Big news!

Hey ya'll this is Trevor. I'm Thelma husband and I am doing a blog post for her. Well the big news around our place has been about a baby...

Our baby to be exact. The sweetest, cutest and most perfect baby girl was born on

April the 23rd at 10:29am.

Isabella Grace Castlebury

The labor and delivery went very well. We chose to have our baby at a birthing center, with a midwife, instead of at a hospital. The birthing center was awesome and we had very intimate and exciting birth.

This was taken 30 minutes after she was born.

She sure does sleep a lot.




Having a good dream I believe. What do babies dream about?



Thelma and Isabella on mothers day :)



Isabella and me on mothers day.





2 happy girls :)



She loves to cuddle.

Some people will lead you to believe that having children is a pain and tell you about how bad life now is, loss of sleep, and how life is now ruined since having a child. But don't listen to them. There's nothing like it and its all in what you make of it.

Spring chickens

Wow! It has been over 6 months since I last posted. Trevor and I are doing very good. God has continued to bless us and our marriage. Well this morning I went to the post office and when I got home I decided to do a blog post on what I had picked up there for Trevor.


He now has 100 some chicks.



You might ask why, what for, or what brought this about?


Well you see...
Last year Trevor decided to give raising some meat chickens a try. So after reading Joel Salatin's book "Pastured Poultry Profits" and putting together a small brooder he ordered 20 Cornish Cross chicks. :) They are cute at first...


and then in my point of view they are just ugly as they start getting their fathers.


Missy would get so jealous of the Chicks and would demand Trevor's attention.

One day I went outside and found that the chickens had gotten out of their pen and Missy was quite happily trying to 'help' catch them so she ended up being put into the brooder till Trevor got home and caught the chickens. She did not like this at all! She sat there and gave me the most pitiful puppy eyes every time I passed her.



After getting out of their pen when no one was home we had 11 casualties, and one in critical care that ended up not making it.

Around week nine my dad and brothers came over to help with the butchering


And after thinking about it... Trevor wanted to try again.

Trevor is getting old!!!

(Just to let you know... I plan on never turning 21 no matter how many birthdays I have)

On May the 6th Trevor we celebrated Trevor's 23rd birthday! It was a lot of fun!!!

My parents gave him some pictures.

I'm not sure why he's making this face but it sure is strange.

I got him something he likes.

Whats in the big box?

Here he's showing me how fast the world spins.

We put the world on a shelf.

Week 6

Trevor found these in the front yard and were not sure what they are.

A view down the driveway.

Grass that grew.

Our garden soon after it was planted.

Missy guarding the corn.

Thank to my wonderful husband who sweetly added all the text to the pictures for me! I hope you enjoyed. Next on the list.... hopefully an up to date post on present happenings!... or at least more recent pictures!

Have a wonderful day!

Week 3 & 4

:) Week 3

Trevor went back to work :(

The sun set from the kitchen window.

:) On Saturday Trevor put up our mail box. We don't receive very much mail. :) Even the stores fliers we never shop at are a welcome find!

Trevor deciding where to dig the hole at.

:) Tapping in the dirt.

The last screw.

Missy giving her begging eyes. She wanted off her leash so she could chase the cows a cross the street.

(P.S. The phone company has been updating there lines.

In there working the mail box was ... Bumped.)

Week 4

Trevor would come home from work the next couple of weeks adding to the flower beds a little at a time. He all so put in a flag stones for a path. :) Which is VERY nice to have especially after it has rained!

The house from the front.

The view from the road.

Trevor setting up the sprinkler to water the grass seeds. :)

Trevor cleaning out between the trees along the Bull Run. :) It looks much better now.

Who needs a chain saw???

Well that's all I have time for today. Please do forgive me for taking me so very long to post! I'm not able to get a lot done on the computer and other things have been taking priority when I do have time to log on. Thank you very much to all who read and comment on my blog. I really enjoy hearing from you!!! I'm very sorry I'm not always able to reply promptly.

I hope you have a wonderful day(s).

:) Untill..... next time.

Week 2 of Married Life

:) It is very hard to believe in less then a week Trevor and I will have been married for 4 Months! It has been Wonderful! We have both learned things about each other we had not known before we were married and for the most part I think they have been good. We both agree if the next 60 years are anything like the last 4 months... Wow, we have a lot to look forward to! There is not a thing in the world we have complain about (even though at times we still do) God has greatly blessed us!


Saturday morning after getting home from the honeymoon Friday night we realized we did not have any silverware! Trevor made do with a great BIG one :). So with this in mind we set out and spent all day in town buying the miss. things we needed. It was fun watching him try to eat!


Trevor had the whole next week off and dug right in to working around the outside of the house. It looked so much homier after he was done.

There was just clay around the house so he loosened it up and mixed in some top soil. :) I got to help him with this.


He had gone over to his parents land and picked up rock to frame out the flower beds.


He also worked to smooth out the yard and planted grass. You can see Missy our puppy happily following him around.
Later I think it was the beginning of the next week it rained and washed so he had to reseed.


Our very 1st Pizza! :) And oh was it good! I had never made a pizza from scratch before so it was a learning experience for me. It was fun! since then we have had one almost every week. Trevor claims they keep getting better but I think that first one was the best!


After pizza we pulled out one of the games someone had given us. :) I cheated by using my hand to hold up the tower while I pulled out the blocks... :) and Trevor still won! Thank you all who gave us gifts we really have appreciated them all!


On Saturday after a good and full week Trevor pulled out his guitar and played for awhile. I love listening to him play. It is so peaceful and relaxing!

So that was a look into our 2nd week of life together and the very first week at HOME! I hope you enjoyed it! So much has happened since then (although I don't know how it seems like it was just yesterday!) I will try to stay on top of posting and get you up to date. :) But till then have a wonderful week!

~Thelma

Honeymoon Part 2!

Point Park and The Cravens House


The entrance to the park. I really like the way it looks. Very cool!

There was a stone wall running along the front by the road.

Here is Trevor by one of the staircases up into the tower by the main gate.

Since it was a civil war battle site there were lots of monuments at the park.

One VERY good looking man! :)

If you know of anyone selling a canon Trevor is in the market for one.

It was a beautiful day and not to hot. The view from the park looking out over Chattanooga was very good.

He wants any one he can get his hands on! :)


Further down there was another lookout and a trail leading to the Cravens House.

:) Can you guess who had the camera???

:) Some stairs leading down to the trail.

Some ugly buzzards we found feasting on another hiker. J/K!

We made it in time for lunch so we looked around and turned to hiked another hour with growling tummies back to the car so we could get some lunch.

The Honeymoon was a lot of fun and we have many memories from our VERY 1st trip!

So next on to life at HOME!!! :)

Have a wonderful day!