The Bright Eyed Brunette

Carlie on the swing everybody loves to fight over! Notice who won this round?! Makena, Trey, and Carl, roasting their hotdogs YUM! I believe it was 6:00 in this picture! 7:00, now! Me and Makena, enjoying the heat from the fire! It's a little hard to get five people in a picture...plus a dog! I'm not sure what time it was in this one.  Everybody was FREEZING!! We moved the party inside around 8:00 Carl and Trey entertained us by dancing to Just Dance 2014! Happy 2014 Everybody!! "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 Beth

On our way to church this morning! Carlie wearing her new dress "Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge."  Psalm 62:8 Beth

We are thouroughly enjoying our winter break so far.  Saturday was a pretty restful day.  We just kinda hung out and did our own things.  Carl took Trey hunting this morning and Makena hunting in the afternoon.  In between we fixed deer meat for my parents, piddled around outside, and cleaned.  You can take a guess for yourself as to who did which of those jobs :) Anyway, we've had it planned to have a bonfire for NYE, but decided that we would go ahead and have one tonight too, in case the weather didn't cooperate Tuesday night.  The kids had a lot of fun and decided that me and Carl needed to get in on some silly pictures! Our fire after we finally got it going! Me and Makena....I remind myself of the girl from "Blair Witch Project"! Carlie and Snoop-Dog Check out my photobomber, Makena! Makena and Daddy Then things started getting silly! Trey thought it would be funny for me to ride his tractor (that was Carl's when he...

Carlie got a game from the Simpson's Makena got a new purple shirt....I wonder if she likes purple or something! T got his own basketball Never too old for some toys! Oh, yea...Carlie got Just Dance 2014 Our New Year's Eve just got a little more interesting!    A bathtub target gun! Trey and Noah with their flip hats....and they were photo-bombed by Eli! Both of the girls got Vera Bradley comforters from my parents. I'm so excited to see them on! Carlie waiting for her stocking goodies Trey got Battleship and he LOVES it. In fact he is getting on our nerves wanting to play it all the time! Makena with her piano picture.  She wants to hang it above her piano, which is fine with me because it matches my living room!    He really liked his new Under Armour outfit! This is all she wanted to do...mess with her laptop! Nanny finally got to open her presents Pop with his Thermal Ce...

This morning we got up and opened our presents at our house!  The kids were so excited to see what all they got. Can you see the excitement on Trey's face when I said, "Go"?!  Carlie got the phone case she has been wanting :) Makena also got a phone case for her phone! Makena got the Nike slide on shoes she wanted too! New Nike sack for basketball A truck he picked out at Tractor Supply She was really happy about her new Patagonia! And some little girl got the exact laptop she asked for! I really had to push Carl into this. He didn't think she needed one, but she does have a lot of papers to do, and that's only going to increase in the coming years! She was so happy :) And this little girl got her purple bicycle that she has been wanting! She kept saying, "But it's not at Wal-Mart anymore" and finally Carlie said, "Well, if they got it for you then it wouldn't be at Wal-Mart anymore would it...