Snow in Georgia?!

It's not every day in March that you get a snow storm. At least not in Georgia! Maybe a few flurries......... but enough to cause a power outage??

We came home after Church on Sunday and we were so happy to see that it was snowing! We just didn't know that soon there wouldn't be any water, warmth, or Wii.

Actually, we were pretty cozy. With ten people in one room it can't be cold for too long! We had tons of fun playing in the snow, too! Miles had no clue what the white stuff on the ground was but he sure loved it!
The rest of us polished up on our snowball making skills and had a blast!

In short, we got to experience what it's like without things.....but with just each other.

Boys' Trip to Baltimore

Instead of having Boys Night Out, Dad, Lane, and James had a Boys Weekend Out. They drove to Baltimore late one Friday night to pick up a motorcycle that my dad bought on Ebay. Yep, a motorcycle. A Honda Interceptor to be exact. My mom said that he had nostalgia--a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life(dictionary definition). He had a motorcycle just like that in college and you know how tempting it is to bid just once on it......and then, well, maybe one more time couldn't hurt.....

So that's how we have a motorcycle sitting in our garage right now.

Anyway, before they stopped in Baltimore the boys decided to visit Washington D.C. They went inside the Washington Monument, looked in the Smithsonian Museum, and gawked at the price of the $9.00 hamburgers at McDonald's. All in all, they had some good "Manly bonding time." =)

Blueberries--Miles' Best Friend!

Somebody really likes Blueberries!

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Cake Icing at Camp....

Sweet. Slimy. Oozy. Greasy. All adjectives that describe cake icing....on your face. Believe me I know what cake icing feels like....on my face!

Lane, James, Cammie, and I went to Neighborhood Gospel Mission Camp July 7-12. It's a Christian Summer camp in southern Georgia for kids. It also has a time called Surprise hour. Which explains why we have cake icing all over our faces. =)

Naturally if something is a surprise you don't know what it is. At Surprise Hour we didn't know what we were going to be doing. Whether it be having a water balloon fight with another team or getting your face "made up." That's what the cake icing was supposed to resemble. The guy that did Surprise hour called up four boys and four girls and told the reluctant girls to sit in the four chairs that were lined up in the front. The boys stood behind us. Then he gave the boys, "makeup"(cake icing in a tube) and told them to "make us
up." After we had got our faces smeared with the sweet gunk and were looking absolutely gorgeous, we did the boys' makeup......but with real stuff! I think they looked better than we did. We couldn't stop laughing--but we also couldn't wait to hit the showers!

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Happy Birthday, Bronwen!

Better Late than Never.....

We took some pictures of Miles on Bronwen's Birthday and decided that they could be used as his birthday pictures since we didn't get a chance to snap some photos when he turned one. Always better late than never I guess!

note: Miles actually did not touch the candle in the photo below so you can rest easy.... =)

Vacation at Lake Russel

Strangely, as we were at Lake Russel for about a week, we didn't get one single picture of anybody skiing, tubing, or knee boarding--on the lake! Just photos in our cabin.Our friends, Megan and Hulet Smith, and their three girls, Sophia, Olivia, and Ava, invited us up to their cabin they were renting on Lake Russel for a week. We also did some bike riding on the bike trails while we were there, played Volleyball, swam, and ate hot dogs. That about sums up our vacation! But now, we almost need another vacation we're so worn out. A vacation after a vacation......hmmm. I guess something to talk to Mom and Dad about. =)


Anyway, I hope you are having a great Summer! May God bless you and happy Fourth of July!

Miles and Dad Chillin' Out

I just couldn't resist posting this picture. =)

The Purple Pinata Kitty

VBS 2008,Crooked Creek Baptist

Paper mache is fun. It's super fun. Especially when your purple pinata cat that you and your team have worked hard on all during VBS wins the competition!

Our purple paper mache feline did win the contest, the contest that all of the teens of Crooked Creek Baptist made their own pinatas for. But our team took home the prizes......giant Hershey's Chocolate bars.

The pinatas then went to birthday parties for families who couldn't afford party decorations. I would like to say that I was thrilled that our team had won. And I was--for the moment! But wouldn't you be kind of disappointed if your prized creation was going to be destroyed in a matter of weeks by some candy-loving kid?

Anyway, I had a great time and so did Cammie, Bronwen, and Silas. Lane and James didn't get to come because they were helping Dad build cabins at Grace Farms for their camp they were having in less than two weeks. Freddie Coile is the owner and evangelist and he spoke at our church recently. The boys decided to help him out as he was in desperate need of some help to get the cabins ready in time!

Last but not Least....

Last but certainly not least.....Miles turned 1 May 27th. We didn't have a very big celebration on his birthday as he wasn't feeling himself and was therefore crabby most of the day. You can understand why there are no pictures in this post. But we made him an angel food cake, anyway, and he cleaned his plate.

