Happy Birthday Dear Mommy!!!!!



Ah, what the world be like without Mother's?

Thank you mommy for being our Wonderful Mom.

We love you Lots Mommy!

The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness there of. The world, and they that dwell therein.

Recently two of our good Friends got married, it was such a lovely wedding! Thank you Mike and Amber! we really enjoyed it!
Little boys can get very hungry.
It looks like the ring barer just couldn't wait!
Double time snitch!
The groom and the miniature groom/ring barer
Amos Josh and Caleb where asked to stand.
just in case your wondering, it was Amos's idea of the glasses!
All the grooms men and both Dad's pulled them out just before
walking back down the aisle.

Happy 14th Birthday Sister!
Ruth
Keacha
Ruthie
Keach

Thanks for being such a wonderful sister Keacha!
We love you!

Happy 16 Birthday Elijah!

Happy 16th birthday Elijah!!!!

Thank you for being such a great big brother\ little brother

(mostly big brother because your so tall!.....smile)

Thank you for your kind, loving, gentle attitude. and the so many ways that you are a blessing to all of us. Thank you for milking our milk cow day after
day in sunshine or rain, And for taking on the role of 'Fix it man" when your older brothers are not home.

you are such a wonderful young man, and we are blessed to have you in our Famliy! We love you Lot's James! thanks for being the wonderfull person that you are!!

A very happy birthday to a very special sister!





Happy, Happy Birthday Amy!!!

Thank you for being such a Great sister! thank you for your wonderful

sense of creativitey, and the great love you have for your Famliy!

your love for scrapbooking, quilting, cooking, baking, mothering (and lots more!)
has encourged us to be more useful and creative.

you are a wonderful exemple to all of us, and are a real blessing!


We Love you Amy!!! thanks for being such a big part of our Famliy!!

Happy Fathers Day Dad!

Frog fun!
I don't want to be around when Ruthie sees this picture!

Some fun photos!

Um, do I Know these people!
Fixing the car?! No wait maybe that's junking the car.

Brothers.
People pile.


What did he see!?

I'm trying out my new camera.
What do you think?

A day at the air show

We were able to spend most of saterday at the Manitowoc air show. it's smaller than the EAA, but the airshow itself is still very impressive. I think this F16 is one of our favorite warbirds!











It was a wonderfull time being together as a family and just having fun!

the fire chief of manitwoc let Johnny try on his hat and coat.

I think it looks very nice, but maybe a few sizes to large!

It was a little bit rainy but thankfully they did not cancel the air show!

Happy birthday to our biggest brother! Guess What!?! our biggest brother turned 28!!! Famous Amos, our loving, caring, wonderful big brother is always the one to have around when we got bored, there are countless times that he has led us into all kinds of adventures, like filling up a pop can full of gas and fastening it tightly to the back of our wooden contraption that we called a airplane then putting the two littlest siblings on to pilot He was about to light the wick when mom caught them and made them stop. (thank God for Mothers!) then there was the great "bee wars" ( guess who won!) or the great games invented like bop em on the bean with a rubber tangerine, (the objects used in this game were not really rubber, but a harder plastic, so it had the potential of being painful.) or the iky smell of fat burning, (this was much more fun than the last one, we played it quite often. I don't know why it had to have a name like that though!) and how could we ever forget Amos' army? or the traps in the sandbox? the bible plays he directed us to do bring back the most hilarious memories. I didn't really like the part of acting the pig though. and the cardboard "gardens really didn't taste good. and you know when we were suppose to be rocks? well, I never could hold as still as a stone, even if it was only for a few minutes. with his fun loving attitude, and all the adventures we shared we love our big brother very much and thank God for him. We love you Fame!

Hi to all,

sorry we haven't posted in so long. our computer crashed and it has taken sooo long to fix it. it is all back together now and working, (most of the time!)
as for pictures...well our now our camera is experiencing difficulty's. so until we operate on it to get the delete butten working again, we'll just have to tell you what's up.

Most of us have kept busy (very busy!) planting our garden. it's so funny to see different personality's as we work, some have a "lets work hard and get this done quick" attitude. (unless they think the job is to big or they just don't feel like working.) and the others who can slip into their own world rather quickly. goes something like this.

I see them working. good, lets keep it up.

the next glance in that direction shows you they are occupied as they work with a self told story. that's OK, I think. as long as they don't too caught up in it.

the next time however, I look and their they sit eyes wide staring off in space as the story reaches the climax.
then comes the reminder (hopefully gentle) which shakes them back to earth, to the garden, to the rows of beans behind and in front. O yes, we need to keep planting beans, even if digger digwiller is almost drowning in his well. (their new made up story!)

as of right now we have everything in except the corn and peppers. the peppers just because we didn't get around to it yet. and the corn, because of two legged chicken monsters. OK they are just regular chickens, but they are so nasty! they'll walk right down the nicely planted rows eating corn. since we didn't want to spend a good half of the day catching them, we waited till tonight and locked them up. tomorrow we should be able to plant without the fear of our work being undone.

I know this is not very exciting, just the joys and sorrows of everyday life.

Thank You Lord, for days spent working and learning together.
I am amazed at the way you make beautiful wonderful plants grow out of little bitty seeds. your ways truly are past finding out. I love you Lord!

To raise majestic mountion's, to cause the sea to roar,
to brush a crimson setting sun......

..... to make the eagle soar, To bring the new Born's

cry of life, the hope of every spring. These treasures are the pleasures of the king.
to see his people flourish to live in light of day,

To watch his children grow and know the wonder of his way's.
to feel the joy of ransom heart in all his mercy true,

These treasures are the pleasure's of the king!

Happy 25th Birthday to our dear, dear Sister!

Happy, Happy birthday Rachel!
We all love you very much and are so happy your our sister!

We all love your adventures ways! taking us for hikes, camping in the wood's (and as we do telling stories that make us shiver and snuggle up tight in our sleeping bag's hoping that the little noise we just heard wasn't a wolf trying to pounce down upon us and gobble us up.)

or the Wonderful games you make up, or the little op book's that you create for us , and the wonderful example that you are of a big sister.
All in all, we love you and are very happy to be your sibling's! we love you Teach!!

It's Spring!

Now It 's really begaining to look like spring!
the flower's are opening and the wood's ring with the sweet sound of bird's
singing.


the wood's are so quiet and peaceful.

God made such wonderful little creatures!
we tryed to get a good shot of this woodpecker but it hopped

around to much.

The Wood's are so pretty this time of year!
most of the Flower's are not open but, these look like they will be very soon!
Ezra and Debbie go over the creek.

watch your step!

Spring or Winter? And I thought Winter was over! oh well, lets just hope
all my plants are ok with all the snow.

"God has strategically placed you near some people only you can reach."

G. Wood

Happy Birthday!

Jedidah

always helpful and polite,

we love how you take care of Rachel

We love how you are a peacemaker

We love how you play with us

We love to see you listening to the Lord

We love your extreme sometimes painful honesty

An honoring and submissive spirit to authority

understanding the helpfulness concept.

and it a good thing you are, because otherwise you would'nt have gotten our Rachel!

We all love you Jedidiah and we're so glad your part of our family now!

This is but a journey, we are only passing through. and at the end of the road, when we cross that river and meet our Savior, folded in his embrace we will be finally home. let us not grow weary, but instead let us run with Patience the race marked out for us, so we may hear "well done thou good and faithful servant from our Lord."