A Summer Collection

So here is a summer collection of fun pictures for you! We have been busy getting ready for the fair, playing at the lake and just enjoying the summer. My daughter got her first sqirrel - she shot it and skinned it on her own - nice job "Annie Oakley"!

I want to also take this moment to wish a very special friend "Happy Birthday" - she is dear to my heart and is a rare jem - someone I treasure!

Thanks for stopping by the blog - enjoy the rest of your summer!

In Honor of Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to some very wonderful Fathers...late I know but you all understand! We are so blessed to know some very wonderful Fathers here and across the country...(you know who you are)...to all the Fathers we know we appreciate your steadfastness in raising children for the Lord's - thank you so much.

So the Lord has blessed us with some new friends. We are so grateful for these new friends. A few months ago my daughter and I began to pray for a friend for her. The Lord not only gave us a wonderful friend for our daughter, a friend who wants the Lord in her life, who reads her Bible and is a lady....we adore this little friend....anyway not only did he bless our daughter with a new friend he brought a family that we just enjoy so much. The little boy and my third oldest get along wonderfully - same temperament. All of that was to explain who was in the photos.

We asked them if they would like to spend Father's Day with us...and they said sure. Both the mom and daughter are very creative and the brought a white frosted cake for the children to decorate for the father's. Our little home was filled with joy and happiness....and lots of sugar. We had a delightful time. We are so thankful for the Lord to be true to his word - that He will do above and beyond what we can imagine"....this whole friendship has been a true blessing and a fulfilment of the word...it made my faith stronger and I'm so thankful for that.

Great Experiences

Lots happened this week...it was a great week. We started our summer school off by going fishing. It was a great fishing day...didn't catch any fish but that wasn't important.
Don't you just love our very own "Annie Oakley". Love her drive to be the best shooter in the world.
Flowers...I love flowers! My very compassionate and caring son has been working various jobs around our little community and at one job he took flowers for pay...doesn't that just melt your heart - it did mine!
Thanks for stopping by my blog and we hope to catch you up next Friday. Hugs to all!

A great spring day...Catching cows, chasing chickens, and a view from our table

Here is our "big" guy helping me with breakfast. Isn't this view gorgeous...this is what I see everyday - I'm so blessed to be in the mountains - I love it!

Our daughter is a natural at ropin' cows...we'll she doesn't actually twirl the rope and throw it...our cows are to tame that she just gets some grass and they come a runnin' and then she ropes them up.

Some Fun...A King and Queen...Sight Seeing....

So here are som pictures, not in any particular order...our new little calf, some fun pictures of the family.
The crowns were made for mother's day...my wonderful husband made me a Mother's Day "card/crown" for him to wear....he made a ruby on the front and underneath it wrote "my wife"...meaning I'm the ruby in his crown...I'm a very blessed woman indeed!

We also went on a walk for my husbands birthday...so he could sport his new binoculars. We were able to see a few screech owls in their nest not too far from our house...love living in the mountians!

Something fun we did was go canoeing. This small group of young adults, who offer canoe trips to various groups and such were having a "free canoe trip/lunch" fundraiser...what a grand day. We all decided that owning a canoe would be a great thing. It was very relaxing.