She sews and scraps

It's been a pretty good year! :)

It has been a good year, overall my family has been happy and healthy (even though I am going through a yucky cold right now) God has really blessed us and even when the times are tough and we each struggle, God is always good and I thank Him for that.

This year we did alot more hunting than the year before, it really feels good to be doing what we love! Jim turned 48, I turned 40 and Zach turned 16 (yikes!) Jim worked a lot, he is a great provider and I love and appreciate him so much for that, he went shooting a lot and we did get to hunt a lot more for him (and us). I started college for the first time in my life, learning ASL is a dream come true for me :)  I was a full time mom and wife keeping up with these two guys of mine is not easy, I love it but it takes up a lot of my time LOL. I love being a wife to Jim and a mom to Zach.  Zach kept busy doing cross country and track, which he LOVES. He has mainted his great grades (all A's and A+) He is such a great guy.

The year 2009 has had it's sad and hard moments too, being distant from family (emotionally and physically) is hard, I miss family that has chosen not to be a part of my life but I figure they have their own struggles too. Getting my abnormal cell results from the mole and being scared about that and going through whatever treatment the Lord sees fit these next few months.  I am hoping to learn from those hard times and pray that I can continue to get through these different and challenging "moments". But I don't want to FOCUS on the negative, I mean we all have that in our lives but I want to continue to focus on the positive :)

For 2010? gosh, I pray that we are healthy still, I want to grow even closer with my immediate family, I want to sew and scrapbook more than I ever have (now that I have a new sewing machine!) I want to keep learning ASL, I want to become more confident in myself, I want to run several 5K's, I want to continue to appreciate all the little things in my life and continue to see God's blessings that He gives to me. I could have shared a 1000 pictures to recap on 2009 (because I take a ton of photos!) but this post would be very loooong!

Here is a picture of us from today (with 1 of the 4 dogs!)

Hugs and love you all!

boat pics, moments, UFO's, fabric and misc chatter

I don't know where the rest of last week and this week went so far! dang, November is already flying by!

whats new? hmmmm Jim bought a boat, used, but new to us

 
We took the boat out for a test run to see if it would sink how it would run. Well good news, it didn't sink :) but we realize it's just too small for us three to move around on

here are some pictures of our day out at Canyon Lake, I took my little old digital camera (in case the boat sank I didn't want to loose my Canon Rebel!) this explains the not so great pictures!

don't know why this picture didn't work! hee hee! it's a keeper though, it's the only one of us three :)

just a scenery shot
 
so now I guess we might be selling a boat and looking for something else?!! ;)

MOMENTS.... we all have them, real life happenings, maybe the house isn't always the cleanest etc, basically Moments is "a project dedicated to the idea that it's all the moments that make up a life—not just the pretty ones. We are a group of like-minded folks who believe that perfection is in the eye of the beholder and wish to share our imperfections with each other. We hope to further the concept that no one can do it all" go visit Amy at A common Place Life  and join on in if you want :)

Here is one of our moments (oh boy, I have  A LOT of pictures to share like this and others), this is from when we just got back from our hunting trip and everything always gets placed between the living room and dining room right behind a couch, it gets  a little scary sometimes but this is real life and this happens to my house daily.

 

Right now I have about 6 different calls for hunting on my table (hint hint Jim!) there is way too much laundry and clutter areas in my home (I do have plans for those areas!)

now onto UFO's, no not the kind up in the sky (if they exist) but Unfinished Objects, you know, all those sewing projects you have started and moved onto another without finishing the first? because we all have to have at least 9 ongoing projects at once?!! ;)  if you are interested in joining in, look at Tallgrass Prairie Studio to join in and be encouraging! I am signing up for finishing up 5 Christmas gifts, a quilt top to finish, quilting on another quilt and a table runner, a purse and a tote bag for school. I do have more, but I need to be a little realistic :)

One last picture to share...

doesn't this all look like fun to play with?!!

Going to watch Criminal Minds with hubby and son, then off to bed, 4:30am comes early and I have school tomorrow :)
 

Hunting pictures so far...(there will be more!)

We have not gotten a deer YET! not without working our butts off though, we left last Thursday so we could start early Friday morning and each day we hiked/walked in some steep whitetail country  for 7-8 hours each day and rode the quads 2-4 hours each day. It was very warm and too many other hunters and city people around.

Here is the three of us at the end of the day on Friday

here is day 2, yes we are filthy, it was so dusty while riding the quads behind each other, I felt so gross the whole time but I sure did appreciate our little shower in our little old camp trailer

Here are Jim and Zach posing resting while I HAD to take a picture

Jim spotted this tree that someone did some carvings, pretty cool huh?

 
and here is day 3

we all came home Sunday night since Zach and I both had school, Jim went back on Monday morning and is coming home today (Wed) so him and Zach can go back and hunt tomorrow (Thurs) which is our last day, wish us/them luck! Wouldn't it be so cool if they each got a whitetail and our freezer would be full?!!

I will post more later especially if there is a dead deer or two involved!

more outdoor pictures

These were from last week and I am just now sharing them here but wanted to post these before the next set :) we went out scouting for deer and a camping spot for our upcoming whitetail deer hunt (which is going on now!)

Zach roasting us some weenies

Jim doing his part of getting me in the pictures :)
  

 "pecker" mountain (inside family joke)

and our "posed" family picture that I always have to get of us, the guys know this picture comes with everything we do or anywhere we go, but I always guilt them into saying "you will appreciate these pictures when I am dead"  ;) 

There are probably about 30 more I could share from this trip but I will just spare you and show you these.

Hugs!
 
 

Horse Shoe Bend trip

Jim took the day off and we took the quads out to hopefully scout for deer in our upcoming whitetail deer hunt starting this  Friday,  we wasted quite a bit of time in the morning since we waited till the last minute to decide to go.

here is a crappy picture done with my old little rinky dink digital, since I rarely use this camera, I forgot how to do the timer, well after giving it to Jim to figure it out (what was I thinking?!!) and him changing a lot of settings on it, the image quality was bad! lol well it's a picture still and I do love it :)  notice I am smiling still? this must mean that Jim didn't take Zach and I into his adventures of "lets go where no man has ever gone" adventures, meaning where I am usually scared to death going in areas where my quad might flip or roll over on top of me (remember our trip to the Coke ovens, Jim?!!)

and another picture I am in love with, I might just have to frame this one and put it somewhere in our home

 
Love finding anything shaped like a heart, rocks and now a cactus!

It was a good trip, first safety wise, plus we had a nice meal afterwards and lots of laughing on the trip home while impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger! fun times for sure :)