the Hole

Today we visited the hole. This is a giant sinkhole that use to be an underground cavern. The ceiling of this collapsed creating a crater. It measures forty feet across and eighty feet down. it was neat to see, but had to be very careful with the little ones to make sure they did not fall in.


Here is what we walk up to. No rails or anything. Just a huge drop.



Looking over the edge tothe water below.

Trevor and Alexis beside the hole.

More house pictures

Here are some more pictures of the house. I thank my mother in law for sending my blog to my parents who do not have a computer. This will help my parents see a bit of our house here.



Here is one of the walls in the living room by the love seat.


Here are a few of the decorations on some shelves.



We repainted the kitchen right before Thanksgiving and it turned out wonderful. It use to be a yellowish white color with a rose trim and cabinets. WE painted the upper walls a light white and the bottom a dark red. As I said it turned out real nice. I love my kitchen now!

Excuse the messy book shelf. It seems as though everything gets piled on here.

Another wall in the kitchen. There use to be a window here, but when we added on the bedroom for the older boys we had to close this is. Tim put shelves in and made a nice place for a few knicknacks.

Another kitchen wall.

Updating the house

We have been working on painting different rooms in the house. The house here has not been painted in probably 15 years or longer. So as you can imagine things were looking pretty rough around here. We have painted the living room and a kind lady in the church gave us a gift certificate for a designing place here. With that we bought new curtains and a floor lamp for the living room. They look very nice.






Our new curtains.




The floor lamp.







We have also painted the bathroom. This use to be a type of yellow color. It is now a pretty blue. My things match this blue color better.




WE have also painted the kitchen and I will try to post pictures of those later after I take them. We still have a few rooms that need attention and as we get those finished I will post pictures of them.

Christmas

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. We enjoyed our day. We loved having the Dimmett girls here with us. here our some pictures for you to enjoy of our day.


I made these cookies on Christmas Eve. I had found a recipe in a book and thought I would try them. Everyone loved them!



Alexis opening a gift.

Alexis opening her baby doll. she loves it!

Tyler with some of his gifts.

Tanner opening his gifts.

Trevor has wanted a remote control boat for quite some time. I finally found this one here.

He picked it out before Christmas so already knew of it. The funny thing was I forgot this gift and a few more in the closet. We were almost done opening gifts and Tim asked where the sailboat was. So... I ran to the bedroom to get the rest of the gifts. Oops!!!!

Tanner with a mini pool table. This has been fun for all of us to play.

Tyler loves airplanes and anything to do with them. We found this aircraft carrier. He loves it!

Alexis with some of her Barbie stuff.

Tim and Trevor getting ready to try out the sailboat.

it works!!!!

Look mom! I am sailing it.

Grace, Esther, and Ruth Dimmett. Thanks girls for spending some time with us. We enjoyed having you here. Thanks for all the work you did for us too.

Christmas Pictures

This morning before church I wanted to get some pictures of the kids. It is so hard to get the boys to take good pictures. So I included a goofy picture of them and then one that isn't to bad.




Tyler James



Mom, I do not like this!!!




Trevor Allen



Do I have to smile, mom?

Tanner Lee

Mom, Are we done yet???

Alexis Dawn

Beautiful Princess!!

Making Cookies

I had a lot of fun letting everyone make sugar cookies. this is something I try to do every Christmas. My kids love helping cut out and frost the cookies.




Here is Ruth trying her hand at cookie cutting. She even rolled out the dough.



Tanner, Alexis and Erianna cutting out cookies. They had so much fun. I don't know if Erie has ever done this. She was fun to watch.

Here is Erie frosting the cookies. She would get so much frosting on her hands. So every once in awhile after she licked them clean i would have her go and wash her hands.

Tanner and Grace frosting cookies

Alexis frosting cookies

Tanner frosting cookies

Painting

We have some more visitors here at our house. Three teenage girls from our home church in North Carolina have come to visit with us this Christmas season. So..... we have put them to work. They have been very helpful to us. One day that really messed up my living room by painting!! No, really, I loved having them finish this for me. They had fun painting it too I think. Thanks a lot girls.



Here is Grace and Alexis taking all of the books off of the shelf so that Tim could take it down, then the girls painted it.



Esther working on the trim work.



Ruth reaching high!

Oops!! Esther has paint on her hands!

Ruth moving the drop cloth.