Fall Planting and New Life

One of the best things about spring is all the beautiful flowers.  When we first moved to our home I planted about 90 tulips and several daffodils.  Later I planted some Mascara.  While my daffodils have been faithful to return year after year, my tulips slowly disappeared and eventually stopped coming up, and my Mascara only lasted a year.  What did I do wrong?  Well, I am determined to be more successful this year and here I go again.  I had done my Google research so hopefully next year I will post the most beautiful pictures of these lovely flowers. I think they either rotted from overwatering, or I didn't plant them deep enough.

pray for me, he, he, he

 A couple years ago I found this lovely lime plant, that I bought for my birthday.  I am so happy to announce it is actually growing a cute little lime.  (Please feel free to ooooh and awwww)  I have no idea when to harvest, but I shall have to research on Google once again and see what it has to say.

Isn't she precious

Speaking of new life, Latisha and baby Brinley are doing wonderful.  Latisha is now in her 29th week   and is starting to feel the signs of the third trimester (a little more tired and achy), but she is excited it and knows is all worth it.

Isn't she adorable!

I hope you are all having a great day, God Bless!
Alicia

Fall is in the Air

Just in case I haven't mentioned it before I shall mention it now, I really like the fall season.  I am a fair weather gal, I don't really care for heat over 85 degrees or below 25.  I may live in the wrong place for that, but it does make me appreciate fall and spring a bit more.  Opening the windows in our house and turning off the air conditioning is a blessing.  A couple weeks ago it was in the 90's then in a couple days it dropped to way to cold, now it is right where I like it.  The windows are open and I enjoy being outside.

This time of the year is also school and more activities, bring it on.  Starting school and bringing routine into the house is great.  We do very little city sports any more.  A few years ago sports seemed to be taking over our lives so we have pulled back on what we get the kids involved in.  This year we have chosen to try a new soccer league.  Their motto is something like "for the fun of it," and that is truly what they are.  There are no practices and only one game a week at the same time each week.  Cassandra and Aidric are in it and David is coaching.  They all seem to be enjoying it.  Aidric has wanted to play soccer for a while.  In the past I have thought it so silly how parents get their preschoolers in soccer but now we are one of those parents, Aidric enjoys it, and we get such a kick out of it.  It appears he is one of the very few on the team that has a clue what they are doing, it helps to have older siblings.  He is getting a kick out of scoring goals and enjoys the game, even if it means blocking the others teams goal from one of his own team mates.  Cassandra is a play up, which means she is with older kids and she is having a great time, also.

I love this picture as the coach is trying to make sure the kids know which
way they are supposed to go, unfortunately they don't always get it.

I get worried he is going to bite his tongue, but his brother did the same thing
and still has his tongue in tack

Another goal.  His goal has been ten but he has only made it to seven in
a game, his dad encourages him to pass and let others score, I might be
a little more competitive

The sun was hurting his eyes so Danika lent him her glasses

Cassie ready, 

set,

go

It is fun and good exercise.  Hope you enjoy the pictures.  Have a great day.
Alicia

Camping

I said in my last post that I would get some updates on here of our fun activities but that has taken me a bit to get to.  So, I sat down and started but it got too long.  I prefer to read short blog posts, so I decided to do a few short ones and maybe you will enjoy life with me.

Let's begin by going back to Labor day.  For several years now we have spent Labor day with the same group of friends.  This year they were able to reserve a group camping spot.  So several of us were able to camp together.  It was such a blessing as all of our children, grandchildren, and my parents were able to make it.  For some reason the weather was the hottest it has ever been when we have camped but we still made the most of it.  Sierra, Danika, Cassandra, and I decided to take the hike with several others to where hot water comes out of the mountain. It was an incredibly hot hike and Cassandra chugged her water and then mine.  The hike is about a mile up and a mile back.  There are no toilets on the trail.  So lesson learned for Cassandra, (he, he, he).  She was almost running down the hill.  One of my other girls had heat exhaustion and we had to get her to cool water and shade for a while till she was able to continue, that got a little scary.  Then for my part, I went up the hill to get a lovely picture of everyone, and on the way back tried to step over a log that was a bit bigger (or my legs are a bit smaller) than I had realized.  It seemed like such a long way to the ground as I fell in slow motion.  I had hoped that no one saw that so I jumped up and tried to continue down to everyone, but yes some had seen and I couldn't really hide it well as my hair and clothes were covered in weeds.  A true picture of gracefulness.  I was fine except for a little hurt pride.  I am afraid they might not invite us on the hike next year.  :)

We did have a great time.  Alex and Ivy had to leave Saturday, but we enjoyed every moment with them. They had to be home for church, the life of a pastor.  Sunday, we had a great out door service and potluck, and Monday we headed home along with hundreds of other campers.  The road home was slow and go but we were in no hurry so we enjoyed the scenery.

David got a hammock for his birthday, and several of us got to enjoy it

getting dinner ready

Link even made it

Our kids have married others in the camping group, so we had a full
family group picture with both set of in laws.

breakfast

August enjoyed his pancakes

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Loved time with Weston

The kids enjoyed the tepee

a fun bike ride

my mom looking over the lake

Weston and I going for a walk

The hot hike

The boys enjoyed time together

24 Weeks

Things are busy and I have so much I could post.  Maybe I will have a free moment soon to share all the fun and games.  But in the meantime here is an adorable picture of Latisha at 24 weeks pregnant.  She looks wonderful and everything is going great!  God bless and have a great day.
Alicia

Looking good!

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