Hello Ladies and Gents! How are you all this morning? We are well. Last night we went out as a family to dinner at Pizza-Hut! I can't tell you the last time we did something like that! Actually, I think it was about 10 months ago when we went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast, but even then we had Grandma June with us! It is rather amusing to see our family out to eat! We have been well-trained by Dad to be clever with our money. So during the trip to Cracker Barrel, once we were seated, we all waited to hear the ever faithful "Waters all around!" from Dad. Then, when handed our menus, we dutifully ignored them (or we looked at the pictures of dessert! ;) while Dad and Mama discussed the best way to feed 11 people. I think we ended up by ordering a basketful of biscuits, two side-orders of hash browns, and some ham biscuits. That was divided up between the howling masses. ;) Then Grandma June ordered her meal: a huge breakfast platter. It was so very funny to see her, (who barely eats enough to keep a bird alive) delving into this massive plate of food while the rest of us stared longingly at the empty basket of biscuits. (Cracker Barrel, we found out the hard way that day, doesn't refill your basket. Cheap skates! :) Anyway, last night was different. We went to Pizza Hut, and Dad bought us 4 medium pizzas that were five dollars apiece, and each of us got a trip to the salad bar. (He also bought Pepsi) It made me laugh to see the younger ones who barely knew what to do in a restaurant. They blushed like peonies when the waitress talked to them, kept staring at various things, and Gracie, (who is temporarily, slightly deaf due to fluid in her ears) popped the little button things on the soda-cup lids and crowed loudly and delightedly each time, or else threw a balled up napkin into Sarah's lap and squealed far too loudly. (That only happened once! :) She is usually nicely behaved! :)
I am proud of Dad and the way he has trained us to be thrifty! We hardly ever go out to eat, and last night was all the more special because of it! Thanks Dad! :) -Rachel
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Our Highlights of 2009
As I've been reading about other people's year, I've had time to reflect on how much God has blessed us this year. I decided to list our favorite memories from this year.
January:
Our first official beginning of a year at our new house
February:
The Gentleman from Virginia, Oldest of Many, and Us Two, go on a trip to New York to visit the "laundry fairies" for a week of winter fun!(see below post for explanation of who they are:)
Go cross country skiing for our first time
Watch President Obama's Inauguration Speech
March:
Had first snowfall
Experienced a Ton of rain
April:
Prepped and re-landscaped a womans house for a city-wide garden tour
Planted a 1 acre garden
Went to our first square dance
May:
Started our "farm" with 16 chicks and 2 little piggies
Grandma June got a successful hip replacement(we got a lot of practice with hospice care)
June:
Our good friend's graduation
Our laundry fairies and their 4 nieces and nephews came down
We took a 15 mile bike ride
July:
Rachel's 17th birthday
A huge family reunion/ Grandma June's 80th birthday party
Went to Busch Gardens with the laundry fairies
August:
Sarah's 15th birthday and Leah's 12th
One laundry fairy and nephews come down again
Dad and Mom take an anniversary trip
We have continual volleyball tournaments
We get broiler chicks
September:
The county fair
We enter our broilers in 4-H and they're placed
We see our first live rodeo(and Rachel swears she'll never marry a bull-rider:)
October:
Morgan's graduation
Dad's 46th birthday
A Rejuvenating week at the Daughters of Destiny Camp
November:
Mom and Gracie's 44th and 3rd birthdays
Anna's 10th
The Gentleman from Va's 19th birthday
The Barn Dance
December:
T.G.F.V's graduation
Several Christmas party type things
Christmas
Okay, so I don't have pictures like everybody else has, but I thought some of you would like seeing our year of 2009 summed up!! Hope ya'll enjoyed this!
-Sarah
January:
Our first official beginning of a year at our new house
February:
The Gentleman from Virginia, Oldest of Many, and Us Two, go on a trip to New York to visit the "laundry fairies" for a week of winter fun!(see below post for explanation of who they are:)
Go cross country skiing for our first time
Watch President Obama's Inauguration Speech
March:
Had first snowfall
Experienced a Ton of rain
April:
Prepped and re-landscaped a womans house for a city-wide garden tour
Planted a 1 acre garden
Went to our first square dance
May:
Started our "farm" with 16 chicks and 2 little piggies
Grandma June got a successful hip replacement(we got a lot of practice with hospice care)
June:
Our good friend's graduation
Our laundry fairies and their 4 nieces and nephews came down
We took a 15 mile bike ride
July:
Rachel's 17th birthday
A huge family reunion/ Grandma June's 80th birthday party
Went to Busch Gardens with the laundry fairies
August:
Sarah's 15th birthday and Leah's 12th
One laundry fairy and nephews come down again
Dad and Mom take an anniversary trip
We have continual volleyball tournaments
We get broiler chicks
September:
The county fair
We enter our broilers in 4-H and they're placed
We see our first live rodeo(and Rachel swears she'll never marry a bull-rider:)
October:
Morgan's graduation
Dad's 46th birthday
A Rejuvenating week at the Daughters of Destiny Camp
November:
Mom and Gracie's 44th and 3rd birthdays
Anna's 10th
The Gentleman from Va's 19th birthday
The Barn Dance
December:
T.G.F.V's graduation
Several Christmas party type things
Christmas
Okay, so I don't have pictures like everybody else has, but I thought some of you would like seeing our year of 2009 summed up!! Hope ya'll enjoyed this!
