on the contrary, the French Quarter (main business area) was in excellent shape. I felt safe walking around. The music was

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Before Clipping! After Clipping!This time of year is great! When the world is coming back to life. It's not to cold, nor to hot. Not too buggy, and yet things are starting to bloom. And you can see animal tracks everywhere. I love it!!!! I've enjoyed going to the "farm" each week. We still call it the farm. But there aren’t any cows nor crops there anymore. So what am I to call it??

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As of Sunday my smallest curly headed moster will be 4 years old. I just can't believe it. She is a wonderful child. We have truly been blessed! We went to a oriental restarant tonight and my hub. mentioned to the waitres that her birthday would be tomorrow. As we ate our food they brought her a little cake and sang "happy birthday". We were pleasantly supprised! How nice! She was a bit

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Go to Wordless Wednesday at http://www.wordlesswednesday.com/ for more photo fun!Taken while hiking at Lake Tahoe, November 2007. What a suprise!

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There isn't anything better than working on the farm, spending time with my parents and teaching my children about stickers! The kind that leave scratches instead of ones you put on paper. (Picture taken 4/2007 yet we were doing this exact same thing last weekend)

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A couple times a year I am ask to be a fill-in speaker at my church. I attend a small United Methodist Church out in the country. It's always very special for me to do this. I hope you will enjoy, "Removing the Earthly Barriers".And I begin . . .This is an exciting holiday season isn’t it. I must ask you, how many of you have already started to hang your black, green, and purple Easter lights

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Today's a bad weather day - The word for the day is - Lazy!

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My first Wordless Wednesday! I'm not sure how this really works yet. But encouraged by my friend, I'm jumping right in. I'm also new at blogging too. Welcome to my site.

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3 yr monster has learned to use the scissors! And just in time for Valentines. I drew the heart shape on a folded piece of paper and she successfully trimmed it out. Not in perfect order but still good enough to recognize that it was a heart shape. Using that new trick I had her glue it (with a glue stick for no mess) to the center of a piece of paper and then put the letter “I” on one side

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I sat on the couch as my three year old “investigated” my bare belly. She is so inquisitive these days. She talked about my belly button and poked at a couple freckles. She was so sweet and gentle as she played. I said, “Look at this”, and I showed her the line on my belly from the C-section. And I proceeded to tell her, “This is where the doctor took you out of my belly when you were just a

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Tuesday, on my way home from work - - -I was turning off a main road onto a secondary when a puppy went right under my van. OH MY GOSH!! I stopped suddenly. I didn't heard a thump. I looked in the rear view mirror and the cutest little puppy came into view. Taking a breath of relief I started to drive off and he followed me. I made another turn and he was running as fast as he could. I just had

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I let a 4th grader hurt my feeling. How do teachers do it!!!!Last year I signed Monster #2 up in cub scouts. I was active in cub scouts with Monster #1 (led meetings, taught first aid, etc). With Monster #2, I haven’t been quite as active. Several of his friends were going and it started off great. Over half way through the year I realized (along with many parents) that the leader was, well,

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Hello out there. Well, here I am blogging. Who will read this I wonder??? My good friend Michelle, living in France, has brought me here to this point. At one time I had many friends who all lived in the same area but now I have fewer friends, more children, and the friends I still keep in contact with all live apart now. I wish I had more time to talk with friends but the kids keep me very busy.

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