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Friday, October 15, 2010

Pappy's Pumpkin Patch

We just love the fall, don't you?! For the last two years we have gone to this neat pumpkin farm called Pappy's Pumpkin Patch (also known as the Bell family farm) there is lots of fun stuff there and is very clean and kid friendly. Since we don't "do" halloween we always look forward to this fun fall family field trip! Here are some pictures and videos of this year's trip! Enjoy!


Robby.


Robby and our pumpkin.
 
Robby & Abby.


Go TX Aggies!!! :)

So cute!

The train ride.
 
"Pappy" & Robby


Robby & Pa Pa in the hay maze.
 
Courtney & Abby playing in the hay.

Courtney & Abby.




Mommy, Robby & Ashley on the hay ride to the pumpkins.

Robby & Pa Pa on the hay ride.




So many pumpkins!!!


Robby & the tractor.




Wednesday, September 29, 2010

In Memory of Anna and Her Friends...

Hi everyone! This afternoon we had a surprise visit! The old owners of this house that we have lived in for 14 years, came by from Arizona to see their old house! We were glad that you all came by!!! So Anna, once the little ones heard about how you all used to have lots of fun in the old shed they all got the idea of cleaning it up (which we had been meaning to do for awhile) and making a fort of it! Here are some pictures that we hope you will enjoy!
We hope that our house wasn't to messy! :0 Thanks again for coming by!





Our home



Our Mantel
 
Robby


Courtney, Abby and Robby playing "school".

Remember this Anna? Where you carved your name into the cement when you laid it out years ago? :) (P.S. We looked for the hand prints inside the shed but we didn't find them, do you know were they might be?)

Thanks again for coming by!!! If you ever are in Texas again come on by! (Ever since you guys came everyone has been keeping the house really clean for any "surprise visitors" 24/7! Which Mom has enjoyed. :D)

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Newest Members of our Family...

As of today, we are now a family of 10!!! This morning we were going to help Pa Pa at Wal-Mart (he locked his keys in his car!) and on the way out we saw this couple who had free dogs. They were SOOOO cute and we just HAD to get them so we came home with 2 dogs!!! They are miniature long haired Dotson's. The brown one is a female and her name is Kiley (she is 2 years old) and the brown one is a male, his name is Baby (he is 4 years old). (There previous owners named them). They said that Kiley likes to cuddle and that Baby likes to play. Baby is the daddy (kinda funny that the daddy is the "baby" =)), and Kiley is the daughter, we are all so excited!!! We mainly got the dogs because just recently our cat Rudy has (what we think) died. We have not seen him in a few days, we think that he ran away. =(


Kiley


Kiley


Baby


Baby


Courtney's 8th Birthday!!!

Sunday (9/4) was Courtney's 8th birthday!!! She has gotten so big, so quickly!!! She is such a sweet young lady, and quite tall too!!! (she even wears a size 7 ladies shoe!!!)
We had lots of fun on her birthday, we had birthday donuts and eggs (the family tradition) and we open presents afterwards. As a special treat I posted some pictures of Courtney as a baby...hope that you enjoy!!!

Courtney as a baby.

Mommy, Courtney and Daddy.

Mommy and Courtney,

Courtney and Mommy.

{HAPPY 8TH BIRTHDAY COURTNEY, WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!}

Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Easiest, Cheapest, Yummiest, Summertime Pies You'll Ever Make!!!

We Wards just LOVE desserts!!! But in the summer it is way to hot here in Texas to turn on the oven for very long. We have been experimenting with easy, cheap and yummy pies that you have to try! They are all sooooo good and so easy and are perfect for a cold summertime treat, and the best part is that they are so cheap to make!!!


Jell-o Pie
8 whole graham crackers, finely crushed
7 tablespoons melted butter
1 carton of cool whip
1 box of jello, any flavor (in the pictures we used orange and it tasted like dream sicle!!!)

Put graham cracker crumbs into a pie pan. Pour in the melted butter and stir around with your fingers, press to fit into the pan. Take a carton of cool whip and pour the jello powder directly into the carton of cool whip. Stir until well mixed. Spread on top of your crust, cover with plastic wrap and freeze until hard.

Pudding Pie
8 whole graham crackers, finely crushed
7 tablespoons melted butter
1 package of pudding, any flavor
1 1/2 cups milk
1 carton of cool whip

Put graham cracker crumbs directly into your pie pan. Pour the butter over the crumbs and stir with you fingers. Press to fix the pan. In a bowl, mix the milk and pudding powder. Mix in half the carton of cool whip into your pudding and then spread on top of your pie crust. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze until hard.

Ice Cream Pie
8 whole graham crackers, finely crushed
7 tablespoons melted butter
softened ice cream (just eye ball it  until your pie pan is filled.:) )
1 carton of cool whip

Put graham cracker crumbs directly into your pie pan, pour the butter over it and mix with your fingers. Press to fit your pans shape. Take some ice cream and mix with half of the cool whip. Spread on top of crust. Spread the rest of the cool whip on top of the ice cream. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze until hard.

