Camping trip #1.

We LOVE camping.....
The boys first view of Lake Michigan....looks so much like the ocean!
Sammie caught a fish!!!
It was very hard for cassie to make herself touch the fish...she caught 4!!

A little windy,but totally gorgeous!
Sammie loved the sand!
CHEESE!
Almost the ocean....ALMOST!:)

The dune hill that we didn't climb!
The trail that we DID take.
My girls,the boys were taking a nap with daddy this time.

The beach on lake Michigan.

playing at the camp site in the leaves.
RUN CASSIE!!!
Max thought the leaves were great.
Ezra wore this suit most of the time!:)We had a ton of fun,EXCEPT for the misquito's!!They were HORRIBLE!!!We ALL got eaten up!!!The kids did great sleeping though,which was nice!We are glad to be home though.

Tyson's hair!!!

Tyson's hair had it's one year anniversary on June 10th!I actually caught him smiling!!!Amazing huh?
I think every woman that see's him can hardly hold themselves back....from touching his hair I mean!:)I like it okay,all except for the fact that most days he wears a headband!!!I can't get over that for some reason!Oh well,it's his hair!!:)

My new purchase.....

Is that not cool?I bearly have room for it but I could not pass it up!We went to our church's rummage sale this morning and it had 50.00 on it, but everything was 50% off since today was the last day...so I went up to pay 25.00 and it turns out that they were taking 75% off of furniture(they didn't want to have to haul it away)So,I got this LOWERY organ for 12.50!!!!!Now, I have no idea how to play the organ ,but my mom does!:)I have been told I need to learn to play "take me out to the ball game" FIRST!!!:)Regardless, I can teach some basic piano to Cassie and Sammie since the keys are the same.I LOVE to find this kind of deal!!!Makes me SO HAPPY!:)
The boys asolutely love to play on it!
Sammie plays the keys and sings mary had a little lamb!Even tho' the notes are totally wrong,it sounds completely adorable!:)
Cassie has memorized mary had a little lamb that Aunt Steph taught her.Cuteness!

Kitties!

This is Samantha with our newest addition:Tinkerbell!:)
Cassie with the other new addition,Jasmine!

they are sisters from a friends liter of cats.
I love Jasmine's furr.So cute,she like a little fuzz ball!
We got them collars but they are SO huge,they kept getting their paws stuck so we had to take them off!
Pretty Tink!Samantha picked that name out herself!
She is such a mild mannered kitten.She let Sam hold her any way she wanted.I know, I am crazy!As if 4 kids in our little house isn't enough!But Cassie is really afraid of ALL animals(notice she's not holding hers in any of the pictures?) so we thought this would help cure her!They are really cute though!:)

playin' in the sand.

We went to the lake today.It was beautiful!The day was not muggy at all and it was about 75.We had a TON of fun!!!!

Brotherly Love!

Above all,put on love which binds us together in perfect unity!

My Mitchell.

I love to throw little tantrums!
OH my goodness,how am I going to ever cut his hair??It's so curly!
Am I cute or what?
Mitchell is.....very oppinionated.He will let you know right away if he likes(or dis-likes)anything.He LOVES to play with phones...he sits and says,hewo?mmmhmm.BYE!He also enjoy's wearing shoes.Only he 9 times out of 10 picks the girls dress shoes!!It makes Tyson crazy!:)I love me some Mitch!

My Maxwell...

Fits are all the rage you know.
My dimple boy!
Mom,get away and stop taking my picture...GEEZE!
Max....is a momma's boy.He loves to be held and suck his fingers.He is completely in love with baseball.We bought him a bat and ball and he stands with the bat(the right way) and swings at a ball that's thrown to him and drops his bat and runs....and runs!It is so adorable!He's been paying attention at mom and dad's games I think....:)

My Cassandra....

I told her to smile "normal"!
Love the dimple in her chin!SO CUTE!
TA-DA!!

HMMMM,where to start about Cassie.....She is my little performer.She LOVES to be the center of attention and she LOVES to POSE!(can you tell?)She has such a loving heart...last weekend we went garage saling and I gave both the girls 2 dollars to spend...Cassie kept buying things and giving them away!!!It was sooo sweet!I love you cassie girl!

My Sammie!

Loving to look at books lately...Cuteness!
Isn't her double chin SO cute?
BLUE EYES!
Samantha is my socially reluctant butterfly.She has to be in "the mood" to be around people.We went to a potluck at church and all the people completely overwhelmed her and she started crying and asking to go home!:)She makes me smile everyday and I can't imagine my life without her!

Great is His Faithfulness!

