The new Annie Oakley!!

Les decided since Rob works nights that maybe she should learn how to defend herself so she came came down for lessons with her dad on how to shoot a pistol. Talk about scarey!! She actually did pretty good. The bottom pic is of Jay showing her what to do, the middle is of her actually shooting (if you enlarge the pic you can actually see the smoke from the gun)and the top pic is the 3 holes she made in the target. She was hitting a littleto the right of the bullseye but I tell you if she pointed a gun at me I would lay down and play dead.She wants totake the "Permit to carry a concealed weapon" course. I have had my permit for years.

Happy B-day Vaughn

Happy birthday dear brother-in-law!! Not saying how old you are but I believe you have 5 more years til the BIG ONE!!!!!Think you will know by then what you want to be when you grow up? Hope so for Sue's sake. Hope you had a great day and we love you.

5K Run/Walk today

The hospital hosted a 5K run/walk today and the Crisenbery gang participated. Our youth pastor's wife, Amy, joined us too. Les,my Amy,Cory, friend Amy and Kelsey all planned to run and Brooke and I planned to walk. Amy hadn't been able to run the past few weeks due to an upper respiratory infection so she ran some and walked some. Brooke and I walked and ran some. Les, friend Amy and Kelsey did really good and Les and Kelsey came within 1 person of getting a metal. The rest of us finished about mid pack out of 149 participants. After the race I headed to church and spent a couple hours cleaning it and then back to town where I met up with Jay at a jobsite. We marked out everything in preparation to start roughing it in on Monday. Then I came home and mowed for 4 hours. Have been trying to catch up on some bookwork the past few hours. I have been taking breaks from my office chair in order to not get stiff. As soon as I get things ready for church in the morning I am going to sit in my recliner with the heat/massage cyle on and hopefully stay awake and watch the Nascar race. The pic consists of from left to right-Amy Sisson, Les, Kelsey, me,Brooke Amy and Cory.

Belated birthdays

I decided a few weeks ago to "try" to post a b-day wish for everyone in the family and I already missed the last two. So belated Happy B-day to Melissa and Kenneth Lee.Didn't have a good pic of Kenneth but here is one of Melissa.

So close but not close enough

Guess I am not doing bad for an old women. Was at Bob's house at 5:45 AM, and we were at our hunting spot at 6:07 AM. Had to climb a very steep hill to get there. We had a big bird come within 50 yrds over a null gobbling like crazy but he would not come in any closer. I held my gun up for what seemed like hours. The next thing we saw him walking up the other hill. So then we hiked back down the hill and crawled along a woodline to where another big bird was all fanned out with a hen. I got set up and Bob called him in to where I needed him to come another 30 yrds for a clean shot. Someone up on the hill shot and it spooked him . He turned and went back the other way. This morning Jay and I were up at 4:30 and at 5:45 we were walking back up the same hill in the dark. We took decoys and set them out on top of the same null. Yesterday morning the turkeys were gobbling like crazy but this morning they never once talked. We saw some coming down from another hill so jay kept calling. After a long time we had given up that they had went the other direction. Jay started to stand up and I saw him freeze in position. Then I saw the head of a hen and then a red headed Jake for just a second. I couldn't get a shot so jay shot but missed. So we moved around to another spot(straight up a big hill again) but nothing happened so we came home. As we stepped up on our deck a turkey went around the back of our pond bank which is only 50 yrds from the house. SO no turkey but had a good time sitting in the woods admiring God's great creations. I still have another 3 weeks to get my bird.

EARTHQUAKE!!!!

We had an earthquake this morning. It registered 3.4. It centered a mile or less from Rob and Leslies house. I was sitting in my recliner doing some paperwork at 9:45 when it hit. It felt like something had ran into the house. Quite a weird feeling. About a minute later the phone rang and it was Les asking "did you feel that?" She said their neighbor had stuff fall in his garage. It is so rare for a quake here that the last reported one was in 1926. Nevertheless it shook up people around here.The temperature got up to 87* today. I mowed my 5 acres this afternoon and sure got some rays. There was a nice breeze so it wasn't bad. I am off to bed early tonight as Bobby is going to try and call me in a turkey in the morning. I have to be at his house no later then 6AM and then we are riding together about 1-1/2 mile to where we are hunting. Bob got one there Monday morning. He is an awesome turkey caller. So hopefully tomorrow I will be posting a pic of me with my longbeard. Of course that is wishful thinking.