Tricks & Tips

  • If your pie is a little bit to hard to cut and eat, put it in the microwave for 30 seconds.

  • With all these pies you can add vanilla, cinnamon or any other flavors into your pie crust to add a special taste.
Enjoy!!! :)

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Homeschooling....The FUN Way!!! :D

Who said that homeschoolers stay at home and do boring work and never have any fun???? The fast few days we've done some school that was not only educational but supper fun! First we put together a model rocket (Science) and shot it with our friends the Parkers at the ROC. Then today we took a cooking lesson, we made a crock pot lemon pudding cake! YUM!!!! And to top it off we played in shaving cream and even had a spelling bee (you try and spell a word in the shaving cream before everyone else!) and we did math problems in the shaving cream. Enjoy!



Daddy putting the rocket together (or at least trying to! ;D)


Mr. Parker, Tommy and Daddy getting the rocket ready to lift off!

Below is a video of the rocket. (Sorry our photographer (me! oops!) forgot that you can't take a video sideways, (:0) so you'll need to turn your head to see the rocket soot!) To make video bigger, click on the expanding arrows on the right hand below the video.

 



Robby and Ashley love to bake! Here they beat the egg whites for the lemon cake.



Yummy!!!


Everyone loves shaving cream....


Especially Robby! :D



Tommy "drawing".


Everyone during the "shaving (spelling) bee" :D


Here Tommy works a math problem! (And got it right!!!)

Below is a video of our "shaving bee" LOL! Enjoy!


Blessings,
Bethany

Monday, August 9, 2010

ROC Pictures

This morning we all went to the ROC (Recreational Outreach Center) by our house to play before it got hot. (Which happens VERY QUICKLY in Texas!!!) I (being the kind of person who LOVES to take lots of pictures :D) got a few shots of Abby... and a few other things, enjoy!


Abby by the pond's waterfall.


Isn't she adorable?!?!?!


A peaceful moment.


A cute profile.


This one's my favorite photo!


Crossing the water.


So cute!


The beautiful waterfall!


The pond.


A dragonfly (talk about at once in a lifetime kinda picture!) Speaking of a once in a lifetime kind of picture, look at what else we found...


An orange and brown snake! :0 I was washing my feet of in the lake and I look over and there he is...let's just say that I'm going to wait to wash my feet...at home! :)

Blessings,
Beth

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Shopping.....for a family of 8! Part 2

Finally we got everything out...but then we had to put it all away! :) Although it doesn't look like much, everything was piled on top of everything!




 Robby is ready for Friday's pizza night! :)

On this trip (which begun at 6 am, and a few hours later we got 3 heaping buggies full) we got:
  • 5 lb grapes
  • 1 cantaloupe
  • 2 pints blueberries
  • 6 lb apples
  • 2 pkg celery
  • 3 lb onions
  • 2 lb carrots
  • cilantro
  • 7 lb  cabbage
  • 2 lb broccoli
  • 8 dozen eggs

  • 3 gallons of milk

  • 1 lg tub of margarine

  • creamer

  • sour cream

  • 4 lb tilapia

  • 4 lg pkg Popsicles

  • 5 pkg whole wheat bagels

  • 1 lg jar of peanut butter

  • agave nectar (it's like honey)

  • 1 45 oz vegetable oil

  • olive oil

  • 4 cans ranch style beans

  • 4 cans corn

  • 2 lg pkg splenda (it's like sugar)

  • slat

  • pepper

  • parsley

  • mustard

  • 1 bag flour

  • 2 lg quick oats

  • 10 pkg pudding

  • 1 pkg jello

  • 1 box graham crackers

  • 1 bag marshmallows

  • 1 box raisins

  • 3 lg cans pink salmon

  • 4 cans boneless skinless salmon

  • 2 salmon packets

  • 16 cans tuna

  • 2 cans baking powder

  • 10 32 oz bottles Gatorade

  • 1 pkg cream cheese

  • 2 family size tea bags

  • 9 frozen pizzas

  • 20 lbs chicken quarters

  • 5 butterball smoked sausages

  • 32 frozen hamburger patties

  • 3 pkg chick peas

  • 12 pkg pinto beans

  • 10 pkg hot dogs

  • 2 frozen Apple juices

  • 4 cartons of whipped cream

  • 2 cans black olives

  • 2 pkg tortilla chips

  • 1 lb cooked shrimp

  • 1 bottle of syrup

  • 6 lbs of party peanuts

  • 5 boxes of cereal

  • 2 bags of frozen broccoli

  • 1 bag of frozen corn

  • 8 loaves of bread


  • All of these things were:
    $ 284.06
    These things will probably last us for about 2 weeks, plus all that we still have leftover from last weeks trip.