Monday, November 29, 2010

Pray for Mom


My Mom has pain in her legs and pelvis which has been getting increasingly worse for the last seven years. After going to multiple doctors we finally found that she has Pelvic Congestion Syndrome, which is basically major varicose veins inside of the pelvis. She is going in for surgery this morning, and will hopefully be back home in the evening. Please pray that all goes well and that she can be back soon.

Lauren

Monday, November 22, 2010

A New Blog


The Overworked Elocutionist
Narrations from a Large Homeschooling Family



Thomas, Pierce, Zoe and I decided to start a blog on which we could post written narrations of what we are learning in school and on the hobby farm (Zoe especially was thrilled to write on a blog). Due to our difference in age and interest there should eventually be posts about history, science, math, government, poems, stories, farming, etc. Basically, anything which we find interesting or which Mom wants us to write about. I hope you enjoy reading and learning with us!

Lauren

Monday, November 8, 2010

Joyfully at Home Giveaway


Joyfully at Home has been one of the most encouraging blogs which I have found. Written by Jasmine Baucham, daughter of Voddie Baucham, this blog has been encouraging in my christian walk as a stay-at-home daughter of my earthly father and my heavenly Father. But alas, Jasmine has decided to leave her blog behind, and instead leave a book to encourage any girl who might pass by.  Jasmine's book addresses how you can fulfill the Great Commission at home during your years of singleness, under the authority of your father. Even though I haven't read this book yet, I would highly recommend it. There is a giveaway of this book at Feminine Farmgirl (ending tomorrow), but if you happen to miss this you can purchase the book from Vision Forum. If you would like a preview of her book, please read her Joyfully Content series, which began the writing of her book, just a few months ago.

Lauren

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Betty Silver Goat

Betty and Sally

What are you named when your mother is Sally, you have a silver face and you are a goat? Betty Silver Goat is the only one of our goats to have a full name. She is also the youngest and the most friendly.

On Saturday when we went to the Lexington Chocolate Lover's Festival Sally was pregnant. When we got back she had a kid. I was disappointed to miss the birth, but it is still fun having a goat kid here. Whenever we come in to the pen Betty runs up to us to play. She loves to run in circles around a certain tree, jump up onto a root which sticks out and then hop straight up in the air to run around the tree again. Over and over and over.

It is interesting listening to Betty and Sally talk to each other. When Betty was getting near to the electric fence Sally started bleating very deeply to warn her. Betty just answered with a high-pitched bleat and went on towards the fence while Sally continued to warn her. Betty cautiously sniffed the fence, then carefully touched it with her nose. She got shocked. With another high-pitched bleat she ran away from the fence. You would think she learned her lesson, but she has repeated it over and over. A couple times she got shocked while crawling under the fence and then was stuck on the outside, not wanting to get shocked again while getting back into the pen.


The only problem we have had so far was that Betty would only nurse from one side of Sally. We have to milk Sally every day, but we are gradually getting Betty to nurse. A friend told us that when the milking does are kept in with the bucks, the bad smell of the buck is transferred through the milk, making it taste horrible. This caused us to give the milk to the cats. When we finally decided to taste the milk, it didn't taste bad at all. It just tasted like fresh, creamy milk.

It is so fun to watch Xiana play with Betty. Whenever Xiana hears the goats bleating, she asks to go outside. One time when I took Xiana outside I set her down beside Betty. Xiana kept grabbing Betty and giving her hugs, which Betty didn't like too much. Xiana started saying, "A tiss! A tiss! A tiss!" I thought she was just babbling, but then Xiana grabbed Betty, pulled her forward, and gave her a kiss on the forehead. Xiana looked at me and said, "A tiss!"

I am sorry to post so much about goats, but right now they are a big part of our life here in Texas. I just hope you are able to visit us to see just how fun it is to feed goats, milk goats and clear land. Did I mention chasing off a stray cat? And the neighbor's pit bulls? What about the cow in our yard? And burning sand burrs with a blow torch? Life here is very interesting.

