Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Giving you a month's heads up!


Erin put out the call yesterday for blog hop participants for Bella Tucker. Please read her story. As the mom of an active 8 yr. old girl, I just had to sign up. I won't be part of the blog hop for another 4 weeks or so, but that means I've got 4 weeks to pull together an awesome package of blog candy to be given away on my blog post during the hop. I already have some brand new, uncut stamps set aside. We'll see what else I can come up with between now and then. What do you need to do? Well, I don't have all the details yet...but go ahead and get started on making a card to send to Bella! And meet me back here on July 13.





Sunday, May 02, 2010

The Great Flood of 2010 - Our Story!

Rain on Saturday. This is a view from our covered patio of our backyard. If you enlarge this photo, you might be able to see the white-caps on the creek behind the treeline. This creek bed will be dry rock during the hot summer months.

The view from our covered patio toward the neighbor's backyard. Notice the water pouring off the awning over the door of our bonus room --- which is nothing more than a converted garage. You'll see inside that door in just a minute.

The view from our front door. I have never seen that little creek around the circle of the cul-de-sac before!

Here's inside that downstairs door. Addison and Carl are sweeping the water out as it pours in behind that door. It's coming from the crawlspace which is actually higher elevation-wise than the floor of the bonus room.

Here's where the water is coming in from the crawlspace. You can see the ripples in the half-inch of standing water.


Sunday morning we didn't go to church. But my children gave their best performance acting out the story of baby Moses. There is a Cabbage Patch baby in that styrofoam cooler.

Addison setting up the props:

Here comes the baby in the basket!
More rain!!
During a break in the rain we got out to drive around the neighborhood and take some pictures.
In front of some houses in our subdivision:

Brentwood Country Club golf course:

From the bridge of the Little Harpeth River (just south of Brentwood Country Club and north of Murray Lane):

And a zoom in of that tree above. Yes...someone is innertubing!!!

Cal Turner's farm which is my favorite landmark near our house:






We are fine! A little water damage and about 7 hours without power, but we are very lucky. The news coverage of some of our neighboring towns and communities is just heartbreaking. Please pray for Nashville and Middle Tennessee as we recover from this disaster.


Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Railroad Depot


Four months later, I finally got my depot sign hung above the back door today. Not sure if you can tell, but that little ridge behind the treeline is the CSX short line. I do love this sign...it was my Christmas present to me!




Wordless Wednesday








Sunday, April 04, 2010

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Last Day of Fall Break

After some puniness and general malaise over the first 3 days of Addison's fall break, everyone seemed to feel much better this morning. Maybe it was the beautiful sunshine and pleasant temperatures. It really was a gorgeous fall day!

I was very happy since I had been hoping we'd be able to get to one of the local pumpkin patches (if you consider an hour away local). But do you know how hard it is to find one that's open during the week? I think they reserve their weekdays for field trips, homeschool groups, etc. Luckily, we did find Boyd's Pumpkin Patch (very friendly and reasonable too!).

We got lost in the corn maze,



took some pictures,



then picked out the perfect pumpkins to bring home.




After we got back home, Addison and Clark had fun painting their little pumpkins.




Now if we can just get another warm, beautiful day to carve the big one into a jack-o-lantern!!




Sunday, October 04, 2009

Happy Birthday Clark!

In just four short years, we've gone from this sweet little guy


to this sweet little guy.


He is lovin' Buzz Lightyear right now (and Superman, Spiderman, Batman and any superhero he can find).







We even ventured out to Chuck E Cheese tonight to make sure he had a super special day since he's our special superhero!



Happy Birthday Clark!


Saturday, September 26, 2009

White Water Rafting (miniscale)

I guess today is as good a day as any for my "Once-A-Month-Blogging". I realized a couple of weeks ago that given my transition from blogging to Facebook to Twitter, pretty soon I'll just expect you to read my mind! LOL And as a new blog feature, I've added my Twitter updates to the sidebar.

We have had so much rain the past couple of weeks, our backyard is reaching lake status again. There is an underground spring in the backyard, and when it reaches its limits water actually bubbles up out of the ground (along with a crayfish or two). Somehow I doubt we'll be using the fire pit anytime soon.


This morning it was raining pretty steady, and the kids are acting bored to death. Once we got a little break in the rain, Addison and Clark head out to the creek right behind the treeline. It's in the 70's here, so I let them go for it. It has a little current going, and they both are having fun using it as a wading pool.





Then Carl brings out the pool float and they had a blast "riding the raft."






What fun for them! And I love that a little outdoor time and some hot chocolate afterwards have cured the "I'm bored" mantra for the moment.