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We have been dealing with the flu around here:(. Haven't had to deal with it all winter!!  Michael had it first, Zack and Josh had a little bit of it,   Was hopeing it would bypass me, mamas don't have time to be sick,  but it hit me Friday night yesterday I was achy and hot then cold, to make things worse yest was beautiful so sat outside for my nap, I felt better in the sun anyway kinda dried things up:)   Well was out to long and got burnt so my face feels hot from a sunburn plus fever:).  Ethan has been really sick to so we both stayed home from church today, steve and the boys brought home our fav. Sunday meal,  ( Mexican)!!  So I had a break with cookin,  we are feelin a little better!!  They ate and were out the door , mike has a baseball practice( slash) scrimmage this afternoon.... Sure wish we could have joined them!!     Ethan had his first t-ball meeting last Thursday night he was so excited and counting down the days!! He was all smiles all night, they are the tigers:). His first practice is tomorrow night!!  Josh has a tournament this week ant has a game tomm night to so steve will take Ethan and I'll be with Josh:).       Spring is finally here the trees are budding and we are working on the garden, we are doing a few things to try and get it to produce more so its takin longer to be able to plant.. I have pics I wanna post sometime but havin problems with that:(.  Well zack and Ethan are takin their naps or supposed to be I hear zack still fussin:( think ill try to take a nap to!! Mabe outside again:):).  Blessings!!

where is the next season???

this little guy keeps me steppin!!



gets into everything!!

ahhh i am sooo ready for spring this year! its later than usual, today is cold [in the 40's] and windy, i know that might not sound to cold to you northerners ,but to us southerners who usually have warm temps by now its bad:) the trees have been budding and 2 yrs ago i had some things in my garden planted already! i'll stop whinin now its supposed to be in the 60's this wknd and next wk:):):)  they have missed a lot of ball practice, mike has a tournament this week, they played a doubleheader monday night and won both,not bad for the team still being rusty...he had fun!!  next game is tomm night..they both have practice tonight,Josh has practice at 4;30 tomm night mike has a game at 5;30...just a little crazy but its fun:)  and ethan prob. starts practice soon:)                                                      The wknd was busier than usual,we were babysitting for friends,she was havin a baby,one of the boys friends went with us to church and was here in the afternoon.. i ended up makin a meal for the couple that had the new baby...gotta run, its school time!! blessings!!

SPRINGS COMIN >>>>>>.

this was earlier this week, it looks better now

this is the glass he cut it on, this was after he hit it ,not sure how it looked when he hit it..

Josh in the # 11

Update on michael .... his wrist has healed up soo good !! praise the lord!! he doesnt have it wrapped anymore and is pretty much back to normal.. baseball tryouts were today for mike and Josh.. they both did good mikes wrist didnt bother him at all.  it was a beautiful day Zacks cheeks were a little pink from sittin in the sun watchin...I'm ready for the craziness of baseball season:):) Spring is comin!!! i'm so ready this year!   blessings!!

summer sausage

Its a rainy morning...   might be a good day to start house cleaning,see how that goes with the kids inside:(     Steve shot 2 deer this fall and we usually like to get summer sausage made..its a good snack for the boys and healthier than chips and other junk , plus im not a big fan of cooking with venison:(   well he butchered them himself with the help of some other guys and took it down to the shop, they said they cant make it if they dont butcher it there...so we just got it all ground to put in the freezer.... i googled some things and checked pinterest and it didnt look to hard to make, so i tried it and it passed the test with my tough food critics:)   didnt try any myself but they love it and it gets rid of the gr meat:)   here  is the recipe....       1 cup cold water,   3 TBLSP.mortons tenderquick,   2 tsp mustard seed [i used gr mustard]   1 tsp garlic powder,  1 tsp pepper,  2 tsp. liquid smoke.  3 lbs venison,  1 cup shredded cheese, 2 jalepeno peppers[i skipped the cheese and peppers so my kids would eat it, i did add hot pepper flakes and a little onion salt]  mix it all together until the mixture is dossolved , then add venison and mix really good, put in refrigerator for 24 hrs......         preheat oven to 300deg  rol meat into 2 logs try to pack together as much as you can i use saran wrap and kinda roll it for awhile...line a baking sheet with foil and bake for 2 hrs..                                              

this was last night

this one was monday night

mikes doing better, the cut is looking better, so thanks for the prayers, keep prayin....  

boys----cuts

tryin to be brave!

before we soaked it

after

ipad to keep him from getting bored

all wrapped up..i thot the angry birds tape might help:)

Monday morning ,laundry, clean-up after the wknd...no school this morning micheal cut his wrist saturday night....they had friends over and they were playing sock ball, they roll a bunch of socks in a ball because mom says no balls in the house;0..     i had a gallon jar that i saw was broken and put it on the desk out of hands reach or so i thot, not sure exactly what happened i heard a crash and yellin and micheal cryin he came runnin up with blood running from his wrist, took him in the bathroom and dumped tea tree oil on it....we got the bleeding stopped really didn't bleed that much,and just wrapped it up..mike was tryin to be brave because his friends were here overnight but there was a lot of crying he was scared he has to get stiches,[probably should have!]  and we had baseball sign-ups saturday and try-outs are in 2 wks and its his pitching hand, so his mind was in overdrive worrying about to many things!!   lots of prayer!!  Last night he soaked it and we wrapped it again, he had so much pain when he was soaking it! So if you think about it pray for healing!!! we'll see what it looks like tonight.....                         Its supposed to get up in the 50's this week, i'm ready for spring!! blessings i gotta get off the computer:)

Before the Morning, Josh Wilson *lyrics!*

pics

makin ice cream

ice cream.. it was sooo good!

gingerbread house

we got my parents shutters for christmas, steve hanging them

leon cutting back the roof

finished

it snowed:)

here ya go sis... its hard to get pics loaded ..need a new computer or camera;0