Lauren

Farm Update

It has been quite a while since I have posted. On our hobby farm the number of animals has been growing (and diminishing). After I got two angora wethers Thomas also decided to buy angora goats. He ended up with three angoras, a white buck, a pregnant white doe and a pregnant black doe (all red color carriers). The goats were already named, and Thomas decided to keep their names; the buck is Niko, the white doe is Sally and the black doe is Lorraine.

Niko (nicknamed Yak, Longhorn and Spaniard)

Sally (in front) and Lorraine (in back)

After Thomas, Pierce decided to get goats. Pierce wanted to get milk does, but for now he has a Nubian/Boer buck (quite necessary to have milk, especially since we do not want to end up with an Angora/Nubian/Boer goat). The previous owners named him Brandon because the markings on his legs look like rollerblades and knee pads. Brandon wants a doe, so we had to separate him from the rest of the herd (which he yells and complains about whenever he sees us).

Floppy-eared Brandon

The sad news is that all our guineas are dead now. We think a few died from eating ant poison. We found a few piles of feathers, so we thought that the others got eaten by coyotes or owls, but then we found that a local stray cat was visiting our house every night, both to eat guineas and to eat the cat food which was meant for our cats. I just looked outside and that stray had the pluck to chase off our cats, sit on the back porch and eat the cat food! Dad, Thomas and Pierce are off to chase it again (with the gun)!

Lauren

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Jane and Her Lamb-A Poem

In the field I play with Jane,
Not a thought of worry or sting of pain,
Jane's blue eyes in her innocent face
Look at me with gentle grace.

When, at the smooth, strong fence
My dark yes would wistfully glance,
Jane's small, firm, leading hand
On my back would smartly land.

So in the pasture safe and free
Jane and I play happily,
Away from sin's dark dread sway
In the field I willingly stay.

Lauren Ashley

P.S. My Mom and I am taking Mrs. Morecraft's School of Elocution and Composition, a writing webinar offered through Vision Forum. We were asked to write a short piece about a picture of red-headed, blue-eyed Jane and her fuzzy black lamb. Mom and I both wrote poems, though Mom's poem is much longer and doesn't have an ending yet!

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Surprise!

Shorn and Jack

Surprise! Jack and Shorn are my two year old Angora goats.

Instead of going to college, I will be staying at home and doing college online through College Plus. Two weeks ago Dad reminded me that I will have to earn the money for my tuition and that I will be starting college next year. Earning the money for a full college tuition in one year sounded like a fun challenge. The last couple weeks I have been pricing out animals. Dad and I were looking on Craigslist for goats, and happened to find these. I was only looking for milk goats, but I liked the idea of raising these for their fiber. After visiting a local fiber mill and doing some research about the price of mohair, I decided to buy them. This afternoon Dad, Thomas, Pierce and Lucas put up an electric fence for the goats in two hours. I decided to name the younger one Shorn because it was already partially shorn, and because there was a similar looking sheep in Wallace & Grommet named Shorn. I couldn't figure out what to name the older one, but after a little while I added a line to the poem This is the House that Jack Built about Here is the sheep all white and shorn. So I named the older one Jack. Jack has been pretty friendly, but Shorn doesn't let anyone near him. Shorn prances around, looks at us, and tosses his head as he runs away to a far corner of the pen, while Jack comes up to get petted and fed.

I wasn't sure what else to write about them, but then... we found that the goats walked straight through the fence. If you touch the individual wires you don't get shocked, but if you touch the two middle ones at the same time you get shocked pretty hard (I tested it out). Mom heard the goats making a lot of noise, and asked me to check on them. The noise was from when the goats got shocked going through the fence. When I went outside Dad was trying to get a hold of their horns, which they definitely didn't like. They ended up walking around our house, through the one cultivated garden, up to the edge of the pool. Dad was able to get Jack's horns, and I held Jack still while Dad caught Shorn. Dad ended up tying them to a tree in the middle of their pen for the night. 

We think that the wool insulates them, weakening the shock of the fence. Tomorrow we will attempt to shear them, so that they (hopefully) won't go through the fence again.

