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Mr. Happy

Daddy's right hand man

Boys, boys, boys

Weston...our mountain climber (on our "new" bunk beds that were given to us)
Colton contemplating life at 3

Weston's form of contemplating!

Boys smilin' for Mom

Happy brothers
Loving brothers

Weston loves ice cream

Daddy with his boys around our yard "campfire"

Mommy said to smile!!!!

This week the boys, a friend and I picked grapes off our grapevine that is VERY old and still producing. I decided to try making the grapes into freezer jam. I am delighted with the results. It tastes like pure sunshine!!! Here are all the jars I got out of 3 batches. I thought strawberry freezer jam was my favorite...now I'm not sure.

" This smile is especially for you, Daddy. I love you!"
Colton was saying, "I love you, Daddy!" You can tell both boys thoroughly LOVE their daddy and can't wait to give him lots of hugs and kisses when he returns from South Dakota.

Today, Shelby and I made LOTS of fried apple pies from the apples from Granny Smith apple tree in our yard. She really did most of the work. I fried them while she formed them. She did a GREAT job!!! They are sooooo good.

Just to make you drool. Fraky crust with a sweet filling of cinnamon apples inside.

Hurry home, baby! Can't wait to serve you some fresh pies! I love you dearly!!!!

Like father...like sons...they both love reading...even while eating!
"Pardon me, can I help you?"




Weston avoiding bedtime last night. If he pretends he's cute, maybe Momma won't put him in his own bed.

We got to meet little Shiloh this past Friday evening. She was born on Jeff's birthday and has been grafted into Cheryl and David's family within the last few weeks. He she is with Colton, Weston and Jeff.
Me and sweet Shiloh. She is soooo beautiful!

Meet the family twins... Weston and Emma Grace (Martha and Larry's youngest).

Identify the wildlife.

Happy #35 to Jeff and Happy # 65 to Mom!
Mom really has some lungs...check out the wind damage to Jeff's face!
Me... in place of Cheryl...all of which are now 40!!!!
Four of the cousins at the Morgan reunion

Laura's beautiful girls

Hobe Sound Bible College quartet was here at our church today...on Father's Day.

Our church men and my men huddled together in the back.

This is gross! Jeff got hit by something when weedeating yesterday. I called the eye dr. and said it hemoraged but he was not concerned that he would need to see. It is not painful to Jeff but VERY gorry to see. I can't tell which eye is looking at me...he looks crosseyed. The dr. says Jeff will have to "answer questions" for about a week or so. Thank the Lord that it did not hit the pupil of his eye!!!!

Another shot of my dear husband's eye.

Colton complaining about his eye. Like father....like son!

Bad wreck?
Bad cold?

Bad manners?

Bad acne?

Bad momma?

Colton got to lick the strawberry freezer jam bowl that I had just scraped out...now you know the rest of the story.

On my grandmother Scarbrough kitchen cabinet hangs a sign that I have always loved and memorized. It is as follows:

Thank God for dirty dishes

They have a tale to tell

While other folks go hungry

We're eating very well.

For home, and health,and happiness

We shouldn't want to fuss

For by this stack of evidence,

God's been very good to us!

With this wonderful poetry in mind, I've concoccted other little rhymes along this line. The following is one that fits this blog of my messy child:

Thank God for messy boys

They have a tale to tell

While other folk are childless

Our quiver is quite swell.

For toys askew and frazzled nerves

We shouldn't want to fuss

For by these signs of men to be

God's been very good to us!

On Colton's 3rd birthday, he had 3 sets of guests!

First was the Hausman family, second, my sister,Cheryl and her family with Grandmamma and Papa Scarbrough, and third was our friends from Hobe Sound, Bill and Della Dolan with their granddaughter, Hayley. She and Weston are around the same age.

Hayley and a smile

Hayley wondering who these big boys are and where she has landed.

My sweet cousin, Laura, who slid in at midnight and scurried away right after breakfast on the same day of Colt's B-day. She and I used to live right beside each other in TN. Kinda feel like we bonded like missionaries do on a foreign field! Standing here outside of what used to be our great aunt's house, we look like we're from the country in our gingham and broad smiles. It WAS Memorial Day...and we didn't even plan on being red,white and blue together. ( We I first saw this picture, Laura, I thought, "Oh, Aunt Cora would be proud!"). I really love Laura and wish she'd be my neighbor again...for her company and laughs and her girls being my babysitter!

A sample of the beautiful flowers we've had "spring" up around our place. It's been soooo exciting to see what is going to bloom next. We are reaping boundless flowers that my great Aunt Cora planted throughout her years of living here.
One of the rose bushes

Another rose bush

We all got to go to Hobe Sound, FL with Jeff when he sat another cabinet job down there. It was quite warm, but the boys and I got lots of playtime on the campus playground. I just LOVE this snapshot of Colton. He is such a big boy now and full of life.

He is now 3 years old! He is potty trained and coming up with clever remarks. He and I were reading a book that had the alphabet letters in it. As we were coming to each new one, I would have him repeat after me if he didn't remember it. When we came to the letter U, I said it but he wouldn't repeat it. After the third time, he said, "Ooooohhh, the letter ME!"

Jeff just completed this beautiful table.
He made the top look like it was a planked one. He didn't build the chairs...just painted, distressed and finished them.