Our new 4-legged friend...Chaz

We adopted our Golden Retriever Max 7 years ago and 3 months ago he ran away with a new friend he made and after 100's of fliers, numerous trips to the pound, and gallons of gas we realized he wasn't coming home.  So we began the search for a new friend knowing that we could NEVER replace Max.  We came in contact with a sweet woman needing to place her 3 year old German Shepherd with a family and so we gained a new furry friend. 

Chaz came to live with us last Wednesday, March 23rd and quickly found his place in our family.  He & Keelie bonded immediately.

The boys love to play fetch with him and he loves to chase the ball and run after the kids.

Chaz quickly learned how to beg and who to beg from......

He loves to ride in the car, we are not allowed to leave without him.....

 My favorite picture so far, I love how comfortable she is with him and how good he is with her!!

Babies galore!!!

On March 16th one of our cows, Lulu had her baby.  This was an awesome moment here at our house.  We were all so excited.  Since we got the cows we have spent a lot of time watching them. Chris and I both catch ourselves talking to them like they can understand us.   Since he was born the day before St Patricks day we named him Lucky.

Lucky  3/16/11 weight: ALOT

Then on March 24th Daisy had her baby.  When I first saw the baby I thought it was a boy but with further inspection is was a little girl.  We looked up famous birthday and it was Clyde Barrow's birthday of Bonnie and Clyde so we named her Bonnie.  She is so sweet she looks like a little lamb. 

Me with little Bonnie

Bonnie with her Momma Daisy

About 2 weeks ago Papaw and Perry brought home 24 baby chicks and Keeli just had a fot over them.  She wantd to go up to GG's house everyday to see them. 

Kiki & Mommy with a chick

From the city to the farm!

In July of 2010 we moved from our home in Burleson, where we lived for 7 years, with all of our friends and our church that we loved so much to move to the country.  This has always been something that we wanted to do.  We wanted to move away fromt he city and have land for the kids to roam and explore.  To raise animals and plant a garden and learn together what it was like to be simple.  Well.....so far it's been nothing but simple!!  :)  The first few months were very hard to adjust to.  The kids missed their friends and I missed mine.  We missed the convineces of getting in the car and picking a gallon of milk and being back home in 10 minutes.  It take 20 minutes on a good day just to get to town.  While Chris stayed in his routine of working we were out in the middle of nowhere and we didn't know anyone but GG, Papaw, & Uncle Perry.   When the kids started school it was culture shock we went from 100 kids in one grade to 217 kids in the whole school pre-k through 8th!  Weston has 12 kids in his class, Rawley has 21 and Brazos has 22 or so in his.  Not to mention Braz had gone to school with the same kids since kindergarten.  It was hardest on him, finding his place and  new friends.  Now with only 10 weeks left of school the kids have their friends and things are easier for them. 

The house when the deck was bring built

At first all we did was work outside, we moved the house out here and built on a covered deck that spend alot of time on.  Cleaning the yard, putting up fence, picking grapes, picking plums, clearing brush, mowing, etc....was all new & hard work but we did it and we love the time spent together.  We are all learning because this is all new to us all.   I now know that this is where we are suppose to be and I thank God for placing us here.  Some days are still hard and I miss my friend but I know that I can pick up the phone and hear their voices.

The Sunset on one of our first nights here!

First day of school 2010 Brazos 6th, Weston 2nd, Rawley 1st



Football & Ducks

Chris and I took the kids to the Trinity Park for a picninc and to feed the ducks. It was Keelie's first trip to the duckpond.....she really could care less.  But the kids and Chris played football while Keelie and I hung out on the blanket and enjoyed the breeze.

Keelie Morgan

We had Kristy Krouse take some pictures of Keelie for her birth announcments.  Her are some of them...

Does it show how much I love her??

Our little Angel!

The Princess has arrived!

Original Post January 21, 2009

As most of you know we have a new addition to the family. For as long as I can remember I have wanted to have a daughter. I have always had her name picked out and I prayed so hard everytime Chris and I became pregnant, but each time we were blessed with handsome little boys. After Rawley was born we decided that we were finished building our family. That God gave us three healthy little boys and this was what our life was. Though the feeling of having my little girl never went away it was not as strong until about two years ago. The idea of having a baby girl was overwheling and I knew that the time for building our family was running out. I began to pray that God would find a way to bring a daughter into my life. Chris and I decided that we would look into adoption this time next year, but as it turns out God had another plan for us. Keelie Morgan was born January 11 of 2009 weighing 6 pound and 3 ounces. She was what we have been waiting for and now our family is complete! We are in the process of adopting her and making her a Moore. Please pray that all goes according to plan and that she continues to thrive in this family. I thank each one of you who prayed and stood by me as this all unfolded. Most importantly I thank my husband for being the kind and wonderful man that he is. Without him none of this would be possible. So now we are a family of six.