Shorn

Lauren Ashley

Friday, September 3, 2010

Catching Up

The sun set beautifully on our drive to TX

This move has been hard. Four years is just long enough to make some very good friends and leaving them is hard. As it got closer to the time to leave San Jose the move began to become real, not just something that we talked about. I began to push thoughts about what we were leaving out of my mind, replacing them with thoughts about what needed to be done once we got to TX. This only helped for a little while, but then the loneliness returned. In the middle of it all a godly woman called and told me to trust in the Lord, to not push everything out of my mind, but to praise the Lord for what He has taught me here. God provided exactly what I needed just when it was needed. 

Xiana loves being outside

The first week was extremely hard for me. We got into the house on a Thursday afternoon and Dad left before dawn the next day for a week long business trip. It was lonely with Dad gone and having no friends in this area. It made matters worse being deathly allergic to fire ants. I was afraid to go outside because their nests cover the ground in areas and wherever I walked big grasshoppers few up and landed on me. I was uncomfortable because of the heat and dirt. Just feeling generally ill about everything.

This sign was hanging inside the restaurant right above our table.

After the first week things have been getting better. We were told that a homeschool family owned a local restaurant, so we went there for lunch to meet the family. They told us that there are 40 more homeschooling families in our small town! We also were told about a church nearby (mostly homeschool families) which we have been meeting with the last couple weeks. 

A scorpion which Thomas captured

From the time we moved into our house we've been hard at work. Now I can understand the verse,
"...cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground..." Genesis 3:17-19.  I have been spending some time pulling up thorn vines, stinging nettles and sand burrs which are growing where I want to plant an herb and flower garden. Just this afternoon Thomas and I pulled up a wagon full of sand burr plants from our front yard. No walking barefoot here! Dad, Thomas and Pierce have also been building many things, including a pen for the guineas, a mailbox and a clothesline (Mom has pictures posted on her blog).

The butterflies are very tame

It is beautiful here. During the day you can just glance outside and immediately see dragonflies and butterflies everywhere. After it rains everything turns a beautiful bright green and yellow. You can see the milky way every night, though sometimes it is brighter than others. There are no street lights here, so instead of having an orange reflection in the sky all night the moon lights everything up in a pale white glow, just like in books.

Falcon, Thomas' guinea, died this morning

This place feels alive! If you go outside at any time of the day you can hear cicadas, grasshoppers, cows (from the neighbor's farm), the scurrying of lizards and calls of hawks and morning doves. Every morning we have to check our pool for critters which get in at night. So far we have found a turtle, toads, dragonflies, cicadas, scorpions, a mouse, a garter snake and even a rattlesnake in the pool. Deer and egrets are frequent visitors to our pond.


A Mediterranean Gecko

As for the intentional pets, we have 2 kittens and 10 guineas. There were 12 guineas, but this morning 2 of them died. My family is hoping to adopt a Great Pyrenees as a guard dog. Mom has never wanted a dog, but after visiting some friends nearby who have a Great Pyr and being told by multiple neighbors that there are a lot of coyotes around here, she decided that it would be best to get one to guard our future herds. The only indoor pets are Mediterranean geckos. We didn't mean for them to be pets, but they are cute and they get in the house anyway to eat the bugs, so why not call them pets?


A Great Pyrenees

There is also a surprise animal coming this weekend, which I am extremely excited about- you'll never guess... keep watching!

Lauren Ashley

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Answer to the Poll


We didn't see a single rattlesnake on the drive from CA to TX!

Scorpions are found in our pool every other day.
Llamas and antelope are pretty common in TX farms.
While driving through Fredericksburg, TX someone had five camels grazing in their front yard.
Bison were also being raised in Fredericksburg.

Lauren Ashley

Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Challenge- Day 2


Outfit Specifics:
Shirt- Another $5 Savers find
Skirt- I made two years ago (same as yesterday)

Thank you Pierce for taking the photo!

Lauren

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

The Challenge-Day 1


Thank you Pierce for taking the photo!

Outfit specifics:
Shirts- $5 tee from Old Navy and $5 shirt from Savers
Skirt- I made two years ago
Shoes- flip flops from WalMart
Hat- from my Grandma

I know that there is not an official Feelin' Feminine all-skirts challenge this month, but I am doing it anyway. I hope this will encourage you to honor your earthly father and heavenly Father by dressing modestly in a feminine way.

