Something We Did In Vail

You guys probably thought we were did nothing worthwhile in Colorado but actually we were busy the entire time crocheting these scarves.......

Nine balls of yarn from the Dollar Tree...

Five enthusiastic crochetayers....

And Voila! nine lovely scarves (Oh, and a hat!)

Would You Believe It?

If we told you this female (?) attorney is trying to steal our Grandmother's estate right out from under our noses, would you believe us? We grandchildren have decided we won't let it go without a fight;

On our first meeting, she ordered us six kids to take her fat, rather sick looking dog for a walk. When we refused she threatened us with disinheritance from the family estate.

We served her a subpoena and afterward took these pictures (for proof of service), this attorney turned to me and said, "Give me that camera. I want that camera. I want that picture."

The camera is a little digital camera. She has been fleecing my grandmother through legal fees and now she wanted my camera too! I decided she could not have mine - she had to buy her own and hopefully not with grandma's money. She said the law said she could take our camera. But, we knew we could not give her our camera because then our blog would go away.

We thought - We can't give you the picture because it is digital. We can send her a copy of the picture through the email although we did not think the picture was so great.

( Is this amazing?)

This is the process server Jen before she went into the office
to serve the subpoena to the attorney
(Cacey took the picture and Christy was there to supervise - like Charlie's Angels)

The attorney's face after we handed her the subpoena; the one who demanded our camera!

Samuel Adams

"Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you . . ."
Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams was a passionate man who used expressive words to describe the situation in Post-Revolutionary days. Well, did he say: "Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."

Here is one of our favorite quotes by him.

“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"

Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil, and See No Evil

This was in December when we were at Sea World....And this is the fun ride we did five times.
Every time you take this ride they take a picture of your boat and you can go look at yourself on their computers afterwards............. we all thought Clark and Jill's faces looked like goofy chipmunks.

A Birthday Party

I bet that got your attention, No. we are not having another birthday here....but Christy babysits for a very nice family who have three children. Their oldest boy Garret turned eight in January. Clark and Jill were invited to go bowling with them at the birthday party and it looks like they had a ton of fun. Happy Birthday Garret! (I know this is a little late but enjoy.)

Jill giving it a go

Now Clark's turn...

Watching....

check out her pose...

Clark and Jill taking a break from bowling... The other boy in the picture goes to the homeschooling group we used to go to.

Garret is on the right, and has a blue shirt on and Meredith who is his little sister is standing right in front of him. Their Dad is in the middle and Clark and Jill are in the back.

They live higher up than us and so they get about twice as much snow. After they all bowled they came back to their house and the kids played in the snow. Thanks for giving such a nice birthday party guys!

All ready for cake and presents. Clark and Jill told me when they came home they had a wonderful time........

but maybe it was because they scored high on bowling?

Regular Days

Cannot believe it is March already. Anyway we have been doing school, music, cleaning (extra organizing this past week) and all the extra little stuff that happens but which you cannot remember when you go to sum up your week. No matter what we are doing we like to talk to each other alot. This makes regular days fun.

A tea party Jill made. No matter how busy we are she always manages to have at least 3-5 tea parties a week....

Joy's self portrait...

Katie dancing... (love these baby pics sent me!)

"See baby doll? this is how you do it."

Christy playing her bass...

Clark playing
his violin... (We will try to get a pic of everyone 's instrument on here sometime soon)

Mom working at her desk....

Jenny. This was right before she was going to do some errands....

A Late Valentine's Note:

Beth sent me these pictures of her kiddos on Valentines. They made a card for their daddy, that says, "we love daddy". We (everyone here) were in Colorado at the time and so we did not even notice it was Valentines day . . . .We must have been very busy relaxing and enjoying ourselves. We did miss everyone who was not there though.

all dressed in red and pink . . .

So loveable...

Let's See, Another Birthday?

Today is Clark's eleventh Birthday.

(strong smile competing with Cacey and Jeremiah)

Here are eleven facts about Clark . . .

1. He is mechanical and built Jill a doll house.

2. He likes to read history and can remember it.

3. He has five sisters and gets along with all of them (impressive!)

4. He plays piano and violin well.

6. He keeps up the grounds (fairly well).

7. He is upbeat and encouraging.

8. He is clean and organized.

9. He is willing and helpful to do anything us girls cannot do. (lift heavy things, figure out how to fix broken things [he is an expert at this], and etc.)

10. He is a good typer and likes to argue (is that called debate?)

11. We had to make this picture black and white because his teeth were so yellow.

Happy Birthday To The Monkey That Joined The Haven Almost Six Years Ago

Yes Beth, you must be as weird as us to have even considered marrying into the family.

We love and miss you . . . and Happy Birthday!

Caleb, Beth ( The Birthday Girl) and their kiddos Jed and Katie.

Quote for the Day

"The Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people."
~John Wycliffe~

John Wycliffe

During the 14th century John Wycliffe was an English theologian. He was an influential voice against the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church: the greatest power of his day. He founded the Lollard movement (a precursor to the protestant reformation) and became known as the Morning Star of the Reformation.

John Wycliffe was a fearless defender of Liberty. He believed that all men, regardless of their station in life, should have access to the Bible in their own language. He was the first to translate the entire Bible from Latin into English. As a result of his effort to make the Bible available to the common people translating it into English, literacy spread all over England. This frightened the Roman Church because the people began to think and had the courage to act on their convictions being unafraid of persecution from the Church. The Catholic Church began burning his followers (the Lollards) at the stake. John Wycliffe believed he would end his life either by being burned at the stake or in a prison in Rome. In spite of this, Wycliffe and his followers would not recant. Wycliffe died a natural death while preaching at his church. Forty years later the Pope ordered his bones dug up and burned, hoping that this would destroy his influence. Yet 1oo years later, it was said, if you met two men on the street one of them would be a follower of John Wycliffe.

The freedom we enjoy in this country today is a result of John Wycliffe's work.