Project Life Layout, August 27 - September 2 {Week 35}

August 27 - Someone doesn't like their beets....:)!

August 28 - A few friends over after Sunday School for a fun play date.

August 29 - We had bought one of these for dad last year, then got some for ourselves.  These little rc choppers are alot of fun for the kids and their daddy!

August 30 - School is just around the corner for us and I have to plan, plan some more, organize, organize some more, oh yah, and organize some more.  This is how I operate.  I need organization to know where I am, where I am going and how I am going to get there.  Homeschool 3 kids (the youngest is in kindergarten next fall) needs organization, structure and fun.  So, I spent alot of hours making my homeschooling schedule binder that has everything - every assignment, every work page, etc scheduled right to the end of the year.  Yay!

August 31 - Spent an evening riding with some cousins.

September 1 - These little swallows have been living on the side of our house (above the garage) for just over a month.  They are out growing their next and will be leaving soon, I love how it looks like they are posing for me.  Two days after this picture, they were all gone.




September 2 - The apple season is winding down.  Still some clumps on the tree.

{Week 35} done, onto {Week 36}.

Project Life Layout, August 20 - August 26 {Week 34}

August 20 - There is my husband, cast and all (see my Week 33 post to find out how he ended up with this cast in the first place).  Didn't seem to slow him down too much. 

August 21 - This is one of the happiest days of our life with our dog Libby.  On Thursday, Aug 18 while my husband was hauling bales she jumped out of the truck while is was driving 85 km/hr down the road!  Into a tall crop field she disappeared.  He called and called, she wouldn't come.  We didn't know if she was alive or not.  I headed up in the van with the kids to where it happened (about a 20 minute drive north of our place) and we searched until dark.  Couldn't find her.  Someone spotted her a midnight though in the same spot so there was still hope.  The next morning my husband called the local radio station and they announced it for us - he also talked to all of the area farmers to let them know she was out there.  My husband knows a guy who works checking oil wells right in that very area and told him what happened.  Today, this guy called my husband as he and another farmer spotted her but when they called her she ran back into the field.  We headed up in the van and prayed all the way that this was our opportunity to get her.  We didn't see her at first then I spotted something a ways up the road - was it her???  YES IT WAS!!!  We called and when she realized it was us calling her she ran like the dickens to us!  We were so happy let me tell you.  Even as I type this I get tears just thinking how lucky we were.  How blessed we were that the Good Lord returned her too us.  My daughter has hardly left her side since, about long enough to sleep and that is all.  We are so happy to have her back.  I honestly doubted that the day would really come where we would get her back.  God is in control though and he saw fit for us to be reunited!!!

August 21 - Okay, we live on an acerage about 27 km from the nearest town, down in the valley where only a couple of local farmers travel the road, but my girls still wanted to 'pretend' and have an ice tea stand.  We have to give them 'hand made tickets' to get a drink.  It was pretty cute!

August 23 - The summer is starting to wind down and any opportunity we get (which isn't alot), the kids like to swim in the local pools.  Some friends rented the pool for an hour and we joined in on the fun.  Here my youngest is having a blast!

August 24 - My second youngest was laying on our bed this morning and I couldn't resist taking a picture of his feet.  To me, this moment is full of beauty!!!  I love that I have four healthy children and thank God every single day for them!

August 25 - Hunting season does not officially open until September 1, BUT, there is no law saying you can dress the part and sit in a bush unarmed before then...my husband does exactly that.  He loves, LOVES to just sit and watch the deer.  He has cameras and tree stands - you name it, whatever he can afford he has, and a list a mile long that he wishes he had.  If he could make a living doing this, he would!

August 26 - When the phone rang and a neighbor was offering my son a ride in this big tractor, do you think my son said no, not today...NOT.  As soon as I told him he sat at the end of the road until his big ride came to pick him up.  He was so excited!

Thanks for stopping by.

See you at the end of {Week 35}.



Project Life Layout, August 13 - August 19 {Week 33}

August 13 - Off in the distance you can see my husband and daughter our for a relaxing evening ride.

August 14 - My son looking on towards his sister in the corral with the horses.

August 15 - A hot day.  The girls had a friend over and I decided to take them all to the pool for the afternoon.  Of course after the pool, you have to have a treat right...lol!  I set the camera up on the dash on a 10 second timer to get this shot.

August 16 - Oh how I miss my fish pond.  My mom has had one since I was a little girl.  We headed up there today to haul bales and I got this shot of her water hyacinths in behind the fountain.

August 17 - I have never tried to make homemade doughnuts, but today I did.  They were a hit - only problem I find is they are only good until they are a day old...any secrets to keeping these good for more than a day??



August 18 - Back up to mom and dad's to haul bales.  They still have the first house they lived in after they were married on their farm.  I took the kids out to it.  The first thing they said was how small it was!!  As a kid I use to sneak off into this house and rummage through boxes to see what treasures I could find of days gone by.

August 19 - Hmmm, this was an  interesting day.  It was the girls 4-H club campout down at some old rodeo grounds and all was well.  Here my son is practicing his roping skills.

As the night wore on though, my husband had a pretty bad wreck with one of our horses.  He was hauling logs up from the valley for a campfire but this one time while going through the gate he could see the lariat was not lined up right and he tried to undaly the rope from his saddle horn before the log got lodged on the gate...he wasn't quick enough and the horse ran about 3 strides before my husband's saddle literally blew apart and he landed on the ground.  In the end, we had to go to emergency and as it turned out, he broke his wrist. 

I can do without that kind of entertainment for a while.

See you for {Week 34}!





Simplicity

   Last night I took a walk down the road with three of my four children, camera in hand as always.  It was such a beautiful evening, I wasn't sure what I was going to capture but I knew there would be something that would catch my eye.  As my husband and my daughter were riding across the field I changed the settings on my camera to capture a sunflare as the sun was going down.  You can see them walking through the water as the sun bursts out above and around them.  To me, these are the simple things in life that we take for granted everyday.  

  Thanks for stopping by to look at my version of simplicity.