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you." Exodus 20:12

Lauren Ashley

Monday, August 2, 2010

You Must Be a Home Educator If...

Lucas and Stephen holding our TEA Party signs

You live in a one-house schoolroom.
You know what math manipulatives are.
You have mold growing in your fridge... on purpose.
You've mastered the fine art of vacuuming a floor without sucking up a Lego or K'nex piece.
Your students have to clear the breakfast bowls off the table before sitting down to do their school work.
Your house is mess, but your kids are happy.
You shop for birthday presents at educational stores.
All you want for Christmas is a Barnes & Noble gift certificate.
You'd rather buy books than clothes.
Your friends don't want to help you move because you have so many books.
You get nervous about what people will say when you take your kids to Wal-Mart in the middle of the day.
When you see a parking lot full of 15 seater vans you wonder if there's a homeschooling conference.
You take a suitcase full of books along on your family vacation.
You're willing to drop what you're doing at a moment's notice to go look something up in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
You don't get fired for teaching your students about God.
Some days you learn as much as your students.

Lauren Ashley

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Move Update

Every other time we have moved, people have said, "We will miss you." but this time almost everyone has immediately said, "Can we come with you?" or "I would love to come!" Many of our friends are seriously thinking about moving to the Austin/San Antonio area in the next couple years.

For those of you who thought we were already on our way to TX: My family is staying one more week in CA. We were planning to leave yesterday, but it worked out to be easier (and cheaper) to stay here longer. Why? It looked like the closing date for the house would get pushed off a week, when Dad called U-haul about a moving truck and found out that he could save $1000 by waiting a week before renting the truck (so many people are moving out of CA that they had a shortage of trucks). Not only that, but Dad's business trips also needed to be changed to different days, which fit in perfectly with us waiting one week before moving.

One of our friends told Mom about a map online showing migration within the US, county by county, in 2008 (the patterns have not changed much since then). Here is the exact link. I combined the maps of several San Jose-San Francisco counties to make one map and several Austin-San Antonio counties to make another. The red lines represent outward migration, and the black lines represent inward migration. It seems odd to apply the term migration to humans, but it describes the way we move perfectly. Go to the link and click on any major city and you will see that large amounts of people move in/out depending on whether they are liberal/conservative, concentrating in certain areas.
OUT

IN

I can't wait until we are done with the leaving and packing, and are on our way to TX.

Lauren Ashley

Feelin' Feminine Challenge

(Note: I just looked at Feelin' Feminine and this month they are not doing the normal all-skirts challenge, but instead doing a challenge to use all-natural ingredients instead of chemical shampoo. I will be doing the all-skirts challenge anyway in hope that you will join me next month.)

Through Feminine Farmgirl (a blog I follow) I found out about the Feelin' Feminine Challenge. The challenge is to wear only skirts/dresses for an entire week. I will be joining the challenge in August and will be posting pictures of what I wear every day here. I know that some of you do not have blogs, but you can still join the challenge anyway (please leave a comment to this post that you are doing so). If you do not have a blog, you are welcome to post comments about what you think of the Challenge.

Below I have copied information about the Challenge and Mission from the Feelin' Feminine website.

 Our Mission:
To encourage, inspire, and challenge young ladies to rediscover the treasure of dressing in a feminine manner. So we may be an example in a world where true beauty has been lost – in a world where beauty is defined by the culture. We hope to convey a message that true beauty is an inward appearance of the heart and spirit that is shown outwardly in dressing in a manner that is and directs all radiance and honour to our Maker, and not one for self-gain.


