mothers day grandgirls

2005

How precious they are!! Tell me your not letting them open their gifts yet (I saw the reindeer)? I know how you like to do things early lol!!

Vonda~ We are enjoying ours as well. We have the singing penguins and my kids love it! Thanks so much! I also have the hanging Nativity scene, which I am still waiting on Matthew to hang...

I am glad you all are enjoying them , your baby's room looks really pretty Monica, Hope everyone enjoys the Christmas decorations, I enjoyed them for many years. Glad someone else can enjoy them now.

Hey Vonda,

I wanted to show you what I did with your decorations that I got at Grandma's on Thanksgiving. I put the reindeer and the blue and pink scarved snowmen in Marleigh's room and the snowmen with tealights on our kitchen table. I love them!!

Of course its my cell phone!  You know even when I am NOT connected, I AM connected! LOL  Our power came on at 1130 tonight!  Never was I soooooo happy!  The gas stove kept it warm though, it was 68 in the kitchen and living room.  We shut the door to the big living room and it was quite cozy!  But it sure was chilly out in the other part of the house!
My pups certainly didn't suffer any!  Me and Danny went to bed and took Bear and Gracie and Tux with us.  Then after the power came on I got up and there sat poor little Marley at the door.  She was sooooo cold, so I let her in and put her in the large crate!
We tried to pop popcorn on the gas stove.  I put some oil in the pan and two kernals of corn and waited and waited and waited....well you get the picture!  It never popped!
I definately have a renewed respect for the power company workers.  I would hate to be them in this weather.

How did you blog this??? Do you still have cell phone? I'll text you and see lol!!

No power! No heat! No internet! This stinks!

YES...but not typing...fortunatly for the kids! LOL

Janet,
Do you teach spelling in your class? Just wondering!! lol lol Love you : )

Clara meeting Santa!

Happy Birthday...Trish, Monica and Elliot! Hope it was great! Trish, what kids were you taling about being as good as gold because that couldn;t have been mine! I do knwo that they had a ball though.

I could say the same for you Monica AND Elliott.  Happy Belated Birthday to both of YOU!!

Happy belated birthday Trish!!!!!!!

I am a nice OLD age of 44!  Wow and to think mommy was still having kids at that age!  'We went to Outback for some birthday grub.  emily and zac met us there.  olivia and kaiden had fun today.  we did nothing but play.  kaiden tried to rob me of my tractors!  They were both good as gold.  Olivia tried to weasle Kaiden out of the toys occasionally but he retaliated by trying to bite her so it all worked out in the end!

Trish is 6 years younger than Me! LOL Happy Birthday to you. I happen to know that Olivia and Kaiden spent the day with her today. They were so excited this morning and when I got ready to leave Trish's, I asked Olivia if she wanted to go home or stay with me. She said "I want to stay here". Didn't take long to get booted out of the saddle. Trish's family were all going to meet in Beckley for dinner to celebrate.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TRISH!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TRISH!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GOD BLESS YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
How young are you?

I believe Mommy's real mother's name was Lorena Mae, but they called her Rainy (sp?) Mae and Mommy's adopted mother's name was Icie Mae. I always thought that tidbit was interesting.

Boy, those Treadway girls (Emily, Addy and Janet) can bring home the bacon AND fry it up in a pan, can't they???

I got my first deer today!!

It wasn't very big, but it was a deer, lol!

And Tanner got a new puppy....she is adorable!

Her name is Gracie. =)

wow- what a coincidence

Someone said they thought her name was Rainey Mae (I hope I spelled that right), I can't remember who, maybe Ruth or Trish. I had never heard of her name until I posted Marleigh's name.

Monica and Mark ,I love the name you picked out, and your nursery, is really pretty, I bet you guys can hardly wait. By the way isn't the middle name the name of Grandma's real Mom's name? I know her name was Raine , don't know if it's spelled the same, just wondering.

Monica: The nursery is SO pretty!!! I bet you and Mark (and the uncles and grandparents) are really getting so excited.

