Raccoon

Okay, so I took these forever ago and just hadn't gotten around to posting them. So here they finally are.

These are of a raccoon that would come up onto our back porch during the day to eat. One day I got out the camera and tripod and started shooting. You're getting the condensed version; I took about 75 pictures. Enjoy!

Comic Relief

I was just searching through the tons and tons of old (and not so old) pictures we have and found this one. So I thought I'd share. Enjoy!


(note: it is not easy to climb a tree in a dress)

Finally

I finally got the pictures from our trip last Tuesday (or was it Wednesday???) on here. Enjoy!

A couple from our church invited us up to have lunch with them at Corporate. The amount of food they have up there for lunch is amazing. They sure feed their people well.

This is a picture of the bottled beverages refrigerator after lunch was almost over:


Mom, our hostess, and Jo looking at the cars after lunch:


Frisbee Man found a car he liked...


This one was my favorite normal car:


But this one was my very favorite:



Hope you've enjoyed!

Sneak Peek

I'll be posting more pictures and tell you all about our trip pretty soon. But for now I'll leave you in suspense with a picture of something I got to see today. :) Enjoy!

Enjoy

Pictures

Anyone want a cat? He's pretty cheap. ;)

Nikki's Challenge-Week Sixteen

This past week I read In His Steps. Not much is going on around here. Violin is coming along. I'm working on my ninth song! :)

Sorry, but I don't have any pictures for this post. I experimented with some different settings on the camera last week and ended up with quite a few pictures, so I'll try to get those up here soon. Well, Goodbye for now!

Nikki's Challenge-Week Fifteen

I know this is more than half a week late, but here it is anyways.

This past week I read a really good book, Me, Myself, & Bob, by Phil Vischer. It's about God calling you to do something and then taking that thing away from you. And the reason He takes those things from you is because sometimes they get in the way of your relationship with Him. That's why Phil Vischer believes he lost Big Ideas is because it became more about the Veggies than God. It's a really good book and I highly recommend it. The only thing with it is that he does use a handful of swear words. But other than that, it's a very good book. Blogger needs to fix the favorites section of the profiles, though, because when I put Me, Myself, & Bob as one of my favorite books, it put it as (Me) (Myself) (& Bob), like it's three different books. Blogger, maybe instead of using commas you should try using semicolons to separate the items.

Oh, and I also sat down and over two days (only about three hours though) did my whole school schedule. I'm glad it's done.

For those of you who like pictures, here's one. I love looking for the faces on cars and tractors and such. They just give the vehicle so much more uniqueness. Does anyone else look for the faces on vehicles? Anyway, enjoy!

For Frisbee Man:

Nikki's Challenge-Week Thirteen and Week Fourteen

Well, I had managed to post every week...

Two weekends ago some friends of ours took us to a GBraves game. It was a lot of fun. Here's a picture of all the kids (minus the three older boys) with the mascot:



This past week I've been starting to get all my schoolwork for next year sorted out. Saturday morning I went running. In the afternoon we drove to some friends' house and went geocaching with six of their children. We didn't find the one we set out to find, but we found a different one. That evening we went to a surprise 25th anniversary party for a couple at our church. The aforementioned family was also there, so for most of the party I got to watch their four littlest. :)

As for a picture of my haircut, the picture from the ballgame is the only one I have, so it'll have to suffice. Here's another picture for y'all. Enjoy!

Nikki's Challenge-Week Twelve

Well, Nikki's Challenge has become, for me, more of just a reason to blog. :)

This past Friday we went to Dialog in the Dark. It was amazing. It was so neat to try to get around rooms without being able to see anything and to figure out what you were holding. You learn to live by touch and sound. The only thing I identified in Kroger was the Italian salad dressing. :)

I'm working a project, but I need help. I need fun games for anywhere from 1 player to group games. They need to be games that require few or no accessories other than chairs. And no really rough games. If you can think of any that fit this description, please let me know. I'm trying to find as many as possible.

I still don't have pictures of my haircut. It's pretty much just like the other one only shorter. :) I'll try to get pictures sometime soon. Maybe. But here are some other pictures for now. Enjoy!

Nikki's Challenge-Week Eleven

This past week I've been running. Three times. I've gone a mile and a half each time. Next Saturday we're going two miles. :) Not much else going on over this way. I've been reading a lot. Oh, and I just found out about (and now own) the greatest sewn invention: The Quillow. They're awesome! They can be used like a blanket or folded up and used as a pillow! They just fascinate me. They're just so cool! :) Anyway, I have the one I got and I'll be using it to make a pattern so that I can make more.

I haven't gotten a chance to work on a new look yet, but hopefully it won't be too much longer.

I don't have any good pictures of my haircut on the computer yet, so here's some pictures from my week. Enjoy!

Nikki's Challenge-Week Ten

I got pictures of my new haircut, but they're not on the computer yet. As for my accomplishment this week, I organized our spice cabinet. 8) Frisbee got rained out most of the way through and I drove the golf cart home...with the windshield down. :) This week I also joined a running club here in town that one of my friends started. We had our first run this morning - 1 1/2 miles. Needless to say, I walked part and ran part.

For those of you who voted on my poll that you don't like the new look, please vote on my new polls. I'm trying to decide how to do my new background, and I know some of you don't like it because it's hard to read, so I'm trying to figure out what colors need to be fixed.

I haven't been taking many pictures lately, so I'm running out of ones to post. I don't feel like digging around right now trying to find more, so here's one that was easy to find. Enjoy!

Nikki's Challenge-Week Nine

This past week I've been reading quite a bit. I've finished almost one book a day. I've also been working on helping Mom sort through stuff from the convention and take care of it all. And on Wednesday we went to a Braves game. Friday we went to a mall downtown. Saturday was a busy day. Jay and I went to the parade in the morning. We all went to the church picnic in the afternoon. In the late afternoon we went to another party. In the evening, some of our friends came over and all thirteen of us piled on to our golf cart to ride up to the golf course to play frisbee and watch the fireworks. Sunday evening we went to another family's house to watch more fireworks. Yesterday I got a haircut. I'd say none of it's longer than five inches. :) I'll try to get some pictures of it on here soon. The back is really curly now, but the front and the top layer are still kinda just wavy. Last week was Jo's birthday, too. Happy Birthday, Jo!

So, that's what I've been up to for now. The pictures below are from a scavenger hunt I was a part of a while ago. Enjoy!

Nikki's Challenge-Week Eight

Weel, I am actually getting around to posting at the end of this week instead of the beginning of next week.

This week a family from our old church came and spent three nights with us. We had a good, albeit short, visit. I don't think anyone got the camera out while they were here, though. Blogger is going slow today so I'm only putting one picture up today. Enjoy.