-Sarah
Daniel's Graduation
Hey Everybody! First I wanted to thank Miss Zara and Melissa Ozee for joining our blog! Yay! Now if we can only get one more person we will be at 20! (I strongly dislike odd numbers! :)
Okay! Thanks to all you guys for coming! It was so much fun to host a big function like that in this house! We've always felt that God means to use this big house for ministry, and fellowship with other believers! It is so neat that we also have the opportunity this winter to host church here every week! Anyway! So thanks to all the serving people like Morgan, Katie, Maddie, and several others who wish to remain nameless! Thanks Alaina for watching kids while we got things ready! And thanks to Aunt Christy, Mrs. Mickey, and Mrs. Alison for setting up food and decorating and all that! Also to everyone who washed dishes and cleaned up so we didn't have to do that! And to the Wrights who generously cleaned up the study which was covered a foot deep in board games that the little kids had pulled off the shelves! :) Oh! and Mr. Jack for lending us the tent! We don't have any pictures yet since we asked other people to take photos for us since our camera is so bad, but hopefully soon Daniel will post some on his blog or something. First off we greeted everyone, and then went into the tent for the ceremony. It was COLD out there! And the wind really kicked up and almost blew the tent down! But besides the leg of my chair sinking deep into the mud beneath, there were no mishaps! After the ceremony, we all went inside and ate a delicious dinner! (And the rest of the macaroni had turned out nicely) Mrs. Mickey had been really smart and divided dinner and desserts into three courses. So we had dinner, and then desserts, and then after the hayride, we had a third course with all the "fancy" food like buck-eyes, shrimp, cordial cherries, crackers and cheese, 7-layer dip and chips, and punch! (Though we did have to do an i.d. check to make sure everyone was 21.) (just kidding by the way! :)
Now Sarah is going to write!
Alrighty!
So as Rachel explained, all that happened and then we went out by the bonfire and sang Christmas carols. A few people had brought out guitars so that was nice. After that Dad got together a hay ride (which was last minute because we didn't know what the weather would be like) with hay from inside the tent so it was all dry. That was really fun and thankfully Dad decided to go along the road and not the field, so we didn't have the risk of getting stuck!
Oliver and Hannah Wilson were having a video footage war the whole evening trying to video tape eachother (No clue why.) Anyway when we finally got inside the 3rd course was out so that warmed us all up. We talked for awhile and by around 11:00 or so, the "crowd" was dwindling. (there were like 165 people-some of the families that had RSVP'd didn't show up) We got a game of catch-phrase organized, and played one round of that. Around 12:30 the last guests left and I mentioned to Rachel that church was in 10 hours, AT OUR HOUSE! But, several of the ladies and the Wrights had cleaned up really nicely so we all sat around and watched Daniel open cards and gifts. We got to bed at around 1:30 (after looking through our stores of left-overs:) and woke up around 9:00 to scramble around finishing cleaning up, and eating breakfast, and setting up for church by 10:00. It was Alot Of Fun, thanks everybody for celebrating with our family!
Okay! Thanks to all you guys for coming! It was so much fun to host a big function like that in this house! We've always felt that God means to use this big house for ministry, and fellowship with other believers! It is so neat that we also have the opportunity this winter to host church here every week! Anyway! So thanks to all the serving people like Morgan, Katie, Maddie, and several others who wish to remain nameless! Thanks Alaina for watching kids while we got things ready! And thanks to Aunt Christy, Mrs. Mickey, and Mrs. Alison for setting up food and decorating and all that! Also to everyone who washed dishes and cleaned up so we didn't have to do that! And to the Wrights who generously cleaned up the study which was covered a foot deep in board games that the little kids had pulled off the shelves! :) Oh! and Mr. Jack for lending us the tent! We don't have any pictures yet since we asked other people to take photos for us since our camera is so bad, but hopefully soon Daniel will post some on his blog or something. First off we greeted everyone, and then went into the tent for the ceremony. It was COLD out there! And the wind really kicked up and almost blew the tent down! But besides the leg of my chair sinking deep into the mud beneath, there were no mishaps! After the ceremony, we all went inside and ate a delicious dinner! (And the rest of the macaroni had turned out nicely) Mrs. Mickey had been really smart and divided dinner and desserts into three courses. So we had dinner, and then desserts, and then after the hayride, we had a third course with all the "fancy" food like buck-eyes, shrimp, cordial cherries, crackers and cheese, 7-layer dip and chips, and punch! (Though we did have to do an i.d. check to make sure everyone was 21.) (just kidding by the way! :)
Now Sarah is going to write!
Alrighty!
So as Rachel explained, all that happened and then we went out by the bonfire and sang Christmas carols. A few people had brought out guitars so that was nice. After that Dad got together a hay ride (which was last minute because we didn't know what the weather would be like) with hay from inside the tent so it was all dry. That was really fun and thankfully Dad decided to go along the road and not the field, so we didn't have the risk of getting stuck!
Oliver and Hannah Wilson were having a video footage war the whole evening trying to video tape eachother (No clue why.) Anyway when we finally got inside the 3rd course was out so that warmed us all up. We talked for awhile and by around 11:00 or so, the "crowd" was dwindling. (there were like 165 people-some of the families that had RSVP'd didn't show up) We got a game of catch-phrase organized, and played one round of that. Around 12:30 the last guests left and I mentioned to Rachel that church was in 10 hours, AT OUR HOUSE! But, several of the ladies and the Wrights had cleaned up really nicely so we all sat around and watched Daniel open cards and gifts. We got to bed at around 1:30 (after looking through our stores of left-overs:) and woke up around 9:00 to scramble around finishing cleaning up, and eating breakfast, and setting up for church by 10:00. It was Alot Of Fun, thanks everybody for celebrating with our family!
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