Recent life in pictures

Our new family band!!!

We played for all 3 nights at the local Baptist church's revival. It was so much fun! and it forced us to practice, which we sorely needed.

We got a tractor!!!! It's definitely easier to bushog the yard than push mow it...

This is the view from the back row of the bluegrass jam we go to once a month. We also go to a smaller one here every Thursday morning. We've improved a lot since going there and we have a great time getting to know the locals.

The big horse and the little one.

We got another horse!!! We bought Sassy from our trainer. She is really fun to ride!
Other big news...Peanut is pregnant! We knew it was a possibility before we bought her, but we just found out.

Eric on Sassy.

Me on Peanut.

SALSA!!! Mom has canned a bunch of salsa and tomatoe sauce. It is SO good

Our beautiful garden

We saw 3 rainbows in 2 weeks

peanut and sassy

Molly the Mini!!!

Molly has finally arrived! We have been eagerly waiting for her to get trained so we could bring her home. We finally got her on Tuesday! I can't even began to describe how excited Timothy is and how much he loves her. The morning after we got her, he set his alarm for 6:30 am to go out and care for her and we didn't see him until around 8! He was also on the front page of the local Sunday paper! They interviewed him, mom, and the lady who gave her to us. You can read the article here. Timothy loves being able to lead her around, pick her feet, and take care of her all by himself!

Here he is picking her up from the horse rescue with the trainer Kent.

Timothy's new best friend.

Taking her to the pasture to graze.

I love Timothy's smile!

Vacation!

On the 23rd we headed down to Florida for our cousin's wedding. On the right is out Great-Aunt Marianne.

Eric and I had a lot of fun dancing at the wedding reception.

After the wedding we stayed a few more days to visit with our cousins. This is my cousin Beth, my Grandmother, and me.

One day we went to a nearby lake to swim. The next day we went tubing on a river about 2 hours away, which was a blast! I don't have any pictures from that yet, as we didn't want to get the camera wet.

After leaving in the morning at 4:30am from Florida, we got to the 5:00pm ferry on time! The one we took runs from Ceder Island to Ocracoke Island. It is about a 2 1/2 hour ride. We were headed to the NPS campground on Ocracoke to spend a few days.

This was another ferry we passed on the way.

We watched the scenery, fed the gulls, and ate dinner, until we got bored of all that and went down to sit on the bumper and jam.

This was a really neat sailboat we passed on the way.

It was really cool to watch the different boats pass by.

This looks out almost to where Teach's Hole is off of Ocracoke, where Blackbeard was killed. The sandbars were treacherous to navigate, so he took refuge in the hole, which was hard to get to. When the Navy came to attack him, the ran aground on the sandbars almost completely surrounding the hole. The Ocracoke Lighthouse is in the background.

Coming into the harbor.

Pulling into the dock.

We had lots of fun swimming in the mornings, the went to the Village of Ocracoke in the afternoon.

Timothy had a blast riding the little waves as they would break.

The campground was right behind the dunes. It was a nice campground, except for the mosquitoes. They swarmed around you as soon as you showed your face, and they were more ferocious and bigger than you average ones! The beach was free from them though, and was not crowded, which was nice.

Timothy out to conquer the pond.

The ocean the last night we were there.

Here we are waiting for the ferry to take us to Hatteras Island. The sound is in the background.

waiting and playing....

Waiting even more.......

Our last stop on the way home was the Cape Hatteras lighthouse. Can you believe they moved this massive tower almost a half a mile in 1990? This is the tallest lighthouse in the US.

The view...the lighthouse is visible 20 miles away!

Only Mom, Eric, and Isaac climbed. The rest of us were not up to the 268 steps to the top.