Trip to Dahlanega, Georgia

We took a trip Friday night up to North Georgia in Dahlanega where Tommy is doing some restoration work on some streams and rivers and ponds and things on this huge piece of property. we stayed up there for the night and tromped around on saturday and had a lot of fun on the mule and traipsing around.

Here we are getting ready to go.

Gabe's ready to drive this big thing already!

the girls with our dog, Chloe around one of the ponds. Right after this, we let chloe off the leash and she had sooooooo much fun running around and playing in the river that is coming up!

Here we are having a little walk around the pond.

this is the Chestetee River. The girls had a ton of fun getting all wet...while it lasted. Right when they were done, they were super cold. We were in the mountains after all!

they had a whole heap of fun running through the water. Chloe was super excited and kept running up and down and back again!

Here is Aiselyn finding some warmth in the warm sand after soaking herself in the river. she and abby were soooooo dirty and covered in sand. there was a little beach of sorts on the bank of the river. It was really neat. On the property, right next to this river there used to be an old Indian resevation or whatever and you can still find broken pottery and arrow heads in the ground. It was fun trying to spot some on our little walk to the river. Chloe had so much fun running around she didn't even want to get back into the mule to ride home, she insisted on running behind us all the way back. I was impressed with our little puppy for never even wanting to run away and for getting so much excercise! We had a fun trip and came home in time to get clean for Church today where the kids had their primary program. It was awesome. the kids yelled..I mean sang their little hearts out especially Aiselyn! All in all, it was a GREAT weekend!

Aiselyn's birthday and Halloween!!!!!

These pictures are all out of order. My computer won't let me drag and change the order. That or I'm just retarded, take your pick!

Here are all of us in our halloween outfits. Abby is an alligator/dragon (it depended on the day you asked her which one she was, but I think she did say she was the alligator on halloween day!), Gabe is a little lion, and Aiselyn is Cinderella! Aren't they just so cute?!

Tommy and I are ceiling fans!

Here is Gabe eating a sucker and making a royal drooling mess but looking incredibly adorable!

Aiselyn turned six just before halloween and we had a huge turn out for her party. we invited almost the whole branch worth of kids and they all pretty much came. It was awesome, but very loud! Aiselyn chose these colors on her polar bear cake and I made an extra cake since there was going to be so many people. it was really cool. she had a blast. thank you all for coming and sharing this day with her!

We carved pumpkins for Family Home Evening one night. That was a lot of fun! The kids enjoyed themselves and chose the patterns with help of course!

we got a puppy!!!!

Some friends of ours were trying to down size their animals---they had quite a few---so we offered to help them out. This is 5 month old Chloe. She is a mutt---beagle and boxer at least---and is a lot of fun and really good with the kids and of course house broken or she wouldn't have come home with us. These were taken on her first day with us. I'm glad she likes us and our kitty although Chloe likes to try and get the kitty to play with her and Tommy cat doesn't like that too much. He is still miffed at us most of the time for bringing in another animal especially that is so much bigger than he is. Welcome home Chloe!!!