A daughter's wedding

I know, you see this title and think that my daughter is not old enough to get married. Well, Alexis is not old enough, but Alicia is. We met Alicia back in 2006 when we went to the Amazon. She was one of the teens on our team. She is a wonderful young lady and has become part of our family ever since. We've sort of adopted her as our daughter. She is a sweet, christian young lady. We were priviledged to be able to be in her wedding.



Here is Alicia Ovalle.



Back in 2007 when we first met Nathan Hunt in Florida, he was spending a lot of time with us because Alicia was with us most of the time (this was right before we went on the mission field). Anyways, Alexis asked him back then (this was before they were ever dating) if he was going to marry Alicia. Alexis was only 4 years old at the time. So Alexis loves being around Nathan and Alicia. In this picture I had told Alexis that Nathan was going to give her a kiss. He tried to, but as you can see Alexis pushed him away.



Nathan and Alexis

Alicia and Alexis

Alexis as the flower girl walking down the isle throwing out her petals.

Nathan and Alicia Hunt

Alicia wanted a picture of her and Nathan with her second family. Tanner is not in the picture though because he stayed back in NC with his grandparents.

The wedding party.

Alicia and Alexis

This is picture is some of the kids that went to the Amazon with us back in 2006. We were the team leaders and we loved that trip. We had loads of fun and saw God work in many ways. Left to Right. Tim, Connie, Alicia, Daniel, Enid and Eric.

Friendship, birthday, mother's day and scary girl!!

I was in the kitchen getting supper ready one night this week and Alexis came in with panty hose on her head and told me to "Stick 'em up". Tim helped her get this on her head. She looked funny so I had to take a picture of her.




Here are my kiddos and me on Mother's Day. I love being a mother to my four wonderful children. They are such a blessing from God and I'm thankful to be here alive and well to raise them. For Mother's Day this year I got some paint. Once I get my laundry room all done then I will post pictures of it.




Tyler turned 15 on May 3rd. So his grandparents, a friend of ours and a cousin came to our house to celebrate with him. Tyler wants a calf for his birthday. He hasn't gotten that yet because we have some traveling to do and no one will be able to care for a bottle fed calf. So once we are done with the traveling and we get back then we will get him a calf. One thing that I told him that I was going to get him for his birthday was some shaving cream and some razors. I think he thought I was joking and so when he opened up the bag he gave me this awful look. As of yet I haven't been able to get him to use them though. maybe soon!!!

Tyler also passed his test for his permit. He is now driving. The first time he drove he scared me a few times, but today he did fine. I know the more he drives the better confidence he will gain. It is just hard on my nerves and turning my hair gray, Ugh!!! I dont' know how my parents survived all of us kids learning to drive. At least I have four years before the next one learns to drive. Pray for Tyler so that he will become a good driver.



Tyler getting his shaving cream.



Tyler, grandpa, grandma and Rod.

Tyler's car cake.
Thanks to grandma for making his cake. She does a great job on the cakes for the kids.

My friend, Tammy, surprised me with this Willow Tree figurine called Friendship. As most of you know I am collecting these and this is a wonderful on to add to my collection. Thanks so much Tammy. You are a wonderful friend to me.

Living on a farm

Tyler wanted me to post about one of our chickens. We live on a farm so we have lots of flies. We bought some of those sticky fly strips that hang down. Tyler put up three of them in the barn. Later on in the evening he went out to make sure the chickens were all in and shut them up( he does this every night). He came running back in saying that one of the chickens was all tangled up in this fly strip. The chicken was a mess. Two of those things were completely wrapped around the chicken and Tyler tried to pull them off and ended up knocking the chicken off of the roost. He ended up having to cut it off and even some of his tail feathers. We just never know what is going to happen on a farm

Happy 15th Birthday to Tyler

15 years ago we had our first little boy. He was a much welcomed addition to our family. He has grown into a nice young man. today he is starting his driving part of drivers ed. We will do that for the next four days and then he can get his permit. We are excited for him and scared at the same time. I will post pictures of his birthday get together and cake later when I'm on my own computer. And for his gift he wants a cow of his own to grow up and sell to make some money. He wont' be able to get this until June though until we get back for a couple of trips because no one will be here to bottle feed it.

