Update on our little birdies

R.I.P. Hope

About a week ago we noticed that Shelbie little birdie 'Hope' had something wrong with it's beak. It was all puffy and reddish-blackish color. We put some peroxide on it and prayed that she would get better in time to release them on Saturday. The next day Shelbie and I had been noticing that we hadn't seen Hope that morning, when I went out to feed and water them. When I went out, I started to look for her, I found her in her little nesting box still sleeping. I imediately realized that she wasn't sleeping I was very sad and didn't want to tell Shelbie, but I had too. I told Shelbie and she ran out there to make sure. She was very sad and we all just prayed that when she had passed away she just fall asleep and and didn't feel a thing. Shelbie is still very sad that Hope wasn't alive to be released with all the others, but she knows that she is with Jesus now.

Freedom at last!

On Friday Shelbie and I made the decision to release the birdies the next day. We were very sad and knew that we were going miss them. We brought them inside and held them for awhile. Shiloh our most untamed one got out of Shelbie's hand and started to fly around the house. We all tried to catch her. Poppet was walking out side just at that moment, Shiloh flew straight outside and into our tree. Shelbie was sad, but she said all along she knew that Shiloh would be the first to go. We put Faith and Jackie back in the cage and opened the door. They didn't leave for about 3 hours after that. Faith ended up leaving second. About a hour after that Jackie left too.

They haven't came back yet, but we know that they are happy.

~ Shaylah

My First Fish!!!

Out of all the times I have gone fishing, and all the times that I have gotten snagged or gotten a bite or jerked to soon or a fish getting off before I could reel it in, I have never caught a fish. I love fish. They taste so so GOOD. I like Favorite Black Bass, it is the best tasting fish ever.
Well as I was saying... Um .... Oh yeah, about the fish. So I have never caught a fish before, when we went camping (as you know from the boy's post) we went to a new place, it was only our second time going to this place. We went with our Aunt Lynette & Uncle Micah. Shyloh & Jeff came too. It was really fun with all of them.
This place is called "Clark's Fork" it has a little stream up there with lots of trout. Daddy and I saw a lot of fish that were 10 maybe 12 inch in length. We went fishing as soon as we got unpacked. We used night crawlers and salmon eggs. Daddy and I used the night crawlers and Shadd wanted to use the salmon eggs. Daddy kept getting a bite and every time he would jerk it had gotten off, he said that it felt small so it wasn't one of the 10 of 12 inch ones. I casted out for the 3rd time when I felt a tug. I waited for it to tug again then I would jerk. It tuged again and I jerked. I started to reel it in hoping that I had caught a fish. When I reeled it in and guess what...? I had caught my first fish!!! I was so excited and everyone started to call me the "bomb". Shadd and the little girls walked around the rest of that day saying "Who's The Bomb? SHAYLAH! "Who's The Bomb? SHAYLAH!!"
I brought it back and cleaned and cooked it myself and ate it. It was small so it only served as a one person meal. And let me tell you, it had to be the second best fish I have ever tasted (Black Bass is still my favorite). Daddy said he is going to bring Shadd and I Striper fishing in the next couple weeks. I am excited. Maybe I will be able to catch my first Striper.=)

Me and my prize

Me cleaning my prize

~Shaylah~

Our Camping trip!

We went camping a week ago. On the way up we broke down 1 time. As soon as we got their we took pictures. Then we unpacked and played. After that Uncle Micah did a little class with us boys about reptiles and snakes. Then he took us boys on a snake hunt. Uncle Micah caught one snake. It was a garter snake. Garter snakes are yellow and black. The next day I caught 3 and Shannen caught 1. Daddy caught a fish and Shaylah did to. We got up the next day and went and let 2 of the snakes go and earlier the last day we let 1 of the snakes go. We kept 2 baby snakes. Uncle Micah kept the 2 snakes at his house so we get to see them all the time. Uncle Micah gave us boys a whistle with a compass and a thermometer on it and a magnifying glass on it too. We had fun camping.

Uncle Micah and me

The first snake I caught

Close up picture

Shelbie and Shyloh

~Shayden~

The camping trip!!!......

We went camping on Sep 11th with Aunt Lynette, Uncle Micah, Shyloh and Jeff. We broke down and Jeff did too. We finally got there. We went snake hunting and fishing. We caught 5 snakes and 2 fish. I caught 1 snake, Shayden caught 3 snakes, Uncle Micah caught 1 too, and Shaylah caught 1 fish and daddy caught 1 fish too. The second night that we were there we were sitting by the fire and behind us we heard a big thump and Uncle Micah, Jeff, and Daddy jumped up with their flash lights and then shined it where the big thump came from and we all got really scared. Uncle Micah had to walk us to the bath room because he had a gun on him and a big flash light. Then we went to bed. In the morning I asked him what it was and he said it was a bear. Then we had to pack up and release the snakes but Uncle Micah kept 2 of them because he is a big snake guy and he has a whole room of snakes. Then we went to a swimming hole and swimmed there and it was really cold and Shayden and Shadd did not want to hop in but finally they hopped in to say that they did it. We had a very fun time!

~Shannen

At the swimming hole

Daddy and us

Me and Aunt Lynette

My snake I caught

Hiking to the river

My birthday!

Yesterday was my birthday. I got a tackle box and a fishing pole and lots of High School Musical stuff like pens, pencils, notebooks and binders. I went with Mama, Shyloh and aunt Lynette and we went to In and Out for lunch. It was fun! Then we came home and cleaned the house and Grandma and Grampa came over and Shyloh and Jeff came over and uncle Micah. We opened gifts and after gifts we ate cake we had a lot of fun!

~ SHANNEN~