Fall 2010:)

We have had a WoNdErFuL fall so far this year. It is my favorite time of year and all the festivities are a blast! We seem to Always have some kind of illness, seriously I have taken one child to the doctor at least every other week or every week since early summer. You know it's bad when Doc Sorrells laughs when he sees me and says Lady you are going to have to write a book after the year you've had:) It has been so many diff. illnesses that we have never had. But we are blessed and things could be sooo much worse. The Lord has healed each time. Hailey is still healing, she is getting there.:) Praise God! Earlier we raked lots of leaves together and of course had to JUMP, JUMP, JUMP!!


Hailey Brooke


Jayce Michael

Miss Mya got into it after she watched the older ones:)

The school had a fall parade Friday and my kids were really excited!


Cowgirl waiting for the parade to start! Couldn't get a picture with a normal face.


Hannah Montanna! Waiving behind Grace the bunny:)

Can't remember the name of Jayce it's from star wars:)

Hailey with all her friends!

John and Jayce have been hunting every Sat. morning and evening. Jayce always has exciting stories but the deer just don't want to cooporate. Either do not come quite close enough or they run of when he tries to stand up:) But he LOVES every minute of it. You know when a 9 year old can sit in a tree for 4 hours in the morning and 4 more hours in the evening you have a DEDICATED hunter. He's his daddy made over:) Love them!

This and That

We have been enjoying this BEAUTIFUL fall weather!! Playing outdoors:) Saturday night we went to Lark Ranch, it was so nice out and we all had lots of fun.

Jayce and Garrett, his mom and dad were working so they got to do a few things together.


Hailey riding!! Let me tell ya my girls are horse lovers!! IT is serious. I have been talking to john about maybe getting a horse or pony for them. Hailey would take very good care of it I am sure. She takes wonderful care of the other animals she has.

Mya riding the pony. ALL this girl talks about is horses. I think she needs to marry a farmer:) She likes all animals.

THis is while looking at the animals, she just gets sooo excited.

sisters petting the goat

My two pumpkins! Jayce was with Garrett:(

Farm Girls!!

Jayce riding the pedal go carts

Of course she had to swing on the horse swing:)

My kids LOVE this corn box also.

Sunday morning while getting ready for church we got the phone call. John's brother and his wife were headed to the hospital to have the baby!! Poor girl she started at 1:00 Sun. morn. and they finally had c-section at 10:22 Sun. night. She just wasn't progressing and the baby was starting to show signs of stress. But Aaron Levi was born on 10-10-10! A whopping 8 lb. and 14 oz. 21 inches long. My kids are very excited to have another cousin.

Hailey Brooke has been doing wonderful since she started school. Praise God!! She has felt great and has not picked up that much sickness!! Colds over and over but nothing major. The last test we finally go the results last week. She still has blood in her urine but her protein is now .21 last time it was .22 so that is a improvement. I never realized how slow the process is with kidneys. So she is still on 15 mg. of Lisinopril everyday. At least she is off the steroids finally and hopefully her immune system is building up.:) No signs of her HSP reacuuring lately. YEAH!! God is truely wonderful.

Daddy's Home....

Yes daddy made it home last Sunday a week ago!! We were ever so happy:) He arrived about 9:30, so of course we all waited up for him... He had tears in his eyes while hugging his sweet kiddos. It was the sweetest thing, they sure missed him, poor Hailey cried every night. Hopefully now that he got a BIG elk he will not go for a LONG time... I'm glad he could experience this though. Last week we just squeezed in as much family time as possible. Saturday morning Jayce and John went hunting of course. Jayce LOVES it so much. He was full of stories when he came home. Saw 2 button bucks and 4 doe I think... Hailey was upset she wanted to go too. So of course Sat. afternoon John Jayce and Hailey went. Then Mya was upset... My goodness for a two year old she sure likes hunting and fishing already. She says "me hop (help) daddy soot buck"!! So adorable.

Hunters ready to go~~

Sunday we spent the day going to church, watching and playing football, eating and oh yeah playing volleyball with miss Hailey...it was wonderful:) I love Sundays

Last night I attempted to take some pics of my kids. It is not easy with these 3 ...it only took 20 min. Ha! So they were just some quick shots! Hailey's Jersey is Jayce's from 2 years ago and it is a little big but hey it's a jersey.... and Mya well i thought she just had to have one since the other two each have one to wear... it's a little bigger so she will wear it for awhile also hopefully.

Mya was not into the kissing picture. Chauncey was watching out closely for his favorite gal.

