Black Cementery/Monroe County hiking!

Located in Monroe County, hidden in the woods there. This is called the Black Cementery because this is where many African Amercians were buried between 1800 to 1860's. It is very over grown and hard to find. My mother's friend said there should be a grave dating to the 1700's but there were so many stone buried or so far back in the woods they were hard to get to.I am not sure if this is true but this is what I was told.

I got some great pictures and hopefully I did not get poison ivy!!!

After finding the cementary we went through the National Archives CAVES!! You can only drive through them, it was creepy. Then we hiked up the Salt Lick hiking trail over the bluffs. It was soooo beautiful.

Quiet Halloween

Well we didnt go out to eat for our anniversary. We decided we just couldnt afford to spend the money. So we grilled instead.
No real trick or treaters. Belleville/Swansea have a new rule, no one under the age of 13/14 yrs old is allowed to trick or treat or their parents will be fined $25. We mostly have crappy teenagers in our neighborhood...that and the area has gone downhill in recent years.

Now its Novemeber. I am looking forward to Thansgiving!!!! I have no idea why.

9 yrs!

Married 9yrs as of Friday, Halloween! My husband and I have know each other for over 11yrs and I am still completely and utterly in love with him.

The kids are too big for trick or treating and because of the state of the neighborhood we have decided not to celebrate here but we are all going out to dinner. It will be fun.

Crazy children

My children are nuts. I love it.

Anger Management

Have you ever had the desire to shoot someone???
I feel that way about my neighbors. They have to be the rudest people as well as the fact that I have seen them selling drugs on their front porch. I have no idea what to do. I do not feel that I can call the police because this is not a "rich" neighborhood and I am scared of retalition by these same neighbors.

why do things have to be like this?

the craziness

The kids all go back to school in just a couple of weeks. The last two weeks of summer are always crazy between my daughters birthday (which is Monday Aug. 11 she will be 15) Hair cuts, new school visits (my daugher starts high school this year and my youngest son starts Junior high and this is my old sons senior year!), dental appointements before school starts and then the last minutes making sure everyone really has everything!! CRAZINESS!!!!!


I still dont have a job but I am sorta looking forward to a few weeks of having the house to myself. But I want a job sooooo badly!!!!! Most of the jobs I applied for out at the air force base do not close until the end of next month, so I am really hoping I get one of those but I also applied for some jobs with Disney, mostly in chicago..I am really hoping to move my family in the next five years! PlEaSe!! lol

more of my family

My dad Charles Rhoades.

My great grandmother Mattie Hamilton as a little girl