Wood You?

Our neighbor had to have his tree cut down so he gave us the wood for our wood burner. We also got a load of wood delivered.




This is not even all the wood we have :)


We borrowed our friends wood splitter and it was impressive! I got to run the lever and Josh did all the hard work :)

Last Swim of the Season!

I love this picture of Avery!!! After Church we made lunch at Mimi & Pop-Pop's. Then we took a swim.....well Mimi and Avery did :)

A short video of Avery.

Oh Boy I'm 15 months!

Our baby is growing too fast! She had her 15 mo. check up today and weighed in at 21 lbs. 8 oz and 30 1/2" long. So in 3 months she's gained 1 lb. 8 oz. and grew 3/4". It was so funny you kept waiving to Dr. Strong and telling him "bye-bye".

This is Avery's Excited Face! Glad I could capture it - dirty mouth and all :)

In the last 3 months these are the new things she can do:

*Pull her pull toys

*Can move her push toy if she hit something and keeps on going instead of whining for me to move it for her :)

*Today she asked for Hugs! Actually said Hug and opened up her arms :) So sweet.

*Give kisses on a more regular basis

*On Sept. 5th said her longest sentence to date: "I see the baby!"

*Stacks blocks and can put the plastic rings on the holder

*You can say the animal and sound: cow goes "moo", puppy goes "arf, arf" and a cat goes "meow", a duck goes "quack" and you know what a pig is....we're working on that sound. She usually thinks most animals are cats and says "meow" :)

*You definitely know what a bug is

*Follows and understands simple commands

*Waives and says "Hi" and "Bye-Bye"

*Uses a spoon with most meals

*Drinks out of regular cup very well

*Trying to get you off formula and bottle! We have to mix the whole milk with half formula and you aren't interested in it unless it's in your Ba-Ba! Finally at 15 1/2 mos. you are on whole milk.

*You finally are drinking juice out a sippy cup.....before if ANYTHING besides water was in your sippy you would taste it throw it and say "ucky!"

*You sing (well you don't say one word that we recognize but know that you are signing)...it's so stinking cute!

*Can't keep up with all the new words she says daily! Somewhere along the line I noticed we are now Mommy and Daddy instead of Mama and Dada!

*Eats more :)

*Runs into another room to poop :) Knows her diapers and used Kleenex are yucky!

*Knows where her hair, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hands, feet and belly are

*She can walk backwards

*Pick things up (Hopefully get her trained to do all her toys/books :)

*Goes round and round in circles

*You try and count......You know two and that it comes after one...it's so funny how you pronounce it!!!

Proper Portraits!

Julia and Janna decided we needed a family photo, so we had Martha (AOP) do them for us. Martha was not happy with her work but we decided not to re-take. Here are some previews.


Our 1st professional photo together :)


Miss Avery


The Mast's


Miss Kaidrie


The entire clan!

5,6 Pick Up Sticks!!!

It was a beautiful day but I noticed it was windy all day. Then about 5ish till 9ish we had a horrible wind storm thanks to the effects of IKE! I don't know what the gusts were 50-60mph I think the radio said. We were one of the lucky ones that didn't lose power only cable and internet the next day till 7:30 pm and our house and barn/garage stayed intact! The radio is saying it could be days before the power is restored to everyone.......brings back memories of the ice storm but w/o the ice and cold.


My mums ended up in the driveway and almost everything our porch was blown over.


Seriously look how pretty the sky was during this wind storm



This is our neighbors tree and Josh had just moved his car for him with 15 seconds to spare before a large branch came crashing down!




This is another large limb that fell on our neighbors van


The Village and Josh doing clean up the next day


Our little helper. She had so much fun picking up sticks :) I know in a few years she'll won't think it's so much fun.



I'm so sad the dumb wind took out our tulip tree





What a mess!

Only in a Jeep!

Josh's Jeep Club (Stillwell Stompers) had their 1st Annual Jeep Charity Run/Hog Roast and what fun despite some rain! The pictures just don't do the trails or the Jeeps justice :(


Day One...........................

Tab Hawkins, me and Tina Williams


Some of the Jeeps at the meeting place


1st obstacle getting up Broken Shoulder.....This is Mike and Julia (Josh's parents)


Now Josh's turn - he didn't give me a chance to get in but oh well at least I could get some pictures of our Jeep in action :)




My job in spotter on the passengers side so I said: "Do you see that big pointy rock sticking up?!" Josh.........crunch "Uh-o what was that?!" Ugh! For once listen to me honey! It just tore our air-dam no biggie so we took it off.



Jason was nuts but his wasn't an every day driver so he didn't care if it got scraped. Look closely (above) or click on picture for full size to see the smoke coming off his passengers front tire! Sweet!


That's gonna leave a mark!


Yup that's right he brought his 2 yr. old lil boy along and he did awesome! Don't think Avery is ready for an all day Jeep ride.



Poor Shawn had to be winched.



Jeff's Jeep




We got stuck on this rock and our old Jeep had to pull us off! Priceless :)


Jarod and Tab (our old jeep)


Senior Proper's going down a steep hill and then back up





Pretty AWESOME!



Another major obstacle everyone in our group made it but one and man was the kid disappointed (below giving it all he had). Again it's tougher then the pictures look. I should have done some videoing but didn't want to waste the batteries in my camera.




Jeff's turn


Mike's turn

Day 2............................I stayed home this time and look what happens.....scary stuff! Jason Hawkins rolled his Jeep with his wife and 3 kids! Josh said it rolled over slowly but still was scary stuff! Everyone was OK! Whheewww!

Denise still smiling and their 3 kids after that incident posing on the rock where it happened.