Good News and Bad News

John left Saturday Morning for a 10 day elk hunt in Colorado! Yes it has been some LONG days, but I have to remember at least he will come back. And my hubby sure does LOVE to hunt so I'm glad he gets to have this experience. He does not have service in the mountains where they are camped at, but he did call early Tues. because they had climbed high enough to get some service. cutting out but at least he could say he's fine. Well after that we got the call Tues. evening that John's Grandfather was poor. I had not been able to even tell him this let alone he passed away this morning. But John was headed to town and called me just this afternoon so very very excited. He got an elk!!! A 6x6 Bull:) I had to then tell the poor guy the news. His grandfather was a very sweet man. He has been having some health issues for a number of years so I am glad that he is heaven and pain free.

My handsome hubby and his elk!!

Busy Busy!!!

It has been a long time since I last posted! We have done soo much I don't know where to start... I guess here are 2 pics of my little viking:)



With paci and blanky of course!
2 weeks ago John and the kids and I headed to Evansville after John got off work. Went to the mall for about 1 1/2 hours then to Gatti Town!! Kids favorite:) Mya had lots of fun in the new bouncy house.

Here she is bowling, she does really good!!



Jayce then Mya the bright blonde and Hailey Mya was not a fan of this ride!
I'm not sure where Mya gets the blonde hair either. It is really light, lots lighter than the others hair ever was.


My two girlies

Over this last weekend we camped at Montgomery for Turkey Trot! Lot's of fun. Relaxing and got to see lots of people we do not get to see very often. Mya raced a turkey for the first time. She is only 2 but I knew she would do it and she LOVED LOVED it. My other two there is NO WAY they would have at 2.

Me Driving Turkey she says now!!

Hailey racing

Jayce Michael made it to the next round

Jayce riding rides with friends

Hailey and Miss Grace!

Mya and Hailey:)

Mya is a animal LOVER and so we have to go dip minnos out of the lake and she plays with them in the bucket ALL the time. She was very content at the campground if she had her bucket of fishies!

This was actually a baby bass I think!

Such a tomboy:)

Saturday morning daddy is leaving for 10 DAYS to Colorado! We are so sad:( Hunting elk in the mountains. Hopefully it will go fast.

10 Years!!

I can not believe this is our 10 year anniversary!! Seems like I've known John forever, yet it seems we just got married:) Make sense?! I love this man he is a wonderful husband and father. Here are a few wedding pictures from that special day. It was at my parents house the home I grew up in. Outdoors. I loved it!!







Mr. and Mrs. Raber!!

Mya Faith has changed!! Let me tell ya this girl is 2 for SURE!! She is a little stinker and full of ENERGY!! This is a pic of me trying to take a picture of her, it is so hard now she just laughs and runs away.



She does still LOVE to help mommy though. Today she had to help do all the cleaning and no she will not keep her clothes on anymore either.



Yesterday Hailey had another appt. at Riley. Afterwards we took the girls to ride the people mover! (Train) Mya loves dinasour train and she loved this ride too! But it broke down while we were on it and so it took a lot longer than we thought! Kinda scary when your stuck inside up so high.

This is before the doc came in Hailey wouldn't let me take a picture of her.

Mya was facinated with everything!

The doctor called tonight and Hailey's urine test FINALLY looks a lot better!! PTL! The protein came down quite a bit. Hopefully it will keep coming down:) John and I are so happy to have such a wonderful Anniversary gift:) I love my family!!

First day of School!!

My babies made it on the bus this morning!! It was so hard to let go again, but I know God will give me the strength to push on:) I did cry for awhile last night after they went to bed. i think it was bad again this year since she has been so sick and I worry too much I guess!! They have been very excited though. Could not get them to fall asleep last night. Praying they have a WONDERFUL first day:)


My 3rd grader and 1st grader!! Of course NO pretty hairbows for her, she is all girl very changeable, one day all prissed out and the next absolutely not!! Ha!!

My 3 sweethearts!! Mya wanted to get on the bus! She kept screaming me me go!!

Sunday afternoon John, John's dad and Jayce went to a bow shoot and guess what??!!! My little guy got 1st place!!

We went camping a couple weekends ago for just 1 night, but it was a wonderful night, not hot!! The kids had lots of fun!! Mya can pedal bike herself now:0

Jayce and his camping buddies

Friday night Jayce went to a sleepover and we had a sleepover for a few friends of Hailey's She has WAY TOO Many friends we can't invite them all at once!! :)

Mya, Hailey, Kylee, Grace, Jenna and Ava!!



Hopefully today will go quickly and my kiddos will LOVE school again!!