Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

We sure did! :)

With LOTS OF FOOD!

You know the story right, how the Indians brought the mac'n'cheeze... :)
(Sandy's home made for ya right there!)

Sweets! (Oh my!)

Parker trying some out.

I think he liked it. :)

There are sweet potatoes under there somewhere. :D

Green beans

Ahuh, real good for you I'm sure!

Oh my! Mashed potatoes!

Cyndy made them for us. Wow!

Brad and his Turkey.

"Where do I start?"

"Right here! Mahhahaha...." =]

Ouch, poor bird. It was rather tasty though. :D

This is the before picture.

Cyndy and Faith

Carter, ready to eat.

Faith being silly

Parker showing off his meat. =]

So cute. =)

Who knows what she's doing. :)

Sandy, and Cyndy. It was very nice that they could both come up and spend the time with us.

Waiting to sit down to eat.

Yes, Parker did eat it right off the leg! It grossed Jessica out though! =]

Digging in, and boy did he!

Mounding on the food.

Smiles before the full pain. :)

Like dad's tie?

Self photo

The one taken of me

The kids saying what they were thankful for

They had some funny things they were thankful for. :)

Aww

Miss marker mouth

The after pictures

Can you tell we ate anything.

Hardly can tell we ate anything?

Clean up

Oh my! Pies!

(That's not all of them.)

Well, I'm full! I don't know about any of you, but I hope you are.

If not of food, but of love, and thankfulness for everything God has given you, or not given you. :)

It's Huntin' Season!

The story- Last night Mom was sitting at her computer, and started hearing some noises, (as did I) coming from the kitchen, so she told Dad about it. He being the wise man that he is, went down stairs to get the mouse traps! :D Well, after setting the traps Dad thought he'd sit in the kitchen and listen for a little while... in the dark! While we were all sitting doing our own thing (Mom at her computer, Dad sitting in the kitchen, me sitting at the laptop) straining our ears for anything, Dad all of the sudden JUMPED! It was so loud, and such a thud, that Mom and I were sure the mouse had done something to him! :) Well, it ended up that his cellphone had buzzed and scared him half to death, leading him to scare Mom and I half to death! =]

Well, the kids called to ask if they could all come down for a little while last night, so they did.
While the boys were playing ping pong with Papa, Brad took on the task of trying to get that mouse.
After a lot of searching around for evidence, and not really finding any, he came back and just sat with us in the living room for a little bit. After some time had passed he thought he'd go back and try again. Before he even got to the kitchen again we all hear this HUGE falling of something loud!
This time I was looking into it! :)
It ended up being a bag of mixed nuts that had fallen. No sign of a mouse.
So all that to say, we didn't get the mouse, but Brad was rather funny looking while trying to find it! :)

This is he, looking for the unseen mouse.

Do you think he's missing anything he might need?

Editor's note: These pictures were taken last night, and he did dress up just for the hunt.
Not even kidding! :)


Have a day! :)

A Post Long In Coming...

Written and Illustrated by- MaryBeth SunnyD R.
Published by-BSBT inc. all rights reserved.

The Story

Hope you start feeling better soon MB! :)

'Bout Time For A Post

So that's what that thing is really for!

I thought is was Mom's new walker to help her get around the house,

but boy was I wrong!

It's the kids new seat for playing Uno spin! :~)

Last night Faith got to hold and feed baby Renee. :)

Faith- "Cheese!... can I see!?" LOL, she's so funny. :D

Steps of Saucing Apples

Step 1. Clean Apples

Step 2,3, and 4 I think you get the idea of what's going on.

Yummy

What to use your BIG Zambian Spoons for... :)

Worked great! :D

Getting the air out

Odd and end size jars, oh fun. :)

Anyone hungry? It''s really good! :)

Sorry the photos aren't the greatest, I should have opened the flash, but then everything would be really bright, so I couldn't win.

Hope everyone enjoyed their canning this year, and hope you still enjoy it on through next year! :)

Thanks Hannah for ALL your help! And for all the things you've helped me to learn. Also, for putting up with me! :D

"God Is Good!"

This is more then just a story, this is real life. If you would, please be praying for this young family over in Kenya, Africa. This is my Brother-in-law Brad's, brother and his wife, and they have two young girls of their own with them. They are over there helping the children, and have many in their home with them.

"So for everyone who has been wondering what happened..... On Tuesday night a group of 4 men broke into our house. Beka heard something and thought that it was the kids, so she got up to check and met with 2 men with flashlights in the hallway, she turned around closed the bedroom door and latched it and started screaming and praying. Ryan jumped out of bed and we braced ourselves against the door they were beating on it with crowbars, machetes, sledge hammer and axe. Eventually the door came off of its hinges. When it did we used the door as a shield and pushed them all the way back down the hallway and back outside! Meanwhile Teddy kept trying to help push on the door and help his baba fight off the bad guys. Beka grabbed Teddy and ran to hide him in the kids room. The men became angry and said that they were going to finish us. They knocked Ryan out with an axe and building block on the head, and somewhere in the fight with door got his hand sliced with a machete. After they left Ryan unconscious in the hallway with the door on top of him, they went to find Beka. They started beating down the door to the girls room, they eventually got in and grabbed Beka and told her to take them to the money. One of them had already gone ahead to the room and found the computer. They trashed everything looking for money. They took Ryan's wallet and kept demanding to know how much money there was. Beka just kept saying she didn't know, but that all the money was in the wallet. They didn't even open the wallet! After they had gotten pretty much everything they went over to the bed, where Savanna was crawling across and was about to grab her, when a neighbor who had heard the commotion came and threw a rock on the roof. At that moment they left what they were doing and ran out the door over Ryan. Beka ran after them and on the way out, found Ryan. The neighbor took Ryan to a clinic where they found an ambulance to get him to the hospital. After 2 days in the hospital and 20+ stitches, Ryan is back home and recovering well. All we can say, is THANK YOU LORD!!!! We are all alive and well and have all our children- we are so blessed! We are so thankful in our hearts for God's protection upon us. God is so good! We continue to see his had continuously at work.
Please continue to pray for us.
Thank you all so much and God bless!
For HIS children, Ryan and Beka Boonstra"