Old Fashion Day Picnic

Our church has an annual Old Fashion Day w/ a different theme every year. This year's theme was the Renaissance/Medieval era. I already had a dress from a banquet that I had to play & sing in at school but my mom had to come up w/ costumes for the rest of the family. For the boys is was easy, we just went & bought armour & for my dad my mom just made him a crusader "cape" to wear over his chain-mail. So my mom just had to make the lil girl's costumes. I think they turned out really cute!

Our family minus my mom who didn't make anything for herself (because it would just get in the way while she cooks, yep nice excuse :P :)

William trying out his armour w/ dad's chain-mail.

Daniel trying to look cool while trying out his armour.

William at the picnic showing off his costume :)

Hannah & Charity- aren't their outfits soooo cute!

Hannah w/ her "Pony Pals" Krista & Brooke.

Don't mess w/ this lil girl; she's takin' on two twice her size ;)

We had some games & activities trying to keep w/ the theme. Well, I think tug-of-war counts.

HaHa, got a pic of mom anyways- for those of you who dont know she hates getting her pic taken so it is a challenge to get one. :)

Charity (w/ her buddy helpin') hittin' the terradactyl pinata.

What get together is complete w/ out a good time of fellowship among friends.

Now here is the reason why you dont see any pics of me. (Yes, I know they probably didn't have any sunglasses in the old days but the Texas sun is just too bright ;)

And of course anytime you combine boys, outside, sunshine, and a field- you get a football game :)

Charity & her Buddy- Mr Hamelund.

Just another pic of our family together to end off this post.

Note: To see more pics of our Old Fashion Day go to my church's website at http://charitybaptistkilleen.org/oldfashionedday.htm

Mustangs

I will be putting up the pics from our Old Fashion Day but I did want to put up the reason for not posting this past weekend.

On Friday, we got a call from a gentleman who is donating a horse to the Renes. He had decided to get them a mustang but he needed someone to go up to Arkansas to pick them up on Saturday. My dad had to go to SanAntonio for work & couldn't go, so I had to learn how to drive the truck w/ horse trailer. I had never had to pull a trailer before but I learned how to pretty fast. Actually, I got the hang of it before I even left town :) Well, it was decided that Daniel would go w/ me & that we would leave Friday evening & stay in a hotel near the Texas/Arkansas border for the night. Well, due to some set backs we left at 8pm & got into the hotel somewhere after 1:30am. For some odd reason I could not get to sleep (hmm, maybe it was that energy drink that I drank to stay awake :) Anyways, we left there about 7ish & were at the auction by 8:30am. I got to help pick out the two mustangs- the gentleman got one for the Renes & one for himself. Driving them back to his place was fun because they are both wild & were fighting back there while I was driving through Dallas/Ft Worth traffic. Fun stuff! :)
Here are some pics that he sent me- the horses cant leave his place for at least a month so I have to be content to just see pics that he sends :)

The Rene's is the dark mare. His is the sorrel gelding.

Here they are enjoying a bite of hay :)

The mare eating.


Isn't she pretty! Yes, she is dirty :)

He sent this pic of a Texas longhorn.

Have no idea why he sent this pic to me but I thought it was a great pic.

Here is his sorrel gelding.

Right now I am looking for some fencing materials to be able to put these guys up down here. If everything works out I get to have two horses around here for a few months. :)

Fun w/ Renes 2

Well, the Renes came back for a short visit this past month.

Here are some pics of our fun times together.

Board games are always a blast- especially when your good friends are over :)

Here is my mom preparing a feast for us all (by the way- it was yummy! ;)

Peter & Hannah playing RISK. They always had a blast playing on a team & wiping out the "bad guys" :P

Hmm, looks like Charity is trying to climb on the table while Peter & Hannah are setting up their game. But in the background you can see Tabby & I playing the piano & organ.



Charity insisted on helping so she was given a lil piece of dough to role.




Here she is again having a blast. She kept sticking her hands in the flour bag until we finally took the bag away, lol.



Well, while they were here my brothers & their friends decided to put together another movie. What made this one so awesome is the Renes can speak Russian so there are authentic Russian speaking parts. My brother isn't quite through editing it but when he finishes it I will try to put it up on here.




Here is a pic of one of my brothers friends named Joshy; he got to be a Russian who just responded w/ "Dah" which is Russian for yes.



Well, since my brothers had their friends over my lil sis Hannah invited her friend over. Here she is w/ Brooke playing "Connect Four."

Brooke's brothers Nathan & Josh- other actors & director of the movie.

My lil bro Daniel. Great pic of him taken before they started taking the movie.

Daniel again but this time w/ his gun. Yes, it is a real gun & yes they used it for the movie. But dont worry it was not loaded & they are very cautious.

Our terrorist, Nathan. Isn't this pic awesome! :)

Daniel & Josh on the left awaiting instructions while Tejay & William discuss the movie on the right.

Joshy, Daniel, & Josh getting ready to head on out.

We are all now eagerly awaiting the completion of the movie.

Also, looking forward to this summer when the Renes come for an extended visit.

Just some updated pics of us

Our church had our annual Old Fashion Day (this years theme was medival/renaissance). Well, since we have the picnic at our house we had to get the outside cleaned up. Sorry didn't get any good pics of William or my dad.

Here is Charity trying to catch up w/ us- too cute of a pic to pass up :)

Another one, thought this one was a lil better.

Daniel mowing the yard which is over 2 acres so I know he is glad that someone invented the riding lawn mower, lol. :)


Here's Hannah walking Comet. In case you dont know Comet is part German Shepherd, Malamute, Timber Wolf, & Red Wolf.

OK, I had to take a pic w/ Comet too. ;)

Hannah, Charity, & Comet in front of our guest house.

Well, while the rest of us were outside mom was inside sewing up a storm.

The finished product. Here are the girls dresses.

Our Christmas Fun

Well, I can't seem to find the pics that I promised to post of William but when I find them I will be sure to put them up (I hope :) But this past Christmas (or the week before) my family went w/ some friends of ours-the Renes missionaries to Belarus- and stayed at a "cabin" up in Athens, TX. This "cabin" was on 200 some acres & had a 12 acre pond. We had a blast w/ a cookout, fish fry, BB-gun war, scavanger hunt, and of course we rode all over on the 4-wheelers & the mule.

The main mode of transportation on the acrage was this "Mule" & the 4-wheelers.

Here I am the "Grizzly." I had a blast riding this thing all over the place.

Here I am on the lil "Beast"

William & Tejay on the "Grizzly"

Daniel & Peter on the "Beast"

Dad trying out the "Grizzly" w/ Hannah in tow :)

Hannah's first time fishing & she caught those three w/in the 1st 15min.

Here they are cleaning all the fish that we caught for our fish fry.

Me, Priscilla, & Tabby at the cookout. See the band-aide on my face? That is my battle wound from the BB-gun war that we had between all the kids & 4-wheelers.

Hannah, Me, Priscilla, & Tabby at the cookout. (You can really see the band-aide on my face in this picture:)

Sometimes we had to cram on the vehicles in order to get places.

Me, my lil sis Charity, & Tabby on the "Grizzly"

Team 1 for our scavanger hunt: Peter & Priscilla on the "Grizzly" and

William & Daniel on the "Beast"

Team 2: Me & Tabby on the "Mule" & Hannah & Tejay on the "Ranger" (We won the hunt, of course ;)

Sorry

Wow! This past semester has been sooooo hectic with school, home schooling, & work. So I apologize for not posting sooner. I promise to get William's pictures up soon (I gotta find the CD w/ the pics:) Then I will put up an update of my family. Take care all!