Thanksgiving

Cousins

 

                                                Macheus and Aunt Monica

 

With our dad.

                                                    Grandpa with the girls.

 

The grand kids. Myles doesn't stand still for long! :o)

                            McKenzie and Daniel - The courting couple. :)

                                          Grandpa and Myles

 

Macheus was cute seeing his grandpa.  He spent a lot of time with him over the summer, but hadn't seen him in a while since he left to stay at my sister's.  When he saw him he recognized him but acted nervous at first.

 

My sister wanted to shoot guns out in the woods while she was here.  Candy  hates guns and was freaking out.

                                                               Myles

 His first Thanksgiving.

 

The boys building a fire.

 

Malachi thinks Daniel is wonderful! :o)

 

My sister left her daughter with us after Thanksgiving.  My girls were thrilled to get to spend time with her.

 We didn't beat the doors down on Black Friday but we did head out around lunch time.  We had a fun day and didn't get home until almost midnight!  Crazy, I know.  Between that and Amazon, I am almost finished with my shopping though!

Macheus is....

ten months old!!!

 

He is fat, happy, smiley, lovable, precious, loved, adorable... and probably a little bit spoiled.

 

He now has six teeth and seems to stay in a perpetual state of teething.  He slept through the night as a tiny baby but doesn't now.  He likes to get in the bed with me around 3:00 in the morning to nurse.  Yes, I let him.  No, I am not one of those moms that thinks he will be ruined forever by doing so. :o)

 

He still doesn't eat food.  I have tried all of the things that I did with my others-  avocado, banana, sweet potato, egg yolk, baby food carrots, and plain yogurt.  The only thing he has eaten and kept down was about two teaspoons of plain yogurt.  He is reminding me a lot of his big sister, Mariah.  She is still my pickiest eater.

 

He is cruising around furniture and getting into things now.  Still hasn't attempted to take a step independently.  He has been my earliest to roll over, sit up and crawl.  It is fine with me if he decides to break that first place streak and walk later.  It just means life gets crazier when they start walking!

He loves to be outside and especially to take walks/runs in the jogger.  He says, "mama, daddy, and hi".  I was changing his diaper the other day and started singing a made up song about how fat he is.  He started clapping to it. :o)  The kids like to play music and get him to "dance" to it.

 

He loves all of his siblings but he really lights up when Mariah has him.  He is like a toy to her.

 

He gets overwhelmed when he sees the horse but seems to like the cats and dog.  He hasn't paid much attention to the Christmas tree.  That is a good thing!

 These past ten months have flown by!  Macheus has been pure joy!

Mercy

"Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23

 

 

 

This is probably my favorite verse.  Thankful for new days, fresh starts and His mercy!

Birthday and other ramblings.

Marc and I were able to get away for a couple of days last week for his birthday.  Of course, Macheus joined us. :o)  We got some Christmas shopping done, ate out, went swimming at the hotel's indoor pool and just relaxed.  Life has been so fast paced lately, so it was a welcome break from the busyness!

We got home to a clean house, food made and a birthday cake baked.  My kids are the best!

The little boys were glad to see their daddy! (Myles had a swollen, black eye from getting stung by yellow jackets while we were gone.)

Waiting on birthday cake.

All of the kids (Macheus was already in the bed.) with Marc.  Daniel (on left) was home from college for the week.  McKenzie was a very happy girl!

The week was good.  Marc was off all week and it always seems to fly by.  We have gotten some household projects done.  McKenzie and I painted the living room. She also encouraged me to redo our front bathroom. What started off as "Daddy, take the towel ring down, it looks awful."  Turned into...... "Take the toilet paper holder down.  I hate that mirror.  We really need a new counter top and sink.,"   That bathroom is now completely re-done.  I had said I wasn't dong any remodeling until I got the kitchen done.  Oh well....

Thanksgiving was good.  I will post about it and some pictures next time. It is late Sunday evening.  I spent the afternoon wrapping Christmas presents, (My goal is to be done with everything in the next week!)  I have a terrible cold and I am dreading starting school back tomorrow.  I guess I better get to bed!

Until next time!

Happy Birthday Marc!

I think the older I get the more I realize what a great husband I have.  It is easy to take things or people for granted when they have always been there.  I have seen enough at my age to realize that a good,, faithful and honorable man is rare.  I am very thankful that God blessed me with a good man.  He is a good daddy, a good provider, faithful and loving.  He stands up for what is right even when it isn't popular.  When other men back down, Marc will not!  We tease him ( and sometimes get very frustrated with him!) and say he is a bulldozer. :o)   Sometimes it can be hard when your man is a "Mr. Command", but when you know his heart is always to do what is right and that he strives to follow the Lord you wouldn't want it any other way!

Happy Birthday, Marc! I pray the Lord blesses you in many ways this year!

Cuteness...

                                                 I love his little teeth! :o)

One is silver and the other's gold...

We had some old friends down this weekend.  It is always fun to have the "P" family over.  They are the kinds of friends that you can go forever without seeing and just pick back up where you left off.

This was a new fall dip recipe that I decided to try.  (And... it was dairy-free, right Tammy!?) :o)

                                     
I love burning candles in the fall!  We had a great evening visiting with them, eating too much and visiting around the fire.

                                                     Sweet bunch of girls!
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We "met" the Pauls family on the internet several years ago through blogging.  We thought we were going to meet them last winter and it didn't work out.  They took a road trip from their home in Canada to the United States this fall.  We were one of their stops.  It was so much fun meeting them, and it seemed like we already knew them after reading about them for years. :o)

There were little boys everywhere!

The "dads" visiting on the front porch.

It was fun talking about the differences between where they live and here.  One thing that was really strange for us was that they had never seen how pecans grow.  Living in the south in the middle of a pecan orchard, that was really funny to us.

The girls hit it off and from all of the laughter you would have thought they had known each other all of their lives! :o)

                                  A VERY lively game of "spoons."!

The morning they were leaving I saw these two little guys under the kitchen table eating their peach muffins. :o)

It was a great visit and we are hoping that they head south again next year!  Who knows... maybe we will take a trip to Canada one day. I know it won't be during the winter though!