Still alive again!

I seem to be a broken record with the fact that we are still alive. We've now been thru Halloween, and Thanksgiving and not really taken many pictures, also our home internet charges for our data usage so uploading or whatever you call putting pictures on the blog or facebook is not super cheap for us to do. It has been brough to my attention that people still read my blog and would like a little more info into what is going on in our lives. Things are tough, I will not lie finances are about to become nonexistent besides the daycare and we cannot physically survive on just that so any and all prayers for that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanksgiving this year was fun, my mom, my brother and his family came for a visit and we got to meet my nephew for the first time and the cousins all had an awesome time hanging out together. It was fun to get to know my sister in law better and find some odd things we have in common, like scary movies and of course crafting =) Almost everyone worked on sewing some christmas ornaments while they were here. I admit I stupidly didn't use my camera much so not much evidence of said good time. We have also finally organized our garage and made it into usable space for working on miscellaneous projects and also given Don a place to get away from the noise that tends to reach high decibles around here during the day. 
Christmas is on it's way and we are furiously handmaking things trying to finish so they can be mailed for the big day. I wish I could share but alas you that read also receive in some instances. I guess I will take pictures and post them later =)
I think I am going to try a picture or post a day with some info of our day. Today Don is going to work on some prop type things for our churches Christmas play and I will be making salt dough cookies and Christmas vests also for the play. My older kids are in the crew so they are excited. They love the behind the scenes things, they are also getting to know kids at church which we are loving. Most of them homeschool which helps them all understand each other much better.

Anyhow, I will post a picture if it will download of our Thanksgiving fun.

Tisha trying to fix my stupid serger, it's still in my closet ha!

Jason and my boys crawling around on the garage floor.

Don putting the checkerboard on our friend Riley's cake

Finished product

We're still alive

Well, it's now been almost two months since my last post. I have no camera except my phone so I don't have much to add right now. Over the past couple months we've had a visit from my mom, painted a dresser for Morgan, rearranged the kids rooms, gotten rid of a toddler bed, organized a garage, survived =). We are still in a waiting pattern for Don's workmans comp claim. Our hearing was Oct 3 and they said we would hear within 30 days so we wait, and wait, and wait. We've had dessert at our pastors house, gone to church, gone to the pumpkin patch, watched sprint car races, gone camping, had an anniversary dinner with our most awesome friends, had pizza with another set of our awesome friends w/ kids =). Hmmm, I am sure I'm leaving something out, oh yeah Brock fell on the coffee table and ended up with nursemaids elbow, nothing broken but man was it painful until the xray tech while taking pictures inadvertently popped it back into place. Oh yeah we've done homeschool, canned tomatoes, I've taken up embroidery, driven rc cars, um yep, we've been busy, thankful for our time at home with Don and that God is providing all along the way.

Yep, me as a dork =)

Morgan's rearranged room, the dresser on the right is pink crackle paint over silver.

The boys room, all their dresser are now in their room and Brock  is sleeping on the bottom like a big boy.

Brock in the exam room before their fixed his elbow.

Little reading nook in Morgan's room.

Ty's Birthday Post =)

Ty turned 8 on the 30th of August and asked for an eyeball cake. Of course Don took it to the awesomest place he could imagine which we think rocked.

We posted this picture on facebook and got some interesting guesses as to what they thought the cake was going to be.

Flippers for our budding swimmer.

He's been saving for a camera so we decided to take the plunge.

One happy 8 year old.

Don lit the candles with a butane torch

Update from the garden

We harvested our first tomato yesterday!!! Thought I would take some updated pictures, please excuse the weeds, you know how much I hate to weed, well here's proof!

The final birthday pictures/video

Love that Cale wanted red velvet cake as the cutting of the head was even more disgusting.