The message

The kiddos- email me with any questions..........

Katie- 8 years
Card- 2 years
Bella- 10 months

What exactly is this you are feeding me mom??

The Nanny....

Bella is "doing the Nanny"......

Sorry this is in no particular order....I wish I could figure out how to arrange my post the way I want them to show up..

The Lachney Family!!

Card is doing some serious golf playing!

We visited the Seven Acre Wood a few days ago. We played minature golf, saw the animals in the petting zoo, and had a generally great time!

She was so pround of herself!

Bella standing...

Bella standing by- self

Church family

Card's personal favorite- The Guthrie family....

Church family

The lovely Ramos family- they will be having their 6th baby in Jan......

Some Church Pictures

I have been taking some pictures for our church directory- I thought I would post some of our families here. We go to a wonderful church with great families.
This is the Welch family- I am missing their oldest son- he is in the Marines.....

Katie

I suppose she gets her seriousness from her Daddy......

Card 2006

Card in one of his favorite Christmas gifts (the hat, not the swing!) some of his other fav's included the trampoline (seen in the background), tractors, a play dough table, tractors, remote controled truck, tractors, lots of books and of course, tractors.

Very serious

My very serious husband!

Katie and Card

This was a really cute picture of Katie and Card. Their Great Uncle Jimmy got this really nice birthday card a few days ago and ---- well, you see the results. I believe the card said something like "It's your birthday- I'm so happy I could fart". What a clever family I have...

Then we had Christmas AGAIN at our house. Here is Card with two MORE tractors given to him by his Uncles Edward and Merritt and soon to be Aunt Julie! Talk about Santa's- those three went all out this Christmas! It was a great time (I think....) I missed most of it due to my untimely illness..... Sorry guys!

Christmas 2006

Then we had Christmas at Nanny's house. We opened lots of gifts and Will and the kids ate too much. I was sick though and did not eat much. I actually did not eat much for the 4 days after Christmas either- boy, a whole week sick. I cant remember when I was last sick! Boy, this one made up for lost time though!

Here are Nanny and Arabella

Christmas 2006

First we had Christmas at our house. This is Christmas morning. Card is getting two tractors at once! Katie got him a special wooden one (he has been instructed by her not to take it outside) and he got a red tractor and trailer from mommy and daddy. After opening gifts we read the Christmas story out of the Bible- one of our traditions!

Bella's Christmas 2006

Bella's first Christmas! She got lots of gifts and loved tasting all the different varieties of wrapping paper!

Garden pond

Cards absolute favorite thing was the fish pond at the Gardens! He loved this and would have stayed there all day! He was scared of the really big fish though. It was a black and white fish that was about a foot long. He said it would bite him and would not put his finger in the water.

Katie and Card played Indian the other day and painted theirselves up really nice! It was another rainy day on the farm- well actually a rainy week! Light rain though, so the house did not wash away!







Katie had Card in the Bjorn. He loves for her to carry him around. I love that she is learning how to be a mommy with her little brother and sister. Today when we got to CVS she got Bell out of the carseat and carried her around the store. Bell thought it was great to have her big sister carrying her!

Card by the waterfall- he loved the water falls.











Bell, Katie, and Card enjoying the day together. I am so glad I have all my little ones with me all the time. It is so great to see them discover new things and they love being together.

Gardens

We visited Mercer Arboretum last Wednesday. We had a really good time looking at all the gardens. We had packed a lunch so we went to the playground there and had a nice lunch and played. I took lots of pictures. I will try to load some more tonight.

Hickory Horned Devil Catapiller

Really neat catapiller Katie's Great Uncle Brady caught for her. It was about the size of a hot dog. It looks pretty gross, but it does not bite. It lives in trees during the pupa stage, then falls to the ground and burrows under for about 2 years, it turns into the Royal moth (the moth with a 6 inch wingspan).

Katie and a few of her friends.

We had a church campout last weekend and the girls had a great time. I got them to slow down for a minute to take this picure...

