Sunday nap and Thursday co-op.

Don't you just feel wore out, like this, sometimes. She was asleep in the front row before the choir came down, Sunday night. It is hard for someone to actually fall asleep in our church but Naomi seems to have no trouble.

My girls
Abigail loving on Naomi.
Last Thursday we had a home school co-op meeting. Cheyenne and Nicole sang the chorus to "Father to the Fatherless."
Naomi just had to help Mrs. Kristi lead, "Stand for Jesus." Then, Abigail wasn't going to let her get all the attention.

Home schoolers singing Father Abraham.
Cheyenne giving her Pine tree report at home school co-op. Naomi helped find things for the report and hold up the project.
Nicole requested the assistance of Naomi to hold up her tree project also.
The little ones painted letters and teddybears. They all LOVE to paint. You can't go wrong with a painting craft for kids.
The 2nd through 4th grade painted butterflies.

Just like her Grandma Carter working with her tongue out:)
Abigail pleased with what she has just done.
Laurel painting her butterfly.
Happy Birthday Gary!

Bike Trip

Saturday, we had a Young Married trip to the Virginia Creeper Trail planned. We were to leave at 9:00. We dropped the girls off for their soccer game and met Mrs. Dianne there. She watched the girls until Mom got finished with the school auction. They told me they had a great time. Naomi, my critter lover, was a snake handler. Apparently Gary has 2 pet snakes and Naomi loved them. She had one around her head from what I hear. She hasn't asked for one THANK GOD! She still wants a potbelly pig. Thanks for keeping them Mrs. Dianne! Anyway, we met at church and had to go meet Bro. Tim. He had to work the night before and finish a job that morning. We waited.................

and waited ......................

finally we were on the road and didn't hit any of the Appalachian State Homecoming traffic this time. When we finally arrived we had to wait again for the vans to take us to the top of the trail.

Ted and Rebecca have been married long enough to start looking alike. ;)

While we waited, LJ got ready to take the trip down on his bike.

We rode in vans with a trailer pulling our bikes. I almost got sick in all the curves.

Starting at the top of the trail.

Drew and Caleb are really excited to ride and let Daddy do the work.

Todd and Bro. Jeff pulling his boys. Kristi

Bro. Tim going as fast as he can. Logan was standing up most of the time yelling "Faster Daddy, faster!!!" I only wish I could have gotten a picture. But they were always at the front of the group because he had to go "faster".

The group after one of our many stops to take in the scenery and waiting for others to catch up.

Meagan and her sister Deandra.

Jamie and the path.

The view down from one of the many bridges.

Jamie

Ken and I at a beautiful little waterfall.

Going through a horse pasture on the trail. Ken's favorite place on the ride.

Ted

We always stop on the trail at this little cafe. It is about 2 hours down the trail.

Bro. Tim eating ice cream.

Kristi eating her big burger.

OOOOOO! LOL! I love ya girl!

Back on the trail.

My Baby telling me to get back on my bike and quit taking pictures.

Another view from the trail.

The last in. LJ was a trooper. He rode the whole way down and had to peddle twice as much as anyone else. The last mile he was so tired and walked a while.

Drew and Caleb rest in their cart while Bro. Jeff does all the work.. Drew slept the last hour I think.

We ate on the trail so we didn't stop for supper. BUT the other van wanted to stop for ice cream. I didn't get any pictures but you should have seen the size of some of their bowls! And some of us still lost weight last week.

Busy last week and Last nights craft.

Bows, bows, and more bows!!!! I don't even know how many I made in all. This was the third set. All I know is it was more than 30. Last week I made bows for Johnathan and Jennifer's wedding Saturday. I wasn't sure I liked the colors until I saw the whole thing together. It was beautiful. I also made a cover for the stage at the fellowship building. It is covered with grey carpet but it won't come clean and the back of it isn't covered all the way. It would not have worked in the middle of the room like they wanted for the wedding. So Janet bought vinyl to cover it but we knew a normal sewing machine would not sew it. Daddy Weathers had just given Ken an industrial sewing machine not knowing we would use it so soon. I worked on it for 2 days and at night I worked on the bows while the girls were asleep and I should have been ;) This is the very dependable machine.

Working on the slip cover for the stage.

The hardest part was that it was so large and heavy.
My handiwork. Mom helped me think things through, measure, mark, and cut what was supposed to be cut. THANKS MOM!!!!!!! She is my lifeline when it comes to things like this (and cooking). I didn't get a final picture of the cake and everything on the stage. What was I thinking?
The Kiss! None of my pictures turned out very good. They were all blurry. It was so beautiful though.

The happy couple.

Last night Naomi begged to paint something. So I pulled out our new project. I got some of the pumpkins ready to paint and the girls had a ball. As you can see they had it all over. They were so particular. They worked so hard.