I love my chickens

These guys just crack me up!

Of course the roosters have to be up high.

Taken October 27,2009

Missing my baby flying squirrel

Our baby, Rocky. Taken October 12, 2009

We saved him from a storm.

Isn't he the cutest critter!

September part 2 of 2009

My other family that couldn't be with us. =(

I love my nieces and nephews!! =)

My Sarah before she left for Europe.

The road that Rebekah got stranded in from the floods

This should not look like this. The water was running so high that it was covering these peoples yard.

This was day 2 of the rain. Rebekah and I decided to walk through the water to see how deep it was.

This is where I parked the car on our street to walk in the water.

This is around the corner. The water was pushing against me really hard and fast.

This was the view around the corner. Yup, only good for a truck to go through. We ended up going the long way around.

September 2009

My big surprise! My brother Dan and his family came for a weekend visit. This is us seeing them for the first time.

Jonathan setting a train track up for DJ.

Dj playing with Jonathan's big truck. All the cousins loves this truck. =)

Dan and Maggie

Drew and Rebekah getting ready to jump. It's a bit out of place here.

DJ with Uncle Brians wig

They tricked us! I had no idea they bought a van and they put one of our old tags on their van.

DJ had fun playing on the boat with the ropes.

Uncle Danny riding the mini bike.

David wearing uncle Brian's wig with Rebekah.

Having dinner with the family.

Sorry Kim! lol

The family picture without Sarah and Letisha's family. We sure did miss all of them!!!

Maggie sleeping on the boat.

So mommy and daddy went for a ride on the jetski

Dan and Jonathan riding

doing some stunts.

David laughing because he just threw Uncle Danny off.

Jonathan and DJ

Uncle Danny and David

taking a hard turn

and they are down

going for some more

Dan and DJ going for a ride

Bye bye DJ

Dan and Maggie

Jonathan and Kim going for a ride.

DJ helped David build a fire.

Dan jumping and Rebekah laughing

Dan and David taking a leap off the highest part.

Getting ready to go on a hike

The FAMILY PICTURE! =)

Thanks for coming and seeing us!! We love you all!!

August 2009

RiRichard's parents came for a visit.

Jonathan turned 15 on the 29th.

Well, this is from July. Tony came to visit and Jonathan got baptized.

David popping popcorn over the stove for the first time.

David also made a firework with a water bottle.

Connie, Frank, Jenny, and Joy came by and visit.

Another group picture with all of us.

Richard's parents also came to visit for a week.

Richard had his 44th birthday on the 10th.

Our cute chickens heading to their new coop that was built by Bob, Richard, Jonathan.

Celebrating Rebekah and Jonathan's birthday.

My August babies.

Rebekah turned 19 yrs. old. Richard and I took her out to lunch.

Rebekah and I.

David's new number for football.

Our Nice Get Away June 25-28,2009

Our first night at the Smokey Mountains we camped out at Elkmont campground.

Our campsite was right next to a creek. We got to enjoy the sounds of water all night long.

Sarah and Jonathan

Our campsite with the tent in the background.

Richard Friday morning.

David getting a campfire going.

This is the creek

David, Jonathan, Richard

We went to Cades Cove that morning and got to see two sightings of bears. This one was is a tall tree off the road.

A tunnel on the way to Cades Cove.

David, Sarah, and Jonathan. Rebekah stayed behind to work.

That afternoon we went whitewater rafting on the Pigeon River.

on the left David, me, employee, our guide Davy. On the right Richard, Sarah, Jonathan.

I will post more pictures later.

May 25, 09 Early Memorial Day

Richard and I got an early jump start on the lake. It was so beautiful and peaceful! This was taken with Richard's cell phone at one of the islands on the lake.

I drove the jet ski for the first time. Trust me, I didn't go far from the beach with Richard not on it too.

May 31, 2009 A late afternoon on the lake.

Richard and Victoria went out first.

A nice ride back in

Sarah blowing up her float.

I ended up blowing it up though. =)

Sarah and Richard heading back in

Sarah taking a leap off the jet ski

splash!!

My turn to go out on the lake.

me and Richard

I'm learning how to drive this thing. Sarah went out with me.

Having some fun!!!

Me and Sarah

Victoria took this pic. Beautiful!

My handsome man, Richard. =)

May 26,2009 Pics that Jonathan took

Here are a few pic of the garden life

Our chickens

close up shot

They are fun to watch!

This is who we call Red. You have to watch this one, he's sneeky, or she.

May 24,2009 Life Is Happening!

Today Victoria got baptized by our Singles Minister, Mark.

DONE! =)

Sarah and I giving Victoria a hug!

Friends and family by Victoria's side. From the left, Sarah, Jesse Williamson, Victoria Tayes, Richard, Rebekah, me-Kim, and Jonathan, David had to work this morning so he went to the early service.