Here's the start to Marleigh's room. It's coming along swell : ) !!

Monica,

That's a beatiful name! and tell Mark that beautiful will be waiting on him, and unfortunately for him so will I...

lovin' it

i love raine! good pick monica!

Well, we have decided on a name......

Marleigh Raine Padgett :)

We went to visit Chandler this evening and he is feeling better.  Still in ICU but hoping to be moved out tomorrow. He was very happy to show off his scars and wounds!

Chandlers TV

 

Chan

 

prayer request

I just heard from Marsha and Chandler does have a small bleed in his head.  He is in ICU and if nothing progresses and he does ok, they will probably move him to a regular room.

Trish

prayer request

Morning all Patsy and baby Kaylee came home Saturday evening and all are doing well.  I hope to visit in a day or two and take some pictures.  But I hear she has lots and lots of dark hair.

Now I have another request.  Bobbie Shawns son, Chandler, wrecked on his bicycle in Rupert last night.  He came home doesn't remember wrecking at all.  Took him to Fairles and the CAT scam showed fractured skull.  The sent him straight to Charleston Womens and Childrens hospital for observation.  Will keep you posted.

Trish

Can you see the guy waving at the top? There was so much wind that day they couldn't get the blades up for the propellor. They were up there waiting but it never happened!

these are some of the bolts that hold the bottom of them together

So did you guys not see Lonnie with Grandma and Grandpa?  They were there too.  I think they both really enjoyed it.  Then Lonnie took them to eat at Lindas Rest. at Sam Black!  sounds like it was the perfect day for a drive!

Here are a few more pictures of the turbines. Paul and I were only a few minutes behind mom and dad and didn't even know it 'til we got home!

 

This is Blain!

 

 

 

 

A few more! The ones in the distance kind of gives you an idea of how huge they are.

 

 

 

 

Blain and I took a trip to the Mountain to see the Wind Turbines. The pics don't do them justice. They are something to see. We were all over that mountain (Cold Knob) and a few others! I want to see them when they are up and running. The view on the mountain was awesome.

Monica~ So sorry to hear about your flood...I know that had to be frustrating. I am really looking forward to our visit over Thanksgiving. Maybe you'll have a name picked out by then. I like skadea...and I know a few others that would agree. Right, Addy?

I was at Mommy's this evening and Georgia called and said that Patsy and Kaylee came home today and the baby had no infection in her lungs. They are both doing great. She said that she had "everybody in the country" praying for them. Praise the Lord, He is Good.

Good Morning all,

I talked to Georgia this morning.  She said Patsy and the baby are doing pretty good.  Patsy was hoping to come home today, but she didn't think that would happen.  The baby isn't eating as much as she should, but they have her on IV's and she seems to be holding her own.  Georgia said to thank everyone for the prayers, that they truly worked.  She has Amber staying with her and that is good for both of them.  I forgot to tell you all that she named the baby "Kaylee Ann"  not sure of the spelling,  and she also weighed 8 pounds and a few ounces.

Continue praying and I will let you all know if I hear anything else!

Enjoy the beautiful fall day!

Trish

prayer request

Good Morning all,

Patsy (Georgia's daughter) had her baby this morning.  She was in labor 16 hours and her uterus ruptured.  The baby is touch and go right now.  Her lungs have a lot of blood and fluid in them.  They are keeping her at fairlea for the moment but said they may need to transfer to neonatal icu.  Please keep them both in your prayers today.  I talked to Georgia and she is really upset as can be expected.  I will keep you all updated. 

