My Day-To-Day Photos

A fantastic birthday spread over 3 days for a fantastic kid!  Many, many more fun times to come KK! A 'cheesy' card from your brother. With crackers!

I've made a few of the gifts we're giving put for Christmas this year, toques, a scarf - freshly learned knitting projects. A scrapbook o. Owen's graduation day was the lengthier project. I do hope they like it.

We've watched it grow and now it's complete. I've scanned it in and sent it off to a few select friends. It is just wonderful the talents Kaitlynn has developed.

It's always wonderful to hear that there is a drawing option for an assignment in one of Kaitlynn's classes. In ELA, they've read "To Kill A Mockingbird," and now a short graphic novel is to be created on the points that most stand out to the students. She is creating a piece of art that makes me shiver, I love it.

Firefly- The Board game has become our favourite. We played a lot of Cities and Knights before this and had a lot of fun with that expansion. Firefly was a bit of a challenge to learn, and we hope we're playing it correctly, but now it's nearly the only the game we feel like playing. So far, I've won 3 games, Todd has 2 wins and Jared has yet to succeed.

The sound of my kiddos laughing together fills me with joy and a sense that all is right in the world. They are in the middle of creating with Photoshop...a muscular kidney bean. Maybe I'll be able to add the result in a later post.

Jared played "Precious Moments" by Thelma Gillis.

It seems we just took them down, but here we are again. With a couple of mild days, the roof is decked out in lights. Soon will be Kaitlynn's 16th birthday, then the holidays, then the 2nd semester of school, then another summer, and time is making my head spin! Nice pants!

If his numbers are correct, Mark had at least 130 kids at his door tonight. We had 6. Vogels with their 3, Quintons with 2 and little Zane Rusnak. It's quarter after 9, so I'm assuming we're done. I'm definitely jealous, but at least our car didn't get hit in a parking lot today.

I could hardly believe my eyes when Dale and Denis drove into our yard on Friday afternoon. Later that evening I was still in disbelief that I was visiting with Dale in my own living room. We had a great visit and even celebrated Denis's 77th birthday on Saturday with a steak dinner and an ice cream cake.  On Sunday morning they left, and it turned out to be a beautiful afternoon, so the kiddos went to the greenhouse to contribute to the Halloween display.

Back to harvest, and back to breakdowns. It seems like they can't go one day without a problem.

Happy Birthday Fred! We're all so happy to have spent another great, happy and healthy year with you.