~Photo-a-day~ July 9–July 15

I’ve taken a picture a day, successfully, for one hundred and ninety days=) I can’t believe it either!!!!!

I decided to take on the feeding of some Amish friends animals, when they asked me too - while they’re away in Montana, for ten days. 11 horses! and that’s just the beginning…I’ve gotta’ feed the cows too=) annnnd gather the eggs. It’s been fun, I love taking care of animals! So in the evenings my chore load has grown considerably=)

I attended a friends wedding in Winchester OH on Saturday. And since it was close to my Amish girlfriends house I just headed over to her house after the ceremony. I love spending time with her…we had a lovely afternoon together=) So my Saturday was just about as perfect as they come. Stopping at a Old Time Pottery store on my way home was another plus to a already good day, I could spend hours in that store. But I needed to get home, so I just spent one hour in there=)

Christina and I bought a new chest of drawers for our room (see the picture below) and we spent last evening filling it with our clothes. Which ultimately resulted in the sorting of our entire wardrobe…we got rid of a lot of things, so now we’re both ready to go shopping AGAIN=)  From here we opened a tote filled with our decoration and started hanging and setting those out. Putting books in the the bookcase, etc. Well….after a fun/long evening in our room…our room looks more like a room=) I’m beginning to feel at home again in my own room!

Enjoy the pictures below!!!!!

Day 190

~toy~

Day 191

~motion~

Day 192

~black & white~

Day 193

~sometimes I...~

sometimes I feed with Christina….since she works nights I normally do it alone.

Day 194

~emotion~

I didn’t quit know how to depict this word…but I believe you can feel some from this picture=) I love dad’s quiet smile in this one, he’s blue eyes shine when he’s happy=)

Day 195

~share~

I share this new chest of drawers with my best friend Christina <3

Day 196

~what I wore~

Please let me know what you think about all these photos below=)

Happy Wednesday

Celebrating the Fourth of July=)

We went to a family’s house for an evening party on the fourth of July. Every time we’re together with these friends we always have a grand time…

Corn hole…I actually played a few games even though I don’t enjoy it at all. I like watching, but playing… who likes to play anything they’re not good at?!?!? maybe I’m the only one=)

Dinner was fantastic…all the summer cookout essentials=) Hotdogs, hamburgers, watermelon, pie, chips, friends, grill smoke, and lawn chairs.

I didn’t stick around for the home fireworks that night, but headed to our county fair’s firework show instead with Christina. It was lovely!

bottle rockets…home made=)it couldn’t be the fourth of July without watermelon…=) even though I’m on a diet and couldn’t have any=(an absolutely lovely cake a friend made for the occasion.

What did you do on the fourth of July?

 

Shipshewana with mom+dad =)

A day with both my parents and just me!!!! This never happens!!!! and that’s what made it this trip that much more special=)

We left at 6:30 am…

…no 7:00 am

…no it was actually 7:30 am…haha

so much for telling my mom we needed to be gone by 6:30. It’s common knowledge around our house that whenever she ask what time we need to leave you need to tell her an hour sooner than you really want to leave. And then you’ll always get out of the house on time. I forgot this valuable information…so we were late=) but hey we had no time limit so what did it matter. (just I did in my head) We just needed to be in Shipshewana by 4:00 pm that afternoon (for my doctor appointment)…and we were=) Disclaimer: my mom knows we do this=) 

We visited the several local stores and the flea market. It was great fun! We all enjoyed ourselves very much and came home tired but happy.

My wonderful parents!!! waiting on our foodapple butter and their famous peanut butter spread…=)and leave it to me to forget to take pictures of our plates, because I was so hungry…this is a very serious problem of mine that I need to correct soon=PI don’t even drink tea that much and I wanted them all. They smelled so good=)

Happy Friday!!!

Hope your weekend is full of fun and family=) What are your plans…?

Father’s day…the games etc. Part 2/2

Now for the games on Father’s Day…they were so much fun!

First we played a handprint ID game…we all drew around our hands on a paper plate and put our name on the opposite side. Then dad had to guess which kid’s hand shape it was. All the left handed kids were spotted rather quickly=)

Then I did something for the little guys. I had my nephews JT and Max shave their dad and another one of my brothers (my brothers weren’t too thrilled about this=) but once JT caught wind of what was going on, he begged his dad and the contest was on). they used butter knifes to scrap the shaving cream off with. Of course JT won, he’s the oldest. But Max was by far the best to watch. First he takes his hand full of shaving cream and just loads it onto Samuel’s face. eyes and all were covered. Then he lost focus messing with the shaving cream on his hands=)

After the “trust me” or  “blind fold” game we had a sack race! Funniest thing you every saw. Watching them going down the yard hopping with all their might was too hilarious=) sometimes I think I come up with these games just to see what all I can get my siblings do. And of course I have to head up the games so I rarely participate. Besides I’m taking pictures=)

I took JT and Max to see the horses with Isaac….which, of course, turn into a scavenger hunt for horseshoes. They both found one! Its not like their not all over out in this pasture, where just horses have been kept for years. We all got muddy, me more than the rest – I had to carry JT over the creek aaaannnnd yeah, I slipped just a bit and but enough to splashed mud all over myself.

All in all Father’s day was a very eventful joyous day for our family! Enjoy the photos=)

We all have a particular Atherton trait to our hand shape…pretty cool seeing them all laid out – definitely siblings=)a very intense IsaacI <3 this picture of Samuel=)And the race is on!!!!!!Careful JonOkay he’s going down….yep…but if his hands touch the ground he’s outSo he didn’t use his hands…lol that had to hurtMeanwhile Samuel crosses the finish line=) And we have a winner!Christina just stopped! haha Look at that face, beat all of his brothers, and that’s actually quite a feat…....and your not a winner without all the HIGH FIVES=)awe <3Isaac, gotta love that face=)I believe she might have broke a nail, hahaboth uncle and nephew have their fingers in their mouth, they’ll love this photo one day=)all then of us with a gift from our dad, for father’s day – definitely the worlds greatest dad=)Business shirts from mom, dad loved them – he’s been wearing them ever sinceHappy ‘lil boy!we had to try some raspberries…it never ceases to amaze me how much one berry can do to a child’s face/ haha

What did you all do on Father’s Day? now that you know what ours was like…=)

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!