From L-R (kinda..) we have

Grace Bailey, Aubrey Young, Katie Boytim, Eva Harris, Marot Smith, and Claire Stevens. They make up most of our Little Women of Virtue group. I think only Rebecca Robison and Emma Reith are missing. Little Women of Virtue is a girls group that we go to every other Friday and it teached the girls different "girl" stuff like sewing, latchhook, baking, manners, etc...

Card, Bella, Sara, and Lauren

The Guthrie girl, Card and Bella

We had a work day at Debra Rayberns ( a widow from our church) and this is where Card and Bella stayed. Card LOVES the girls and Bella is getting fond of them too. The girls actually babysat for us this last week so we could go Christmas shopping.

Arabella 9 months

Arabella Colleen Boytim
9 months old

Bella is standing all by self these day. That is until mommy yells "YEA!!", at which point Bella gets frightened and sits down. She enjoys playing "tea" and "house" with her sister and "screa," with her brother. I guess "scream" is a way of communication among little ones- they really enjoy it until mommy's nerves get rattled.

Rough day for the animals.....

The kids a couple of weeks ago.
Katie is still 8, Card is 2, and Arabella is 9 months old now!!!

Rough day for the animals today. We built a yard for the ducks, but made it where you could open the door to the duck coop and it became the door for the yard. We figured we would just see how the doves did (we have been told that they do not go far). They did not go far, but they also can not go very high. I think their wings are too weak from being in a coop all the time. So they could not really get off the ground when are dogs come by....... well having a bird dog and one very good hunter dog..... yep- one of the doves became doggy food today. By the way, the other doves flew back into the coop- I guess they are smarter than we thought.....
So fast forward a few hours----- Blue, the famous Bette, who lived approx. 7 YEARS, died this afternoon. Katie mentioned that it has just not been her day today. Poor girl, losing two pets in one day. We will probably replace the fish tomorrow and Will is buying a gate for the duck yard so we can let the ducks out and leave the doves in. We will eventually enclose the yard so the doves can fly around it and not get out. That is not very high on our list of "to do" things though. Now we just have to keep Ralph the bird dog out of the duck yard and we will be good.

Katie and one of the doves. We have three now and we are hoping we will have baby doves soon. We also have aquired two goats.....pictures coming soon!

Card on his fire engine!

His Nanny got him this for his second birthday. Yes, it is VERY loud also. We cant seem to find where the batteries go----guess it will just not play music anymore- darn......

"I'm cute but tough, I'm a rescue pup, I'm comin' your way, so dont give up. If you need me, just give a yelp, I'll be right there when you need help"

Over and over and over................

Mama!!

Bella and Mama a couple of months ago at the Atkins house. We were celebrating the birth of their newest one- number 4- Mr. Nathan Atkins arrived in July (sorry I dont know the exact date).

Card blowing out his birthday candle. He was two years old on Sept. 2nd, 2006! We had a small party with a few friends and family. Home made ice cream and cake were the highlights (especially the ice cream- thanks Dad!)

Card loved the "trac-trac" on his cake and the fire engine Nanny got him.

Bella and Card with Mom-Mom.
They have really enjoyed having the grandparents here. They can hardly wait for them to be here full time- Hurry and retire Mom-Mom and Dad-Dad!!!!

Bella

Bella has been pulling up for awhile now! Here she is today.

She is 8 months old tomorrow (October 8th). She is crawling everywhere and has been pulling up for about a month now. Here is is waiting on Mama to give her a bite of bread. She is growing SO fast.

Update on us-----

Lets see, Card is potty trained- YEA!! He was two on Sept. 2nd. He had a great "John Deere" birthday cake which he enjoyed day after day. He got the last piece too. He is growing up so fast. He has started talking in complete sentences and runs outside all day long. Even today, in the rain and mud- he finds he LOVES the mud.

Katie is still taking piano and doing quite well in it. Her daddy does her math with her at night and they are having a good time with it. She is hoping to take horsemanship again at camp next year and wants to be in their annual rodeo. The camp has actually offered to let us pasture a horse during the winter months- that is when we get some pasture! and fence!

