Graduation

Yesterday we went to the Hubble's house for Tara's graduation! As usual--I forgot the camera. =-(

We had a great time! There was a ton of food, and Lydia, Grant and Vince had a terrific time in their pool. Noela loved riding on the horse for her first time (WHY can't I ever remember the camera?), and Lance enjoyed it a lot also.

Jam~and other things

Yesterday, we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's to make Strawberry Jam! We had a great time! My job was to boil the gelatin--the hottest job, but in my opinion, the funnest!

I forgot to take along the camera. :-(

I also have a bit more of Daniel chapter six: "Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against this Daniel, but they could find none occasion or fault, forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error nor fault found in him. Then these men said, 'we shall not find occasion against him, except we find occasion against him concerning the law of his God."

Notice all the 'thens'? Over half the verses in the chapter-at least from the KJV-start with 'then'!

We have a lot going on that I haven't posted. Grant's baseball team played on Monday--they lost. Over the weekend, we went to our Aunt's house and celebrated Father's day with Grandpa and Dad. On Saturday, our Grandma and Grandpa from Tennessee came for a visit, which brings up a good point. The reason they were here is because our Uncle David has liver cancer. Would you please pray for him? He is not a believer, in fact, he is an atheist. So pray not only for his healing, but that he would come to know the Lord. Our Uncle Kyle also came to visit on Saturday. Pray for him also, because he not a Christian either. Also pray for his upcoming marriage. Three of our cousins are also engaged, most of whom are not Christians. Pray for them also.

Thank You!

Love~Haley

Oh! one other thing: Yesterday, our neighbor, who works at a landscaping business, came over and asked us if we wanted any vegetable plants. We said, "Great!", so she gave us a bunch of plants. Yesterday, we planted around forty cayenne pepper plants, ten banana pepper plants, along with cabbage and leaf lettuce, and now we need to find a place for broccoli, cauliflower, and forty zucchini plants! From a small garden to a large one!

Watermelon

Our family LOVES watermelon. Last year we ate sixty-some. This year, we have more people to eat the melons, so we will probably eat over 60. This watermelon is our 32nd.

Before we cut a watermelon, we all lay hands on it and pray, "Blessed art thou, Lord our God, King of the universe, that brings forth watermelon from the earth!"

"Hallelujah!!!"

It is delicious!

P.S. We all just finished going swimming. :~)

Pets

Hello! You've seen all my widget pets (including my very unlady-like frog), so I thought it was about time to introduce you to our real pets.

This is Piper. He lives up to his name with his loud squeals! We got him from the Humane Society.

This is Peaches. She doesn't look very nice in this picture--she was scared of the camera. We got her from the neighbor. We were bird-sitting her, and when they came back from vacation, they said, "Just keep her!" After that, they got a dog. She was our first pet, other than fish.

This is Anthony. We found him. Mom, Lance, Noela, and I were in the van when Mom pulled over and said, "Haley, look at that, a black rabbit! Why don't you see if you can catch him? He probably got away from someone." I jumped out and walked up to him. When just a step away, he hopped. Lance and I chased him around for about 45 minutes like this, finally catching him under a strawberry box. He is a very sweet dwarf rabbit.

We also have guppies, but I don't have a picture. Sometimes, we will find a newly hatched turtle in our yard to keep until fall, letting it go in September so it can hibernate. We have not found one yet this year.

Our Yard and Nature....

I thought you might enjoy seeing some fun picture of our yard. Even though we live in the city, we are blessed that we are still surrounded by God's beautiful nature.

A pretty little plant

We have plenty of birds!



A picture of our garden

One of the many corners of our yard

A look out back

A different view

Our pool

Our pool, shed, and the back of the garage

Some flowers growing in the back yard.

The wind was blowing when I took this picture!

Another look at the back

Some twirlies on the tree up front

A wild climbing rose

The front yard. This is also where we play wiffle-ball with the neighbors and guests. Dad and Lydia are standing at 'home plate'.

These little bunnies have made their home in our front flower garden. They're so cute, smaller than my hand!

When we took these pictures, it was early in the morning, and they were in the front yard eating grass.

We're spotted!

At first we thought there must be three bunnies, but as we watched, a fourth rabbit hopped its way across the yard and joined the others, who were overjoyed to see it, jump and leaping over each other in a little pile.

Some tree trimming

Our swing set that Dad built for us.

Grant, Vince, Lance, and Lydia love tree climbing!

Isn't he cute?

This fawn had been living in our mulch pile for some time, although it has moved to a nearby spot, probably thinking that we are much too noisy when in the pool.

It is less than three feet high!

She was very well camouflaged, and we accidentally threw the mulch on her several times!

Some ducks who make their home and raise a family in our swamp every year. There are also many geese, who always have a good number of babies, but they look nearly full grown by now.

Aren't robins eggs so pretty?

A frog that Vince brought in to show Mom and I.

They put him on the window and tried to get a good picture, but this is the best we got.

One of Lydia and Grant's favorite climbing trees. That is a robins nest up there.

Queen Anne's Lace that is growing in our front yard.

Isn't our swamp pretty?

We live in the city, but I wouldn't trade our house and yard for anything!

Mulberries!!!!!!

It's mulberry season! We have been having a great time picking the delicious little morsels! We probably won't make them into jam, just eat them plain and over cereal. Here are some pictures:

Grant holding Dad's hat, full of mulberries

The fruit of our labor!

Aren't they pretty?

A few mulberries, just waiting for the sun to smile on them so they can ripen up!

Dad lent us his hat to use for a bucket

Thank you, God, for creating mulberries!!!