Yesterday,I learned something.Even though I am constantly unfaithful to the Lord,His faithfulness NEVER ends!I have been struggling with my relationship.I haven't been puting in my time with the Lord everyday and it was effecting the way I treat my family...mostly my husband.I am ashamed to say how long it had been since I spent time in the word or just praying!I realized that the core issue of my attitude is that I haven't spent time with the Lord.So I got up yesterday morning with a purpose.I was going to spend time with God.I just flipped open my bible and started going towards Romans(it's my favorite)and suddenly I was in James. And here's what it said........DO NOT merely listen to the word,and so decieve yourselves,DO what it says!Anyone who listens to the word and does not do what it says is like a man who looks at himself in the mirror and then walks away and forgets what he looks like!But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,and CONTINUES to do this,not forgetting what he has heard,but DOING it----He will be blessed in what he does!If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight reign on his tongue(ME)he decieves himself and his religion is worthless!!!WOW! God was talking right to me through this passage.I know alot of what the word SAYS,but I am not DOING it!!!!Help me Lord, to DO!

Blonde's have WAY more fun!

Waiting the 45 minutes for my hair to change.
I'm a blondie!(I put my glasses on to hide the raccoon sunburn I got yesterday!)
There,now you can see it!
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!I'm a HOT Blonde Bombshell!(Hee-Hee)

Best money we ever spent!

We went and bought one of those big soft pools. I am SO glad we did...I told Tyson if we aren't going to have central air,we HAVE to have some way to cool down.We worked really hard trying to get the ground level, but it is still kinda lopsided...but,I am NOT taking that thing down again.It works just great!:)The kids are LOVIN IT!We've swam everyday since we got it up!Fun times!

Beautiful weather!

The boys enjoying looking down at the creek from the bridge......
Lunch Time!!!!!

Natalie Norris and Sam...soo cute!
The Troops...
HMMMMMM....Can I do that?I don't know......

We had our first play group of the summer and we had soo much fun!It was a hot day but the breeze was nice.Wev'e been having very un-humid weather...strange for Indiana,but it feels like Cali.Cassie and Brant had alot of fun playing together and even held hands on our walk home(I got the camera out to take a picture of them but I missed it!DARN!)

Work? What Work?

I am at home with ONLY my own kids and I don't have to work tomorrow or the next day,or the next,or the next...............:)WWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

BABY KALEB!

I just wanted to ask all of you to pray for a little baby named Kaleb.He was shaken and smothered by his baby sitter and is in the hospital with severe head trauma and is also blind!!!How could someone do this to a 5 month old baby???What is the world coming to?It makes me seriously ILL!The doctors say that there is a really good chance that he will live his life as a vegetable!!!BUT, his parents are christians and are trusting in the Lord to HEAL their son!!!!PLEASE!Pray with them!!!!!!!!

Once again, we are sick. Sam had the throw-up flu all day on Saturday and I got it yesterday.Man was it nasty!I am SICK OF BEING SICK!!!!It seems we go from one thing to another. But on a good note, I am starting my new eating habits today.I lost 5 pounds yesterday!!:)Cassie has her last day of school today!!!She got her report card yesterday and she had improved SO much from when she started!They said she can move on to 1st grade.I am SO not ready for her to be gone all day,5 days a week.....I don't know what we will do next year.If Tyson happens to get a job at any of the factories in town chances are he will start on 2nds or even 3rds.If that's the case, I will homeshool,otherwise she will NEVER get to see her dad.But, who knows what will happen!!!!Only the LORD!:)I'm glad HE knows what holds our tomorrows..other wise I would have to worry!:)(not that I don't stress about it, at least a little)Well,next weekend,Tyson goes on his golf trip for Fathers day.I will be home alone from Thurs. to Sat. night!I hope no one else gets this flu.......YEAH RIGHT!:)It always goes through ALL of us ....so we have the boys and Cassie to go yet!GREAT!At least ot only lasts about 12 hours....NOT the week flu!!!!!Just pray that Tyson doesn't get it while he is away and if he does ,that he will get it this week before he leaves....Well, I better run.Love to all you guys in CA. and OR. WE MISS YOU!!

One Week!!

I just wanted to post and say:this is my last week!!!!!!!!!!
I am so excited!I have the girls until Friday and cleaning only until Thursday!!!Then.....nothing but fun with my kids for the summer.We went to wal-mart and bought one of those soft pools.(since we don't have airconditioning)We have to level a spot in our back yard this week and then put it up this weekend!I'm looking forward to playing with the kids in it, although I haven't figured out how I am going to do that with 4 kids,3 of whom don't swim!!It is up to Cassie's chest deep,so Sam and the boys will need help.I only have 2 arms.If there was one thing I could wish for,honestly, it would be another set of arms.Imagine what I could get done around my house with 2 sets!!:)Well, I can hardly wait for this week to be over!
YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!