It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!!

Yeahh!! We finally got our Christmas decorations up!!! Yes, I know were a bit late, okay, alot late but better late then never I suppose!!!

Us kiddies, the 'Shultz Brigade' went in the woods for greenery and stuff to put around the house. At least, that was the stated reason :) In the end we had no greenary and about a hundred pictures! We still got the house decorated later on so I'll go ahead and post our wood pictures too!! Hope you enjoy, Bethany

The lazy onlookersWally our 'Man'Out by our creek/swampYerik making a jumpThe jump is bigger then it looks. Really;)Trying to get a pic. of all the kids jumping at once And again

Wally and me jumping!!
Yuchi's cubby hole The beautiful water Part of the Shultz Brigade

Some mushroom type thingies Maud and I thought were neat looking Wally and barbwire ;)Yucho Madeks
Back at the house getting some real work done

The Deco. Crew
I couldn't beleive how many of our lights DIDN'T work!! Mauds new hairdewAnd mine!!! Does it make you think 'Wives and Daughters'? LOL!"Armani, Yerik, my brave boys"

The finished product!!!
Our Wise Men How do you like our 'Feather Dusters'?

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Master Joe-Joe

Here are a few pictures I got of sweet Joseph when I saw him last week. I thought he was so cute I just had to share them! Bethany

How many vehicles do you need to start a truck?

Well, um for us on Sunday, 3!!!!!! yeah, it's pretty sad when your late for church cause your cars won't start :)the Lane ladies play their Dulcimers!! It was so pretty y'all, thanks for entertaining us!Playing "Take A Hike"Ki-ki trying to take my chair!!Love your enthusiasm Ansley ;)

Yup, it was chaos!!!!! had fun time y'all!

Bethy

Our 2nd Monthly Sewing day!!

Last Wednesday was our monthly sewing/scrap booking day!

It was such a joy to be able to work and fellowship with other young ladies

Mama and Mrs.Marilyn helping Maud
The Lane's table
Cattie-dear The little kids table

Creative ways to avoid the media

Trying to get a smile from Diane and Ki-ki
Come on girls, pleeeaaseee :)

Ahh, much better

Ansley and her tag-alongs

It was so good to see you again Mrs. Turner!

Wishing a "Happy Birthday" to Fiona and Caeleigh!!! Thanks for letting us be apart of y'alls birthday!
The gorgeous cake

Of course we had to dance! I bet you can guess what we danced!! ;)

Waltzing

We have so much fun at our monthly sewing (and sometimes scrapbooking) day! Come and join us. Email mom at Jacqueline@homeschooladvantage.us for information. Hope to see y'all there!!

Bethany

How may Countries have we really been to?

Oops, sorry y'all, Mommy just pointed out that I seem to have missed out on some of the Countries/Territories we've been to on our Random Fact # 5. We've been to all those mentioned before, plus;
Cuba, Dominica, Barbados, Hungary, Turkey, St. Martin, the US Virgin Islands, and Honduras! Hmm, can you tell we like to travel?
God Bless, Bethany

Tagged

Well, we've been tagged twice now, first by the Mortons and then by the Antonions. I'm going to do the Morton's 7 Random facts first. Since the Mortons already did the "3 Kids married into one family" fact, I'll have to think of something else. :)

O.k. Here goes :)

1- Our family of 6, plus a dog lived on a small boat for almost a year. It is by the grace of GOD we did not sink, blow up when our engine was on fire, get hit by the hurricane Olga, or get lost. Or, and this was Kressy's and mines greatest fears, get eaten by sharks :)


2- Daddy was Valedictorian when he graduated from High School and Mommy was Home Coming queen!!



3-Daddy's side of the family used to own part of Signal Mountain in TN, and during the War between the States they charged a toll to pass over!



4-If you haven't already heard (Darthy;) our however so many great Grandparents were {EDIT} Big Jake Troxell & Beloved Woman/War Woman Cornblossom, (both mortally wounded at the massacre of Ywahoo Falls, KY) the cousin of Sequoyah. She has a special marker off the high way in Kentucky that marks where she is buried. Grandaddy Jake has a memorial marker at the entrance to Ywahoo Falls -- placed there (I believe) by the US Army in recognition of his service during the 1st American war for Independence.



5-Between all my immediate family members we've travelled to the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Peru, Romania, Latvia, Holland, Aruba, Martinique, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, Kazakhstan and Germany.



6-More than half of our children are adopted, with there being 4 biological and 7 adopted!!



7-We have owned at least 10 cameras in the last 7 years, and our dishwasher usually has to be fixed every year around Thanksgiving or New Years! It's a holiday "Tradition" :)



Well, that's all folks!

Here's the rules:

1. Link the person who tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 random and/or interesting facts about you / your family. 3. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. 4. Let each person know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.



I'm tagging



Campana's



Diane Turner



Zee-Zee



Hosches



http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/sevensisters



and any one else who wants to!!





I guess I'll have to do the Antonions another day!
Thanks Mom and Kress for y'alls ideas

God Bless,

Beth