Our week at home

Sept 16-20 2013

This is always a hard scene for this Momma.  

But we managed to keep it together (mostly) while Daddy was gone.

With Luke into everything I had to stay on my toes, which was quite exhausting.  

We did have a few distractions, like fun paints from our small group peeps in MS.  

I loved that it was messy-less.

And well one day I just needed flowers, so I went and bought me some.  Yep, I'm not scared to buy my self flowers. 

I cooked in my new apron, and that made my night. 

And then the next morning the boys had to put their aprons (that Grana made) on and cook scrambled eggs.  

The morning before Daddy came home, we were desperate for new ideas and distraction.  So this is it, acting like the basket is a car.  Driving it, and then getting stuck as we sit in and can't get out. 

Momma got to be pretty great at making all the train tracks fit as well.  Now Daddy is never asked to put them together.  Always Momma, what did I get myself into.  

And Daddy finally came home.  

And he brought the boys ships from the Black Sea, and Momma some wool socks.  

Drew's trip

Sept 16 2013

Here are some great pics of Drew's travels.  

We have actually white water rafted down this before, but here the water looks low.  There is a rope that hangs across this part of the water that some of the guys tried to climb across.  

I can't wait to see this in person one day.

Visiting one of the old castles with some guys from SC.

got invited to dinner.

cooking with wood on the outside stove. 

The English Channel

Sept 12 2013

Later we rode on over to the pebble beach that looks out over the English Channel.  I didn't know what to expect but I found myself loving the clouds rolling, almost about to storm.  We don't have lots of front type weather rolling through and great clouds to look at.....no thunder to speak of either.  I was praying it would just start thunder and lighting.  I miss that about Mississippi so much.  

It was cool but the boys had a blast throwing rocks on the shore.  

I was amazed at the rocks that you could find.  This one with a hole straight through it.   One in a perfect shape of a ball/egg. And the white shell that had been smoothed.  

Even this heart shaped one. That reminded me of a little girl Rayne I know.  

Me and the boys (not wanting their picture taken).

The town looked a little like this, neat row of houses that lined the road looking out over the channel.

We rode back to Ashburnham and this was the last pic I took of the sun going down on this place.  

Just Beautiful.

Here we are the next early morning, loading up for another plane ride with poor Luke and his newly developed temp of 101.6 degrees.  

The Battle of Hastings

Sept 11 2013

We had a day of adventuring, in about England.  After breakfast the boys perched themselves in the window and pretended to be on a ship..........They can pretend about anything these days.  And Noah ( who is the mastermind) brings Luke right along on their journey.  

We drove back into Battle and toured these old lands where the Battle of Hastings took place. 

A view looking up.

I just liked this door. 

And my boys went up in this tower. 

The musty insides of this old place.  

I just loved the ceilings.

There is now a school on this site. 

The bush maze.  

Luke thought the Audio recorder was his personal camera and kept telling everyone to "cheese"

Back at the gift shop........Noah tested out some of the knight armour.

He did bring a sword home.  And well we should have bought the battle axe for Jason since he enjoyed it so much.  

Luke trying his hardest to see the feather on top of his head.