Happy B-day Gabe

Happy B-day Gabe. We love you. Andre and Mandi -you have the most adorable little blessings. Sorry that in this pic he has the evidence of a good cookie on his face but he is so cute it doesn't matter.

Bad Hair Day

Following hat day yesterday at Paiges's school, today was bad hair day and Amy got very creative. You all know how much hair Paige has. Amy took it up into several pony tails , teased it and bobbie pinned it into the shape of a birds nest. In the nest she pinned in my artificial bird she borrowed plus 2 Easter eggs. Guess she was the hit of the day. They took her to every class so everyone could see her and took pics. Guess they put the pic on the school computers for their screensavers. Amy said it was an ordeal disassembling the nest after school.

Heidi had her hair in as many ponies as Amy could get in.

Jeb had his hair spiked up. Isn't he cute?

I got the "VIRUS"

Bob called early Tuesday morning to see if I could keep Tristin. Said he wasn't feeling bad but was very croupy sounding. I met him to get Tristin and he was all smiles as he got in my truck and said "Mama, I got the virus" in his southern slang. We had a good fun day. He played in my big garden tub filled to the top with strawberry bubble bath for about 1-1/2 hours. He finally said he was ready to get out as he was all "prunie" but he said "I still got the Virus". He loves to draw and color and is quite good at it. He sketched me several pics and colored for hours so he was so easy to babysit.

Crazy Hat Day

Paige has had a busy week at school. First of all her mommy is officially depressed as she became a kindergarten mom last week. Tuesday was hat day and Amy couldn't let Heidi and Jeb feel left out so she let them wear hats when she dropped Paige off at school. Jeb is the little boy she babysits. His daddy is a good friend of Cory's and they were in labor at the same time in 2 different hospitals. Heidi is 16 hours older then Jeb.It's like raising twins and boy can they get into things. You can't beat Amy when it comes to having babies. Both times it was 2 hrs or less of labor and 1 push. Almost dangerous they were born so fast.

HAPPY B-DAY BROOKE

Today my sweet little Brooke became a TEENAGER. Seems like yesterday that Amy, Jay and I were racing to Lima, Ohio to make sure we got there before she was born only to wait for several more hours. Then soon after her birth she was put into ICU because of a possible heart issue where she stayed for a week. Praise God her condition corrected itself later. She has always been a little blessing. When they moved to Indiana you might as well have ripped my heart out.It took me a month before I could hear her voice on the phone without falling apart. So I am SO VERY THANKFUL that she is back here. I love you Brooke and am so proud of you. See you tomorrow at your party where I have a great surprise for you. And no don't call and ask me what.You will just have to wait another 24 hours.This is one of my favorite pics of you and I.

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter Blessings

I actually slept until 7AM on saturday. Got up and cleaned my house from one end to the other, got all the laundry done and put away and then at 1PM I started in making my famous cinnamon rolls for Easter service at church today. Got done with them and delivered them to the couple in charge of the Breakfast Nook at church. There were about 175 individual rolls when seperated. Got back home at 7:30 PM and put on a ham and scalloped potaotoes for lunch today. I also made a 7 layer salad. We didn't go until 2nd service today as Jay had to work as Guardian Angel that service. Headed home to beat all the rest of the gang so Jay could hide eggs as I got lunch ready. After lunch I gave all 7 grandkids their Easter baskets and then they headed out for their Easter egg hunt. They found all but one egg and Jay can't remember where it is. He says I'll probably find it with the mower. It was fun watching there anxious faces as they searched. We had a hughe crowd at church both services as we expected and Pastor Greg had an awesome message as usual. Now Mama and Papa are ready for a nap.