A New Little Blessing!!

Our dear friends just welcomed a new little blessing into the world!

 Knox Nehemiah was born August 3rd, 2011

(isn't he precious?!)

 The new parents with Knox

 Everyone greatly enjoyed holding him

 Seth and Knox

 Sayer and Knox

 Sienna and Knox

 Reading

Best of friends.

Misc. Saturday "Stuff"

One Saturday, it was a little rainy, so we decided to put off outside work and just do a few things around the house.

 Daddy giving lessons on flying and plane making

 Progress

 Testing the finished product

 They all had fun!

 Sabrina wasn't feeling great that day, so she was taking it easy.  She worked on her lap book!

 Shenandoah

Cleaning out the fridge

FFF Night - Survival Game

The game was a new one and turned out to be a little different than we were originally expecting, but it was a fun evening just the same!

 The board

 Group picture

 Daddy read us the questions

 Team 1

 Team 2

 Team 3

Team 4

Sabrina and Seth won!!!

Misc. July Pictures

 Shenandoah loves her babies!

 We tried a lot of new squash recipes.  Here I made spaghetti squash with marinara sauce.  We like it!

 Sabrina saving seeds from our onions

 Playing train

 Sweet baby

 Daddy and Shenandoah

 Sienna and Stasia making dinner - they did a great job!

 Shenandoah with her new pillow Seth made her and her new horse Pumpkin

For one FFF Night, we had a popcorn and apples night and watched an old WWII movie "Air Force".

Something New - Cochran Family Briefs and Debreifs

Recently, daddy started using some of the techniques and information he has learned in the Air Force to help our family be more effective and pleasing to the Lord in our schedule, home life, and whatever we undertake to do.  Daddy includes different Bible lessons to help us hit our "targets" and avoid our "threats".  Each week has new (and sometimes a few old), objectives to achieve. As they've gotten a little harder, we've had to sometimes work on objectives for more than one week.   It has really been a blessing and we've already noticed a big improvement!!!  It has been a lot of fun too!!!

Sunday Evening Brief For the Week...

 Schedule, Education, Goals, Targets, Things to Avoid, and a lot more!

 Questions?!

Saturday Evening Debrief From the Week

 Discussing/Taking Notes

 Assessing how we did

Overall, we got pluses for all of our objectives that week.  Yeah!!!

Hannah's Birthday!

The end of July, we celebrated Hannah's birthday.  It was a lot of fun!!!  

 We were able to pick up Hannah and Lily and little earlier and they helped us prep for 

market the next day

 Sayer cut the bread for dinner

 Hannah and Sienna

 Lily reading to Seth and Shenandoah

 In front of the birthday sign

 Hannah

 Hannah and Shenandoah

 We got intel that she like raspberry cake.  We had never made one before, but it was a fun experiment!

 A birthday prayer...

 Blowing out the candles

Happy Birthday Hannah!!!

Canning Squash Pickles

Squash is one thing that did really well in our drought this year (until the squash bugs came!).  So we canned squash pickles.  They turned out really good!

 Mommy making regular pickles (we did a few of those too!)

 Sabrina

 Daddy

 Sayer and Shenandoah

 Just in from animal chores

Sayer helped with dinner!