Thanksgiving Activity

This past Thanksgiving after all the food that we ate, we were playing games and relaxing. Wendy was bored and wanted to do something more fun. So Wendy, Becky and I traveled back home and got the 4-wheeler. Wendy gave rides around the backyard then I started letting my children drive the 4-wheeler. We rode it almost until dark. Here are a few pictures of them driving, except for Jeffery of course, and one of Jeffery holding on to his cousin while riding around the yard.

Primary Activity Day

This past Saturday we had the primary activity day. We started by having breakfast - their favorite meal of the day. It included pancakes, bacon and orange juice. Then after breakfast, I (Leader of the 8 - 11 year old girls) had the children play "reindeer" games. Then they made a christmas tree ornament which looked like Rudolph. Next they played a game with two different colored balloons. The balloons were scattered in the middle and the teams had to get their own balloons in their box. The winner was the team who accomplished this first. It was chaotic but very fun.

Jeffery's ATV

Wendy and Jeffery went to a birthday party last weekend for a girl in his nursery class at church. His favorite thing at the party was the ATV. Wendy said that she had to literally drag him away, kicking and screaming, to get him to leave after the party was over. He was really not concerned with the color. This was battery operated, so he could actually drive it.

Fashion Show

Wendy had bought some clothes for the children recently and she wanted them to try them on. So she decided to do a fashion show. There was a lot of clothes involved. There are several video clips that were just too large to download, but here are some of the pictures.


Jeffery sporting a new tie.

Ethan, dancing and being goofy, with a new shirt and pants.

Katherine's new shirt and pants. She is not camera shy.

Jamie with new clothes. she strives on being picky - can be good or bad.

A devil, a cheerleader, a fireman and a dog. Trick or Treat!!! This was Halloween night. They had already gone Trunk or Treating the previous Wednesday.

Houma Relief Work

Here are some picture that we took while I was in Louisiana this weekend. We were assigned to go to the Houma, La. area to help those in need. We packed up our chainsaws and my ATV. I rode down with Leroy while Paul and James rode down together later. On Saturday, there were about 12 of us in a crew that was formed from the Gardendale, Leeds, Gadsden and Birmingham 2nd Wards. I saw other members from the Locust Fork Branch as well. We had 5 work orders to complete. We did most of them before 4:00 PM on that day. One we could not complete because of the equipment and material that were required.


Here is our abode for two nights - Leroy and I.

This was our first project that we had to work on. It called for a tarp to put on the roof but we saw a dangerous tree so we asked the home owner and the neighbor if we could cut it.

This is located in Dulac - Coastguard Rd.

We couldn't find work at the street where we were suppose to go so we looked for some trees to cut down.

This was our final project on Sunday at Shrimper's Row in Dulac before we left to go home.

List of people in our crew:
Leroy, Jason, Paul , James, Donnie, Marla, Douglas, Craig, Eric, Brother Williams, Charlie and Eric.