Ready to face life . She's having a lot of fun!!

Because my camera cord is missing , I thought I'd
re-post old pics .....
Some day I'll do a real long post , but I do not have a whole lot to say !!!
Beth

summer trip 2010 to creek

me floating down the creek with a balloned dress!!

hannah's a messy eater !

Hannah's latest pics

hannah wants a drink !

reading a book .

Hannah rides

A few recent pictures...

This is Samuel trying to quiet a cough while hunting with Jacob.

He really does try to NOT scare off the deer!

Isaac and Hannah sure like playing in the rocking boat at Grandpa and Grandma's house.

Samuel, Isaac, and Hannah enjoyed playing in the leaves in their backyard.

Hannah.....need I say more?

She's been watching me drive, so she was certain she could handle that giant van if only I would put the key in the little hole and turn it.

Hannah insisted she could handle that bag of garbage, but she cheerfully allowed me to finish the job.

What a cute little body!

Pigtails are my favorite!

The Upchurch Work Crew

Bruce has been working on heading up a volunteer framing crew to build a parsonage in Gallaway, just minutes from home. On a recent Monday, he took our personal work crew, aka our children, to work for the entire day.

They...........loved.............it!!!!!!! (and so did I!)

Rebecca was building a cute little wagon with scraps. It even has wheels. You can see it next to her in the above picture.

Josiah worked on building his very own grill out of scraps. It had wheels, too! He smoked BBQ on it that very night in his bedroom at the foot of his bed. Of course, the meat was actually blocks of wood. He was serious.

Samuel built some good-sized boats that I don't see in this picture.

Jacob was all business, working steadily all day with Bruce and another adult helper. He works as well as most men out there!

Bethany appears to be putting together a wall. She was good help all day long, also helping keep up with the young helpers.

Bruce's number 1 man!

What a fine looking crew!

One of Isaac's favorite part of a work day---lunch!!!

These boys are NOT afraid of heights. They climb all over the structure.

(Thankfully, Mom, the paranoid one, was at home with little Hannah.)

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If you take three brothers.....

plus an adorable baby sister........

(she looks seriously ready to work!)

plus trucks, tractors, scrap lumber........

and a nice hole in the middle of the yard.....

that equals a load of FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crazy ramblings of backyard campers.....

This is a sort of long clip of our children while they were camping out on the Rainbow in our backyard. I think it's worth a watch!

Our cake decorator in the making...

Bethany loves to play around with decorating and stacking cakes. Hopefully soon we will take a course together, and then she can learn how to do it even better!

Everyone loves eating her trial cakes!!

Rebecca

Here is Rebecca holding a sweet baby girl from our church, Imani.

Summer Bounty

We put up 2 bushels of Ginger Gold apples in the form of delicious, sugar free applesauce.

I wanted to start small, since I've never done it before. It made 39 quarts, and we are already down to about 25! Next year, we will hopefully put up at least 8-10 bushels.

Since our tomato crop was piddly, I was thankful that my friend Rhoda shared her abundance with us. We were able to can 18 quarts of salsa. It is very good though quite mild. Next time, I hope to put a lot more kick to it!

Here is Samuel with the only thing that grew well for us this year, an enormous cantaloupe.

It appeared that the fertility of our entire garden went into this whopper! We had a few other melons, but this one took the prize for size!!!

Recent happenings...

Jacob was helping Hannah on the air pogo on our swing set.

She was loving it.

Below is Miss Priss in a skirt Amber sewed. Hannah got to spend the entire day with her oldest sister, and this is the cutie I found upon my return. She was just strutting all over the place with her little potbelly hanging over that cute skirt.

Samuel was pulling Isaac and Hannah around in our latest garage sale find, a new-to-us red wagon. They love it!

Here are Isaac and Hannah enjoying lunch at church.

Hannah's favorite horsey of all is her wonderful Daddy!

Rebecca decided to bundle up our sweet tiny girl to take her outside on a recent chilly morning.

Though she prefers freedom, Hannah loved it for awhile, because she loves being outside.

A friend gave us this sweet little skirt for our girl, and she marched around in it with her tiny size 5 cowgirl boots on. Very cute!

Samuel, Josiah, and Isaac went on a henhouse adventure a few days ago.

They wanted to play inside it, too, but I didn't think it was quite clean enough if we wanted to remain free of e coli.

Hannah loves to be outside and she loves snacking, so she was very happy in this picture.

She was enjoying a good swing in the backyard on a beautiful fall day.

She begged to get close to Diaz and finally convinced me to let her get on with Rebecca.

She is our youngest horse lover yet!

Below is Hannah at the annual Fall Fest in Whiteville, TN.