June Berries

Some where in some far away land I was able to go and pick June berries. Now mind you I don't mean just a few berries but as many as my mind body and soul would like to pick. What a glorious time we had. I think Ansir ate more than he actually got in his bucket but never the less we came home with enough berries for 8 pies if I so choose. I made my first one tonight.

I have never in my life made a June berry pie before today. I know it's shocking but it is true.

I used my Granny Shooks recipe for the crust of course. It comes out so flaky.

Found a recipe for the pie in our church cook book but I had to make a slight substitution. I did not have instant tapioca so I called my mommy who told me to try one table spoon of flour and one tablespoon of corn starch.

It looks pretty delicious if you ask me. I have not had a chance to eat it as I am still waiting for they guys to get home. It is 9:30pm and I am still waiting with my mouth watering! But any thing with pie crust sugar and berries has to be good right?

Day One of Our Sioux Falls Adventure

Last Week we spent a week with my best friend Ann in Sioux Falls. Today I will be sharing pictures of Day one of our trip.

Here are the three kids relaxing before we jump in the car.

Ansir and D'man decided to do some climbing to run off that extra energy.

Here D' man carefully plans his strategy for getting off the rock hill.

The boys willingly stopped to pose for this cute picture.
It turned out very cute.
As you can tell Lady Shay did not really want to smile for her picture!


These next two pictures were requests of my mothers. She wanted to have a picture of Ansir with all the sweet clover behind him.

The background did make for a nice picture.
Keep checking in to see more pictures from the rest of our trip. After all I took about 400 pictures. But don't worry I will only post my favorites.

Sunrises

When I was a little girl visiting out on the farm we would get up early and go to the barn with grandpa to milk the cows and watch the sun rise.

Things have changed a little I am not so little any more and there are no more cows.

But the sunrises are still as beautiful as they ever were.

My little dog needed to go out side at 5:30AM one morning. I glanced out the window and then grabbed my camera to capture Gods beauty.

Tim and I sat in the front yard in the swing and watched the sun rise higher in the sky.

Genesis 1

The Beginning

¹ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

² Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

³ And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day......

¹⁴ And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. ¹⁶ God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, ¹⁸ to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

My God is an Awesome God!

Grandpa and his garden

My grandpa loves to take his 4 wheeler down to the garden along with an able bodied daughter, granddaughter, son or grandson. He sits atop his ride and uses his cane to point to the weeds that need to be picked or the best veggies to be picked. And we all gladly do his biding.

When I was a little girl The garden extended clear back where you see the green grass growing and also further behind where I was standing to take this picture. There were always plenty of vegetables to be picked for canning or freezing. Now the garden is much smaller but it still contains some of their favorites. Especially dill for making refrigerator pickles.

This is the beautiful path way from the house to the garden. My son likes to call it the forest. It also harbers lots of misquotios. But not this day. We were enjoying it's beauty pest free.

I like this picture of Grandpa peeking out from behind the bush. It shows how playful he is. I remember how we alwyas raced grandpa to his chair after dinner before his nap and how he said he would pull out our belly buttons with his plyers. Or squirt us with milk when he was milking a cow. Oh ya and another time when they had come to visit us in NE he hid behind one of the chairs to supprise us when we got home from school. Any way I could go on and on.

Finally this is a nice close up of him. He is one of my most favorite people in the entire world. I love him with all my heart. He has set a wonderful example for his grandchildren on how to work hard, love his family and serve his Lord and Savior.
Thank you !