Sarah is my sister.she plays what I play. and she loves horses. and now I've seen horses up close I think I LOVE horses!!!!!!!!!

Southern Heritage Ball

Third Sister is VERY happy

Oldest Sister

Second Sister

The wonderful violinists - who by the way I forgot to tell them that they sounded really good.
Great job. It sounded really pretty!

The Allamande position - I misspelled that, but you get the jist of it.

Daddy and Little Sister

The Ballroom

Two sweetie pies!

"No go there!" Needless to say, sometimes it got confusing!

Little Princess

Three of my lovely sisters.
Intent on learning this dance, if it's the last thing they do!

I never could get that dance.

Last night we were able to attend a Southern Heritage Ball hosted by a close friend. We had so much fun, laughing, dancing, and sharing friendships you find nowhere else...




Thank you for the fun time!

Friends and Family - dinner

What better way to have violin lessons than this? Our teacher is a good friend, our age, and the oldest of one of the sweetest families we know!!! A lesson and a meal, it was so much fun.
Not to mention we chased a rebellious cow, hiked to their creek and laughed more than we have in a while. AND! We finally watched Kong-Foo Panda! We are yet to see Wives and Daughters or Batman, but we ARE getting there guys!

The hike to the creek was an experience. I made the mistake of not wearing waterproof shoes. (fortunately I did wear hiking shoes) so Rachel had to escort me across!

Jess

BTW I believe they were having Bible Study in the photo! But I am not sure!

Everbody's Wheat Has Arrived!!!

Well today we got the call from our truck driver that he was in Chattanooga or something like that.
Anyway we called up a few of our friends and they came to help us unload well we were in the Piggly-Wiggly parking lot and we all gathered around and started unloading the truck we had a rough start but once we got things going real well it went pretty smooth and then once we got it all off the truck and into our 4 cars and 2 trailers we all started off to our house and then we started unloading the cars and trailers and then we all had cookies. The 3rd photo for the top is the best I could do to get all our wheat in the picture.
Thank you everyone who helped us out:
Mrs. L.
Mr. B.
Thank you for driving your kids here.
And everyone who helped unload:
Josh L.
Jacob
Stephen
Josh B.
Caleb
Daddy
Mommy
Jess
Rach
Erin
Emily
Ryan
Jamie
Sarah
And Michael.
We would still be unloading!!!

A Normal Birthday At Our House

So it is your birthday!!!

You start the day out by everyone singing to you to wake you up!
And...you don't have to help make breakfast!

Then before we start breakfast you get sung to again which is always exciting seeing as how not one of us can carry a tune and we all like to sing our own little way for example one person will decide to come in with a simply terrible bass part while another will come in with a ear-piercing-glass-shattering soprano.

You get to open a present at the breakfast table and then you get to take off from chores afterward.

You get to make your own cake and ice-cream -that is if we remember!
And through out the day you get special privileges like no school work,you get to pick the movie if we watch one, get the mail, and so on.

Well then dinner rolls around.

Well your siblings have made a special dinner for you and your Mom&Dad because they are so wonderful -Right Jess?:~)
So you eat with your parents while you listen to the rest of us eat in the kitchen -Yikes!

Well after dinner we all get together for cake and ice-cream and someone says something like "Um... Where's the ice-cream?" Well we forgot to make it!
So we all raid the freezer to look for ice-cream from the last birthday that is one of the good things about being in a big family- the ice-cream was only a few weeks old!
Well we all eat then we move on to the presents!


There are like 50 cameras all taking your picture OK maybe not but it sure seems like it.
Well say you start with a card from your grandparents and you get around 10 dollars,

Michael takes it and wads it in a ball,

Erin tells you that you could get a violin mute,

Daddy rolls over and snores,

Rachel asks what you got,

Jamie takes a picture,

Sarah chases Michael,

Mommy tells Michael to give the money back,

Emily asks how much you got,

And someone shoves another gift in your face.

When its all over you are sad yet glad that your family loves you so much!-Right Jess:~)
And the next morning everything falls back into routine like nothing ever happened until another birthday rolls around!

-Erin

Michael Touches The Rain

This is a picture we took one time of Michael reaching out to touch the rain.
Emily told him to put his hand out for the rain and when he did we took this picture.

Posted by Jamie with a little help from Erin

Friends and Family - hiking

Just kidding!

After the hike up the cliff, I mean hill!, we stopped at the cross.
Daddy wished his burden would fall off, like in Pilgrims Progress, but unfortunately Baby Brother and the backpack stayed on!

Baby Brother loved their trains

Lots of Kitties

Second Sister and "Skunk-face"
They named him we didn't

I am NOT killing it! I am being very gentle!

Finished!

Oldest Brother at the chapel!

Taking a break - a much needed break!

Oldest Brother inspects the great and interesting rock

Everyone stand on the edge of the rock and make the mom's nervous

My sweet brother

The moms and two of their little ones!

We had so much fun with the B Family. There were 17 kids and it was so much fun.
A hike to the top of the mountain, look at the cross and the chapel, and then back down the cliff... I mean trail! It was a trifle steep!!! But we had so much fun.
Don't ask how far it was, because all I got out of them was that it was 20 up and 20 down. Yeah right!

You can't tell, but I am way above them!

Sweet Little Princess

Mommy and Mrs. B- two great moms

We were hiking, so it's a little blurry, but here's Little Sister.
It was a great trail!