Thursday, January 17, 2013

Family Fun

...because it is always fun when our whole family is together! There's always something to do, things to laugh at, good food to eat, places to go, games to play and always late nights which equal get-up-when-you-feel-like-it mornings which are nice during christmas vacation. And if I had been on top of things I would have posted all these pictures already but I decided if I post once a week--that's good, because it is time consuming and I hate spending tons of time on this thing!
 
 Jesse Bear, What will you wear? (A FIAR favorite of ours)
 
 Playing a six hour game of Risk which was WAAAYYY too long!
 
 (We decided to play the shortened version which shortened it up about 5 1/2 hours. *grin*)
 
 Wedding planning!
 
 With all of Aunt Jo's dolls and Uncle Nathan's farm toys Mary was all set. It looks like she's cleaning out the barn here. :)
 
 The Sat. after Christmas our whole family was able to go to Aunt Sue's house and see all the aunts, uncles and cousins. Aunt Sue had alot of fun toys for Mary.
 
 Playing dutch-blitz with some of the cousins
 
 Back home again, after a marvelous snowfall we decided to play fox and geese with David and Ro.
 
 It was very entertaining.
 
 
 
 
 
 So Ro made us frogmore for dinner one evening......
 
 Boil everything together in a big pot and dump it out on the table.
You know, kind of like feeding cattle at the trough. ;)
 
 
 Carrots, marinated chicken, potatoes, peppers, onions, shrimp, smokies and probably more that I'm forgetting.
 
 Spoon some cheese sauce or barbecue sauce or ketchup or ranch down on the table to dip the stuff in.
 
 Its absolutely awesome! Don't mind the shrimp tails in the distance.
 
 A David and Rhoda tournament!
 
 She looks determined!
 
 Playing a hilarious family game of pass-the-pillow
 
Nathan LOVES it when the older boys come home. He crawls all over them and in return he gets tickled and tormented but he loves it!

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Christmas Week, cont.

 
Morning Bible time in the living room where it is warm!
 
Uncle Micah showing Mary how to play the cornet. She was pretty fascinated by it.
 
Devotions!
Ro and David doing our breakfast dishes ;)
 
Jo and Mary making a gingerbread house
 
 
David and Rhoda making a snowman for Mary
 
Mary loved him. She even gave him a hug. :)
 
A few last finishing touches
 
All the girls went to visit an old barn down the road. Lisa, you look great in a carhartt!

 
 
And on Christmas eveing, our stack of gifts waits to be opened.
 
 
When you have 14 people all opening gifts it gets pretty messy!
 
 
=D
 
Mary had more fun in all the paper then with her presents...
 

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Please pray for our dear friends the Raymond Miller family. Raymond fell while working on his shop and died this morning.

Christmas Week

 
 Mary loved the kitties
 
 Almost every morning she was in our room at 6:00, climbing in bed with us and then wanting to go milk the cows. She made a great little alarm clock. Most kids can't get anything out of the cow but Mary didn't have a problem....somehow she knew just how to do it. (It couldn't be that there is farm blood in her. ;)
 

 
 
 

 He aways has his head resting on the gate like this. He doesn't want to miss any excitement in the barn!
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 Living room chats with the whole family....reminiscing about fun memories, adventures and scrapes in the past because when you grow up on a farm with lots of siblings you tend to find them pretty easily.
 
Mary, ready for the snow!

 These mean boys tackled a very innocent person and tried to tickle her to death and the uncaring sister-in-law stood by laughing and video taping instead of helping to fight the boys off! (Micah was having a great time I see!)
 
Its always good to have everyone home!