Oklahoma is Still Home

It's been over 8 months since I visited my family here in OK.
Seeing my family again has been a blessing, God is good.
I've not yet seen two of my brothers of all 15 of my siblings
but I'm having a good time with the ones I have visited. :~)

I started in 2007 taking pictures of the kiddos by the OK. sign...

Here they are today with the sun STILL in their eyes, LOL!

Daddy Had a Birthday!!!

The kids and I baked a cake and decorated it with legos...
you talk about it was SOME CAKE when we got finished!
I got in a hurry and my cake split on me...but it was all good.

Her is lil' man licking the goodies

and playing with legos...

Daddy was very surprised when he came

in from work; cake and gifts...

They all wanted to help him put

is new BBQ pit together...

Trying it out you see,

look at that fire...

Reorganizing My Life Part2

#4 Rade the piggy banks for quarters...washing clothes gets
pretty pricy!
If your camper doesn't have a washer & dryer, than your
going to need a lot of quarters. In one month I can wash up to
18 loads of laundry, thats been around $90 a month!!!

#5 Learn how to dump the *black holding tank*...in this
heat will stink the whole camper up!
I learned the hard way, if your hubby forgot to dump the tank
you better know how yourself. After watching him a time or
two, I think I did a pretty good jod for my FIRST time.

#6 Find slow-cooker recipes...it won't heat up your camper!
When it's over 100* outside and your AC is going full blast
and your trying to cook on a stove that is only heating up the
camper...throughing everything in a slow-cooker that morning
is WAY easier and less stressful on my family.

Scotch Fastners are awesome

for hanging things up, even our lil' girl

enjoys the new things hanging!

Reorganizing My Life Part1

There was a time I would reorganize to clean...now it just means to

make things FIT! I reorganized about 5 times before we moved into

the camper full time, and in the past 11 weeks have reorganized

another 5 times just to make better room for it all.

I've been thinking of some of the things I'm learning about

full-time-camping...

#1 Take only food and clothes...leave the rest!

Boy this is hard to do, and with school just 3 weeks away, I have

ordered the books and making room for it all is HARD! Time to

reorganize again in here.

#2 Don't try to blow dry your hair when the AC and TV is

going...you'll blow a braker!

It never fails, if you have too much going in the camper you will blow

a braker, so you learn to turn things off or just go without it, I go to

bed with wet hair now.

#3 Remember the ice-box is small...so buy smaller portions!

When you have about fourth of milk left in the gallon, you can't just

buy another one and make it fit in the ice-box...no, you only have

enough room for ONE. And so shopping comes more often living

in the camper because you can't buy in bulk to make it last.

Love my handy shark, even my 4 yr.old can help!

My Lil' Fire Crackers

Fireworks we couldn't set off this year because of a burn-ban,
but we got to go to the gulf on Dauphin Island here in Alabama
and watch an AWESOME fireworks show over the water.

Daddy had a few days off so he fried us up the last of
our deer meat from home, while the kids played cards.