Luke's first Pinewood Derby

The car...

The competition...




The track....




The WINNER!!!!

1st place for Speed
2nd place for Design

District, here we come.

2009 Monster Truck Jam

Luke had a blast, we will definately be going back next year.

Halloween 2008

This years pumpkin is done. It is not nearly as cool as last years, but it is still cute. Luke basically drew out the pattern, he wanted a vampire pumpkin. It took a while to clean it out, because I like to save the seeds and roast them. It takes a while to separate them from the pumpkin guts. I will share that recipe later. You can't really tell, but he has painted blood on the mouth to make it look "real". This year was a little sad for me. For the first time in about 15 years, Sarah did not help carve the pumpkin. She opted instead to go to the movies with her friend, which marks the first time she has gone out with a friend without an adult driving or present. I'm not sure I'm really ready for this. Here is last years pumpkin and my dog Tinkerbell in her costume. This year she will be a witch.

Tinkerbell 2007

2007

Best Pumpkin we have done...

A Great Sunday Afternoon...

When Harry Potter went fishing (and dyed his hair blonde)....



Luke & Shayden
And then there was a horse...

My Little Cowboy...

Friday night we went to the rodeo at the Yadkin Valley Ranch. Last year, Luke did the Mutton Busting and has talked about it every since. So this year we signed him up again. He was improved this year, but still didn't stay on the sheep long enough for me to get a picture. After that he wanted to ride the mechanical bull...

As cute as I think it is, I have to wonder if I am encouraging something I will live to regret.

Luke's last T-Ball game of the season

Getting ready to play!

Batter Up...

Watching the ball?

How sweet...

As I sit here posting, my children are in the kitchen making brownies for a fundraiser at school tomorrow. They have warned of possible severe weather this evening and I have worried all day about how my 6 yr old son would handle it. You see, about 2 months ago he was in the car with his father when a huge pine tree fell on the car as they were going down the road. We had had rain for several days and it had been very windy. The car was totaled but no one inside was hurt. Luke was showered with broken glass but not injured. Every since then he has been terrified if the wind even starts to blow and you may as well give up trying to do anything if the sky gets dark or it thunders. He goes through the house from room to room looking out the windows to make sure there are no tornadoes, begging to watch the news and go to weather.com. Every morning he asks what the weatherman said to expect for that day. Now tonight, I have come in and you can hear the thunder rumbling in the background. I am waiting for Luke's panic to begin, but I hear him in the kitchen tell his sister that God is with him, he is not afraid and he goes over to the refrigerator where I have a magnet from our VBS 2 yrs ago that says "do not be afraid. God is with you. Joshua 1:9 and he reads that to his sister. He is now in the kitchen and the thunder is getting closer, the rain has started and all my son cares about is licking the spatula from the brownie mix. God is good!