Happy Birthday, Miles! Crabby or happy, we still love you!

Silas turns Five!

Happy Birthday, Silas! Silas turned 5 May 20th-- two days after Breck's birthday--so we had a double celebration with Grandma Pemberton for them both.

If you haven't noticed, we have a LOT of birthdays in May!

Which maybe is a bad thing as you don't have the whole month to yourself to celebrate turning another year older. But looking on the bright side.....people are less likely to forget your birthday because so many people have their birthday in that month. Hence, more presents! That's always great, isn't it?

Anyway, Happy Birthday, Silas! Hope you have as great a year this year as the last one.....

Out of the Terrible Two's.....

Breck turned three May 18th and moved out of the "Terrible Two's." Though I don't think that title quite applied to him as his year as a toddler was anything but terrible! Well....actually let's not go there. :)

Grandma Pemberton came and visited us and helped us celebrate Breck's birthday, and all of the other boys' May birthdays. She gave Breck an electric stingray that swims around in the pool. Breck proudly named it Pepper.

Happy Birthday, Breck, and many more!

Happy Birthday Lane!

Lane has had the first of a long line of birthdays in May. He turned 12 May 10th and we had an interesting treasure hunt for him. Cammie, Bronwen, and I made up clues and riddles that we hid all over the "Pemberton Grounds." The clues eventually leading him to the trunk of our Accord where his prize lay --A Ripstik. It's a type of skateboard but, "Much easier to master," as Lane says. You can click on the link to see what the Ripstik looks like. I wasn't able to get a picture of him on it as he hates having his picture taken. He always groans and asks, "Is this for your blog?" He drives me crazy sometimes but all in all he's a great brother!

Happy Birthday, Bro!

Picking up the Tools Again....

We pulled out the tools, gloves, and seed packets last week and went back to work gardening. We planted some peppers, corn, tomatoes, spinach, carrots, peas, and lots more!A helpful hint that my mom found from someone who also has a garden: to use cornstarch as an ant killer. Sure it looks weird heaping boxes of cornstarch into your grocery cart, but it really does work! And it doesn't have all of the chemicals that regular ant killer has. Which is great because who wants to eat squash that has been grown in the same soil that chemicals have been dumped in?

Now, after all our days toiling in the hot sun, all that is left to do is wait. I think it is amazing how a plant can start from something so small as a seed and grow into a strong, healthy plant which produces food for us to eat. All from something so small. God really is amazing, isn't He?

"Date" Night With Dad

Cammie and my dad had their "date," last night. At about seven or eight years old my dad takes each of us girls out on a "date" where we go to a play, or a concert, or somewhere special to just spend time with Dad. It was Cammie's turn this time and she chose to go shopping. They went to the mall and she came home with clip-on earrings from Claire's. Yes, very confusing but it was the store, not me. :) Cammie and Dad had a good time shopping, eating at the food court, and simply hanging out.

The Weekly Spelling Bee.....

Our weekly Spelling bee is usually held on Friday nights. Our "host"? None other than......my dad! We've had a lot of fun having Spelling bees and it has been a sort of family tradition-- and if nothing else a fun highlight of the week! While we don't get prizes per se for the Spelling bee, we usually have our memory passage contest then and that usually heralds a prize or two. If we're lucky. And if we've been good for the last month. And......I'm kidding! But the thing is, we never know when there's going to be a prize. So our attempt "could be in vain" (as some of the lazier people in our family say) or we could receive a great and wonderful prize! Our latest passage was Isaiah 53:1-8. If we wanted to, we could also say verses 9 and 10 as a bonus. Me and Lane both said the bonus passage and the prize is still being decided....which for me is torture because patience is not one of my strong character traits.

But God is still working on me and teaching me new things every day--thankfully!

No Tooth Fairy But Still Happy......

Bronwen lost her first tooth the other day! Although my mom and dad tell us from a pretty early age that there is no such thing as the Tooth Fairy, she was still really excited. Because actually we do have a tooth fairy--my Grandpa Hindt. He doesn't exactly leave the money under our pillows at night but he sends us a dollar in the mail whenever we lose a tooth. And for her, a dollar is a pretty big deal!

Carving Like the Assyrians

One of our activities for School this week was carving designs on linoleum. We imitated the Assyrians who we studied last week and their artwork reliefs and friezes. It was fun, but tiring! I sure have an incredible respect for all those carvers back in ancient times!

~ Happy Spring to you!~

Travel Miles for Flowers!

The only thing Miles enjoys more than crumpling up paper, is playing and looking at flowers! Yes, I am serious. I have no clue why he is so intrigued with paper(or why he enjoys squeezing flowers for that matter)! But he is now 9 months old and crawling and pulling up on anything he can get his chubby little fingers on!