Welcome to Life at the Hale's!!!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

A few random pictures from the last few days...

I spent all of last Wed taking sausage on and off the smoker with Sarah and Mr. Childress! This was the last of 5 batches going out! I don't think I make a good bandit! :P

This was an ice cream party that we had with David, Amy, Rachel and Jack! lots of fun!!!!!

This is what our front yard looks like right now - the guys are making new chicken houses for this next year

On Saturday, Rachel and Jack came over for the afternoon, and the boys played basketball

Mommy, Rachel and I sat on the porch and watched and chatted

remember that cute little kitten? well, he is now a fat, sassy, and very fluffy cat!!! :)

this adorable little dog got dumped at our house a few months ago....she has a really sweet disposition, though! Anybody want her? :)

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Girl Party!

Every year, around New Years, some of us girls get together and have a New Years Party!

Amy, Kelli, Rebekah, Esther, Adrienne, Sarah and Hannah

unfortunately, this was the only picture I got of the day, but we had a loverly time visiting and eating the delicious goodies!!!

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...

...From our family to yours!!!!!

Esther & Samuel, Hannah, Mommy & Daddy, Sarah

Grandma, Andrew, Daniel, Jack & Rachel(and baby girl! :)

David & Amy, Peter

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places;
Yea, I have a goodly heritage.
-Psalms 16:6-

~:♥:~

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Mallett visit/Hale Christmas party

We were Sooooo blessed to be able to have our cousins, the Malletts come up over New Years weekend!!! Every time they come for visits, it gets harder and harder to say goodbye!

So, here's a smattering of pictures from a glorious weekend with our favorite cousins!!!!!

Daniel told Mercy that he wanted to take a nap...and that just invited her to pounce him! :)

Sarah and Merry playing

Mercy and Merry

Merry loves looking at you through something!

Merry and Liberty playing on the stairs

Andrew taking Mercy for a spin in the front yard

Peter and Sean trying to fly the kite, and Ethan and Mercy playing with puppies

Mercy really wanted to take one of them home!

Pictures never do the sunset justice....

Friday night was Ethan's birthday, so we had a campfire and cooked hot dogs and roasted marshmallows! :)

Blackmail picture! In David's defense, that was his book when he was young, and he hadn't seen it in several years! :)

Andrew, Mercy, Sarah, Sonya and Merry

Ethan with his present from Sarah and Mercy

Hannah and Ethan making bread

Mercy helping Sarah milk

Saturday was the Hale get-together! All of Daddy's siblings were able to come, and I think only 3 cousins weren't able to! So good to see and catch up with everybody!!!

Aunt Judy, Me, Sonya and Samuel looking at the scrapbook Sarah had put together

Aunt Donna and Paige

Rachel and Sonya, and Grandma's 17th and 18th Great-Grandchildren! :D

Aurora, Paige and John

Daniel, David and Shawn

Uncle Earl, Daddy, Uncle Charles, Uncle Jerry, and Uncle Roy

Uncle Roy and Aunt Rene with their Grandson, Ryan

Samantha, Jack, Rachel, Me, Merry, Samuel, Paige, James, and Aubrey

Gavin and Aiden

Mercy and Ethan

The football always manages to come out at Hale gatherings! :)

some of us went out on the land and did some target shooting. Aunt Rene and our Cousin James are both of them Police officers, so they also taught us some handgun safety.