Mallett's visit part 2

Mercy helping Sarah dry pears

Peter, Ethan and Sean playing the marble game....this is one of the few pictures I got of the boys....most of the time they were out doing 'guy' things :)

Ethan helping process chickens

Miss Liberty Belle

Merry watching Sarah cook

Eating cantaloupe for a snack

Mercy and Merry in the brooder playing with the chicks

Mercy

cutest defined

Washing our feet aferwards

Faith, Ethan and Mercy playing marble maze

Andrew and Liberty

heaven help her when she grows up..... :)

Mercy, Faith, Merry, Andrew and Mysti

Ashley and Liberty

she got bunches of kisses..... :)

Faith and Mercy putting teddy to bed

Kyle, Merry and Andrew

going on a walk

we had to take turns pushing the stroller

Sarah and Merry

yep, we put her to sleep :)

Mercy running ahead

me and my sleeping angel

Merry!!! 

Helping Sarah make tortillas for supper

Beautiful sunset

ok, I couldn't decide which of these pictures to post, so I put all of them up...these girls are SO cute and it makes me happy that I'm related to them!!!!

Has to do everything Uncle Andrew does!!!

The boys were working with Daddy building a roof over the composter

Mercy helping me washing eggs

how can you look at this picture and not smile?!!

nap time :)

Sarah got the fixings for banana splits!!! :)

need I say they were very popular? ;)

they both got braids done like big girls! :)

Sarah and the little monkey

her pigtail was to cute not to get a picture of it! 

the boys heading out to help Peter with his chores

Merry and Mercy helping Sarah milk

Liberty and I just watched

yes, it is possible to help milk a cow and carry your special blankie at the same time!

Merry taking a turn in my lap

Sarah and Liberty

♥ sisters ♥

Please remember to pray for all the people who lost their homes in the fire!!!

Happy Birthday to Sarah!!!!!

Happy 24th Birthday, Sarah!!!!!!

♥ Sisters ♥

All of us kids - April 2004

With some very good friends!!!

Hope, Amanda, Me, Esther, Rachel, Lizzy, Bethany, Sarah, Rebekah, Hannah and Faith

Sarah and Rachel looking into the culvert

us at Aunt Linda's for the 4th of July

Sarah and Liberty

Sarah and Liberty again

Sarah and Emmaleigh

Hale girls and Schatte girls :)

The three Sarah's :)

Volleyball!!!!!!

Sarah and Livy

Sarah and Daniel at Rachel and Jack's wedding

the three remaining Hale girls

Sarah and Kelli

one of Sarah's favorite passtimes! :)

Sarah holding Merry

Sarah and Liberty

Love you, Sarah!!!!!

♥ ♥ ♥

Look out world....

....I got my Driver's License on Tuesday!!! 

I totally flopped the parallel parking part of the test, but didn't get any other points docked for the driving part, so I still passed, praise the Lord!!! And, that afternoon I got to drive by myself to my sister-in-law's house for voice lessons! And, of course, I stopped by Braum's for a ice cream shake to celebrate!!!!! :D 

Remembering.....

Remembering 10 years ago....I was 10-years-old, and didn't even know that there were twin towers in NYC till that morning. We were doing school and a friend of ours, Mrs. Lyons called to tell us what was going on....then later, my Grandfather dropped by like he liked to do after feeding our neighbor's horses, but he didn't come inside, he and Mommy stood out by his truck and talked with serious looks on their faces. Then Mommy came inside and told us that 'some evil men were attacking our country, and had deliberately flown some airplanes into some really tall buildings in New York City' (we were little, ok? :). Then we heard that another plane had flown into the Pentagon, and Mommy told us that my Grandfather used to work at the Pentagon when she was little and they lived close by. Since we didn't have a TV, Mommy packed some of us kids us, and we went to our friends, the Bollok's house, and watched the news reels...heard about the bravery of the men and women aboard the flight that they forced down in PA. I have since read a book called Let's Roll by the widow of the man that helped instigate the charge into the cockpit, Todd Beamer. I have also since met Lt. Col. Brain Birdwell, who was in the Pentagon when it got hit, and he and his wife have one of the most amazing testimonies out there!!!! They now minister to burn Patients: http://www.facethefire.org/ and have also written a book: Refined by Fire (I have an autographed copy!!! :)

I remember the really eerie feeling in the days and weeks that followed Sept. 11th - when you would go out side and there wouldn't be any planes flying overhead.... I am very thankful for a Loving God, a free country, a military, and amazing friends and family(that I had an awesome time playing volleyball with after church today!!!!) ♥

Have YOU forgotten???

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

~4th verse of our National Anthem               

Kitty

A cat any other name still wouldn't smell like a rose!

:)

~Sally's Aunt Agnes in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show'