~Captured~

Thank you all for stopping by again! I have been using my christmas gift quite a bit lately. The video below, is just some of the photos that I have took. I am just figuring the camera out still so some photos are not the best. I hope ya'll enjoy!!







                            ~Patience <3

Friends, Family, and More continued

Most of these pictures are from Christmas. A continuum of Mom's side of the family.

 

Grace's favorite place is on the kitchen table

Cousin Hattie

Uncle Joe

There were some fake mustaches floating

 around from one of the children's gifts

Uncle Curt

Uncle Gary 

                          head

Uncle Keith and his mustache

Mom, Grace and Grandma

Everyone sitting around waiting for gift opening to start

Ice skating

Jeremiah, Patience and I took the opportunity to go Ice skating with friends. We only got two pictures for y'all.

Jeremiah got away before we could get a picture.

That's it sorry its so short.

Posted by: Faith

Friends, Family, and More

    

       We will update everyone on what has been happening since Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, the only pictures we have are from Christmas.
The Wed. before Thanksgiving we drove 10 hours to Texas to visit  our aunts, uncles, and  cousins in Lewisville.  I ( Faith) had my 16th birthday while we were there. No, I do not have my license yet, "sigh from Mom".
      The girls and ladies of the family went Black Friday shopping.  Trying to miss the crowd, we left at 5 pm for the mall finding it was still overwhelmingly full of people.  We survived! Thank goodness! Note: After waiting in line for 45 minutes at the first store, those of us not fond of shopping were ready to leave.  We stuck it out for another hour or so.  After shopping, we went out to eat for my birthday at an awesome little Italian restaurant   We enjoyed spending time with our cousins and are looking forward to next year!   Our drive home was in pouring down rain, and we were delayed by several accidents along the way.   We were blessed to arrive home safely.
     The weekend, before Christmas, everyone went to Illinois, except for Dad and I.   While they spent the time in IL catching up with friends and family, we were stuck at home with crazy work schedules.  Dad worked nights, while I worked days. We, rarely, saw each other. By the time, I got up for work; dad was getting home.  I got home from work after dad had already left. This was our schedule until Tuesday evening, when Dad hurt himself at work.  The corner of a heavy metal box fell on his lower leg causing tremendous bruising. (at the time of writing this blog 1/6/16 he is still unable to go back to work and had an MRI done today to see if there are any tendons damaged:(  Two of his supervisors brought him home in the middle of the night.  I slept through it all!  This caused a short delay in our plans for leaving, but we made it in time for Christmas.
Here are some pictures for Y'all.

The kids excited to open gifts

Grace

Grace again

Mercy and her gifts

Micah doesn't show much expression

There's a smile

    

Matthew was really excited about his gifts

Peter playing in the box that his presents were wrapped in.

Patience got a camera, she can't wait to make a blog post using the pictures she takes

Dad opening his and Mom's gift.

This is the best picture I could get of Jeremiah

Grandma and Grandpa 

And that is our Christmas with dad's parents. Following is  Christmas with  mom's parents, siblings, and cousins .................here you are

Mercy

watching the younger children open gifts

Micah

Cousin Brodie

Peter 

Uncle Keith and Cousin Bella

Cousins Aylee, Lincoln, and Mya

We played a game of floor hockey

It was intense.

Thus ends our second Christmas of living in Tennessee and another wonderful year

Posted by: Faith