Austin's First Squirrel

Austin and Kamden bought themselves pellet guns this weekend. Yesterday was so busy they didn't get time to shoot them so this afternoon, as soon as the rain stopped, they were gone hunting. A few minutes later, Austin came home with his first kill~ a squirrel! I can see it now, every week when Heath gets home from Tulsa he's going to have a freezer full of animals to clean. :)

Mountain Climbing

Yesterday we had beautiful weather! We worked in the yard and then we decided to go climb a mountain. We went to Sugar Loaf Mountain which is about an hour from here. According to the internet it is 690 feet high. This was our first time to climb a mountain and we loved it. Heath made it all the way to the top. The boys and I stopped about 10 feet from the top. It was a little too difficult for us because you had to straddle a 2 feet wide gap in the mountain to get up to the top. I could just picture one of us falling in the crack or getting them up there and not being able to get them back down due to a panic attack. It was still beautiful even though we didn't go to the tip top. We also hiked all the way around the mountain from about half way up. They boys had a great time climbing on all the rocks.

Hiking up the 2/3 mile hill to get to the bottom of the mountain.


At the top!


These are just some of us climbing:




Look closely and you can see Heath and the boys in the crack.








The next are just pictures of God's beautiful creation! It's amazing to me how he just spoke this into creation!

Austin's Derby Race

Last night was Austin's Awana Derby Race at church. He wanted a General Lee car from The Dukes of Hazard. Well, actually, he didn't want a car at all but once he found out that everyone had to participate he decided on the General Lee. Choosing the type of car he wanted was the only 'work' he did on the car; Heath did the rest. Yes, I know that's not the way it should have been but... Oh well!


The General Lee

Their race was different than Kamden's. Everything was computerized and they raced four lanes instead of two. Everyone got to race four times.


Austin's first race.

He came in 2nd place.

ALL my pictures turned out blurry so I won't torture you with those. Austin's car didn't do very well. He won 2nd in the first race; 3rd in the second race and 4th in the last two races. Of course, he had a lot of excuses for not winning:
~ the boy that won bought his car on ebay
~ He had too much weight on his car.
~ They raced his car backwards.
...and the list goes on. :)

Here is his picture after the race with his car.