A FUN week with cousins!

Well, blogger still isn't my greatest friend this morning ( S_L_O_W), but that's okay, I've been doing some serious cleaning while the pictures have been loading. :D

**First of all, I want to say how happy I was last night to meet one of our blog followers - Thank you, Miss "K" for introducing yourself to me. You made my night!  See you in July maybe? I'm glad you enjoy our blog. :)**

You might remember this post from last year when we went to Misty's.  This year we went again while Keith was at the convention and we had SO much fun!!!

Cardboard boxes are the best!

Reading is a favorite!

Grandma giving out first aid to a fallen victim...

 I had our girls hair in braids, so when we got there, Misty's girls wanted their hair in braids, too - LOTS of braiding. :)  But on the bright side we didn't have to comb hair for several days. :)

 

It wasn't as warm as it was last year, so the kids found inside things to do some of the time.

Picnics

Mud Puddles

Early Easter egg hunt.

 

Aunt Misty fixed these dresses for Kara and Megan - they were thrilled to be "twins" that day.

 

Hail!!

 

 "Smarshmellow" roast

Braids out.... :)

 

These innocent little critters may not look like much, but they have ways of getting everyone's undivided attention. :)   (Yep, that's ink and no, it did not wash off very well.) We thought they were taking a nap....wrong!!  They sneaked into the office and had a time exploring great and wonderful things.

Thank you, Misty and Wesley, for  letting us come!  We had gobs of fun and enjoyed our week.

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Blogger is not liking me very much the last several days.  I've tried to put pictures on here of the fun we've been having, but blogger is just not cooperating at all very well, at least with the pictures.  So come back again soon and hopefully, blogger and I will be getting along better. :)

Hope you are having a fabulous week!

Birthday~Chick Day~Snow Day

We have had a fun week.  First of all, Grandma came and brought Megan back home. :)

She also brought Owen's birthday present - he wanted Lincoln Logs and she found a good Craigslist deal.

She also brought the kids Valentine cookies that she makes for them each year - and mom and dad, too.  They are SO tasty - Thanks, Mom! (Ignore Megan's hair - she had traveled all day - ha)

Then they had two days of school and we got......

Patch wanted out and quickly got covered in snow....

Two beautiful snow days!

It finally stopped today enough to shovel a path without it getting immediately covered again.

Today was also CHICK DAY at our house!!! These lovelies arrived at the post office this afternoon and we have enjoyed watching them.  We have 27 butchering chickens (we raised some last spring and it was a big help to our freezer, so we're doing it again) and we have 14 laying hens - I think there are a couple of roosters in there somewhere, too.

This evening it's been construction of Lincoln Log Village.

(In case you're wondering about Kristyn's hair - Wednesday was crazy hair day at school, so she wanted her hair crazy, BUT she also had a dentist appointment that day, so I didn't want to get any strange glares, so I did her hair in corn rows....the best part of that is, I don't have to comb it again all week. :)

How was your week?

Last Week

Grandma and Papa came up and stayed with us for a while and we enjoyed them being here so much!  We got to celebrate the two birthdays - Papa's a day late and Owen's two days early. :)  I won't give Papa's age out for the world-wide-web to see, but the 8 is part of his age. :) It's not an impressive cake, I know, but it was quite a rushed time and Keith decided and told me a simple chocolate cake was in order - it was very tasty with our ice cream. :)

Kristyn got the camera Sunday afternoon and took a picture of her sweet sister.

Jeren sporting his new hat from Grandma.

Boots - he loves boots!  Thank you, Grandma and Papa.

Papa dramatically reading his card - with lots of little helpers.

Megan went home with Grandma and Papa and is coming back tomorrow with her other Grandma. We have all missed her terribly.  These two have had to play dress up all by themselves - but they seem to be doing fine, don't you think?

Someone came to the door and blessed us with ALL of this!!! THANK YOU ~ you know who you are ~ THANK YOU!!!!

Then the day before Owen's birthday, he looked like this - head to the soles of his feet - and it got worse.  So he spent a while in ER until they decided it was an allergic reaction to something unknown..hmmm, that really clears it up for us. :D

The next day (his birthday) he got to stay home from school because he was still pretty swollen.  So he wanted to help me make his birthday supper - Spaghetti, corn on the cob and salad. :)

Mr. Carl brought down his cake and Owen thought it was the greatest!  What a sweet neighbor we have.  He brought a gift, the cake, camo plates and napkins, spoons and ice cream.  He loves doing that for the kids.

We had a fun week!  How about you?

Garden 2012 - October

Sometime in late October/early November we put our garden to sleep.  The kids thought it was sad, but they were already planning what they were going to plant next year. :)

Keith's turnips were prolific!  I asked him when he came home with seeds if he had ever eaten a turnip before and he said no....probably why he bought the seeds. :D

I'm ashamed to say they are still in the garden, too. :) I have eaten a few of them and we have given some away, but we haven't had any return visitors come for more turnips. :)  And you can only eat so many turnips.....they sure are a pretty color though.

Kristyn picking the last of the peppers that the frost didn't get.

See all the spinach behind Owen?  It's so tasty. :)

So that's our garden for 2012.  I hope you didn't find it boring....I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting our garden and can't wait to start our new one in a couple of months. :)