Sarah, Victoria, Rebekah

This is Wes,

Wes is trying to show us how you can bring a fly back to life by pouring salt on it. Look it up on You Tube.

Victoria took this!

Victoria and Rebekah. Yes, Rebekah is feeling so much better!!

me and Victoria

Jonathan is so proud of his garden. We're wanting to make it bigger now.

Our little chicks are getting bigger. They are eatting the bird seeds that the squirrles knock off.

Richard and I and David and Paige went out for the evening. We went to TGI Fridays for dinner and then IMAX to see A Night At the Museum 2.

silly!

sillier!!

silly

a good picture

a funny picture, Paige trying to share her drink. lol

Taken after the movie. We had such a fun night!

May 17,2009

Well a lot is going on around here. Our chickens are getting bigger and fully feathered. They love staying outside.

and with all the rain that we've been getting our garden is starting to show some life. We've got cucumbers, corn and green beans so far. Jonathan is doing a good job maintaining the garden.

May 16,2009

Today May 16th was a very busy day. Richard and I were up all night with Rebekah at the ER. That morning I had a jewelry show at noon, had to get back to get pictures of David and Rebekah before Prom and then there was Sarah's 20th birthday party to prepare for. Whew! What a day! Believe it or not everything went great! Rebekah was even feeling better enough to get out of bed and join the family for a while. She also had a friend come over and hang out with her. Thank your Elise!! =)
Here David is putting on Rebekah's wrist flower. =)

David and Rebekah

Don't they look nice!

Rebekah in her dress,

David in his suit. He looks so handsome!

This is David's first Prom!

Her flower arrangement came out really pretty.

Pretty!
Now to Sarah's birthday party.

Now what's a party without Twister. lol

It did get a bit twisty!

Here are some of the friends that showed up at the party.

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to Sarah! Happy birthday to youuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ya, the guys made sure that she got her spankings! lol

Make a wish!! again. lol

BLOW!!!!

See the little bear behind Sarah and Victoria. One of Sarah's friends went to Build a Bear and made that for Sarah. It's an Airforce bear. =)

Sarah found a baby cricket. =)

So ya, it was a very busy day but it went off with a big BANG!!!! =)

Today is May 14,2009 Sarah's 20th Birthday!!

Happy Birthday Sarah!!!

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to Sarahhhhhhh, happy birthday to youuuuuuuu!

Make a wish!!

and BLOW!!!!!!!

Reading her cards. See that laptop in her lap. See had the money and bought it a month ago. So Richard and I put some money towards it as part of her birthday gift.

reading,

opening,

a base to set her laptop on to keep it cool,

and a case to carry it in. =) It's high tech stuff this year. =) Happy Birthday Sarah, We love you!!!!

May 13,2009

David had to give a speech with a power point today in English. Doesn't he look handsome.

Here is our finished product! Doesn't it look pretty. I am so glad to have my floor finished and my house back from strangers!!!!!!

Jonathan watering the garden.

Oh,oh, while I was in the middle of posting this two more deer just showed up. That makes 6 total for this morning. =)- May 27,09.

May 12,2009 Working the garden

Conveniently about the same time we decide to get our garden going, Jonathan is assigned to put in 25 hours in a job. This is a project for his agri-science. Here Jonathan is preparing the ground.

Cleaning it out.

Putting down the top soil.

Laying the sod into rows,

Planting the seeds. We placed the packets there till we could make the signs. More pictures later.

May 11,2009

Today mom is heading back home,

in her new car. Doesn't she look good in it. NOW if we can just get it back on the road again! =(

Yes, we are still living with this flooring. Mom got to enjoy it over the weekend too. I think Katie is liking it. lol =)

Today Sarah decided to make dinner. She looked up some chicken recipes can came across a lemon chicken. Doesn't it look good! You grated the lemon rind- fresh, crush garlic cloves, squeeze the juice out of the lemons, add paprica, parsely, onions, place in aluminum foil and grill.

We had some lemons left over so Sarah and Jonathan had a lemon contest.

GO!

Yummy! =)

hahahahah

Yea!! They both won!! =)

And tada!! Finished! I forgot to get a pic of the finished product. Sorry! =) But it sure was yummy!!

May 10,2009 Mother's Day

Today we went to church and mom got to drive her new car. =)

I didn't know which picture to post so I did both.

Jonathan we to a friends house and caught this fish in his pond. Good job Jonathan!

I just had to step outside and get a closer look of these two baby deer. They are so cute, may 27,09. Maybe I will get a picture of them and post it today too.

May 9, 2009 Mother's Day weekend

This is a flooded field near one of our creeks.

This is the flooded creek. I have never seen it flooded like this in the 5 years that we've been here. It was moving fast!!

