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| For my friend Becky, and her daughter, Danielle. Becky's husband, Richard, died early this morning. Please pray for them to have peace as they look to their Jesus for loving support. Please pray that they would be surrounded by God's people for comfort and help.
Thanks my friends.
~Kate
P.S. sorry for the long absence, taking care of a city house and a farm are a bit on the busy side. Hoping to be able to hop back in before long.
God bless you on this Lord's Day!
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| My Hannah Elise turned 7 yesterday, the 13th. We celebrated at my sisters home. Hannah had requested Aunt Margaret make her chicken enchiladas and pizza for Cousin Steven and Elena who don't like chicken enchiladas. She also requested that her cake be strawberry. Aunt Margaret and Cousin Shayna made the actual icing and decoration of the cake a surprise. Shayna decorated the room with ladybugs and flowers and streamers in green and pink. Nana, Uncle Conrad, Aunt Margaret, Steven, Isaac, Shayna, Gaelan and Emily (with Tad in utero), Lizzy, Elena, Hoppy and I rounded out the revelers.  .
Here is Hoppy in a few pic's highlighted from Birth to age 7.:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
a rare "toothy" smile from Lizzy
 
 
 
I forget what they were looking at.... Dress from Emily & Gaelan
A certificate for a shopping spree to the Dollar Store with Shayna! :)
Psalm 127: 4-5a:
4As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. 5Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them
Thank you dearest Lord for Hannah Elise, she is a joy and blessing from your hand. May you bless her all her days, and keep her in Your ways, In Jesus name, Amen.
Rejoice in the Lord always!
~Kate
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| Picking up where we left off in March, here's a quick run down...and some news for xangaland mixed in...re: we've bought a farm....(mom laughs when I say that since the only animals on it are cats for the present) But, we've bought a home on a little less than 9.5 acres.... Livin' the dream! so you'll see pics from that:
First up, our modest swim wear arrives and a quick model:
 
Next, a bonfire and campout at the G farm:
  
   
 
I call this shot, Bradley Vaughn at Dawn:
 
Some of the ladies making breakfast for the group that stayed over night....we were all awake before dawn thanks to an over achieving guinea hen, who I know had at least one air soft pellet shot at it from the boys tent to the cheers of the other campers. 
Our Farm: The farm came with 3 kittens (whom we requested along with their mother, we'll need mousers after all) and at least 8 others (we didn't want) thrown in. .
  
  
  
Wilhelmina Luna Cocoa Dally Hoppy with an arm full.
  
Fred Leo Dally George Recees Piglet Dally
  
Our trip to IN and PA for a wedding:
  
 
PA: Mother of groom, & my friend:Cindy
  
Bride & Groom far right in dk. blue
     
  
Our hostess, Hazel:
  
Hoppy playing with Aunt Cindy's scarf.
  
That's it, speed pic. blogging, I think I've taken over Cindy's "Photo"Blogging.
Have a blessed week, ours is whopper busy:
~Kate
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| I've had my issues with them recently, mainly getting hacked like nobodies business, despite doing everything facebook said to do. I now have my computer set to wipe all cookies/temp. internet files/ etc.... after every session. I also re-set to a new password every week now. Bit of a pain, since every session is like new and I have to sign in on all sites and all...but worth it I feel. At any rate, many of you probably heard this bit, but I didn't know about it until the newsletter I get from consumer reports. So, just FYI to those of us who didn't know how nutso the facebook guys can be:
"And Facebook? It was a Consumer Reports web site that blew the whistle on this online social network site when it quietly decided to change longstanding privacy policies.
With virtually no notice to its more than 200 million users, Facebook tried to slip through an astonishingly invasive plan to eliminate virtually all user privacy rights:
"You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any user content you post ..." Talk about signing your life away — or that of your child, spouse, or unwitting parent! But after the uproar unleashed by our disclosure, Facebook quickly retracted the outrageous policy."
I'm glad they retracted it, but keep an eye out gang, if you use them, check now and then to see if they're trying to get all Communist on you.
~Kate.
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| A smattering of pictures to cover various thingy's. Some get togethers for Christmas time, just for fun, etc...:
Jewel V., Lizzy, Elena, Jhanna V.,Chloe V., Mae C, Hannah
It's blurry, but a great time in the straw bales: The C family, Dorny family and my gals.
  
Elena with part of her cowgirl set she got for her birthday...and that Lazy 'ol Dog!
Sweet Jewelly V.
And in Feb I think or March it was, we went up to the G homestead to put on another cover to their green house which had blown away in a whopper wind storm one night....we actually didn't get it up because the cover ended up being the wrong size, but we did get some chickens and rabbits moved. It was bitingly cold that day too! Brrr...   
  
We got it up with the help of some other friends about a week or so later.
Sometime in Feb/Mar. we went with the V. family and the Dorny's to an Alpaca Farm a few hours north...it was great fun, but also, really really cold!
  
While the Dorny's and Mrs.C & her kids lived with us, I had Nana's room (while she stayed with Margaret & then went to Fl). In order for us to do our separate homeschooling, the girls and I used Nanas room. You can see the mess her room is from when I had moved a bunch of my stuff in there in order to give Steve & Heather more space in my room. This video is of two of the girls practicing their ballet to a selection from our Composer study on Johanne S. Bach.: 
And video of Mr. Dorny playing "Monster" with the kids. The jist of the game is: the "Monster" hides while everyone counts, then they go looking for the Monster who then jumps out on them and everyone runs for base.
In March, the Dorny's began to move back to Fl. We kept their dogs until they found a place. We spent some time with the G's and the V's (who have since moved to TX... We miss you guys!!!)
  
Hoppy in Connor G's boots. Liz & Jewel Jewel & Angela V.
  
Hoppy and her special buddy Chloe....she misses her lots, asks to call her even.
 
And the early hours of the day 3 or 4 am, the dogs got me up to show me it was snowing! . Then our winter wonderland picture at a more sensible hour!
And a video of the romp in the snow. Elena says "Oh my gosh! " at the end, cause she discovers that Domino's (the black standard poodle) giant Pooh Bear doll is frozen to the ground! He was very sad mourning over it, but perked up when it thawed out enough for him to dig it up. Pooh became an outside bear after that! .
And that's enough for now....
Have a blessed rest of the week gang.
~Kate
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