Monday, October 6, 2008

Friday Night Lights......Lemonade Saturday & Toothless Sunday......















This weekend was quite a busy one....

Friday night we had dinner with some old friends and then went to the highschool football game with them.


Sutherlyn, Jessie, Haley & Brylee had a good time running around and being silly while we chated (Amy and I) and while Gary & Mal watched the game. Sadly however, our team lost in overtime but they did made a great effort and we were excited to watch them play.


Saturday we had a day filled, starting with our monthly 4-H meeting and then Natalie came home with us to spend some time with Sutherlyn. They set up a lemonade stand on the Rails to Trails just behind our house. Sutherlyn has been wanting to do this for quite some time. Unfortunately, they only had 2 customers....one was Mal!


















Does this tell you how many customers they had? As far as they could see, not 1!








This was Sutherlyn's reaction when she realized that the person who was FINALLY coming in the distance was DADDY! Natalie was so sweet, comforting her.


Finally, someone to share the lemonade with.






One other kind man did stop and take some on his way back by. He was very appreciative for the drink, he'd ridden all the way from the other end of the trail, from the county line at the other end of it!


Sunday we should have been in church but Sutherlyn was feeling a little under the weather, so she and I stayed home. AND....she lost her 1st front tooth. She is really funny without it. We call her "toothless".....
























it was fun-filled weekend. Hope you enjoy the pics.


til next time......

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Here are just a few of my favorite things.....

Our ballerina..










One of our roosters.....










My kitchen..... I love IT!














Rachel Eatmon......














Sutherlyn & Tag.....















Aspen.....










Pajama day (last year..)


I have a lot of pictures that I haven't done anything with. As I looked through them last night as I added them to my computer (finally taking them off of the memory card in my camera) these were some of the ones that are my favorites....





The two of the child that is not mine are of Rachel Eatmon last February. We all went camping in Valdosta to go to Wild Adventures....we were surprised to find out that Wild Adventures was closed for remodeling! Can anyone say "Wallyworld"?!!

Anyway, we took the day and instead went to a nearby GA State park. This is what she did when she saw the camera. She came running up to me and said "take my picture"....she was posing! Too funny isn't it?


hope you enjoy the others too.

til next time....

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Under the title.....

I have been trying to decide what I wanted to add under my 'title" for quite some time. I am moving forward with this "customization" of my blog and in doing so have pondered many things over the last few weeks.

Anyway, I was looking at another blog today and saw this text. It is a portion of a quiet time study that she'd read on "patience". Seeing as how I have "no patience" and I am constantly telling myself that I can at least pretend to have it and muddle through the process at best, the entire list of the quiet time text spoke to me, the sentence I included was especially thought provoking.

So on that point, Lord help me to have patience in the "chaos" that is life. When I am completely at my wits end, help me to "wait" and desire to do nothing more until you direct my path.....

thanks Jill for the inspiration.......

Here is one more thing....


I almost forgot....one more thing I see everyday but don't actually look at.....

The Gainesville Sun.....I ordered it a few weeks ago. We wanted to receive it Thursday through Sunday. I wanted the coupons, Mal wanted to see the sports sections and we were both happy to look over everything in between. However, when I ordered it I specifically asked for Thursday through Sunday ONLY! They bring this crazy thing everyday! I don't have time to look at it everyday. I have emailed them over and over to ask them to STOP bringing it 7 days a week, I only wanted it 4. Anyway, as I was out earlier taking pictures, this was still laying at the end of the driveway, I thought it was funny that it was still sitting there so I took a picture of it. It goes along well with my theme for the day.....things I see around here but don't actually look at.....
til next time....

Around the "farm" & then some.......








Boy oh boy does this make me laugh! I think about where I started, what happened in between and where I have (at this point in my life) ended up and I can't help but think....God does have a sense of humor....

Most of you know that nearly 3 years ago now Mal and I set out on a new adventure in our lives together. We sold our "forever here on this earth, til we retired & moved, and/or Jesus called us Home or He came back house" and bought just over 10 acres of land not far from there.
We are now here, on our "farm" and we couldn't be happier! We love it here. I use the term "farm" loosely as we don't really have a farm, we have a few animals, etc, but we like to laugh about the change in our lives. We love the land, the daily chores of keeping up with the animals, the grass, the "landscaped" part of the yard & most of all we love the peace and quiet and the fact that most nights we can see the stars in the dark, beautiful sky. There are no city lights to drown them out.

Mal calls our place "little oak" because of all of the little oak trees we have, thus the name of the blog...."little oak life".

I laugh when I think about this because if someone had told me 12 years ago when I met Mal that we'd end up here, I would have laughed really loud, in their face!


Most of you who know Mal well know why this would have been my reaction and most of you who know me can also imagine why this "life' we have now seems very foreign for us. To that I would say that most of you did not know me in my BC life (before Christ)......I grew up on a small tract of land and we had animals; a horse, cows, pigs and a pond full of catfish & my grandfather always, always had chickens and ducks. I rode my horse a lot, almost everyday in fact. I have actually always ridden horses, I was never formally trained, we just got on and tried our best to stay on. I rode from the time I was a little girl (around 7 or so until I became a teenager and I got a machine with lots and lots of horses, my 1st CAR!) I was probably around 16 or so when I stopped riding but always wished that I'd spent more time with her, my horse, instead of doing some of the other things I did.....anyway, I degress.


I am really surprised that we have ended up here, that we now have horses, I have horses again. I am very thankful for our home, our land, and our lives here. Sutherlyn is able to experience things that I never thought she would have the opportunity to experience and I feel as though I have finally come home again.....back where my heart has always been.

So, here is my point.....I stopped for lunch today and took a walk outside, the weather is beautiful. I took some time to photograph some of the things that I see everyday but don't really look at. I hope you enjoy them. Come and see us sometime, we will show them to you too, in person. We might even share some of our fresh eggs with you.



til next time.......