Monday, December 5, 2011

Christmas Parade


Ashley, Clint and the kiddos came up after church today to moms. Mom made pancakes, eggs and sausage for lunch. Today was the Christmas festivities around town, home tours, shopping, etc. Ashley and I took Truman and Saige to the commons for Ashley's first new old soda fountain drink and to see the museum. Mom and dad worked decorating the pickup for the parade. Mom got hats and sleepers for all the kids. The little ones rode with dad and Ashley inside and mom, clint, the big 3 and I were in the back. It was a little cold, but fun. It was another nice day of family and cousin play time.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

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.






Friday, November 25, 2011

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!

Thursday, November 24, 2011

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.







Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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.