The Challenge
The challenge is to wear only skirts/dresses for an entire week of seven days, and then post a photo of your outfits (head to toe) on your blog. If you don’t have exactly seven different skirts, that’s alright. Mix and match with different shirts. We can be not only feminine and modest, but frugal too!
What is on the inside will show on the outside so dressing in a feminine manner in this way shows what we desire and strive for at  heart. Why dresses and skirts, you ask? Read through the website. Dressing in a feminine manner doesn’t mean you must lose your respectability. It means you value your respectability and wish to honour to the Father and to yourself more than the whims of society.
If you want to “personalize” your outfit a bit more you can add a hat, a scarf, a headband, a matching purse  – whatever you like! You can also style your hair in different ways each day. We do want to encourage you to remember our focus is not to be fashionable or blend in with the world, but to be set apart in our dress.
While there are no outfit ‘requirements’, we do ask, for the sake of our mission, writers, and readers please make sure that your dresses and skirts are at least knee length and that none of your shirts are sleeveless. Show us pictures of daily activities of you in your skirts.
I’ve heard a lot of ladies tell me that they don’t like wearing skirts because they can’t be active in them. I very much so disagree. I’ve worn skirts everyday since 2005 and they haven’t stifled my activity in the least. I still do all the things I used to do, but in a more mindful and ladylike way. Try it.
Already Wear Skirts?
If you already wear skirts on a regular basis, please don’t let that stop you. Participate anyway! This is for all ladies – ask your mother, sisters, grandmas, aunts, and girlfriends to do it with you! Post a flier at your church – email us, we will send you one to print out!
The Goal Of The Challenge:
As our Mission Statement says we want to encourage, inspire, and challenging young ladies to rediscover the treasure of dressing in a feminine manner. Do some evaluating of yourself at the end of the week and compare it to your regular way of dress. These questions should help you along:
How was the experience for you?
Any particular stories?
Did wearing skirts rather than pants affect the way you felt?
The way you felt about yourself?
The way you acted?
The way you carried yourself?
Were you able to go about everyday activity as freely as pants?
How did people respond?
After the challenge do you desire to keep wearing skirts more regularly, or were you desperate to wear pants again?
If you’d like to have your answers to the above questions share on the site, please gohere to do so. We’d love to hear them.
The Challenge usually “officially” takes place at the beginning of each month for a week. We will post an article with a link to the host-blog so you can join in with other participants. This certainly does not mean we only want you to actually do the challenge then or don’t do it because you missed the first day. We always want to see photos and always want you to join us, no matter how late in the week!
I hope you join me!


Lauren Ashley

Friday, July 16, 2010

Trip to Auntie's Slideshow

Here is a slideshow I made of pictures from when I visited Uncle Allen, Aunt Rachel and Aunt Aimee in 2004 and 2006. (Uncle Allen isn't in any of them because he was taking the pictures.)

Making slideshows is a lot easier (and faster) than scrapbooking!


Lauren Ashley

P.S. Please don't enlarge the slideshow to fullscreen, it will be blurry. I tried uploading a larger size of the movie, but it didn't work.

Scrapbooking

A couple days ago my Mom, siblings and I went to a friend's house to work on our scrapbooks. This is not something we normally do (the last pictures put in my scrapbook were from eight years ago). We had a (large) box of photos which were kept to be put in the scrapbooks, so we had more than enough to work with.


Here are a few of the pages that I ended up making.


I can't remember how old I was in these pictures, probably 6-10 years.

Me 6-12 months

While looking through the photos on our computer, Mom and I found a program to use when creating slideshows. Instead of scrap-booking some of the pictures we will just make several slideshows and put them on CDs.


These pictures are from when I visited my Uncle Allen, Aunt Rachel and Aunt Aimee in Nashville in 2004 and 2006 (Uncle Allen isn't in any of them because he was taking the pictures).





Lauren Ashley


P.S. My Mom also wrote about scrapbooking on Her Blog

Latest News!!!



We are moving to Texas!

So far my family has lived in six different states, spending anywhere from one to three years in each place. Our four years in California has been the longest we have ever stayed in one place.

Now we are moving halfway across the country to Texas. And we have two weeks to pack.

Here are pictures of the house.



A pool for the hot Texas summer



15 acres, a pond and trees (plenty of room for goats and chickens)

Lauren Ashley

Monday, July 5, 2010

Independence Day



Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

Monday, June 28, 2010

Comments

I write where all can see
I write in an age of technology
I write where you can reply easily
Why, O Why no comments do I see?

I know this is not very good poetry, but I had to say something about there being NO COMMENTS.

