Saturday, February 17, 2018

Fall 2017

A visit from Marcie and Blake
Do you think Blake has enough attention!?
The boys just love him!

Lots of LEGOs these days
 The boys were all knights for Halloween


Jack made a side table for himself out of scrap wood.
He did almost all of the designing (inspired by something
I had just made) and most of the assembly. He was pretty pleased. :)

Jesse is our cuddler

Two thumbs up for baking with mom
 Grandpa Gus and Grandma Nan came to visit over Jesse's birthday weekend.  Dad and Ryan tiled a shower and Grandma read plenty of books and played plenty of games.  We celebrated Jesse's 3rd birthday and had a Thanksgiving dinner with them, as well as with Don and Marie.

Happy Birthday Jesse D!


Stretching with Grandpa

Leaf trails in the yard

Pumpkin carving

Top-bunk reading with dad

Summer 2017

I'm going to blame it on the move...Ryan says I have three kids...whatever the reason, I'm going from monthly to seasonly...ha!
(Note (for our own reference): Summer 2017 will be June and July/last months in Polk City; Fall 2017 will start when we moved to Springfield in August)

What's more summer than husking corn?

Garden produce!
(A visit from David and Jeremiah)

Lessons in fire starting
...everyone gets a turn!



Grand Marshals of the Greater Rolfe Days parade...couldn't miss that!
Now that we've lost Grandpa I'm even more grateful we made the trip up.
I was pretty proud. :)


Boy stuff

We miss that creek!
 We had an awesome weekend at "Uncle Rick's", (a long-time business friend of Ryan's), camping out, riding 4-wheelers and side-by-sides through the creek and around the trails, swimming, fishing, and taking the fishing boat around the pond, and shooting fireworks and guns.  Talk about a boy's weekend!  We had awesome time and even more awesome hosts...SO generous with everyone they had, even feeding us the entire weekend.


Jesse could not get enough of the side-by-sides

Alisa, the boys, and I visited Grandpa Mike Grandma Flossy's graves.
We made rubbings and left pinwheels.
(Laurie and Evan had recently left flowers.)