Service With A Smile

It was an honor to serve our Mother and Grandmother on the family workday.

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home,

and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

I Tim. 5:4

I'm glad this was only the shed and not the house."Yep, this is gonna be a long WORKday."
Lots of diligent workers for lots of hours.Much needed tools.Making progress.
There's now plenty of firewood for our loooong winter, ha ha.
Cut and drag,
Cut and drag,
Don't stop now,
No time to lag.

Dad has the great idea of pushing all the brush instead of dragging.
(This turned hours into a few minutes.)
Service with a (serious) smile:)

What, no java in hand?!?
"Nope, I exchanged it for a wagon, but have no fear, it's only temporary."
:)
We can always count on the "Secret Garden Gal" to make everything
look spiffy.Still Cutting.
Our special visitor puts on a show for lunch.
Jon cleaning out all the "survivors" in the shed,
while his little friend flies by to see the progress.

Still cutting, but on a much smaller scale.

The littles worked diligently.
Some of these weeds they are pulling are briars.

One of the "Merry Maids".

The wagon needs a refill.

(Before they started, you couldn't even get through here.)

She's really not hiding, but pulling weeds, really.

I don't think this needs a caption, but if need be....here goes.

(Liv Mowing)

We love you Mom and Granny so much.

These verses speak to us about you:

Prov. 31:10-31 (You are a virtuous woman.)

Ephesians 5:2 (A sweetsmelling savor.)

Psalm 1:1-2 (You meditate day and night on God's Word.)

What a Godly example you are to your family.

Thank you.

Jonathan

Here's Jonathan!

He's a nice fellow. He enjoys life to the utmost:)

As you will find, he is indeed a very serious young man.....
(Well...., not exactly.)

"Getting pictures is hard work!!"

Jon was by far the hardest to take a serious
picture of!!!

(ahem... See what I mean?)

Y'all enjoy life now, ya here!!

And come back and see us again!

~God bless~

Posted by: Ariana

Picnic in the Pasture

Preparations by: Ariana

Time for lunch....................
Being served brings a smile,
and getting a break brings smiles, too.
"Did somebody say EAT"?

James enjoys life more than anyone I know.

(Wish he could stay young.)
Christiana, James' twin.

Jon is a happy man when he's outside, working

and

not inside, doing school.

A little football before work starts back up.

That calls for some sweeeeet iced tea, ahhhh!!

(No, momma doesn't have coffee in that cup :)) Starting things back up.
"Thanks for coming to the picnic. Hope you left me some."

(Ariana's friend, ha ha )

A Day with the Boys (and girl)

These boys have been signed up for a baking auction, NOT of their choosing.

The rule is they have to bake "anything" of their choosing, with no help from the ladies,

and

it has to be from scratch.

(As you will notice, Gabriel's isn't exactly from scratch, but for him, it's scratch!!)

Here we go.

They've been outfitted by the ladies and the rest is up to them.


They've been in the kitchen about an hour by now...
Getting bored?"What am I gonna do now, I can't even read the recipe!"
1. Why is he using the stovetop, when we have 2 empty counters?
2. Who is going to clean up this mess when he's finished?
3. Who's idea was this!!?? He's happy now, now that it's been 2 hours and he's seeing some progress
with this "boxed" cheesecake :)
(You would think it was made from scratch or something)

Gettin a little sidetracked, I'd say.

A cowboy's life is NOT in the kitchen.

(Atleast not this one.)

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FLORIDA RAPIDS

You didn't realize rapids were in Florida,

Well, let me tell you........

they are now.

Just a little cooling off in the 100 degree weather in October.

"Tom, turn down the pressure!!"

This is too much fun.

(You can usually find Mary with the boys.)

The banks of this river are about to overflow.

Awww

See y'all down river.