Day 1

I'm grateful for good friends. We were blessed to spend the first day of the new year with our friends, Morgan & Melissa Lasley and their children. And Ben & Katie H with their 2, Carl & Charity H with their 4, Jeanne St. C and Nick & Stephanie T with their little guy. A total of 19 children. It was loud but the hot dogs were yummy and the games were hilarious. "Telestrations" is a FABULOUS new game!! I want it. :)

New Year, New Goal

New year, new goals. With all the electronics around, I should be better at posting posts or journaling. I'm going to try a new approach, Twitter-style. Each day I'm striving to leave a remark on what I'm grateful for that day.

Fall leaves

The perfect fall Saturday happened. It was a nice sunny day where we were home. While Audrey was away on a play date, the other 3 raked leaves with Dad. Ryan lovingly referred to it as the "small hill." He even wanted to go back out late at night to play on the "small hill." The marks on Luke are his tiger stripes. It was an orange day for these three.

Sweetness

After Michael picked 7 reusable bags & one large laundry basket full of sweet corn and then shucked it for me (because he truly loves me!), I had two laundry baskets full of sweet corn to freeze. Much thanks to my wonderful MIL Julie and SIL Darcy for helping me blanch, cool, cut, bag and freeze all this yumminess for the winter.

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First day of school 2013

Yesterday was the first day of 4th and 2nd grade for the girls. Luker starts next week on Wednesday. Ryno still gets to stay home with me. The girls are very excited about their teachers this year. Grace's 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Trunkhill, moved up to 4th grade and has retained most of the 3rd grade class! Audrey got Mr. Corsbie. She was a little disappointed to get the guy teacher but is now okay with it. Especially since she has 2 very good friends already in her class. :)

Pretending to be the kittens, who were standing up on the screen watching us.

BOTTOMS UP!