Our Trip: Part One

One of the highlights of our trip was stopping at the Atherton family home on our way to Ohio.  We met Mr. Atherton and his daughters at the "Father and Daughter" retreat a couple of years ago.  Since then, I've corresponded with Victoria and we were really excited for this opportunity for our families to get together.  We greatly enjoyed the time of fellowship and it was very nice to be able to meet and visit with the rest of their family as well.

Fellowshipping while we ate dinner.

The other table.

After dinner, we had a fun time playing some games.  The Atherton's taught us how to play "Upset the Fruit Basket".  We had a great playing the game!!

Sabrina in the middle.

Find a seat quick!

Olivia and Sayer

Waiting to hear what Stasia would call out.

In our places.

Next we had a great time playing "Dutch Blitz" (quite similar to "Nertz") with giants size cards!!!  We divided up into teams and we each had our own team name as well.

"The Sailing Sisters"

"The Green Mountain Boy"

"Suspense"

"The Quartet"

 

Getting ready.

In action.

Getting the cards out to the middle.

More playing.

Some of the movie "Pendragon: Sword of His Father" was filmed on their property.  It was really neat to see some of the places in person!  After the games, we headed out to the horse barn where all of the stable scenes were shot and the kids got to ride on one of the horses.

Seth

Sayer

Stasia

Sienna

Sabrina

Me

Then all three of the little ones got on!

Seth, Samuel and Sayer by one of the "Pendragon" shields.

Sienna, Victoria and Stasia by the "Pendragon" shield.

Then, we got pictures in the horse stalls that Artos and Wenneveria used.

Next, we went to their cellar which was used as the dungeon in "Pendragon".

On the "dungeon" stairs.


In the corner

(Note: The Atherton's have canned rows and rows of fruit, veggies, jam etc. It was so neat to see all of them!)

Victoria and I

The Atherton and Cochran Children

We sure had a great time with you all!!!  Thank you again for having us and thank you for all of the pictures too!!!

Happy New Year!!!

New year greetings to everyone!!!  May you have a blessed day and blessed 2010!!!

After a couple weeks of being down with a sickness that is going around, I'm back to blogging with a few new posts below!!  Thankfully, we are on the road to recovery (just a few eye infections left!)  So, we praise the Lord for that.

Even though we were sick, we did have a wonderful time with daddy as we enjoyed his two-week break over the holidays.  We just spent time as a family playing games, spending time together and discussing goals for the new year.  You would not have wanted to be here with us though as we had eye infections, ear infections, head colds, coughs and sore throats.  Can you believe it!!! :)

As a quick note on some news from our family, Shenandoah is now an official "walker"!!!  She is walking all over the place trying to keep up with everybody.  It is so cute! :)

Snow

We got snow!!!  A couple of weeks ago, we did end up getting our first snow of the season.  We actually only got about 2 1/2 inches.  But, some friends of ours who live to the east and south of us got 8-12 inches!!!

Fresh snow at sunset.

A closer look at the sky.  Isn't it beautiful?

Footprints in the snow.

Sunday Afternoon Tea

This past Sunday I stayed home from church with Stasia, Seth and Sayer because we had colds.  I thought it would be fun to surprise them with an afternoon tea party.

Tea

 

Honey Cinnamon Cookies

The Table

While we enjoyed our tea and cookies, we read about missionary David Brainerd who was an amazing warrior for Christ and shared the gospel with many different Indian tribes in the mid 1700's.

We had a very enjoyable time together!

Shenandoah's First Birthday!!! December 4th, 2009

It is hard to believe that Shenandoah is one year old already!!!  She is such a sweet little thing and a huge delight to our family.  Hope you enjoy the pictures from her first birthday!!!

The Birthday Girl

Shenandoah by her birthday sign.  She loved the balloons!  Do you notice the "Baby's 1st Birthday" balloon in the middle?  That is from the same package that all of my sisters and I have had on our first birthdays.  We thought that was fun!

The Cochran Kids

Shenandoah and Stasia
(I love this picture)
  

 Stasia with funny face Shenandoah!!

Seth and Shenandoah 

Shenandoah and Sabrina 

Shenandoah and Sienna

Shenandoah and Sayer

Aren't they fun!!

 Shenandoah and I 

 

Present Time!

  

Daddy helping her undo the packaging.

She was SO excited when she opened up her baby doll.  She really loves it and likes to take it with her wherever she goes.

 

Shenandoah and Baby.

Shenandoah with her presents.

She was facinated with the candle.

Thinking about it...

Tasting...

  I think she liked it pretty well!

(I made her an almond bunt cake and it was the first time she had ever had any cake!)

We love you Shenandoah!!!  

Back To The Blog!

Greetings!  With preparations for our trip, gone on the trip, settling in after the the trip and getting sick from being on the trip it has been a couple weeks since I posted!  Oh, by the way, did I tell you we went on a trip?!!

Some quick updates...

We are doing well except for a few colds.  Thankfully, they are getting better.  That's a blessing!

Over the next few days, look forward to several new posts I've got coming up including:

Shenandoah's First Birthday.


A Sunday Tea

and...

The Creation Museum and Sufficiency of Scripture Conference 
(please note: I'm waiting on pictures so, no garrantees that those posts will be soon.  But, hopefully so!

I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying this beautiful cold winter weather (we are supposed to get snow sometime this week.  I'll post pictures if we do).  Stay warm!

God Bless,

Savannah (for the rest of the Cochran's)

Shenandoah is Standing!!!

Shenandoah is such a joy to our family. We love her so much!!! It is SO hard to believe that she is one year old today!!!  She is growing and changing very fast. Standing has been her new "thing" to do and actually, she has already taken a couple of steps. It won't be long until she is walking!!!

Here is a video of when she first started standing up by herself about a week ago. We were having family worship, and all of the sudden, Shenandoah just started standing up over and over again in the middle of the floor!

The video is about 3 minutes long. Towards the end, she starts standing up for longer periods of time! We were all so excited (as you'll probably guess from all the cheers in the background).

We hope you enjoy it!

Thoughts From Thanksgiving

Greetings! We hope everyone was blessed with a glorious Thanksgiving just as we were. We had a wonderful day as a family spending time together and remembering all that the Lord has done for us.

One of our family traditions is to give "thankful" cards to each of our family members.  We enjoy telling each other what we are thankful for in them and encouraging each other as well.

This year, I wanted to share with you Sayer's card to me. It was very precious and we thought you may find it somewhat humorous as well - just as we did! As you will read, his revolved around food. :) I'll post what he said below.

"Dear Savannah,

I am thankful that you make me oatmeal, oatmeal bake, cornbread, beans, and that you are already making pie.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Love,

Sayer"