All Aboard the Polar Express!

Here are a few pictures from Z's Birthday trip to the Polar Express. He and I went with a friend E and her Mom. Both kids turned 7 this past week!

Merry Christmas! 2008

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

Ice storm '08

So we just got out power back this evening after a big icestorm that rolled through Thursday night and Friday.
It started thursday afternoon with Rain and freezing rain..the kind that coats the car handles in about 15 minutes. Thursday evening my boys dawned their snow clothes and headed out to slide on the ice...needless to say they were soaked when they came in! We went to bed and were awakened a couple times between midnight and 3 with the power going on and off , it went off for good around 3:30ish. I got up because I saw blinking lights out in the living room...it was #1 son finding a battery powered string of Christmas lights that I had in the window to use as his night light upstairs. I looked out the window and could tell the grass and trees were white..just not sure if snow or ice. I went back to bed and Hubby and I started joking about not being able to use our heated mattress pad..because of no power...we kept hearing loud thumps and bangs outside.....kind of like muffled gun shots ....it was trees and branches falling all around the house.......very eerie! I tossed and turned for a hour and then decided to try sleeping on the couch...I awoke again around 6:30 . #1 had come down to see if he had school....well we had no way of knowing so I had him lay on the couch with me and we listened to the trees falling until the others all woke up. When daylight hit we could see that everything was ice coated. Branches and trees had fallen everywhere...nothing damaging to our home or cars Thank the Lord! We spent all day just hanging out and listening to the radio on hubbys cell phone....friends called and invited over since they have a generator....thanks Burnsy! We ate dinner, took showers and got a TV fix. We left the boys there to sleep and went home to see if we had power yet..Nothing ! We threw an extra blanket on the bed and went to sleep, needless to say our noses were a bit cool in the AM (5o in the house) . Anyways just got power back around 6;30 tonight (saturday) Burnsy and Fam had come over with generator to help warm things up and help us get cleaned up and stuff and FLUSH the toliets! The power actually came on while we were on generator! YAhoo! The worst part of the 40 + hours with nopower is the lack of running water.......you need water for everything!!!!!!!!!!!! The saddest part of the whole thing was our Ladies tea was cancelled for today. good night!

ahhh memories of last summer!

Now this is camping!!!

This is our camper and our bro in laws camper after the monsoon that blew through!!! there was hail and everything ......notice the fridge on top of the cooler...it was sitting in the water until L dub noticed he was getting zapped so he decided he had better move it!!

Happy Thanksgiving 2008

Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

Gas.....

Gas was $1.89 gal at the Irving in Barrington this morning.........Yahoo!

BRRR!

It Cold!! 15 degrees this morning!!!

the only movie goers.......

We decided to take the boys to the Movies last night for the 6:30 show..enough time to see the movie and be home in time for bed! ( and to see Jon and Kate plus 8 wedding renewal )

We had the whole theater to ourselves! We saw Madagascar 2.....it was hillarious! A must see.

The boys could talk a little , dance around to the songs and change seats when they felt like it!

We managed to eat one and a half large bags of popcorn between the 5 of us. (payed for that extra butter this morning!)

It was fun.......

Remember........

Happy Veterans Day (tomorrow 11/11)

Lets try and remember the Vets that have served our Country in the past , that are serving NOW and even those that will serve in the future.

corny!!

The gang at Sherman farm corn maze!

Verse Widget

took the career for me test

this is the result!
Suggested careers are Advertising Executive, Architect, Web Designer, Creative Director, Public Relations, Fine or Commercial Artist, Interior Decorator, Lawyer, Librarian, Musician, Reporter, Art Teacher, Broadcaster, Technical Writer, English Teacher, Architect, Photographer, Medical Illustrator, Corporate Trainer, Author, Editor, Landscape Architect, Exhibit Builder, and Package Designer.
It said I was creative!

Funny

He said . I don't know why you wear a bra; you've got nothing to put in it. She said . . You wear pants don't you?
He said . . .... Shall we try swapping positions tonight? She said That's a good idea - you stand by the ironing board while I sit on the sofa and fart!
He said ... What have you been doing with all the grocery money I gave you? She said .....Turn sideways and look in the mirror!
He said . . How many men does it take to change a roll of toilet paper? She said . We don't know; it has never happened.
He said . . Why is it difficult to find men who are sensitive, caring and Good- looking? She said ..... . . They already have boyfriends.
He said .. Why are married women heavier thansingle women? She said . . Single women come home , see what's in the fridge and go to bed. Married women come home, see what's in bed and go to the fridge.

