Two Stoney Acres

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As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts, too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin. ~anonymous

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Addison & Grayson

Liberty & Tommy went to North Carolina this weekend to attend his cousin's wedding. We shared the boys with Grandma and Grandpa Smith. Unfortunately, Addison was sick almost since the minute Liberty & Tommy left on their trip. He had a very high fever and right lower belly pain. Thursday evening, we took him to the ER to be checked out. He had to have IV fluids and lab work. He was sent home, but we were told to watch out for appendicitis. He had a temp all weekend but did stop complaining about belly pain. On Sunday 7/3, he was feeling a little better and wanted to play outside. It was over 90 degrees, so we played in the barn where it was cool. The boys rode the peddle tractor and sat in Pappy's skid steer. It was so much fun spending time with the boys!

Addison

Grayson

Monday, June 27, 2011

Spending Time with Addison & Grayson

Liberty and the boys are spending a few weeks in PA. On Sunday, June 26, 2011, we went to Fran's for supper, then went to Millville Park to play.

Jacob with Grayson (left) and Addison (right).

Grayson on the turtle!

Addison going across the monkey bars with Pap's help.

Jordana, Grayson and Addison on the fire truck.

Liberty and Jacob swinging.

After we were done playing at the park, we went to our friend Nancy's farm. She has a menagerie of usual and unusual animals, but primarily raises deer. She is bottle feeding 18 fawns right now. They were born between the end of May and mid-June. They are precious and the boys really enjoyed seeing them.

Grason (left) and Addison (right) with two of the fawns.

Here are a few of the babies!

Jesse with Nancy. She is one of the nicest people on the Earth.

Motivation

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
Randy K. Milholland

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work. You don't give up.
Anne Lamont

Inspiration

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. ~ Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

Advice to young women from Nancy and Ann Wilson, of the rock group Heart (as printed in the 09/19/10 Parade magazine):
Nancy: There's a great deal of pressure on young women to portray a hyper-sexualized image.
Ann: And I think they get told that if they do that they're going to be successful. When, in actuality, if they look like pole dancers, all they do is make themselves more disposable. So be true to yourself.