Life...stranger than Fiction........

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Hannah

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Elisabeth

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Luke

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Rebekah

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At the pool in FL.

Victoria- 2007

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High on Peanut Butter. :)

She was cooking...

Picking nuts for "dinner".

Matthew in Dec.2007

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We really are surprised that he actually made it past a year with the way he was treated as a baby.

Christopher, Jesse, Hannah

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The Girls

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Hannah's pony, Taffy
From L-R: Alena, Raja, Xena

Xena, Alena, Raja

Raja, Xena, Alena

Xena

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Raja

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More Pictures of Alena

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Alena

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Alena

Our trip to Dausett Trails with the Royals

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Spud!!

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Hit me!! I'm wide open! (you only have one more shot Lisabeth!!)

Should I hit you Laura? It's COLD out here!!

We never knew he was so dramatic....

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Erik

2006-10-26T14:08:00.000-07:00

Erik and "his" bareback pad. :) He had absolutely no problem with me cinching it up or anything!!! Sure he walked forward the first couple of times, but when he stopped, I released the cinch, so after about 3 more times he just stood still and let me cinch it up!! He was fine walking around with it on his back too, so....Pretty soon now, we might introdue a saddle.

Pics of Sierra

2006-10-26T13:40:00.000-07:00

Some pictures of Sierra.....

My beautiful boy. :)

2006-10-22T12:41:00.000-07:00

Erik and I after playing the "Catching Game"

"Put your nose on something" version of the driving game#3. *Says Erik "But Mom, the camera is SO much more interesting than a plastic bag!!!"*

"Say What?"

"A little to the left please....ahhh..."

A pretty good head shot of Erik, if you leave me out of it, that would be great. :)

Friendly game#1....he loves to have his head scratched! :)

2006-10-01T18:10:00.000-07:00

Some more pics taken week before last.....
The 3 musketeers...soon Tori will join their ranks and it will become 4. :)

The Little Girls.

The 4 youngest...Tori isn't quite smiling, but was before. She was saying "chweeeseeee!!!" Twas deafening, having 4 little kids yelling "chesse" as loud as they could. :) They have very good lungs, I must say.

Tori is adorible, I think. :) She wouldn't look at the camera. *rolls eyes*

Everybodys "rear ends" as Mama put it. :)- I kinda like it. L-R: Jesse, Daddy and Victoria, Lisabeth, Eriel (the dog), Christopher, and Rebekah.

Daddy and Tori.

2006-09-17T20:44:00.000-07:00

My turn. Unfourtunantly for y'all, or it might be remanants of YCTAPOMS in myself, there ARE no pictures of just me, so you'll have to settle with group pictures. :)

Victoria and myself. This picture was taken by Luke, so I had to crop out a headless Lisabeth, and a pouting Bekka.

The girls, Bekka, Tori, Lisabeth, and myself. (taken by Jesse)

2006-09-17T20:33:00.000-07:00

Christopher is going to kill me, but what's the fun in life if you don't pester your younger brother once in a while?

Like Grandfather, like Grandson. I can't believe Grandpa let Christopher spike his hair but he did, and this is the result.

A benidiction? No. He's illustrating a point for Mama. With his eyes closed. Really and truly he was.

Last one. He didn't know I had taken these pictures, or he would have deleted them by now. :) Again, it is YCTPOMS.

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I think this is the best picture I have of Jesse. He is as tall as me now. :( Actually I'm glad. I hope he gets at least an inch taller than Christopher (Who is about 6'2"-4") just to take Chris's ego down a peg. >:) *bad Rachel* :)

This is a suprise pic I got of Jesse. As you can see, he was not too enthused with the fact that I got a picture of him, and threatned to delete it. *Rolls Eyes* *Down with YCTAPOMS!!!* But Jesse, don't you know candid shots are the best??? :)-

Now he's hiding from me, and Luke's trying to help me out. Luke succeded in pulling the fake coon-skin hat away BUT.....

Jess grabbed something else to hide his face before I could take another picture. >:/ :)-

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Hannah pictures..... most of the pictures I have of Hannah are from her b-day, the only time of the year when no one but my parents can say NO to picture taking. Hannah has been infected with the disease called "YCTAPOMS" (You Can't Take A Picture Of Me Syndrome) and I attribute my Mother as the carrier (Sorry Mama, you can't delete this. >:) ) Ashley had/has it, I had it, Christopher has it, and Jesse has it. Hannah has decided that any time I take a picture of her I have some evil intention of posting it on the internet. >:) I personally believe this disease does not manifest itself until the 9th year as all my sibs under this age LOVE to have their pics. taken.

See what I mean? I was in the process of taking her picture when she purposefuly turned away, and all I got was the back of her head. Incidentally, the sun turned her hair bright red in this pic. :)

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I think this is the only picture I have of 'just' Michael....nope I found some more. Okay, so Jesse's in it too, but you can't see his face, right?

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Luke being a goofball. I was trying to take a picture of Lisabeth and he purposefuly jumped in the way. :/ :)-

My grandmother says he looks like he has some kind of disease in this pic. But no. He's still being a goofball.

He's swinging in this pic, obviously. He is 5 years old!!!!! My baby brother is getting too grown up!!!