Sebago!

We enjoyed great weather and great company at Sebago Lake State Park......

We are back!!

We had an awesome time on our cruise! Check it out!

girls night out.....bye LB!

The waiter joined in our picture!

cruisin'

One week from right now I will be (Lord willing) on The Disney Wonder with my awesome hubby celebrating our 15th anniv.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am soooo excited! I want to pack right now!! Maybe I will! Pray for safety of travel for us and pray for our boys while staying with friends. Hopefully we will NOT encounter any hurricanes! Check back for pictures .

Summer 2008

Ahhh summer 2008.........teepees, new haircuts, new kitten(Moxie), camping at Papoose, camping in vermont, camping in glen, going to MT washington, camping at Danforth Bay, N-dubs 3rd b-day, loosing teeth(z) , baptism(c) and storyland. BUSYY!! As you can tell by all of the camping trips...we are enjoying our new pop-up!!

Tee-pee

Family worship..........

The following was in a church bulletin entitled:

"Food For Thought on Family Worship"

"A study once disclosed that if both Mom and Dad attended church regularly , 72% of their children remain faithful. It also showed that:

> If only Dad attends regularly, 55% remain faithful.

> If only Mom attends regularly, 15% remain faithful.

> If neither attends regularly, only 6% remain faithful. "

Be good examples to your children........worshipping together as a family every time during the week that there is a church service!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Am Cherry!!!

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VBT

We are officially done CBC 2008 VBT ........OUR Theme was "All aboard the Gospel Train"

We had a great week with a record number of kids attending (104 I think). This year all 3 of the boys could attend. Nathan did very well, but was extra tired each day (as was i) . Here are some pictures.......... UNTIL NEXT SUMMER

Curious George!

We celebrated our 3rd sons 3rd birthday on saturday! He actually turned 3 on sunday. I cant believe he is three! He wanted a "George" party. We had a good day filled with, hotdogs, burgers, cake, water balloons, pinata and presents! I did realize that his 3 best friends are girls!! Oh well! Happy 2rd B-day N- DUb!!

We'll be selling tickets soon....

My almost 3year old told me a funny story the other day......He asked me If I wanted to come to his bands show....sure I said and the convo starts: He said in his band was Becca, courtney and Isaiah and him. He sings and play guitar and Isaiah plays drums and Courtney plays cymbals and Becca sings but he had to kick her out of the band because "she no sing good" !!!
I asked him if it is a Christian band and he says "No it a Rock N Roll BAnd!"
All of the kids are 3 and in his sunday school class! I told his teacher about it and she thought it was funny.....she joked about teaching them that in class!
So as soon as they get there first gig I will post how to buy tickets!!

Baptism

We had the awesome opportunity to celebrate our oldest sons baptism last night! He prayed to be saved 3 years ago !(june 10th 2005)
For those of you who know our son....getting up and giving his testimony in front of the whole church was a huge thing for him. He practiced a few times what he would say and seemed ready. He one one of 5 who got baptized ...his best friend (little burnsy) did too. He started off strong and then came the tears...but he finished his testimony through the tears... I think every lady and maybe some men in church were in tears! He is my emotional one....not sure where he gets that from :) anyway he did great and we are very proud of him. It did show however how important it really was to him..not just getting dunked by the Pastor!

20 years......

In loving memory of my Dad......

today is the 20th anniversary of my Dad's death. I was 15 when he died of lung cancer. I can't believe it has been 20 years!

Miss you and think of you often Daddy!

Campin'

The view from Pulpit Rock and Larry after crossing the river in his monkey undies! Dubyas camper too!

The water you can see is Papoose Pond

Z Dub

The Burnsys
C Dub

After crossing the water
Burnsys camper

We enjoyed our first camping trip with our pop up camper. It is so nice not to have to sleep on the ground and be cold! It was quite chilly at night but we have a furnace and an electric heater so we were nice and warm! We went camping with our buddies the Burns' at Papoose Pond in Waterford Maine. The kids had a blast and we only had one incident and that was little burnsy girl had a yucky tummy and got sick in their pop up...poor thing! Anyway here are some pictures from our weekend.