I did it without crying...much!!

Original Post August 26, 2008

He is there and I am okay! I think I got all the tears out yesterday. Thank Goodness. He was so big walking into school and Brazos was so excited he didn't even tell me bye. I had to go find him to tell him bye. I didn't make him give me a hug or kiss, (which was VERY hard). Rawley is so happy to be at home with Mommy by himself. I can't believe I had a fourth grader and a Kindergartener. How time goes by!

My Broken Heart

Original post August 26, 2008

 

Well....tomorrow is the big day! The day my heart will be broken again, I will send my sweet Weston out into the world of public schools and bad influences. He will have to make choices and have consequences for actions he may not understand. I can't imagine going through everyday without him here with me. It sounds like I am losing him forever and I know that it's only 7 hours a day, but I have had him with me everyday for the last 5 years. Now he will be gone 36 hours a week.....for 36 hours a week, I won't know what he is doing or if someone is being mean to him or if he is sad, I can't be there to hug him or give him a kiss. I wish I could just keep him with me. People say when you have kids your heart is walking around outside your body and you have to protect that, how can I do that when he isn't with me. The worst part is that I have to do this again in 12 months with Rawley and then what am I suppose to do with my time. I am a Mommy, this is what I do. It's going by too quickly I just want to keep them little. If you are reading this and you have a little one squeeze them tight and enjoy it, because next thing you know they will be going off to 4th grade or starting Kindergarten and Pre K. I love my boys so much and I am just not ready to let go. People think I am crazy especially Chris, but I guess you don't understand how it feels until it happens to you the first time.

Dad & The Canoe

Original Post August 11, 2008

Chris and Brazos went down to the Lake on Saturday afternoon to do some work and meet the dock guy so he could start building it this week. Dad went too, to fish of course. Brazos decided to fish from the dock, thank goodness, while Dad went out in the canoe. Dad managed to rig up the canoe with a trolling motor so that he wouldn't have to paddle (I call it the redneck fishing boat). He was cruising across the lake to the other side because the fish were running over there, as he was turning a gust of wind picked up the front of the canoe and flipped it over throwing Dad, two fishing poles, the battery (for the motor) and the trolling motor to the bottom of the lake. Then Dad couldn't get back in to canoe so he had to swim back across the lake pulling the canoe. Talk about a cardio work out!! Do you think this lake is telling us something?? I have posted a picture of the house and where the new dock will be after this week.

Wasp Stings & Falling Docks

This was orginally posted on August 7, 2008.

So we bought a lake house in East Texas on Lake Winnsboro. It's a little lake about the size of Lake Worth, one of those bass fishing lakes near Lake Fork. The house is cute it has four bedrooms and 1 and a half baths. It's a beautiful drive, about 2 hours from Burleson. The house came fully furnished with more than a house needs, plenty of dirt dobbers and one flea infested dog! LOL Needs some work! We went out there for the first time to actually spend some time. Weston and I were in the house cleaning out the endless junk drawers in the kitchen from 40 years of stuffing things in them. Chris was outside doing some work. We will be building a dock in the next week or so, but the neighbor, Bob, has one already and said we could use it. So Dad (Mike) took Brazos and Rawley down to the dock to fish. Next thing I know Brazos busts through the door saying "The dog fell, the dog fell" they were so worried about that stupid dog falling in the water when came to look at the place the first time, I said "Brazos who cares the dog can swim" He then says "No Mommy the dock fell Papaw and Rawley are in the water and I got stung by bees" I didn't know and out of shape Mom could run so fast! I took off out the door, but they were already walking back with Chris. Talk about a first time experience to the new lake house. Rawley and Dad were soaking wet and Rawley and Brazos were screaming because they both got stung by wasps twice on their legs. Turns out when they were walking down the dock it sturred up a wasp nest and when they stung them the boys started running and the old dock wasn't used to that so it fell. For the rest of the day Rawley said he didn't like the lake house and wanted to sell it! After all was said and done I was just thankful that Dad and Rawley fell and not our 75 years old neighbor Bob who lives out there by himself. We were only there for one day, can you imagine what will happen when we spend the weekend?

Time for a Change

Well......it has been so long since I logged into my old blog, livingwithboys, that I am locked out.  So I am going to repost the blogs from the old one and start fresh here.  Lots of things have change since 2009 so I am going to try to catch up as best as I can.  Enjoy!