Oh as I am typing this on May 27th , I have 4 deer roaming around in our back yard. =)

May 8,2009 Mother's Day weekend

Sarah got the day off. So, we went to her work, Famous Dave's for lunch. We took this outside the restraunt. Pat, Sarah, Kim

Then we went downtown Nashville to walk around. Boy was the river up high. We have been getting so much rain! See the flag poles in the water. There's also a stage there.

Sarah with the Titans stadium behind her. Part of the art is in the water too. A few days later that bottom part was completely under water.

Mom with Nashville behind her.

The river was flowing fast with some hitch hikers.

There were some birds that were hopping from one log to another as they floated down river. It was funny to watch.

Mom, congregating with the pigeons. lol

Hey! We found Elvis! He is ALIVE and living in NASHVILLE! Click on the picture to view it closer. You'll see him!

Mom and Sarah walking down Broadway, the main strip.

May 7, 2009 Road trip Mother's Day weekend

Jonathan and I went on a road trip on Thursday to pick up my mom/grandma for the weekend.

Here we are entering into Alabama.

Letisha surprised mom and I with a pretty and YUMMY cake. lol Can you see the baby on the left, while mama is getting the laundry out of the washer. lol Cute!

Trevor and Johanna watching their cousin Jonathan.

Jonathan helping Caleb learn how to ride a bike. Jonathan was getting his exercise.

Joshua and Caleb hitching a ride on Jonathan.

Trevor watching the boy's being silly.

Jonathan hanging Caleb upside down. lol

Joshua is almost as long as Jonathan.

Sweet Johanna relaxing on the doggy.

Jonathan continueing the tradition of grandpa Bickers giving everyone rides on his back. Now Jonathan is doing it with his cousins, Caleb and Joshua.

The kids love it when David and Jonathan gives them rides. Here is Caleb and Rachel.

Johanna sharing stars with us.

Here's my Trevor ready to go to Africa. =)

Rachel's silly face. =)

Caleb's silly smile. =)

Jonathan with his cousins. From the left Joshua, Rachel, Johanna, Jonathan, Trevor, and Caleb. Did we miss anyone? I don't think so. =)

Aunt Kimmy had to get a picture with all of her nieces and nephews!!

Our silly picture!

Pretty smiles!!

Then we got mom and headed back to Tennessee. Here mom is reading her Mother's Day card.

Then Sarah had mom follow some streamers out the front door that wrapped around to the garage door. Waiting in the garage was her car. She was definitely surprised!!

May 4, 2009

We recruted the whole family into this project. We even made a few straglers work too.

Sarah pulling up staples in the hallway.

Making sure all of the staples were pulled up in the dining area.

The original flooring. I loved this flooring.

Before and in between look.

Ya, Victoria was one of our straglers that got caught up in the pulling of staples.

This is what we lived with for a week I believe.

I think we pulled up about a million staples out of this flooring. NOT FUN!!

May 3, 2009

The insurance company found out the our previous flooring no longer is available. So they had to replace the entire wood flooring. We decided to do pull up of the old flooring. Take notice of David's muscle reflex in this picture. =)

It took us a day 1/2 to get this done.

May 2,2009 We got us some new pets!

Can you guess what Jonathan has in the box?
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6 LITTLE CHICKENS!!!!

David is holding one,

and Jonathan is holding one

Red is called Rhode Island Red, the black and white are Barred Rock and the yellow are Buff Orpingtons.

They aren't fully feathered in these pictures and it will be a year before they lay any eggs.

Here Richard is teaching Katie that the chickens are friends not food.

She's keeping an eye on them.

Till they are fully feathered we had to keep them in the garage.

April 28,2009

The path in our woods.

Katie and Nala loves to go for a walk through the woods to the meadow.

Katie

Nala trying to hide from Katie...

Now Katie's turn to hide from Nala. They like to play hide n seek in the meadow.

Jonathan chillin on the hammack.

Talking to some cute girl on the phone.

Rebekah got me this plant for Mother's Day a year ago. It has the sweetest smell to it. It's called Syringa 'Miss Kim'
Botanical Name: Syringa patula Miss Kim Ice-Blue Delight Extends Lilac Season.

April 23,2009 Happy 17th Birthday David.

Is favorite Dairy Queen ice cream cake.

Getting ready to make a wish....

blowing out all 17 candles.

Are you talking to me?!

David opening one of his gifts.

David and Rebekah..Happy 17th Birthday David.

lol, look how Richard is sitting.

Now, I wonder how Katie learned how to sit like that. lol

This is what I had to walk across for almost 3 weeks! Not fun!! 4/21/09

Found this cute little bunny on the property on April 20,2009.

April 18,2009

Richard, David, and Jonathan working on getting grandma Bickers car ready for her surprise.

Coming along pretty good.

