8 Servants For Christ

February 19 - Feeding the Sheriffs Department and a Long Walk

Janessa and Kacy went to go help our church feed the Sheriff's Department this afternoon. It was a thank you gift from our church to them for serving our county so diligently.

Later that day the younger boys went for a walk with the German Shepherd, Reacher. They went about 3/4 of a mile from here to a farmers tank. Being early spring, the farmers hadn't started irrigating yet, so the tank was full of slime. The boys got in there, as did the dog. The difference is, the boys could get out whereas the dog couldn't. Kacy came over on the horse and got him out. We all had a lot of adventure today.

This is the ladder they were trying to get the dog to climb out on.

The sky is so beautiful today. Shea captured this beautiful picture of God's handiwork in the west Texas sky.

So what adventures have you been having today?

February 18 - Fox Hole

The younger boys went out this morning to build a fox-hole, for the purpose of using it in our future air-soft wars. They had it done in no time, and they did an excellent job. They did it completely by themselves

Do you have trenches, fox hole, or things of that sort all over your back yard?

February 16 - It's Great to be Eight!!!

Our dear, sweet Gabriel turned eight today. He has been such a wonderful blessing to our family. Garrett arranged a treasure hunt and a crowning for him.

Gabe's two, fearsome guards. (They wouldn't let anyone get within a yard of him...which made it very difficult to crown him)

Gabriel, king birthday boy!!!!

Dad needs to hold the "robe" on.

He had his favorite breakfast, homemade doughnuts.

This is the first clue. I'm not going to take you through the entire treasure hunt. Garrett did a good job on it an it is really long, but I will hit some of the high points. See if you can guess where the next clue is hidden?

Gabe's birthday card from Shea. (It is sill stuck to his dinning room chair)

One of the clues took us all outside. I took this picture of a boy and his dog.

The clue stated that he was to go around the house three times, so these next pictures are what the rest of the family did while he was doing that.

Zach did a pull-up onto the roof.

Enjoying this nice day.

Waiting for them to come around...again.

He found the clue.

His treasure!!!

They didn't lose any time putting it together.

We're half way there!!

It's done!

Now it's time to open presents.

An air-soft gun from Zach, that I think he likes just a little bit.

Band-aids for all the booboos he gets while playing air-soft wars. (That was he can keep playing without having to go in.)

This one was a lot of fun to unwrap, it hat four layers of paper that he needed to get through.

Whatever it is, I think he likes it.

It's a pocket knife!

Gabriel has really gotten interested in Anatomy recently, okay he has been interested in it for about three years. He has gone through every book we have on the subject, taken every class in GRACE in it. So we got him his own build-able body and brain.