I KNOW.....its been a while

Sorry, just never seems to be enough time to sit down and blog. I will try to catch everyone up on what has been going on since the last post Lets see, we had a really good Thanksgiving.....except for Amanda and Josh, everyone was able to be there. We did get to have everyone there for Christmas eve which was wonderful, we had a great time. The saturday before Christmas Billy, Neal and the girls came in to celebrate Christmas. We had a really good time and the girls presents were very entertaining.

Who ever said my boys can't dance......

Christmas eve was wonderful also, we went church where Josh D. (that is) got reconized for what he does for our county.....which we are all very proud of him and all of our millitay. After that we went to my parents and spent the evening with, Justin and Lindsay, Amanda and Josh, Ashley, Joshua, Kathy and Joe and Cody, me and Kelly and my parents. We ate, played games and had a great time with family.....

The two Josh's sometimes it can get confusing but we love them both....

Christmas day Justin and Lindsay were with her family, so the rest of us started the day out with opening presents....

After that we decided to take Amanda and Josh out to the land so they could see it before they left to go back home. This is were Ashley got a small idea of how bad Josh is going to have it going across country with Amanda......but once we got there we had a great time.....for some reason I don't have any pictures of that but if you check out Amanda's blog you can see those.

The next weekend Justin and Lindsay came out to the land for the first time also....

Lindsay driving Justin around with Lexie leading the way.

Justin was driving the 4 wheeler so fast I was never able to get picture of him.

Lindsay was driving so fast her hair was blowing in the wind...I think Lindsay likes running better than riding 4 wheelers, By the way be sure and check out her blog she just ran her first full marathon and did a great job. We are very proud of her, I can't even say the word marathon without getting winded. I an considering WALKING a half marathon tho, I'll let ya'll know how that goes.

Sonny and Nancy (Kellys brother and sister in law) came down the next weekend. This is a good picture of the three bothers and sister together.

Mom and Dad, Billy and the girls even made it down to the land.....

Joe and his girlfriend Maddie.....

And last but not least in Jan, Kelly and I went on the guided fishing trip that my parents gave us for Christmas. It was so much fun and I finally got Kelly to liking fishing. He can't wait to go back again.

So that covers Nov., Dec., and Jan. As you can see we visited the land alot but never seemed to get any work done. But we have made a new vow that we are going to work harder to get so things finished. So this being the first weekend in Feb. Kelly and I went out there this weekend and work all day Sat and part of Sunday and we were able to get the floor in upstairs, I am so excited, we actually spent the night in there. There is still alot left for us to do but it feels so good to have that behind us. See the pictures below for the progress on that.

JUST SOME PICTURES

Not much new, here are a few pictures we have taken in the last couple of weeks....

The cabin painted and Kelly put on some temp. stairs...... He tried.....

and tried again...riley wants to try.....

KING OF THE HAY......

Hamburgers on the open flame....this is really cool, Sonny (Kelly's brother) made this for us, we have not been able to use it till now, and it was the best....I can't wait to try other things....my mother suggested breakfast....now that should be interesting....I'll let you know how it turns out.

Josh brought his roommate Kirk with him, he seemed to really enjoy cooking.....and the burgers turned out really good. Next time I'll let him try breakfast....

Riley on the floor of the cabin, in front of the heater....

Maddie on the couch...which dog did you say was spoiled....

Josh trying to find the camera in the dark woods....It found him first...Riley looks really scary...

Thats all for now, I will try to post more later......

If I don't get to see or talk to some of you before Thanksgiving....have a blessed one.....just remember all the things we have to be thankfull for, I know a lot of people who are having a hard time right now, with the loss of loved ones or injured loved ones fighting for their lifes and of course all of the military families....just remember all of these in your prayers and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.....God Bless

Some progress...Some playing

We got some more things done with the cabin.......we did some painting....

Kelly and Joe worked on the upstairs

Billy, Allie and Sara stopped by and we played......
By Sunday afternoon even the dogs were tired.......

And last but not least the cool pictures from the hidden camera.....

First Fire

Well we finally got the first phase of the cabin built....We are very excited about getting it finished out, adding the porch, window, bathroom, etc., keep checking back and I will show you pictures of our progress.....

Me painting the floor

It also got cold enough at night for us to have our first fire, in the fire pit that Josh built...We also made smores....

Not many pictures on our hidden camera this week just a few deer and the racoon.....

Thats all for now check back next week.....

HIDDEN CAMERA

We got a camera that we can leave down at the land to see what is going on when we are not there. The first week we put it out there we did not get any pictures. This week when we looked at it we had 124 pictures. Below are some of the critters that were captured on film......

This is the famous "Deer in the headlights"

These cute little critters, Ha! Ha! enjoyed it so much they stayed around for a couple of hours and then came back again later.

These two are way better..a rabbit and a racoon...Can't wait to see what we get this week.