How serious can we get? He is playing with his 'computer' that Granny got him for his b-day, and can't quite get it.

2006-09-17T19:42:00.000-07:00

Bekka is pouting because she threw a football at Mara and she got reprimanded. Tsk Tsk. I didn't even raise my voice at her, but I suppose she thought it was okay to throw a football at the cat, and didn't 'deserve' to be scolded. ?:/

She was also mad in this picture. I told her we'd take a picture of her and save it for when she was grown so she could see how awful she looked when she was mad. She thought that was funny.

A happy picture, finally.

She, Lisabeth, and Christopher were playing a domino game and Christopher was helping her. I guess she was winning. :)

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Elisabeth is begining to look quite grown-up. :)

Her hair is hanging in her face in these next 2 pics. She refuses to let me put it up most of the time. :/ I think Mama put it up in the one she's has it in a clip. But that one lock escaped somehow.

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Victoria doing push-ups? No, she's just trying to rise from a sitting position with Luke's boots on. :)-

Isn't this picture adorible?!?!?! She has one shoe off and one shoe on, and she's peering into, of all things, the trash can.

"No more tickles Uncle Matt!!!" Uncle Matt and Grandpa came to visit Aug. 31st-Sept.7th.

Toria bacame very attatched to her Uncle Matt.

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Erik and I....He is currently 13.2 hands and 744 lbs. I am 17 hands (I think ) and 120lbs. In case y'all wanted to know... :)-

Isn't he CUTE?!?!?!? He's very lazy though. But thats okay, I like laid back horses.

Full Body shot. He is a QH, no doubt about that. :)

Erik

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Porcupine game, anyone?!?!?

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This is a picture of Sierra chasing Erik. He wouldn't let her win the porcupine game so she got mad, and started chasing him. She was also mad at me, cause I wouldn't play with her. She does that. She'll try to dominate me, and when I won't let her she whales into Erik. :)- Silly mare.

2006-01-16T08:56:00.000-08:00

I read "Ceated to be his helpmeet" by Debi Pearl, last Lord's day. It was very profitable. Even though I'm not married yet. :) So when (if the Lord so desires it) I do get married, I'll be off to a good start. It sorta reinforces the knowledge that marrige isn't all fun and games (unless you get a grip on your pride :) )
Thank you Mrs.MeMe for letting us borrow it!
I'm holding Victoria and trying to type at the same time. She was asleep but Lisbeth and Bekah woke her up. So I'm typing and Victoria is pulling my hair out of my schrunchi (sp?) and eating my necklace. She turned 10 months on the 6th. She is pullling herself up on stuff and crawling (iow, getting into EVERYTHING!!!) and she has 6 teeth. She is so adorable!!! I love babies!! And little kids. I think the only things that I realy fear about haveing my own kids is being resbonsible for their spiritual well-being.
I must run Victoria is hungry!

Christopher

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Christopher, on his bed writing a letter. (Don't you just LOVE his spikes?!?!!? He hair looks awful if it isn't spiked though. Like he's wearing a animal pelt.)

Sunrise on "the hill"

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This is a pic of a sunrise on the top of a hill on our property. This is where we wan't to build our horse barn. :)

Jess

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This is a pic of Jesse, when he was growing his hair out. He grew it out to his shoulders, then got it all cut off, cause every one called him a girl. He built a stack of cards.

Misty, murky reflections....

2006-01-06T19:35:00.000-08:00

Isn't this picture cool?!?!?!? I took a while back, and am just getting around to posting it. I took it up at the goat pen, on the power line.

Ashley

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This is the only way she'll let anyone take a picture of her, unless she is with someone not in our family. (I think she deleated the pics I took of her else where. )

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This is (from L-R) Christopher (in the background) Bella Royal, Me, and Laura Royal. (The Royals live in N.C and are members of our church. We were in S.C at the Birchfields, when this picture was taken.)

Three Musketeers

2006-01-06T18:59:00.000-08:00

Elisabeth, Luke, and Rebekah, all in one picture! Amazing!!! Rebekah is still in her sleep clothes, and has the remains of her breakfast on her face.

Me and Dannon

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This is Dannon and me hugging his head (obviously) Big dog, but very gentle and protective of us. :) Eriel is in the background.

Victoria

2006-01-05T15:37:00.000-08:00

I gave her a mohawk. Isn't it cute?!?! (Don't worry, it wasn't and won't be, a long term arrangment.) Oooohhh....I think she likes it!! :)

Black Widow

2006-01-05T15:32:00.000-08:00

Isn't she HUGE!?!?! We found her under a log at the goat pen. We had to kill her though, as we didn't wan't any of the goats to get bitten. Aren't spiders wonders of Gods creation? (I'm sure any arachnophobics are shuddering.)

Erik

2006-01-05T15:26:00.000-08:00

Erik looks like he's on steroids in this picture! :)- He-man!......I mean horse.... (his legs don't really look like that. )

Rebekah

2006-01-05T14:58:00.000-08:00

Rebekah is sooooo cute in this picture!!! I'm surpprised I got one of her, she won't stay still!!!

A skink in a tree

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Dannon, our 3 legged Great pyr guard dog.(he isn't mean, really!)

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