Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Dad!!
Today my dad is another year older....we won't say how old though! :) I am putting a picture of both my mom and dad for two reasons. 1) I couldn't find one of just him that he wasn't being weird in and 2) because their anniversary was October 9th. They have been happily married for 17 years! (That's a long time.)

Wow! It's been entirely too long since I last posted! Here's our summer in a short summary.
Hannah and Nick spent 5 weeks at our church's camp working on staff there.It was a ton of fun but very tiring as well! Macy and Peyton enjoyed staying at home,although picking up all the responsibilities of their wonderful older siblings wasn't so fun! :)
We started school August 2nd!! At first I thought it was a crazy idea, but knowing that we are scheduled to be done mid-April isn't too bad. Nick and I are in our Junior year (yikes!),Macy is in 7th and Peyton is in 5th. So far the school year has been very busy but that is better than being extremely slow and boring!
We just got done with Missions Conference at church on Sunday. It was a busy week but exiting as well!
So that is just a very,very brief update but at least it somewhat catches us up!!
I will be posting some pictures hopefully in the next couple of days and will be getting much more frequent with posting!
~Hannah

So here are just some very random pictures of us! It's really late and I'm really tired so I decided to post some pictures.Some are a little more embarrassing than others and believe me,if I knew I wouldn't have mad family members I could post some even more embarrassing ones. I'm too nice and kind for that though! :)

I guess this isn't us! These are just some baby goats and one of our calves.

That's me(Hannah) and I have a very logical explanation for this picture but we won't get into that tonight!

This is Nick like two years ago! He was (and still is) such a nerd!

Here is a picture of all of us. It was for the cover of the CD we made for Christmas gifts that year.


That's not us either.....just a very fat cat!

Poor Peyton! She was so tired on our way home from church one night that she knelt on the floor of our Yukon and fell asleep with her head on the seat!


The girls were having fun with the camera!!

These pictures make me kinda sad....they look so old!



I think their brains have been a little warped! Just kidding! They are just weird.(That's because they spend too much time with Nick!)
So this post was pretty random but just looking through all our pictures made me laugh! We have so many good memories and I wish I could share them all but it's midnight and I feel like a zombie so I better go to bed!

~Hannah

Quick update........

Hannah:Four weeks ago I began piano lessons at the Mount in Atchison!! It has been fun but frustrating at times!I'm not used to people telling me how to play anymore! Anyway, along with that I've been helping a family that we have known for a long time.I get up and leave the house around 7:45 almost every morning and don't get home until 5,6 or sometimes 7:00 in the evening! I help take care of the kids and help clean the house.It's a long story! I've also really been seeking God's Will concerning college.I'm only a Sophomore (almost a Junior!!!) but I have begun to really start praying about this as college is only two years away! So in my spare time (when I have some) I still enjoy reading and learning more about music. Helping with the garden,keeping up with my chores around the house and organizing sheds and Sunday School supply boxes also find their way to the top of my long list! (smile)

Nick: Where do I start?? He's has been busy with mowing,gardening,and doing things that dad doesn't have the time to get done.Oh! And how could I forget turkey hunting?? These days it seems that he breathes,sleeps and constantly thinks hunting. I don't know how he has the patience to sit out there for so long but he does!He also somehow keeps up with being a pest but I guess that's what he is here and always will be here for!

Macy: She is quickly growing up! She's getting taller and she looks so much older!She still enjoys playing outside,messing around with the animals and following Nick's every move! She has got up once to go turkey hunting but another favorite thing of hers is to sleep, so early morning hunts aren't really her thing! She is truly becoming a young lady and her sweet (but ornery) spirit is so much fun to be around!

Peyton:Well,she's the youngest.Do you know what that means??! :) Peyton loves to do her makeup and hair and dress in big pretty dresses with matching bows!She truly seems to be that 10 going on 21! (So much different than Macy and I!)Jumping on the trampoline,riding her bike and playing with her baby dolls are also some of her favorite things. Peyton takes piano lessons and seems to enjoy it for the most part. She definitely likes to have control of each situation,and she enjoys telling we other three how it is.But I guess there has to be one of those in every family! (big smile!)

So this is just a quick update on us that is long overdue! Sorry for the long wait! Hopefully there won't be quite so much of a time lapse before the next post! :)

~Hannah

He Lives!.....

He lives! Christ Jesus lives today!
He walks with me and talks with me
Along life's narrow way.
He lives, He lives,
Salvation to impart!
You ask me how I know he lives?
HE LIVES WITHIN MY HEART!

As we celebrate tomorrow we must be always conscious of the true meaning of Easter. It's no the chocolate(smile), or the cute little bunnies, but rather the fact that someone loved you and I enough to die on the cross and raise from the dead three days later, all to insure eternal life in Heaven for all who accept Him! Jesus Christ loved us enough to die for us.....how can we not give one day out of the year to celebrate His coming, His death and His resurrection?
As I "sign out" I would like to say that I hope you have a wonderful Easter 2010!.... And that you're weather is as wonderful as ours! It's finally beginning to warm up and be "springish'!

P.S.This next week is going to be another busy one but hopefully I'll get some blogging done....maybe even with pictures! (smile)

~Hannah, for the 4 of us!

Long Blog Silence.........

So I can definitely say that there has been a long silence on this blog. I can guarantee that it's not because there has been nothing going on,because ,in fact there has been much going on and this is the reason that I haven't blogged.
We have all been busy with individual activities (fishing,playing catch,jumping on the trampoline and so on). Also, because it has finally warmed up we can go outside and get a couple things done out there. Such as semi-cleaning out the chicken coop, cleaning out the south side of the goat barn where we keep canning jars and some other storage stuff, and preparing for our huge garden! (Well,it will be a huge garden if it doesn't get completely washed out by all the rain!)
At this point right now I am sitting on the bed in a hotel in Hays,KS. We got the privilege of being able to come with dad for a business trip. Oh! the joys of being homeschooled! :) The drive was only about 5 hours, but that's long enough to drive a person nuts when you are squished in a Mountaineer with 5 other people(actually 6 because my uncle came with us,he does the same stuff at work as my dad)and everyone's luggage. Praise the Lord though, our wonderful neighbor let us borrow a luggage holder that attaches to the rear bumper of the vehicle so alllll the luggage was not inside the car with us!
Macy forgot to bring her digital camera so I can't get any pictures on the blog. Sorry!Right now, though, the only thing I'm worried about it what Nick is going to do to me.......He shot a hair tie at me so I picked it up and shot it at him. I aimed right for his neck, most definitely not expecting to hit him their ( if at all) and- oh my goodness! I did!!! That normally would not happen and on the rare occasion that it does he usually gets back at me pretty good!
Well, it's time to go.....I've been rambling. I will hopefully get some pictures taken and a new post up here soon!

Well, it's been awhile since I last posted! There hasn't been much going on around here, amazingly! The snow is all starting to melt and now we have a very large amount of mud everywhere! I am welcoming the mud though with a small smile because the weather is starting to warm up bit by bit and I just heard the news of a thunderstorm scheduled to roll in this weekend! Yay! I love thunderstorms and they are a wonderful sign of spring! (Although it will add to the mud collection.)
This picture really has nothing to do with the coming of spring or thunderstorms, or melting snow,it's just a cute picture of our wonderful dog named Ruby!
Well that's all for now. I shall return though! Over and out!