Trish

I must agree with Janet lol!!! It sounds like grandma and grandpa are doing better, that's good to hear. It's been cold and rainy here the last few days too. Mark and I feel water logged. I'll be glad to go back to work tomorrow just to get a break! We were at work Saturday night when the landlord called at 730 and said our hot water heater had busted and the bottom part of the apartment was flooded. It was also going over into the neighbors apartments as well. I left work for about 2 1/2 hours to go home and see what could be done. Dad, the boys, and 3 other people were there and they had to end up ripping the carpet out because the 3 shopvacs weren't getting all the water out of the carpet. So therefore we had to start moving furniture around to accomodate (thank goodness I'm pregnant, didn't have to do much haha). We worked out Sunday morning and the guy brought our new hot water heater at 1000 that morning and installed it. We got new carpet installed Monday and was able to start moving things back into the living room. They did replace the carpet on the stairwell and landing upstairs just to match the living room so that was a plus as well. My cousin came over that night and cleaned the carpet in both bedrooms too. All day yesterday we worked on cleaning things, throwing away things and replaced a few minor things. Luckily we didn't have to claim anything on insurance. I had a lot of books underneath our coffee tables and Corey pointed out that our big family Bible was the book that took the least amount of water, another blessing!! Today we went and picked up the baby furniture and got it in the baby room yea!!! It's not all in place and fixed up yet, I'll post some pictures when we get that done, hopefully next week. Needless to say we are wore out and it will be nice for me to go to work to get a break from here. We were also going to decide on a baby name this week but I guess that will have to wait till next week, again :( Hope everyone is doing well, can't wait to see yal Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!! Love ya

Does anyone need or know anyone that needs a set of bunk beds.  I am wanting to get rid of the ones in Jacobs room.  If you know of anyone, let me know.

OK, I have added a few things to the blog.  If you will notice, at the end of the blog where it used to say POSTED by, it says lovingly created by..... and the other thing, is I added three buttons at the end of the post.  One says funny, cool, and NoWay.  I know a lot of times I have time to read and don't always have time to post, but I do have time to click.  Let me know what you think of it.

Daddy loved the ribs!  But he said they were so spicy he couldn't hardly eat them.  but when he finished, there was only half a rack left!  Mommy ate about half her chicken and loved the sucatash.  It was about 530 I guess when they finished eating.  She got up from the table, went over to the sink and took out her teeth.  I said are you going to bed and she looked outside and said, well its dark, so I am going here pretty soon.  LOL

Well headed to bed,
Night All

I thought this blog was G rated! No nudity PLEASE!

I have posted on the side my link to picasa pictures. I will try and keep it updated with recent pictures.  Just click on the link.

I found these random outhouse pictures on my computer.  They are taken at Lonnies this summer when Lorie was here!

potty pictures

Good Cold and Rainy afternoon to all,
I went to Beckley today with Jacob, David ,Susan and Emma. Christmas tree shopping for church. Found a beauty at Hobby Lobby. I will post some pictures after we get it up. It is definately gorgeous. Brought Daddy back some Ribs from Rubys and Mommy some bar b cued chicken with baked potatoes and sucatash. I asked Daddy and Mommy if they would be ok to get their own lunch if I went to beckley. Mommy is planning on frying a skillet of potatoes for lunch and so I asked Daddy if he would like some Ribs, Oh that sounds really good! So I think anytime I go to Beckley or Lewisburg, that is a must at least once a week! And Bear and Marley sure do like the bones. Sunday evening I went to Mommys and they had been over to the cemetary and up the holler. Mommy said they went to the cemetary but "didn't go in" I thought that was funny.
Enjoy your day! Even if it is cold and dreary!
By the way, If you don't have a christmas program to go to this year, mark your calendar for December 20. The kids are putting on one called "Cricket County Christmas Carol" Its gonna be a good one! Its hillbilly at its best. Monica its right up your alley!

Lemon Pound Cake

2 Sticks butter
1/2 C. Crisco
3 C. Sugar
5 Eggs
1 C. Milk
3 C. Plain Flour
1 tsp. Vanilla
2 tsp. Lemon Extract

Start in cold oven @ 300 degrees for 1 hr. 20 min. or until golden brown.
If you don't like the pound cake that "lemony" you can use 1 tsp. lemon extract.
Enjoy!