Mt. Kessler

Sunday we went to Mt. Kessler with our friends and neighbors the Freys. It was a good time despite the weather. It was cold and windy!! Yikes! Hope to do it again when the weather is a little more pleasant!









The rock formations were really neat!

Budding artist/architect/engineer?

Peyton has been really interested in sketching the past few days. He takes his sketch pad around with him and draws nature, or whatever may seem interesting at the moment. Hope this love stays for a while.

Peyton's 5th birthday

Happy birthday Peyton! Where does the time go?!?!?

We celebrated Peyton's birthday at Chuck-E-Cheese this year. It was his first birthday party outside of the house. The kids had a blast! Dad came up for the party and had as much fun as the kids I think.





Peyton and his friend Thomas!

Bringing in those tickets!




























Peyton got to bring Faith in the ticket blaster! She got the 1000 tickets certificate!!! She was on a mission and had it all planned out that was the one she needed to go for. When she walked out of the blaster she turned and gave it to Peyton. It was really sweet. It's fun to see my kids love on each other and care about one another.

December 1st

Memories of cutting down Christmas trees with my family has always been one of my favorite things we did as a family at Christmas time. When Lee and I moved up to Fayetteville we looked into starting our own tradition of cutting a tree, but there were no farms in the area.
A few years ago we heard that there was a Christmas tree farm starting up next to the pumpkin patch that we visit every year. It was suppose to be open in 2014 but wasn't ready to open until this year. We banked on it opening in 2015 so we chunked our tree last year after Christmas. It had seen better days. ha! We decided that it would be fun to cut a tree down on Peyton's birthday every year. So Dec. 1st we cut a tree! Happy Birthday Peyton!

The birthday boy!

Much to our surprise Hookie Pookie was in a tree holding up a sign that said Pennington Tree! I guess he had been there all day looking for the perfect tree for our family!







While Lee was cutting down the tree, I had a hand on it holding it up so it wouldn't fall on him while he was under it. All the sudden when he said ,"you can let go and let the tree fall", the back quarter of the tree still stood in place. I yelled the tree split in HALF! We took a closer look to find that there were two trees that had grown up right next to each other, but had been shaped as ONE! So there stood the lonely quarter of our tree! We all had a good laugh and decided we wanted to keep it anyway. We ended up just turning the "missing" part of the tree against the wall and it looked fine! ha! I had flashes of the turkey scene in the movie Christmas Vacation. The perfect looking tree wasn't so perfect.

Family time

This weekend my niece came up to visit from Vilonia. She is a Senior in high school this year. It's hard to believe she is going to college next yr. I remember meeting her when she was Faith's age!!!! Wow time flies!!!

We always enjoy having her up. The kids eat up every second with her. She went on a bike ride with the kids and Lee and did lots of snuggling and playing with the kids this weekend. Sad the weekend is over.

3rd annual 4th of July parade

Waterway Drive held the 3rd annual 4th annual 4th of July parade. The kids all had a blast as usual. The firemen that come every yr. are so nice to the kids. They pass out stickers, let them spray the water hose and spray the kids! I'll miss this event when we move to our new house.

Mutton bustin' 2015

So I just get a new phone and my blogging app works again on it so I have a lot to catch up on. I know I won't be able to catch up on everything but at least some of the high points. Ha!
July 2nd Peyton participated in his first mutton bustin event. He did great! I was so proud of this little guy for getting out there and giving it a whirl. He even made the paper!!





















He's famous!