Christmas Eve

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was "snoring", except for ole dad;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

while visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads...

4-H Float

This was September... just never got around to publishing it.

Windsor Harvest Festival
4-H Club float

November

November pics...
We had family pictures taken at the farm

Boys

Jake

Kenna

Kyler

Girls

November is of course Thanksgiving. We made ham, corn delight, snickers apple salad, chocolate pies, and much more. We ate dinner with our neighbors and friends. It was a very nice and relaxing time followed by Black Friday Shopping!

Kyler's pie creations

Kenna's pie creations

Jake's pie creations

October Catch-up

OK. I know its been awhile, but I didn't realize it had been 4 months. I'll go find some pictures and get caught up quickly...

1st Snow

Chip Kelly, Cleopatra, Josh Huff

The Loot

Dinner

Jake's 1st Cross Country Meet

With Middle School comes more sports and opportunities for Jake (and more taxi driving for me).

Jake had his 1st Cross Country meet today. He did awesome. I'm so proud of him. His coach said he saved off 6 minutes from his practice times. He said it was hard, but he pushed through it.

Jake Running (Blue Uniform)

Race is over! There were so many boys they had to run in 2 heats.

5 minutes in the car and he was out!

Another mouth to feed...

Our little farm is growing... What could it be this time???




Wait for it...

This is Gilly the Billy Goat (he came with that name - Gilly doesn't fit our Dukes of Hazzard theme).  The kids would like a couple more - after all there were three billy goat Gruffs.

Back to school

Wow - this summer really went by fast. I have a lot of pics to post and things to write about.  First things first though - today is the 1st day back to school.

Jake is now in 6th grade at the Middle School.  He was excited about school and didn't seem to understand what the fuss was about. He decided to go out for Cross Country this year. 6th grade boys only have the choice of swimming or cross country through the school. (Football is through the town Rec Center)

MaKenna is in 4th grade and is one of the bigger kids. 4th and 5th graders "get to do everything". She was excited to have one of her best friends in her class.  She is going to be a big help to Kyler this year and make sure he is where he needs to be.

Kyler is in 1st grade. Boy time flies... He's excited about going back to school, but does not like the newness and uncertainty that comes with being in a new class of kids and having a new teacher. It will take him a couple days to get use to things. We're going to make it as fun as possible. He'll do awesome and love it when he gets use to things. His teacher is super nice and understands that he is shy.