Christmas @ Mom & Dad's

Here's dad receiving his Harbor Freight gift card, Frank's sitting beside him exhausted from working since 6am.

Here's Frank and Mom playing a game of Chess, we usually play cards and stuff when we hang out.

Sophia got a Pirates of the Caribbean comforter, she's nut about em.

Here's Sophia playing Santa & passing out gifts.

This is what Megan did pretty much all night, or she was texting her friends on her cell, I kinda miss the days before all the technology. I guess just courtesy would take care of this problem too?

Christmas @ Jamies

Okay so hears the thing, my pictures loaded backwards, I selected them in order but they popped up opposite. Anyways this is Sean, she's opening a bracelet we got her.

Here's Jamie she's very excited about her popcorn bucket with all the goodies inside, she also got a coupon peeler & a bracelet. Hopefully she'll share the goodies & coupon's with Mark.

Here's Megan's boyfriend Jarad, we gagged gifted him, he bought Cookies from Victoria and hasn't come over to get em yet (inside joke), so I wrapped em up and gave em to him.

Here's Papa - Frank went out to the Big Woods and cut off a piece of a Beech Tree and took it to work and a friend that he works with makes things out of wood, so he made a bowl for Papa. It was really cool! We also have a pen made out of Cherry & one made out of Black Walnut.

Here's Jamie Christmas Tree, this was suppose to be the first picture you saw.

Anyway, hope you all had a Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Prank

My Mom suggested I wrap up some things that already belonged to the kids or get some goofy looking fake gifts, I decided to go the cheaper route & picked out a couple things from each of the closets. If the video works I gave them each a present (all were very similar in size, wrapping was all the same). They each started to open @ the same time, once they had the box open they each had a puzzled look on their faces, it was so funny, we told them that we had warned them that things were goin to be tight this year, they just didn't know how tight. I hope the video will load, it's hillarious!

Decorating for Thanksgiving

Me & the kids have been decorating & rearranging the house for 30+ people, I saw an article in the Southeast Outlook about putting pictures of Family on the table as decorations, since our family is so Large I had a lot of pictures.

We put together Pictures of the Williams & Glover's. It was so much fun to set everything up, and this year my Best friend Amy is coming with her kids to spend Thanksgiving with us, we haven't seen them since June before last, so almost a year & a 1/2 :(

While me & the girls were inside cleaning, the guys were out in the Big Woods getting firewood & my husband spotted some beautiful berries that we could use for decorations, there Gorgeous! I put them all over the table & was able to make three flower arrangements.

Hope everyone has or had a Wonderful Thanksgiving (depending on when you read this)

Shan

Thanksgiving

Just wanted to let you know I was still planning on having Thanksgiving here, Mamaw decided recently that because Amy & her kids were coming to visit, she should have it, Im still trying to convince her to have it here, there's much more room & I have really enjoyed it over the past years & I even made my other Grandma mad because last year I didn't want to hold her reservation for the Waldens to have it here & not the Williams. Anyway, hoping you all can still come, please encourage Weezer to just have it here & I will set her up with a Rocking Chair next to the Fireplace so she can kick her feet up & relax (I know, that's hard to do, but Im gonna keep trying).
Hopefully things will work out. Im planning on about 5pm here.

Christmas

With Christmas fast approaching,watch out for this... be alert.



Please read the following. It applies to FedEx as well

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Random

Here's Sophia, she just went & got her new glasses last week, she picked out some really different one's, she really likes them.

Here's my Handsome brother & his Lovely wife, there the All American Redneck couple, Im glad I got the good genes!

Sorry didn't have much of anything else to update, we've been battling a cold or allergies or maybe flu? Blah! Im sick of being sick & this stinking cough is killing me!

Halloween

Here's Frank as a Templar Knight


Here's Victoria as a clown, she ended up looking scarier as it got later

Here's Sophia as Laura Ingles

Here's Isabella as the Hippie (I think that's how you spell it?)

Here they are all together, aren't they kinda scary & their all such a different variety

Election 2008

Wow! I can't believe the big day is tomorrow, I hope we will all be on our knee's in prayer over this tonight and practice our God given right to vote.


Please look through this if you still aren't sure about who your voting for.





These are video clips from Sean Hannity, very telling.


10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jpmryi87gQ

9 & 8: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unsSXUrN5mY

7 & 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DahbhQuPI_4

5 & 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgpQTAKN4M

3 & 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDtkQjTpOho

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7NYxFVcgw

Isabella's Twin Sister

This weekend the girls decided it would be fun to make another person, she ended up looking like Isabella.
Here they are posing with their "New" sister, unfortunately the new girl has no behind.
Here's Isabella arguing with her, I guess she borrowed her hat without asking? Lol!
Maybe they made up now, don't they look a little alike?
They had WAY to much fun with this.

Isabella's 13th Birthday

Here's Isabella opening a hat that Victoria gave her (its a hat that used to belong to Victoria)














Here's all the kids from school that came over to celebrate her Birthday (keep in mind, she invited 32!)












Here is a close up of the kids, there's Rachel, Isabella, Courtney, Breann &Caroline (ducking to get out of picture, not low enough), the three boys that came are ALL the way over by the rail.












