Fish, fish, and more fish....

Here are the pictures I promised from the aquarium visit in Georgia plus a few others....



Sean and his sweet smile
This is what happens when your book on cd ends in the middle of the trip. Can you see my hand holding the camera as well as the windows in the car?

Fish everywhere!
Sean is my budding photographer; he took this picture.
Aubrey on Dino

Spider crabs
Beluga whale
This is my FAVORITE picture. I've forgotten the complete name of this creature, but I think it was a seedy Sea Dragon or something like that.

A glowing jellyfish
This is another of my favorites
Check out the whale shark. The largest fish in the ocean

One of my other favorites
The kids loved the jellyfish tank. Me too! Aubrey's profile.
Check out the jellys!

When 3 year olds dress themselves...

We hope everyone had a really great time over the holidays! I know we did. It was a little hectic but not too bad. I find it hard to believe that we are already into the 2nd week in January. Below is a picture of the bonfire we had for New Years. It was a lot of fun to watch. We had a good time visiting with friends and shooting the cannon! The next day the kids and I went with some family to Atlanta to visit with my Aunt. We had a good time, but it was good to get back home!! We visited the Georgia Aquarium while we were there and had a great time. I will post pictures of it soon.

Well as you can tell in the picture below, strange things happen when toddlers are allowed to dress themselves. Sean has been forbidden from going upstairs and finding his own attire. I would go up there after he "dressed" himself and find clothes strewn about the room. It looked like a pack of teenage girls had been up there. As for what he is wearing: a 12-18 month shirt, a pair of his jeans, spurs around his knees and of course no outfit would be complete without his cowboy boots, hat and belt! Gotta love it!
We send many wishes out for a wonderful year. I personally am liking the way 2008 rhymes with things like, hope 2008 is great, but I am just corny like that sometimes! I'll update with more pictures soon....

All I want for Christmas...

A picture of my niece, Cori; she is a month younger than Nadya.

Well, we have our Christmas tree up! The boys are so excited! I had a time convincing Seth to get one, but even he admitted that hearing Aubrey say Christmas tree is worth every penny we paid for it! The first thing the boys want to do in the morning is turn on the lights! I have to get it on video!

Our chickens are getting settled and their egg production has increased. We picked a dozen the other day but most days it is around 10. Seth is happy because they are finally starting to lay in the boxes we put for them instead of on the bottom of the cage! We try to let them out every evening so they can scratch in the grass because the pen they are in is very small. I think it was Monday afternoon I was outside holding Nadya in one arm and an egg in the other hand watching the chickens and the rooster decided that I was all of a sudden a threat so he started to try and spur me. I wish I had a video of it, because I am sure it was a hilarious sight to see me doing this "dance" with this rooster. He would squat down and jump up to spur me at which time I would kick at him with my foot and jump back. I only had crocs on so it wasn't very convincing apparently becuase he wouldn't stop doing it! I was afraid poor Nadya was going to get whiplash from all this. Well, after a couple minutes of this I got tired of it and found a stick. Lets just say the rooster got the message!! He hasn't bothered me since. Maybe the stick in my hand is a clue to him!! The funniest part of it all was when he decided it wasn't worth trying to spur me, he ran back to the cage clucking like he never has before. I thought for a minute I had maybe hit him a little to hard, but as soon as I got back to the house he started crowing again. Guess it was just his white flag of surrender!

Well as for the title of this post: my two front teeth! Nah, I already have those thank God! But for the first time in my life I actually heard the entire song on the radio. Did you know the only reason he wanted his two front teeth is so that he could whistle??? I would have said something like, so I could eat!! (much more important than whistling!) Anyway, I digress, all we want for Christmas is Webby to come home and some cooler weather because the broccoli is starting to flower when the heads are only like 3 inches in diameter since the weather is so warm! The bees are enjoying it!!
Below is one of the pictures I took trying to get one for a Christmas card. Don't let the busyness of this time of year get in the way of enjoying the wonder and joy that we as believers should have when celebrating our Saviour's birth!

Sad Times...

Well, we have some very sad news. Webster has been missing for 1 1/2 weeks now. We miss him terribly and fear the worst has happened. I went down the road and passed out pictures of him, but no one has called. The boys miss him. Every time they see a large dark dog they say it is Webster. There is a slim chance he still might return. We are still hoping...

But I want my teeth to rot out....

Nadya and her "Bling" pacifier
An update on life here at Chandler's Rowe. It finally got cold enough to lite a fire again! We are really enjoying the colder weather (especially Scout;see picture below). It, for some reason, gives me more energy when it is cooler outside.

We have aquired a new dog since my last post. He is a Keeshond and his name is Scout. He is about 5 months old and is very sweet and has a ton of hair! Webster was so cold the other night he let me tuck him in to sleep (see picture below) and Scout was laying on the brick panting because he had been running around. They are so
funny to watch when they play. Webster and Scout
will be playing and Rooster (the neighbor's dog)
will run up and try to join in the tussle.














Webster all tucked in for the night














The newest member of our family-Scout
The garden is doing good. We have broccoli heads that are softball size and cabbage that are about the same. Our tomato plants didn't survive the frost that we had. We covered them, but the dew had already fallen by the time we covered them at midnight so we were a bit dissapointed at that! We will be ordering some peach and citrus trees soon. So we are planning for that.
Well, you are probably wondering about the title of this post. That was Sean's response to me calling for him to come and brush his teeth the other night. I had been trying to convey the reason behind brushing our teeth to him, but apparently his consequence reasoning is not mature enough yet. Note to self: don't try to reason with a three year old! Life is good here and its all because of God!

When it rains it pours....

Well, it was certainly a true Monday yesterday! Seth woke up and found a wasp on the window seal and killed it, thinking one just snuck in somehow. Nope, we found them off and on in the house all day. We think they are in the chimney. Then, while I was washing clothes the toilet was bubbling when the washer would drain. When I went to cook lunch there was no gas and of course yesterday was a holiday! To top it off when I went to get my clothes out of the dryer they were wet, so I put them back on thinking I had just forgotten to turn them on-wrong-the dryer is broken so I had to go to my neighbors and dry my clothes. Other than that we had a great day. All I could do was laugh! Here are some recent pictures of the kids. Life is good here at Chandler's Rowe! Isn't God good!?

Look out for the snake!

Here is the snake my neighbour killed. She was driving and saw it so she stopped on top of it. Then, when she got home she walked in the back of her truck not realizing that it was still alive. She found that out when she woke up the next morning and the snake had crawled up to the cab in her truck!! It was 39" long. Glad it wasn't in my yard!!

Below is a picture of the boys in the bathtub. When you can do this to their hair it is definitely time for a cut!!