HUNTING

Clint loves hunting, sometimes too much. I guess it's one of those things I have to love about him, but I am not sure why he does it. :) This year he wanted to take the boys. They left Thursday afternoon and have been gone since then. It has reminded me, a little too much, of how nice it is to only have 2 kids. It's been so quiet. No fighting, wrestling, screaming, Addy sure can talk though! I was able to steal these pictures from my SIL's facebook page. I got to talk to them last night, they are having fun, but they are cold and wet. They have tried twice to shoot a Buck, and haven't been fast enough. They were going to try a little more today, then head home.
I think it's awesome Clint shared this experience with them. I sure hope he doesn't draw out next year...but don't tell him I said that! ;)

Black Island Farms

This is what we did on Friday of UEA…

 

FaLL iS In ThE aiR

I love Autumn!! I love the colors, the activities, the holidays, the weather, I LOVE Sweaters, the leaves falling from trees, pumpkins, decorating, fall scented candles, and I love what I call "Fall Treats"!! So Last night for family night we made caramel apples! MMMM!!! It was so much fun. We unwrapped caramels--which really went fast this year. Usually I do it alone for the kids, and it takes forever. Then Clint, and I took turns melting them on the stove...that was a process!
Preston and Tyson worked so hard putting the sticks in the apples for me!
They did a really good job...we only had one wounded apple! :)

Then after we had all the caramel melted, we covered the apples with them!! Clint gave us a nice lesson about the 2000 Strippling Warriors. It was a great lesson for the boys to hear. Then we sat around eating our apples, and just having a great time!

We also have 3 out of 4 Halloween costumes now. We need to find one for Kaitlon. I was going to dress up with Clint this year, but he will be at work. So I am trying to decided if I still want to dress up or not. We got out all of our Halloween decorations, and put those up! I pulled out all of our Halloween books as well! The kids have had a great time reading them, every time I come in the living room they are sitting around looking at a new book. I love it!! It makes me feel confident that my children's book addiction is worth while! :) (If any of you have seen our play room book shelves you understand why I say that.)

Here are the boys with a pumpkin I made. I bought vinyl pumpkin faces, and put them on the craft pumpkins you can buy at Micheal's. The kids love it, and they turned out cute! Oh I just love this season!! Happy Fall Y'all!!!