Newest member of the Draper family...Natasha Grace!

We are all exited to announce the most recent addition to the Draper Family. Natasha Grace Draper! Born on the Morning of Christmas at 1:16, the perfect little angle has arrived to bless TJ and Rachel Draper. Allen has been so much fun, now the fun is doubled! and so is the trouble! Bring it on!

The other day I was throwing away all the old magazine and got caught by Abigail who quickly "rescued" them all.
She then proceeded to cut out all the models and, wallah! Paper dolls!

Gettysburg

Oh, Wow! I didn't realize how long it'd been since we updated this blog :(

Well if there's still anyone out there who read reads this thing I got a few pictures of Levi's recent hands-on history lesson.

Levi is the family civil war buff so when Mom and Dad decided to take a trip to PA with some friends They decided to take Levi and make a side trip to Gettysburg. I think saying that Levi was thrilled would be an understatement:P

Here's the three of them in front of a really pretty view



Here's Mr. Castille and His daughter Christy checking out the guns that started the battle





Levi and Sean Castille "firing" what Levi tells me was the civil wars' best cannon.



Here's Devil's den taken from Little round top



And of course the place where Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg adress




Gravestones

Birthday boy

Saturday allen turned two! Wow! that's hard to believe.
TJ and Rachel invited us over, and Rachel's family came down too.
It was fun. Here are all of us.

Unwrapping the presents.

Blowing out the candles.

Pictures of the "His Cuteness"

The blogs been pretty quiet lately so I thought I'd take the opportunity to post some pics of Allen :)

These are from a few days ago when Allen spent the day a our house.

A hungry boy


All done


Allen and his crazy uncle


Always busy

What's this ?!

A hard workin' boy of course!



Boaz the weed eatin' little man !

Happy Birthday Dad

Tuesday June 24th was dad's 52nd Birthday.


Later Mom and Dad went out to eat at Applebees in Columbia, where unknown to Dad, Mr. and Mrs. Castille were waiting to surprise him.
Also that same night Elise and I went to a horse show and on the way home the horse trailer blew a tire.[It was about 10:30] Elise called Dad and Dad went and got the Stokes horse trailer, we put the horses in the Stokes trailer and brought it all home. Well everything ended up OK and we did get some sleep.

Jordon's snake

The other day Jordon saved all the pigeon's
[except one] from being killed by a big black SNAKE.
The snake got that one already,it was a baby.

Just Because Ya'll Have To See

A quick post to show ya'll the video I took of Elise's run at Scotts Hill. She won first place with a time of 16.144.

The Center Of Attention

We had TJ and Rachel over Last Friday for grilled hamburgers, and they were yummy! I took a video so you all can see how cute allen is, who is in fact, the center of attention. And for those of you who don't yet know, I will soon have another little nephew or niece! (I'm hoping for a niece!) We are all very exited about the new life God has added to the Draper family.

In Case You Were Wondering.........

What the Drapers have been up to, I got some pics for ya




I guess you could say I think in rows.

Here's a closer look at the cabbage

as you can see we put brown paper feed sacks around these cabbage plants and covered them with ashes. That's supposed to keep the bugs away but I've also noticed that they are bigger than the cabbage plants that don't have ashes around them.


That would be a broccoli plant.

This year we decided to try growing potatoes in mulch. so far so good.


I also planted onions in between the new strawberry plants for the sake of space;

Now I'm wondering just how good of an idea that was (note the runners growing between the onions)


English peas. not yet at their peak... er I hope anyway, so far we haven't picked enough to do anything with.

Some beans of course (green and shell)


closer


southern peas just sprouted this week

Happy Birthday Elise!

Yesterday was Elise's Birthday, but we didn't celebrate [ eat cake and such] until today.
The reason we didn't do it yesterday is because she went out to eat with dad.
Here is the cake, it was a chocolate mint cake.
Blowing out the candles.

Here are the presents, before they were unwrapped.

And after they were unwrapped.

Jordon's Birthday

Last Sunday was Jordon's birthday, so after church we invited the Stokes, Pratts, and the T.J. Draper family over.
It was fun!
We had cheesecake.

He didn't open presents in front of everybody, but he did get them.


They also played their instrument's.

Happy Birthday!!!

King of the Playground



All the kiddos on the dizzy-go-round :-)



Presents- ain't that why we have birthdays ?



We look forward to many more years and watching God's plan for Levi's life unfold

A Highway

We have a lot of small pieces of hardwood from doing the floors [ which still aren't done ]
so this is what Boaz and I did.

Then we added cars.

Chicks

Jordon and Levi put some eggs in the incubator and four hatched.
Two bantam and two big chicks.[don't know what kind]
They are so cute!

Dad's new truck

On Friday March 28th dad got a new truck, so here are some pics.
and inside the topper