Haircuts

This morning I took the kids for haircuts, Amelia's 2nd, Truman's 1st. They both sat really well while Debbie cut their hair. No more curls for Tru.

Le Cordon Bleu here she comes...

Today the kids and I went down to Clint and Ashley's for the afternoon. The kids had a good time playing. While we were gone, gma Pat brought over the play kitchen set from when Trav and Kim were little and set it up in the basement. We took Amelia down there, but didn't tell her there was something new. We just waited for her to see it. I wish I would have got a picture of her expression when she saw it. She gasped and got big eyes and started getting out all of the foods, dishes and utensils. With each cabinet she opened, she gasped. She served me a hotdog, and even put ketchup and mustard on it. Travis and Truman got waffles with pats of butter on top. For dessert, she brought me a piece of cake and sang 'Happy Birthday to you!' as she brought it to me. Alana, Scott, Bo and Cole came by and she and Bo made blueberry muffins for everyone. It was too cute!

Thanksgiving

We had Thanksgiving today at mom and dad's house. Clint and Ashley and their tribe were here, Tony, Loretta, Cynde, Ray and Pat. It was a great day, lots of good food, not too much crying from the kiddos. We are very blessed and have so much to be thankful for. We might complain about a lot, not having this or that, wishing we could win the lottery, but when I put it in perspective, we have all that we need and more. I choose to find the joy and blessings in our everyday and what we have.

 Starting a new tradition of measuring the kiddos on the door in the shop.

They might be related...

I'm behind...

Once again, I've fallen behind on the goings on, so it's catch up time. I have to go back through my pics to remember what's been going on the last few days.

Construction is moving along at the Big Well. They worked all last weekend and got the new stairs installed and the concrete wall was poured yesterday. Travis got to be lowered into the well by the crane early saturday morning and I got to walk down the new stairs on Monday. It was awesome! I have probably been in that well 20 times in my life, and each time I am still amazed at it. To think those men dug it all by hand and how precise it is just astounds me. It is only 5 inches out of round from top to bottom. To think they did that without any of the technology or equipment that we do now, wowza.

Truman real crawled last night. He is running around everywhere is the scooty seat. I can't believe how big he is. This morning when I went in to get him, he had his hands on the top rail of the crib and was trying to pull himself up. I am sure tomorrow morning I'll go in and he'll be standing there waiting for me. He fell asleep last night a supper in his highchair just like Amelia used to.

Last night Amelia was in her room playing by herself, and after awhile, I went in to see what she was doing. She was tucked into the corner by her bed reading to her bear and cabbage patch baby. Her babies are called Shuman.

Tonight we decided on a whim to go to Daves in Coldwater for supper. We called Ray and Pat and they met us there. It was good to catch up with them, I know we don't see them as much a I'd like to, especially since we are only a few miles apart. Both of the kiddos loved the pizza, the whole way to Coldwater, Amelia said 'pizza!'

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so I made 3 pies tonight to take to mom's. Hopefully Tony will think they are up to par even though there's no pork (lard) in the crust :) Amelia helped me stir up the pumpkin filling.

Stairs and sunset

Wheel of Fortune

Most evenings that we are home without meetings or places to go we watch Wheel of Fortune during or after we eat. Yes, we are that family. Tonight Amelia was clapping like the contestants do while the wheel spins and then was calling out letters. It was too cute.

Amelia is starting to learn her letters and can almost spell her name. She will say A, B, see ya! And of course she knows K S UUUUUUU wildcats!

Fall Light

babies at bedtime

Amelia has figured out the zipper in her sleeper and was trying to take it off. Ashley called tonight before bed because the boys wanted to talk to ya ya aka amelia. It was so cute to watch her talk to them. I told ashley is would be great to skype so they could see each other.
**ashley...if I win the lottery I will buy you a new laptop or ipad or something ;-)

What a week...

It has been a busy and somewhat productive week. I had another session of art classes at the school. The K-5 kiddos painted and glazed their ceramic pieces from the previous class and the 6-8th graders did a drawing project. Teaching them is fun and rewarding, but can try my patience when they don't listen. I know they really are enjoying the classes and getting alot out of them, so it's all worth it.

At monday's city council meeting they approved a letter of intent with HIB Building Systems to build a facility in Greensburg. This was exciting news and a great opportunity for the burg.

I went to the Wild West Country meeting tuesday in Garden City. WWC is a group of 22 SW KS counties to promote tourism in the region. I was elected secretary for the next 2 years. I had to hurry back and had a tourism committee meeting here. I have been trying to work hard and get things rolling promoting Gbg.

The construction of the Big Well Museum is really coming along. The building is starting to take shape. They have started putting up the forms for the cast in place wall and assembling the steel framing for the stairs. It will be lowered into the well next week. So exciting!

Both of the kids have been getting sick this week, Amelia went home from daycare on wednesday and spent the rest of the day with Gpa Bob. He was home sick too and they spent the afternoon being sickies together. Tru and Amelia both have developed coughs and I hope it doesn't get any worse. I guess if they aren't better by monday, we'll probably make a trip to the doctor. Amelia's vocabulary is growing everyday and Truman is really starting to pull up on things.