Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Hill Family...




Thanksgiving Glitters

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from Hannah!

Halloween 2009

Scooby Doo and the Mystery of the Disappearing Food!

Daniel as Shaggy

Cake as Daphne

Cam as Velma

Hannah Boo as Scooby Doo's Girlfriend

Yours Truly as the Witch Scooby and Gang are chasing!

"And I would have succeeded too...

if it had not been for those meddling kids and their stupid dog!!"

"Anyone interested in a little Scooby snack"??

Cake as the lovely Daphne

The Evil and Sinister Witch...

Witch Sister-in-laws!

Daphne and Velma

Pa and Nanny on their 62nd Wedding Anniversary...Oct 31st. Pa died 6 days later!

Hannah as Hannah Boo/Scooby Doo's Girlfriend

"Witch" one you going to try first?

Nanny and Pa's 62nd Anniversary Cake

Cam as Velma

Cake by Anthony!

Happy Fall Y'all...

Hope you all had a great Fall season; we certainly did. School started off a bit slow as we went on a late vacation to Myrtle Beach with some friends.

Then... Daniel got the fishing fever so went back less than a month later with his Mom and Dad and our nephew, Jacob.

We had a great time together making precious memories!

Dano at Murrell's Inlet

Papaw and Granny...She's not really fishing!

Cake and Cam outside Rioz Brazilian Steakhouse.

Cake's favorite new restaurant (normally she does not like meat...but loves Rioz).

A day of fun in the sun!

Here's a pic of Cake...just turned 12 and growing up so fast...

My "Baby" Cam...turned 10...

Granny, Papaw, Cake, Cam and Jake outside Rioz...

Dano the Mano with his BIG fish!!

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Anthony's Wedding

This is pictures from my brother-in-law Anthony's wedding.

My new sister-in-law Kathy.

I hope they are happy for many, many years to come.

Anthony and Jacob deserves a good wife and mother...I am glad he found Kathy!

Beauty and the Beast Broadway Jr.

Here are a few pics of Cake and Cam's dress rehearsal for Beauty and the Beast Broadway Jr. They play the parts of:

Bookseller - Cake

Hat Seller - Cam

Tea Cup - Cake

Napkin - Cam

This is American Idol winner Kris Allen leading praise and worship in his church.  

Books, Movies, and what we have been up to...

I cannot believe it has been over a month since I last posted.  We have been involved in so many

 end of school activities...we are winding down and I am ready for summer break.  The girls have two upcoming performances, one in Musical Theatre called "One Night Only" and then Cake's

 piano recital as well as both of them in Musical Theatre recital.  They are then gearing up for Camp Broadway Jr. for two weeks.  This year they are doing "Beauty and the Beast".  We are going to try to get in a few days vacation at Busch Gardens Williamsburg before they start camp.

The girls and Daniel have also been testing for their new TaeKwonDo belts...Cam tested from Orange to Green, Cake from Yellow to Orange and Daniel from White to Yellow.  They did their first board breaking the other night and did great.

We also went to see Wolverine X-Men Origins.  It was a great movie...We all dressed up like X-Men a couple of years ago for Halloween.  We can't wait until the next one comes out...suppose to be Magneto and then Deadpool.  How cool is that?  

Daniel as Wolverine

Cam as Storm

Cake as Rogue

I have read three of the most awesome books this month...the first is

 Fablehaven Dragon Santuary by Brandon Mull.  Fabulous series of books if you like faeries and mythical creatures.  

Second, by my favorite new teen author Laurie Halse Anderson, is Wintergirls.  A book about two teenage girls with deating disorders...one is bulimic and one is anorexic.  This is an awesome read...very eye opening to this disease.

Third, also by Laurie Halse Anderson, is Speak...Oh my goodness you have to read this book.  It is about a girl that is sexually assaulted while at a party and was too young and scared to tell anyone for a year.  It describes her first year of high school carrying this secret.  She went from a popular girl with lots of friend to having absolutley none and being made fun of.  She essentially just stopped talking to anyone...this is really a great book.

One more book by this author of a different genre is Fever 1793.  This is a historical fiction about the epedemic of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia.  Awesome book...great reads for Moms even though it is considered a teen book.

Chicks, Snow...Easter or Christmas??

Yesterday Daniel built a chicken coop,  rather refurished a bunny condo, for his 15 chicks.  Who knows what "flavors" we will have.  We did get two colored chicks for the girls...you must read how they are "engineered".  The eggs are injected with dye prior to hatching, the chicks are not dyed afterwards like I thought...how cool is that?  Would be a great science project!

Yesterday it was in the 80's now it is is the 30's...who turned on the air conditioner?  Hope the chicks stay warm!

Kaitlyn's New Hobby

1-800-GOOG-411

OK... here is one of the coolest new things out there; a free service offered by Google. Please click on the video on the sidebar to see how Google can look up a number or business for you totally free and will even text you a map showing you directions how to get there. Pretty cool if you ask me! Technology...you gotta love it!

Finally Friday...

This is one of my all time fav photos taken at Disney a couple of years ago...my little mouseketeers were so sweet during that trip. They were so excited, you could often find them hugging each other and holding hands. Unfortunately, when the "Disney Magic" wore off so did the hugging and hand holding!

This week we have been recovering from sickness (the girls) going to sewing class, I had a birthday unfortunately my sweet hubby was out of town the day before of the day of my birthday, so I found it rather boring and slightly depressing. I miss my sweetie when he is not here.

This year he got me very practical gifts...a new 19" computer monitor as I gotten use to two monitors and my other one decided to give up the ghost. Today for Valentines Day he got me a carpet cleaner...not that I really want a carpet cleaner because I hate using them, but I thought it might be more economical than having them cleaned.

The girls started back to TaeKwonDo last week; they had been out for about 9 months and I think they were ready to get back into the groove. Daniel started taking it with them and they really enjoy that. They also have some more homeschool friends in the group so that makes things much more fun. It is much more fun to "ninjer" together!

window frost

window frost 3, originally uploaded by Miss Plum.

I ran across this photo today on flickr and I thought it was awesome. I remember when I lived at home and it would be cold enough to make frost on the inside of the window and I would scrape it off with my fingernail...but this is awesome. I guess I was just too cold to realize the beauty of frost back then!

Winter Wonderland

Finally we got some significant snow!!! I love the snow but hate getting out in it to go anywhere. I love staying at home snuggled up with a cozy blanket with the girls and animals on the bed doing school. I am also very thankful to my sweet husband that DOES brave the weather and goes out into the cold and snow to earn a living so that I can stay home with our girls. Thank you sweetie!

All though this picture could be considered morbid, I think the graveyard makes an awesome picture. It just seems to express how cold and still everything is...

Then you have someone that LOVES the cold and snow...our Siberian Husky Sigma!!! She loves playing in the snow and bounces around like a kangaroo waiting for the girls to come out and play with her.

Oddly enough, this is my lilac bush. It has old blossoms as well as new buds coming...a haven for the birds.

Dust of Snow
by Robert Frost (1923)

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.