Water

Last weekend we had major flooding. Rogers Creek was out of its banks.

Just 30 minutes after driving this route and taking these photos the water was over the road!

And this weekend ... We have snow!

Brrr... I thought I had dressed Jonathan warmly...
but when we came inside his hands and feet were blue!
Sorry little guy!

Going down was a blast! Coming back up is a cardio- workout!

Seed Shopper

I have been enjoying looking through seed catalogues and making my garden plans. When I left the room for goodness, not long! My little seed shopper decided he wanted to have some input too.

Thanks, Danny!

I just could not resist helping myself to these photos that Danny (Carter-mom's first cousin & "brother") posted on his FaceBook account. Thank you so much for sharing them with us!

Papaw Monk (Claude "Monk" Reed) and Granny Ann (Anna Mae Jiles Reed)

Papaw Monk and Uncle Franklin Carter

Momma? What a cutie! (Donna Elaine Reed Hixson)

Can't wait for Mother to tell me the story of the day this was made...
everyone looks so.... happy?

Karen (Gates), Mom- Donna (Hixson), Granny and Papaw

Monster

Eddie had a monster of a tractor arrive at Dooley this week. He wasn't sure if they would be able to pull it inside... it barely cleared the bay doors. I'm amazed at what it can do. Wonder if it even needs a driver.

If you are in town, drive by and check it out.

Catan

We're hooked! Isaac and I played two rounds today of one of his Hanukkah gifts: "The Settlers of Catan." At first it seemed really complicated- but once he taught me to play, I loved it. Check it out. We'd love to teach you to play sometime!

Growing Up

Funny, but I've never felt "grown-up"....even with a hubby, little ones to raise and a home to care for. Until today... Papaw went to his Heavenly home this morning. Thanksgiving 2007

Somehow it just doesn't seem right that time can't stand still for just a little while until we can process our loss ... but once again, life goes on.The responsibilities of the day are still here. And somehow today they seem so much larger. August 2007

I've graduated to a new era of life- I feel grown up.

I'm thankful that I have had many years to know and enjoy my grandfather. I'm thankful for the godly heritage I have. I'm thankful for the Mother he and Granny gave me. And I'm so thankful he knew his great grandsons. I am blessed....

Nine Months

This Must Be Love

How can hands so tiny
Hold his Mommy's heart
How can eyes so gentle
So strong a love impart
And how can a full-grown woman
Drop every care in the world
To catch just one glimpse
Of the smile on her baby boy

This must be love, true love
This must be a little bit of Heaven above
This must be love, true love
This must be what God's heart is made of

When the smile in his eyes
Sends my heart to the stars
I think I'm beginning to see from afar
How perfectly
How my Heavenly Father loves me

How can hands so mighty
Be nailed upon a cross
Why would a God so powerful
Suffer pain and loss
And how could the God of the universe
Become sin of the world
So that He might be born
In the heart of my baby boy

Every day I am Amazed

by: Cary Schmidt and Steve Amerson

If George Bush was such an idiot...

1. If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
2. If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
3. If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
4. If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
5. If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
6. If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
7. If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
8. If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
9. If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?
10. If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
11. If George W. Bush had misspelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?
12. If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?
13. If George W. Bush's administration had approved Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?
14. If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you have made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
15. If George W. Bush had created the positions of 32 or more Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved?
16. If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
17. If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
18. If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
19. If George W. Bush had spent more than all the Presidents combined since George Washington, would you have approved?
    So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? He's done all this in 11 months --- Seriously!