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Prayer for a friend

A woman I know online will give birth this week.  Within hours of giving birth, her baby will die.  It's a condition called Potters Syndrome, and it is her second baby with this syndrome. I can't even imagine what she is going through this week.  There is a prayer blog organized for her here - http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/DandelionSeeds/

Crystal, from Biblical Womanhood, is putting together an encouragment box.  If you'd like to take part in this, you can find out how here - http://www.biblicalwomanhood.com/2006/09/opportunity-to-help-family-in-need.html

Susan's blog is here- http://susangodfrey.blog spot.com/

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Things about My Week 1. I bought two new goats! 2. I saw a baby, in one of our goats, move! 3. I finished a denim chenille quilt! 4. My husband returned from a road trip! 5. Our son played in his first 8th grade football game! 6. Our daughter is reading a poem to the entire school this week. 7. I started getting our beach photos organized to scrapbook. 8. Our 600 and some lb steer head butted my knee and bruised it pretty good!  (he wasn't aiming for me, it was an accident) 9. I discovered it's hard to think of 13 things about my week.  :-) 10. We did a new geocache and picked up another coin to pass along. 11. My husband took me out to lunch.  :-) 12. We chose a parenting class for this quarters sunday school class - 10 good decisions every parent can make. 13. So far this week I have picked kids up from 6 football practices, 1 cheerleading practice, two photo nights, one cub scouts meeting, one boy scouts meeting, and I attended a PTO meeting and a football game.  This time of year is BUSY!




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The finished quilt

I loved this project - so quick and easy! 

Quilt Progress

two squares-

Kobe was instructed to stay off of this while I was working, he was being obedient. 

then 4 squares-

You get the idea, so I'll skip the photos of 8 squares..  next is 5 rows-

I'm going to go sew these together now!  :-)

rain rain, go away...

Close To My Heart

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4.2 miles, or 5 miles?

Geocaching Again - 1,000 steps/bear paw trail

4 more caches on our way to the fair

 

 

 

The kids took part in corn shelling, bale tossing, and bale stacking competitions.  Nate and Dan were in first place in their age groups, when we left last night.  There will be a lot more people there tonight I would imagine, so they aren't getting their hopes up.  :-)

 

Nate came in 3rd in the pedal tractor pull, out of 9 boys in his age division. 

 

It was a fun night!  Meg rode a pony, her and matt both rode in the barrels and we did 4 geocaches while we were in the area.  :-)

 

We found an evil micro coin, so there's one more on our list.  We sure love those new little icons in our geocaching profile!

 

Today the boys are floating down the river with the boy scouts, and I am seriously considering planning two more caches for this afternoon.  There's another coin nearby that I'd love to discover, and we'd really like to find two more caches so we reach the 50 mark before school starts. 

Can someone tell me...

Is there a way to respond to a comment directly to the person who left it?  The only way I have found is to go to their blog and post it as a new comment in some area of their blog..  which seems so disjointed, when trying to answer a question they have left as a comment.  Is there a better way?

TIA!

850 ears of corn

Carrots and Peppers

I admit it - this is me. :-)

Teenagers!!

In the evening Eric stopped in and helped Luke put together a rocket.  We launched that a couple of times!  It's stuck in the tree beside the house right now, I need to add that little problem to my to do list today.  :-)

at 8:00, when all the sports practices were finally over, Dan's family came up for cake and ice cream.  We hid the boys cards using the GPS unit, so they had to geocache them.  They loved it.   

They had a birthday party at my mom's house on saturday night, birthday cake at the geocaching event on Sunday, cake and ice cream on Monday (for their actual birthday) and I am taking birthday cake to the Scouts picnic/court of honor tonight.  We're stretching this birthday out pretty good!  :-)  They get to go to a Crosscutters baseball game tomorrow night too!

Our Apprentice

Luke had the opportunity to apprentice with our friend who is both a wheelwright and blacksmith at Rural Heritage Days in Lewisburg.  He LOVED it!  We're getting the paperwork started for him to be enrolled in the apprentice program at Warrior Run, so he can continue to apprentice with Bradd at the Warrior Run Heritage Days in October.

geocaching event

Sunday we attended our first geocaching event.  It was a large picnic with other geocachers, where we learned a lot!  We ended up doing 13 caches in that area as well - 13 caches for the twins 13th birthday.  How cool!

Dan and I are thinking about planning a local event for this fall.  With people there to demonstrate the dfferent GPS units, differnt software, a travel bug swap, etc.  I think it sounds like fun.  :-)

August!