Yankee Lake Truck Night

My 11 yo begged and begged me to take him to Yankee Lake so we went out there tonight.  It was really a lot of fun.  

The boy got to ride the bull!  He loved it!

                                                Me next to one of the trucks.

We rode the party bus.  That was pretty cool!

JohnnyK brought some of their ATV's and this one got flipped!

Uh oh!  That doesn't look good!

It was ATV night and a bunch of the 4 wheelers got stuck in this spot so you would think they would just not go through that spot...but a bunch of 'em did and got stuck so I think some of them spent half the evening just pulling each other out.

                                           Here you can see the damage that was done.

                                                   So they put it back on the trailer.

                                                          Riding the party bus!

My oldest turned 18 years old!

My oldest son turned 18 this month!  He has grown into a fine young man and I am very proud of him!  He is over 6 foot tall now!  

Me doing dishes!

I am totally loving my new kitchen!!  I can't believe I waited so long to get it remodeled!

Greene Old Home Day Parade!

4 yo DD with a friend from church.  

 I asked them to smile for the camera and this was as good as it was getting!

 14 and 16 yo on the youth group float for the parade.  17 yo DS is at work today.

 Waiting for the parade to begin to catch some candy.

 I let the littles play for a bit back at the school after the parade.

Me and the Kiddos!

This is our most recent family picture.  It was taken for our church directory.  The kids are really growing up and getting big!

We went to the pond today!

We went to a friends pond again today.  It was 92F today so it was very refreshing!

 17 yo DS doing flips off the diving board!

I let 8 yo DD jump off the diving board without her life jacket today.  She was thrilled!  She jumped in feet first a couple of times and then diving right in and then doing cannon balls!  She did fantastic swimming back to the ladder all on her own.

Back to school bash!

A local church was having a back to school bash.  They had games, a bounce house, a blowup slide, face painting, food, and prizes, and school supplies.  My kiddos had a blast!

 4 yo DD made a ring on a blue juice!  This game is harder than it looks!  My 14 yo played several rounds and could not win pop!

 Cotton candy!  YUM!

               Snow Cones and Popcorn!

 Face Painting!

Swimming!

The two oldest boys helped a friend from church with some gravel hauling and some other stuff and then I brought the littles over to her house to pick them up and go swimming in her pool. We had some hot dogs on the grill for lunch.  The pool was was freezing cold because we have had such a cold and rainy summer so the littles did not stay in the water very long.

 Of course my 17 yo is always thrilled to have his picture taken!  Sigh...I can't believe he will be 18 years old in just 20 short days! He has gotten so tall and has turned into a fine young man!  

 11 yo is, thankfully, still in the stage where he loves to have his picture taken...and make goofy faces of course!

I published my first ebook! Canned Potatoes and Recipes!

I published my first ebook!  It is an ebook on how to can potatoes with several different recipes to using home canned or store bought potatoes.  I also included a bonus chapter on how to can caramelized onions and a few recipes using caramelized onions!  I hope you enjoy it!


                                                        

I added 24 new posts today and put in a ton of pictures from this summer so you will have to scroll back through the pages to see them all!