Maybe this is better: I implore you to respond to my posts, whether it be in assent, opposition, or interrogation. An author will ne'er decide what to publish unless he is acquainted with the knowledge of what is of general interest to the public.

Lauren

Monday, June 21, 2010

Answer to the Poll

What did we NOT see on our trip? Answer: Armadillo

Arkansas produces a large amount of rice, so we saw a lot of rice paddies.
Pierce saw a black bear while we were passing through northern Texas.
The climate in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas is similar to that of Africa, making it the perfect place to raise antelope for hunting (often these escape and are seen wild).

Lauren Ashley

Our Trip~ CA to MS



Thursday May 27th Noon, We left home and picked Thomas and Pierce up from a Civil War History field trip in Santa Cruz. We passed through miles and miles of farmland during daylight. After dark we car camped in the Mojave Desert. You can probably guess the meaning of Car Camping. Car camping is when Mom and Dad alternate driving until they can go no further, and then stop at a rest stop or at the side of the road and everyone sleeps wherever they can (sitting up, leaning against car-seats, or lying down on top of suitcases).

The Grand Canyon


Mom's hat got blown into a tree 10ft out past the ledge.

Our whole family

Zoe and I

Friday May 28th, For the first time in my life I got to see a real desert, the Mojave desert. It was awfully green. When Pierce and Zoe read about it in their History I expected sand dunes with a few cacti scattered around, while in reality it was flat, parched, and covered in bushes.

Around noon-2pm we got to the Grand Canyon. As you enter the area with gift shop, bathrooms, etc. it looks like the normal entrance to a zoo (just larger). "We finally got to THE GRAND CANYON and we can't find it in the tourist trap!" After a little while we found it. It was amazing. I have read about how the Grand Canyon could only have been formed by the worldwide flood that God saved Noah from, and seeing it completely confirmed this. It seems absurd that people would deny this and try to say that it formed by the little trickle of water in the bottom of the canyon after millions and millions of years. I have heard it said that it takes more faith to be an atheist and believe in theories made up by man, than it does to believe in God's simple truth told in the Bible.

Meteor Crater


Very Windy

After driving several more hours we got to see Meteor Crater. (Another big hole in the ground!) All around the crater there were rings of hills formed when the meteor hit. Huge gusts of wind came up the sloped sides, nearly blowing me over. In this picture we were trying to smile while keeping ourselves upright. The movie shown in the museum tried to explain the formation of Meteor Crater from the Big Bang and evolution over millions and millions of years, but one major point was missed. Who made the original rocks and life forms? Even if the Big Bang did happen, someone had to have made the rock, space, stars, etc. Something had to initiate the explosion. More and more questions arise.




Saturday May 29th, We drove through endless table land. It was dry and hot, but the rocks were beautiful, and house-sized boulders balanced precariously near the edge of a mesa on a rock the size of a soccer ball showed the force of water that carved out the Grand Canyon. Everyone wanted to know what Texas was like. We were counting down the minutes until we entered TX. We thought that we were near the border, and after stopping to let a 100 car train pass we checked the GPS. It showed that we were on the border. The train kept coming and coming as if it was a curtain being drawn extremely slowly. We saw the last car pass and then there was just a tiny little sign beside the tiny little road winding on and on just as it had been doing for miles. Very anticlimactic! This picture makes it look a lot better:

One patch of blue sky appeared just in time.

Sunday May 30th 2am "...it takes 8 hours to drive from here to Spring, and it is 8 1/2 hours until church starts. We can't make it in time" So we got a hotel room and found a church in town.

Noon, After church we found a restaurant and ate fried chicken, fried fish, fried cornbread, fried okra, and sweet iced tea. We felt sick. In the late afternoon we found Whole Foods and got sushi and vegetable smoothies for supper (which made us feel better immediately).


Monday May 31st, We looked at a couple properties in Texas to possibly buy (neither of them ended up working). Drive...drive...drive...

Tuesday June 1st, Finally at Grandpa & Grandma's house!!

Lauren Ashley

Monday, June 7, 2010

Guess Where I Am






























Lauren Ashley

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