This is pretty much where they all hung out at, this is our first party that we had where this many has been invited & where "Boys" were allowed

A little Change

Quite a bit of change has been happening at the Glover house. Back on September 16th Megan decided to move in, she has pretty good reason's, so of course we were very welcomed to the idea. She's been adjusting really well with all of her four other siblings and having different rules & chores. She's an Awesome Young Lady and has a pretty good head on her shoulders. We are so proud of her and how far she has come. She is preparing for College and wanting to plan on what kind of job she'd like to have as an adult. She had to switch from a car to now driving a Big Red-Neck pickup truck, it's blue so that helped and her Dad has some beads hanging around the mirror so to her that made it a little Girly Girl. She's going to take her SAT's this Saturday and then week after next she gets to go visit IU and shadow one of the students there to see what college life is like, she'll even get to spend the night! She's so excited, she's interested in Anthropology (right now).

We're trying to encourage her that no matter who's in her life - whether it be family, friends, co-workers, a boyfriend to make sure she keeps her boundaries in line, not to let anyone try to manipulate her into anything. I pray that God will lead her where ever he has plans for her.

Also, my middle daughter turned 13 today! Wow, I now have THREE teenagers in the house, only two left to go!

Wind Storm of 2008

Well we officially survived the Wind Storm of 2008, it was Amazing to see some of the mind blowing things that the wind could do, this is a picture of a GREAT BIG Pine Tree in my Father-in-laws yard, it was totally uprooted.
Here is Everybody (during some of the Wind Storm) picking up all the Apples that we couldn't reach before the Storm, we were trying to be careful not to get hit with and apple that the wind would knock out of the tree.
Here's our drive as we leaving, before 10am a Big Tree was blown over and Frank & Papa had to cut it & move it so I could go to work the nursery at (Maria's church) church. We were about 30 minutes late, but had we left any earlier it could have fallen on us!
We actually watched this break and fall off. It was crazy to see all the branches breaking like toothpicks!
Hope all of you are ok and haven't had alot of damage, we were without power from Sunday around 12:30 pm to Monday at about 6pm.
Take Care,
Shannon

Facebook

Wow! all I can say is Ive been on Facebook for awhile, and just when I allow each of my kids to get one, I then find quite a few friends on there, or they found me! Im so excited Theresa finally got one! Yeah, we can keep in touch with all this new modern technology, it ought to be good for something.
Everyone have a Safe & Restful Labor Day Weekend.
Shannon

Your Invited....

Just wanted to let any of you Girls (or Lady's) know that this Tuesday I am having an Arbonne Party to kick off my first month of being a Consultant. This meeting is going to touch on many different area's - mostly Hormones, Detoxing, skin care and many more.
I hope you will come and support my new job, and also to find out what Arbonne is (which is now more involved with Health & Wellness).
Please come this Tuesday (8/26) @ 7pm
Thanks,
Shannon

Email me if you need directions
shann3443@yahoo.com

Victoria

On July 26th Victoria was Baptized at Church (this is her going backstage with Ms. Karen)
This is all of Victoria's family coming to support her
Here she is saying In the Father, Son & Holy Ghost
Here she is! i just love this picture (I have this one as my background on my computer)

A day at the Fair Continued......

I couldn't finish all the pics on the last one, so I carried it over. Here's Victoria petting a Mule or is it a Jack? I don't know, it sure is BIG though.





Here's Frank after buying a Big Bucket of Popcorn, the kids went crazy, like they hadn't eaten in days! I should have taken a picture of the Mile High Chocolate Cake, it was $6 but it was plenty for all of us! Man, it was Yummy!



Here's the Girls looking at the Doll Houses, I thought it'd be neat to take a picture of them looking through the glass.
















This is a doll that Isabella informed me looked like me, Gee, Thanks, I don't know if that's a compliment our not?




Here's buster, he was so cute & funny to be around, he acted just like a real dog, the guy in the suit must have been part dog! He would come up and put his head under your hand, or he would just lay down on the ground, it was pretty neat.

A Day at the Fair

Well We decided to go to the State Fair on Saturday since all the kids are in school now and Im working during the day. They got to check out the tanks, I like this picture, Frank looks like he's really firing it.
And of course Big Frank is pointing out which one of these he wants, looks like he's making an offer and the Soldier is not happy with it, Lol!
We let each of the kids do the Rock Climbing (they always have such a blast)
Here we are all enjoying our Annual Corn Dogs, I was holding mine so I could grab a quick photo.
We went and saw the Mules & Jacks, they are so Beautiful, and I can't get over how big they are.
Both Frank's really enjoyed them.

Bunco

Well last night I went to play Bunco at my Aunt Becky's house (I love to go, so I can get out of the house and eat dinner at someone elses house). Anyway, while we were inside playing Bunco (which I won 3rd place, I tied with Becky, but I rolled a three & she rolled a two, shew that was close) apparently Mike & maybe even Matt came outside and decided to have an Art class on the back of my van! We opened the garage to go out to the van and there was their Master Piece, did I mention they were watching Bonanza on TV inside? The stick figures were done by my kids. I just thought you'd all get a kick out of it.

Shan