This Happened

A few random pictures taken during my recent vacation from blogging. In no particular order--

Lee was home for spring break. The guys were gone much of that time to Taylor's basketball tournament, but Lee and Mark had some great father/daughter time.




Chemistry happened in the kitchen.


Farming has begun. Mark took a few loads of soybeans to get them cleaned and bagged to use for seed. When the person loaded all the bags on the pallets he stacked them wrong--they would topple over easily. So Mark and Taylor had to restack all these.


Thought I'd take a picture of the shed that didn't get torn down.


I cleaned, repainted, and reorganized my tiny, tiny sewing room. This is one entire wall and part of another. lol. It is a tiny, tiny room. The triangle in the top right corner is part of the slanted ceiling. This is a very, very tiny room.


Here's my guy at his basketball tournament.


The kids love to take these goofy pictures. I think there were a few nice ones in the bunch, but they're all on Lee's camera.


Check out this humongous egg! Size super extra jumbo. The one on the left in the back is just your normal large size. Mark's dad must give his chickens megavitamins.


I guess I don't know for certain, but I think this would be a bit uncomfortable for a hen to lay.


We enjoyed just lounging around when everyone was home together.


Mark had a pallet of old soybeans that he isn't going to plant.


So he and Taylor dumped them all back out.

Three Weeks Ago...

Ok, so I'm a bit behind in blogging. This has been on the computer the whole time, I just haven't taken the time to hit the "Publish Post" button.

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Lee is in school 6 hours from home. Lee is mature. Lee is responsible. Lee normally makes very good decisions. But this is what happened yesterday [ok--three weeks ago] --

I slept in and was awakened at 8am by my cell phone beeping with a text message from Lee. Stumbling out of bed, I read the first few lines.

Can you come help me.
Im about 20 Miles away &
I locked my keys in my car.

Oh my gosh!! Did she drive home again without telling me!?! She's having SURGERY tomorrow! Did they decide to do it at the University here instead!?! WHY would they do that???

::Scrolling down::
Hurry cuz its going to rain

::Looking out the window::
What!?! It's not going to rain! It's sunny! Oh wait. She must have sent me this accidentally. She must've meant it for someone at school. WHY is she 20 miles away from school??? What's she doing??

I quickly dialed Lee's number. She answered with her sleepy voice.

Are you OK!?!?! What's going on???

It's a joke, Mom. Did you read the whole thing?

Ummm, well, no.

::scroll scroll read::

Can you come help me.
Im about 20 Miles away &
I locked my keys in my car.
Hurry cuz its going to rain
and my windows are down!

LOL. I love it when they play a joke on me and I fall for it bad. :^D

Oh that reminds me---have you seen the Blondestar ad?

Limber Lee

The Days of Christmas

Lee flew into Collegetown at 10:00pm Monday, returning from a basketball tournament. She'd planned to drive at least halfway home that night but there was freezing rain in the forecast for the next morning. She drove all night, pulling in the driveway at 5:45am Tuesday.

She had to be back at school today at noon, so we saw her off at 5:30 this morning. Here are a few pictures--I don't have any of the tree or the gifts, just these precious/weird children who were so happy to spend time together.

Showing her humble side--Without ME it's just AWESO



Movie Night - Lee brought home Horton Hears a Who


They pooped out before the end


Taylor showed Lee how to put ringtones on her phone. He likes not being the "little kid brother" anymore. (annoying little kid brother)

Home In Two Days -- For Two Days

I know Lee's SO ready to be home, and I've been missing her terribly. I think today's been the toughest I've had yet while she's been away at school. I wonder why?

A Week in Our Life - Sunday

Luke went to a camp in at church Friday night (it was too cold for a camp out). Saturday evening I was two hours away taking Taylor to a game night with his homeschool friends, so my friend Contina picked up Luke and let him stay the night with Noah.

Contina told Luke she'd just keep him and homeschool him a few days, then drop him off when they were driving by our house on Wednesday. Luke told her, "That's fine. I've got my toothbrush." (What else do you need for three days of school, right??) We kinda missed the little guy, so I made him come home today.


When all the kids were little we always stopped by this straw bale maze each fall and let them burn off some energy. Taylor decided they needed to play in it again today. So while Mark was inside buying us some yummy chocolate-covered peanuts--







Here's a good Sunday sign--God Bless Catfish.


Luke got a new puppy this afternoon.



Tonight, while Mark did this-


And Taylor did this-


Luke tried to keep the puppy from whining and (after washing his hands) helped me make dough for several dozen gingersnaps for the freezer.


I also peeled and sliced a pan of apples. I've been wanting to experiment to see how well they freeze. I'll let you know in a few days.

Lee got back to school today after a weekend retreat for Academic Peer Advisors. I wondered how it went so I snooped around on facebook and found a few pictures. Here's one. Apparently she wasn't being too careful with her injured foot.

The Life of Lee

The Adorables and their parents stopped to visit Lee at school on their way home from vacation awhile back. How did I forget to post this?


Lee was home this past weekend, which of course was great. It was wonderful to see my three kids hugging on each other so much. :)

She went to the chiropractor and got all put back together after the recent concussion, and was good to go again. She left Sunday at about 11am.

After open gym Sunday night she called to tell me that her foot was either sprained or broken. ::sigh::

Doctor visit Monday. He thought it probably wasn't broken and ordered x-rays for today. The foot isn't broken, but a ligament is torn and she'll have surgery to repair it tomorrow afternoon.

She's a big girl and says she can handle it herself so I stay home--386 miles away. With my shoes on and the gas tank filled....

What Didn't Make the Blog Last Week--

Lee on Friday: Classes are great! I love my team! Practice is great! Everything is great!
Lee on Saturday: I have strep throat and a concussion.

Taylor went to church and "got beat up but had an awesome time anyway."

Luke played the guitar with a bunch of old drunk guys. And a few that weren't.

Mark went on a trip with 60 other farmers and ate more in two days than he normally does in a week. Called home to complain about a stuffed tummy and a giant brownie fudge sundae.

Let the Games Begin

Lee's basketball schedule has been released. You can see it at the school website or I plan to post it on her blog and my facebook page. Soon.

They're playing at several of the same schools this year, but some are new. I noticed two games are in Cozumel, Mexico. When I asked Mark if we will go to those, he changed the subject.

Babes in the Woods

Hey Lee, didn't we just talk about this?

Sorry Marcy--

If you're still counting on this blog for reading material, I'm sure you've noticed there's not been much here. I'll try to come up with a few recent happenings, but you might want to head over to my friend Lazy Susie's blog. Her life is much more ..uhh.. interesting.

It's the end of July and the grass is still green--when was the last time that happened?? It rained all day again yesterday and it's still going this morning . The creek flooded and the yard is soppy.

It took three entire days to clean the basement this week. I spent all day both Monday and Tuesday dreading the job, then I worked down there two hours on Wednesday.

Luke was very impressed with the newly-organized laundry area: "I might start changing my clothes more often now." I realized the little guy thinks that if something goes into the laundry it never comes back out again. How could he think that!?!

Oh, you'll like this one. Mark drove 3 1/2 hours (one way) yesterday to pick up a piece to fix Lee's car. I never told you she did this--

Like the new hide-away headlight?

She hit a parking garage. After what we did to your van, that shouldn't be too surprising. (Yes, this is the car I asked you not to wreck.)

Taylor has been puny but he didn't puke.

The boys are feeling their freedom slipping away as I've spent the last few days planning school. Piles of books, notebooks, the computer and printer cover the kitchen table... MUAH HAHAHA

The Game

Lee Ponders Her Favorite Road Sign