Happy birthday Tyler. I love you!!

What has been happening.

There has been a lot going on since the last time I've posted. So I am going to try to update this and let you know all that's going on. My pictures are not in the order that I wanted them to be and I couldn't get them moved around how I wanted, but at least you get to see them.




Tim and the kids have been working on making a small pond for the cows to get water from so we don't have to haul water to the water trough as much.


Here is Alexis trying to get the small parts of dirt out.

Tim, Tyler and Trevor working on the pond.

I gave my sister in law, Carrie a Larry the cucumber sucker. She loves veggie tales and cucumbers!!!!!! (Not really). So she gave me this little veggie tales cake. So now I have to come up with something real good to get her. I have an idea though!!!

Tim and I will be married for 16 years on April 23rd. We were able to go away for the weekend to celebrate. We had some other plans to go away on our anniversary, but those just didn't seem to work out. This past weekend just fell together real well and so we were able to go away. We went to the Natahala National Forest on the western side of North Carolina. We stayed in a cabin for a couple of nights and went hiking and just had a relaxing time with no kids around. We were able to hike on the Appalacian Trail for a little while. This has been a dream of Tim's to hike the trail. He didn't get to do the whole trail, only part, but someday he wants to try to do the whole thing.

Here we hiked back to a waterfall. It was about a mile hike. Starting out I found our real quick that I was not in shape, but it was fun to do anyways. By the end of our stay I was doing pretty good with all the hiking.

Tim on the Appalacian Trail

This is an old fire tower dating back to the 1800's. From this look out you can see into North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

This is a cabin that the people stayed in that were in charge of the towers.

Then this past Tuesday, the 13th, a group of us homeschoolers in our church went to the NC zoo. My kids had a good time and enjoyed seeing the animals. After all of the walking we did there we were ready to come home though.

Tanner

Trevor on a skull.

It was fairly hot that day and this elephant was cooling off in the water. He was fun to watch.

Alexis by a bee.

This is the cabin we stayed in for our anniversary.

Tim got me another Willow Tree figurine for our anniversary. This one is titled I Love You.

I am very thankful for Tim in my life. He is a wonderful husband and father. The Lord has helped us come a long way in 16 years. I am more in love with him as each day passes. Thank you Tim for loving me. I love you!!





Wedensday night Tim and the kids were going to church. I was not feeling well because of my allergies. My eyes were hurting real bad and was hard to keep them open. Anyways they left early to go water the cows that we have over by Tim's parents house. After they were done with that they were headed up the road to church. They didn't make it very far and heard a loud noise and the back window busted out. Someone was apparently hunting in the woods for turkey and shot their gun (because there were three bullet holes in the window). Tyler, Tanner, and Alexis were in the back seat. They ended up with glass shattered all on them. Tim reported it to the sheriff, but there isn't much that can be done. I am very thankful for God's protection upon Tim and the kids. Things could have gone so much worse than a broken window. While I was home I kept having a feeling that I needed to pray for their safety, so I did. I am ever so thankful for God's promptings in our lives. He is so faithful to us and I am so appreciative to God for keeping my family safe from harm that night.

Here is a picture of the window busted out. Later Tim knocked the rest of the window out so that it wouldn't fall on the kids on the way back home.

Half way to 70!!

Tim celebrated his 35th birthday on the 1st of April. here is a picture of the candy that the kids got for him. I got him some knives, but failed to get a picture of them. Tim seemed to enjoy his birthday and we are thankful for Tim in our lives. Love you honey!!

Gravel

We have needed gravel for the driveway for quite some time now. The other day or so our nephew was able to talk with the guy that delivers the gravel. So here are some pictures of our gravel. The kids have had lots of fun playing in the left over pile, but they didn't like it when I made them carry buckets of gravel to other places in the driveway that I wanted filled in!!!