March 17,2009 We went to the zoo

Today Jonathan and I went to the zoo. I'm hoping that the pictures will help bring some of you here to go with us next time. =)

The zoo has 3 different types of monkey's. When they get going boy can they get LOUD! The only thing that seperates us is a circle of water. The are very afraid of the water.

Here's a close up of some of them.

Jonathan watching the monkey's.

Our pretty birds.

This one was looking at my camera to see if I had any food.

Our female giraffs

and Jonathan watching the male giraffe eat a treat that the caretaker hung in the tree.

This is the safare area where the 3 elephants live.

a close look of one

This is their pool.

The two females again.

Me =)

On of my favorites, the Meerkats

We have new zebra's. These guys have a brown strip on them. They also think that 4 of the females might be pregnant.

This is our Bengal. We have two, one white and one yellow. Nothing obstucts our view of them. A waterfall seperates us from them.

A little fence seperates us from these cute baby Lynxx's. Look at his paw.

The other baby.

We also have Gators. They also have a big pool.

Me walking throught the bamboo trail.

Posing. =)

Our male clouded Leopard. We also have a female, she was sleeping.

A close up look.

One of our red Pandas

Koi

Joshua's favorite- LEMARS!!

They were sleeping in a ball.

This is our Guenon monkey. Jonathan one time threw a green grape in there area. Your not suppose to feed the monkeys. But the monkey did like it.

A fence seperates us from them.

He was licking on a stick.

One of our Cougars

A fence and waterfall seperates us.

Bongo

We have a petting zoo

Meerkat

a viewing area for the kids to see the Meerkats

Hey, a foot print! Can you guess what it is?

The caretaker gives our elephants things to play with. Today he is playing with a stick. This helps keep the elephants from getting bored.

The foot print was from a giraffe.

I took a bunch of pictures of he male giraffe eating his treat.

Look at his lonnnnng tongue.

Ya, I like the giraffes too. =)

Jonathan does too.

this is how close you can get to the giraffes.

This is a scull of an elephant

From the side you can see their teeth.

Hey an animal got loose!! Oh, that's Jonathan!!

Can you guess who these foot prints belong too? The big ones.

Me relaxing at the old historic home

Jonathan sliding down the rail.

The prints are from an elephant.

Hey mom! We even have a graveyard at our Zoo!!

This is the historic home. In the back is a slaves home and tow different out houses. One for the slaves made of wood and one for the owners made of brick.

Our carousel

Our play area

a view of it.

Hey Joshua, Caleb, Rachel, Trevor, Johanna, DJ and Maggie!! =0 Come visit me and I will take you here!! =) Hope to see you real soon!!

March 15, 2009 Early Birthday/ Mission Trip

Today David is leaving for Macon, Mississippi to do some mission work at a kids camp. This camp is needing help getting it ready for all of their summer kids. The camp serves those who are disabled in some way. They also survive on donations only.

Before he left we decided to give David his birthbay gift early.

Yes, a camera. =) We are a camera family you know. =)

The team

Richard lead the group prayer.

More ready to leave than their mom's were. =)

Can't wait to see his pictures! =)

March 14,2009 Job Fair/ Truck Repair

Richard hooking up the rear brakes.

Here is Jonathan dumping out the old oil from the new-used trans axle that we had to buy for the truck.

David finishing up putting on the new used trans axle. This used thing cost $400.00 and it still has a noise to it. Just not like the original one we had on. I think this is a result from when that stupid guy tboned our truck in the parking lot.

This is a picture of Nashville Shores in the winter. They lower the lake in the winter. The small shack usually has water underneath it. David had a job fair today at Nashville Shores.

This in not an island, it is a rock that would normally be underwater with a bouy above it. We would normally float around the bouy . Now I know what they are talking about. This is a BIG ROCK!!

Another view of Nashville Shores.

March 13,2009 An interesting chilly morning.

Our neighbor down the road horses got out. They decided to go on a FIELD trip. You know, the grass is greener on the other side. =) Jonathan was trying to feed this one a sugar cube. This one looked really sick to me.

Click on the picture and you will see Sarah waving hello. She was on her way out the door to go to work when she saw the horses walking pass our house.

There were 5 of them. They truely are neglected horses. I feel so sorry for them! When Sarah went and told the owners about their horses they came and got them. The man ended up taking them over to the other farm where he lives. Maybe now they will get the care that they deserve!!

March 12,2009 Lift-A-Thon

David getting ready to spot this guy.

David doing his lift. I can't remember how much he was lifting. He was dealing with an injured rotater cup and wrist.

He has Phil. 4:13 written on his arm.

David was trying to lift 125 lbs here.

March 10,2009 It was a warm day and the pets wanted to play.

Nala

Enjoying the warm sunshine.

Katie playing in the dirt.

Nala getting a drink.