Family Fun

My parents and Aunt and Uncle from N.Carolina came for a visit this past week. It was so great to see everyone. My Uncle Bill is my Mom's brother. We played on the farm, went to church, out to dinner, shopped and enjoyed each others company. I wish they could have stayed longer. It always seems you run out of time for the things you want to do with company. Hopefully they will come back soon. We plan on visiting them over summer vacation.
We had another calf born this past week. He is solid black except a little white on his face like his momma. He is very small but so cute. Speaking of babies our Cat that we just got in Oct is gonna have kittens. She is such a great cat. I hope her kittens are as sweet as she is. She's solid black. The other night we saw a tiger colored male on our back porch. Not sure who's cat it is but it was very pretty. I'll post pictures when they arrive.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Blessings

Howdy

I wanted to show you Pepper's new pillow that Hunter made for her. When Hunter was about 5 my Mom taught him to sew simple things like a button or how to hem curtains. He started hand sewing pillows for himself and friends. His other Grandmother thought it was neat and bought him a Singer sewing machine for Christmas this year and my Mom taught him to sew on it. He enjoys it and picked it up quickly. I haven't learned to sew on it yet. Hopefully Hunter will teach me. Our dog Pepper is getting older and Hunter wanted her to have a huge bed. I think we made it too big but Hunter said it's just right for him to lay on it with her while watching T.V.

Check out this huge egg one of our chicken's laid. I had never seen an egg so large. Thought it was neat and decided to share.

I guess I will be blogging more again. I was substitute teaching at Hunter's school several days a week but our state is going through a budget cut and they called me and said they had to cut all subs. Maybe next year. I will still see the children since I plan on volunteering some.

Blessings...

Children In Action

Our Children In Action (CIA'S) at church have been learning about a missionary named Eric Bergquist. He started a ministry in San Francisco California called the Page Street Baptist Ministry. They help homeless people and runaways. They give them an opportunity to earn food and clothing by helping and serving others. Our CIA'S are collecting new socks for a mission's project to send to help with this ministry. Here are a few pictures of the kids decorating a sock box and a mural to conclude this months lesson. My class is 1st thru 3rd grade mostly boys and Mrs. Suzanne's class is 4th thru 6th grade and mostly girls. Last night before my class joined the older class to work on the project we were discussing donating the socks to this ministry. I gave each boy a pair of socks that I had purchased to put in the box. None of them wanted to carry the girls socks to the box. The boys were quite curious about who donates the rest of the clothing. I explained that other's helped this ministry as well and some might donate shoes, or pants or even underwear. You should of seen their eyes light up and they started giggling. I said well we all wear them right and they all agreed. Then one little boy with a very serious face said who has to donate the bra's? He was very glad that it wasn't us and it wouldn't be our next mission project.
Blessings

So much to do So little time

It seems since the New Year has began I have hit the pavement running and haven't stopped . Of course if you looked behind me you wouldn't believe it for one minute. Hunter tried to be my new exercise coach but I wasn't a very good student. I think I made it to class 3 days in a row before I dropped out. My friend Cindy invited us over to their house for a cookout last Saturday and she looked great. She is doing Jenny Craig and going to the gym every day. How do you people stay focused? I try and give up before I hardly get started. I'll try again tomorrow or the next day...
I have been subbing at a Middle School quite a bit lately. I really enjoy it and some classes are more challenging than others. I like that I am starting to know a lot of the students by name instead of face only. They are really a great bunch of kids. I do have to wonder how many parents actually check or at least ask their child if they have pencil and paper before they leave home or if they have homework when they get home.
Everyone is doing well and Hunter's burns have healed nicely. He is putting Maderma on them a few times a day.
Please put my friend Becky's son Jay Pope on your prayer list. He is having surgery April 1st and will have a lengthy recovery. He is such a sweet young man and I love him dearly.
Hope everyone is off to a great start this New Years and I look forward to hearing from ya.
Blessings,
Sherry

New Year, New baby Calf

Hunter and I went for a ride on the golf cart to check on the cows this afternoon and we found a baby calf had been born and he looked like a little lamb. I will take better pictures later it was starting to get dark on us but luckily I thought to grab the camera just in case we saw something fun to take a picture of. I have missed some great pictures on the farm of deer, coyote, turtles, owls and turkeys. Scott is really the picture taker in the family. He just seems to have a better eye when it comes to photography.

Hunter is recovering from 2nd degree burns on his chin and neck. He was frying something Sat night and dropped the tongs by accident in hot oil and they popped opened and splashed grease on him. We are thankful it was not any worse than it was. His burns are already starting to heal and I am greatful for all the prayers, phone calls and words of encouragement. He went back to school Wednesday bandaged up but I hope he won't have to wear them next week if all goes well.

Hope everyone has had a wonderful new start to 2008 and just wondering if anyone made any New Year's resolutions?? I use to say every year mine was to lose weight. Since that never worked I made a resolution not to make a resolution to trick myself into losing weight. That didn't work for me either. Sooooooooooo the saga continues...............
Blessings

Happy New Year

Christmas was very nice this year. My family and Scott's family all came on the 23rd for dinner and fellowship. We had a great time but it ended too quickly. My parents,daughter and son in law stayed the night after the party and we opened gifts. Everyone left Christmas Eve and Hunter, Scott and I went to a candle lite service at our church that was very heartfelt. After that we went riding to look at Christmas lights. It has been nice having Scott off on vacation this Christmas.
The last few days we decided to go off on mini day trips that has been fun. Wednesday we went to Green Cove Springs and drove through the city of lights and ended with a fun night of roasting marshmallows, and ice skating for Hunter at the arena they had set up. Thursday evening we drove to Gainesville and ate at the Melting Pot(fondu) Yummo. Today we went through Hastings and found a really neat place that a gentleman had collected antiques and showed them off in an old train station building. He even has another building that makes their own chips and sells them. Then we went on to Saint Augustine for a early dinner and more ice skating for Hunter. This arena was much larger and they played a movie in the back ground so parents could watch while their children skated. They even had a bubble machine that made fake snow fall on the ice skating rink. It looked pretty cool falling but Hunter said it made it pretty slippery.
Looking forward to a wonderful new year in 2008 but sad to see Scott's vacation coming to an end. Blessings

Childrens Christmas Party

We had a Christmas party for the children at church last night. They all seemed to have a great time. There were about 35 children. We started the party off by inviting the whole church family to eat dinner and have birthday cake for Jesus with us. Then Mrs. Glenda read the story of Jesus to all the children. We then made a few crafts that were so cute. Mrs. Suzanne had the fellowship hall decked out with decorations. She is such a talented sweetheart. She also let the children make an adorable manager scene craft and reindeer treat bag. Next we played a few games that were kinda long but fun. All in all I think the party was a success and fun was had by all.
Christmas is only 5 days away and I thought I was through with my shopping until someone called today and said guess what I bought myself and of course it was what I had bought them already.
That is totally breaking the rules. You can't buy yourself ANYTHING from Dec 1st until after Christmas. Now I have to go shopping again-UGH
My son in law graduates from law school tomorrow. I am very proud of him.
Hope everyone has a Blessed Christmas.