Sunday School Picnic 9-6-08

Here are the pictures from our Sunday School Round-up Picnic. I know there are a few of them but I didn't want to leave any out.

Labor Day Activities

Asa and Skylar going down the slide together.


Eli looking more grown up everyday. Skylar and Eli laying down on the blanket together. This girl sure does love her little cousins.



Here the kids are playing out in the sprinkler that was eventually set up for them to run around in. It didn't last to long because it was just the three of them running around getting wet.




Being without internet for two weeks has obviously put me behind on posts. I am hoping to get caught up by next Friday. Just bare with me, I promise I will get caught up.

Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge

The above pictures are of some of the beautiful plants along the trail. The second picture is of a monarch butterfly and in the fourth picture there is a dragonfly in the upper right corner. And the fifth picture is of the three deer that crossed our path. I was in heaven when I saw these wonderful beauties of nature. They sat and watched us for a few minutes as I was elated to see them. I wish I could have gotten more images of them but I was so mesmerized with them that I didn't move fast enough to get many pictures. We were blessed to have seen them, at first we thought that there were only two and then the third one came out and I know I was in awe. Asa even reacted to them with a simple "Ohhh". He does this with anything that catches his attention right now.


My beautiful boys.


Here we have another Monarch Butterfly, what I believe is a Fox Tail Wildflower, some Thistle and then a dead Monarch. There were Monarch Butterflies all over the place out there. I had hoped to see some more wildlife but was content with what I did see. It is a beautiful place out there. I would like to go back since we have gotten all of this rain in the after affects of Hurricane Ike. When we were out there it was on the dry side. I can imagine all of the water out there now and the wildlife it is hosting especially as we are in the midst of winter migration.


Lastly we have a little bird on a wire.

Nicholas's Baptism

Here are the pictures and video from my nephew's baptism. Nicholas was baptized three weeks ago. Wow I can't believe how much time has gone by but this week without internet has not helped on keeping up with my blogging. Hopefully I will have my internet back soon so that I can keep up better. I have been going to my grandparents and bootlegging theirs so I can keep up a bit but I can't do this everyday. So this is what I have for now.

These two images are from before he was baptized.

Here is the video of Nicholas being baptized.


These two are from after he came up out of the water.

And this last image is from after the service at the small fellowship they had afterwards.

At Stacy's house

When we arrived at Stacy and Charles' house, the kids were enamored with a stray kitty that had found its way there. Stacy or Charles had brought out food and water for it to drink and the kids loved playing with the little kitty. Another stray kitty that has adopted the house as his attacked one of the nearby birds. It was amazing to see this. The bird did get away so don't worry about it. It was still a neat thing to watch the cat do this.


Charles then spotted a doe at the bottom of the hill down by the river and he offered to take Asa down with him to help give the deer food. Here is the sequence of photos that I took. We have them headed down the hill, then some of the doe, it was funny to watch the doe because she circled around watching Asa knowing that he was not a normal part of this routine. It was so much fun to watch this event in my son's life. I am really hoping that my boys grow up with an appreciation of animals and nature.


Finally we have Asa getting geared up to go out on the boat for a ride around on the river. I know, I know. He is in a pink life jacket but that is what Stacy and Charles have at the house for Maddy. We are not near much water where we are at so borrowing someone else's works even if it is pink. With the rate kids grow buying a life vest when you almost never go out on the water is not a necessary expense. If and when going out on the water becomes a regular event we will definitely invest in life jackets for all our children. When I get the pictures from Stacy that Chris took out on the boat I will share those as soon as I get them.


Hope everyone enjoyed the pictures and hopefully this week I can get caught up with the events that have taken place over the last two weeks.