Bella- crawling, standing, smiling, all the usual baby stuff. She and her brother love each other immensly and crack each other up. She has started eating solid food- last night was her first- she had some banana. Today she had wheat cereal and banana/avacado. My she is growing fast.

Will and I- raising kids, dogs, birds, fence, and all the other farm stuff! Hoping to have some goats soon- at least Bev is :) Maybe some chickens in the near future too. We have two gardens going and are working hard on 2 or 3 more.

Card riding a "cow"- he refused to call it anything else! He went on a 45 minute trail ride with me and Katie. We had a great time!

Katie riding on the "water weenie" (their name, not mine!) She has the Diclementi kids with her. We had such a great time at family camp- we rode horses, shot guns, played games, the infamous shaving cream slide, and ate lots of not to good for you camp food.

Katie and Daddy building the chicken coop

Tried to build a chicken coop this weekend, but got rained out. We went to visit some friends later in the evening and had a great time. Today I tried to lay down for a nap, but Bell woke up as soon as I came in the room. I layed down anyway and when I sneaked a peak at her she was sitting up in her crib! All by herself! She has been sitting if we put her in the position, but she did it all alone today! Then of course she had to show off and pull herself up. I guess we will be moving the matress down a notch. Did not get much done today- it was hot outside and in. Hopefully after dinner we can get started on the coop. It is hard to do farm work alone with three kids, so we wait until daddy gets home to do most of it. Katie is still a huge help around here. Not sure what I would do without her! Hope to see everyone soon :)

Card is modeling his new John Deere apron. He loves to "cook" everything he can get his hands on! I know he looks a bit dirty- he stays that way around here, and he loves it. I often "hose" him off two or three times a day. He usually needs some type of rinsing before he even enters the house. Will keeps reminding me of the book he read awhile back about a boy (true story) and his brothers that were not allowed in the house during the week. They ate and slept on the front porch because they were to dirty to come in. On Saturday nights they were brought in and bathed for church on Sunday and those were the only two nights they slept inside. I am not sure I am ready to go that far yet. Maybe when I have 4 or 5 dirty boys............
Everyone is doing great here. Bell is crawling around and I caught her pulling herself up a few days ago. She now pulls up to standing on everything she can crawl over too. My this is going by so fast! Katie is becoming quite the young lady. Sewing things, washing clothes (we do let her use the washing machine occasionally) , loading/unloading the dishwasher. She is such a help here! We are going to be making a batch of soap soon. We are trying to get some Lye, it has become quite a task as we are finding that most places are not allowed to carry it anymore. We have happend upon two doves (they had an egg, but it got broken) and we are building them a coop today and tomorrow. It will be a chicken/dove coop and we will be getting some baby chicks soon! YEA! We might have 3 less dogs soon- maybe we can teach the chickens to be guard chickens....... Well I am off for now, as usual there are a millon things to get done.
Oh yes, we will going to family camp next weekend. I will try to post some good pictures :)

If you want to see the pictures bigger just click on them and it will open them......just be sure to click your back button and not close the window!

Myself and couple friends at a Women of Grace meeting. This is Me and Bella (in the pouch), Nikki Nixon with her little one Hope, and Shannon Robison.

Me and my daddy!

Me and my uncle Brady

Our beautiful cake!

Finally- Will and I after the "I do's". How very cute he is in his tux!

Yea I got another one to post- This is me and my cousin Terri

April 17, 2003

Trying to post some of our wedding pics. Our good friend Jenny got us motivated. This silly site does not do well at 2am for some reason!!
Anyway- here are three of our favorite couples on the dance floor- My aunt Joanna and Uncle Wayne, Nanny and Papa, and In-Laws Bill and Colleen...

Bella and Great Grandma "Nanny"

Katie at swim lessons- she is a level 2 with the Red Cross. She is learning diving this time around too!









Card being himself at swim lessons :)

Before and after picture of the farm- we are still a work in progress!!