A successful hunt

Finally! Jamie had a great hunting week during Thanksgiving. Two bucks. A spike and a three-point. He was skipping around like a giddy little girl. :-)


And four of the kids with the 3 point.

I'll spare you the pictures of Jamie skinning them. Surprisingly the kids sat and watched with no problems.

We had a nice Thanksgiving minus having to take James to the hospital. He was walking the dog. Bear took off running and James' hand got caught in a fence in between his pinkie and his ring finger. Twelve stitches and an hour later, we headed back so I could finish cooking.

It's already started....

Jaylynn is such a Daddy's girl. She has him soooo wrapped around her finger. She already likes to hang out with him watching TV. *sigh*

Halloween 2009

Halloween is so much fun for the kids. They love dressing up and who doesn't love free candy?!

I wasn't sure if I should get Jaylynn a costume. She hates hats and well pretty much anything that makes her hot makes her mad. I found these little body suits at Wal-Mart that were warm without being hot. Halloween here is actually pretty nice although this year it did rain a little. It's usually cool so I knew she would get hot easily if I got something bigger. Miss Jaylynn as a pink leopard. HOW CUTE!





Look at those eyes!! LOVE!



Jenna is Alice from Alice in Wonderland



Jasmine is the U.S. Diva now with face paint that Daddy did



The whole gang ~ Jordan is a disgruntled teen. Ha ha ha! He said he didn't want to go around and decided to stay home and help hand out candy.

Butler's Orchard 2009

Jacob had his field trip to the pumpkin patch at Butler's Orchard. Jamie said it was a lot of fun and thought it would be a lot of fun to take the other kids. Unfortunately he had to work on Saturday so I took them. I figured since Jordan was here, it wouldn't be too bad if Jenna or Jacob needed help and I was holding Jaylynn. Despite it being chilly and the boys leaving their sweat shirts at home, we had a lot of fun. We'll definitely be going back every year. I really thought it would be packed seeing how we waited until Halloween day. We got there around 10 and were there for 3 or 4 hours. It really wasn't that bad at all. I can see how it could be very chaotic. Maybe the chilly, damp weather kept everyone away.

A ride in the Great Pumpkin



The bounce house



Awww sibling love



The slide (There were multiple slides. One that was small on up to the big one. What did these kids pick? The big one of course.)



Then the girls did the slide together and got spun around when they came out. They were laughing so hard.



MAMA, DID YOU SEE THAT????







The duck races ~ This part was so cool. The kids had to work a real water pump to get the duck to the other end. Jenna got so darn excited when she finally got her duck to the other end.



The John Deere harvester slide ~ I didn't get a picture of the actual harvester but it had a slide in it.



They had different animals to check out. Bunnies (Jenna wanted to get in the cage with them), chickens, goats, sheep, pigs.



Jenna acting like a chicken





Then we had to see how tall everyone was...









Some of the cool pumpkin set-ups they had.



The castle