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!"