We Got Our Christmas Tree

We went to a little farm outside of Springfield, this year to get our tree. It is a White Pine. The first trees we looked at were a little tall. Oliver actually sawed almost the entire thing down his self.

The guy on the tractor owned the farm that we got the tree from. He was very friendly, and enjoyed the children. His dog's name was Holly.

With lots of help the job got done! Everyone work as a team!

Tke it Home

This was a simple sweet Christmas tree hunt. We all had a good time.

Happy Baby

Solomon doesn't sit still for a minute! He was a wiggler even before he was born. He starting to crawl on his hands and knees now ( not the army crawl so much) and even tries to stand on his own!

Halloween

We really had fun dressing up this year. Oliver is " Commander Cody",Lily was ""Venom", and a princess, Dan was "snake eyes", Ellis was a Mongolian Ninja, sol was the cutest bumble bee. Oh yes, Andrew was Master Ticklefu! We went to a fall festival at church; not very much fun. The worst part was Oliver puking up hot dogs in his shoe and on the floor. This year we went Trick or Treating in our neighborhood. It was a very nice change. Our neighborhood is becoming a little more family oriented, it seems. The children brought home way too much candy, ughh! They had a blast.

Our favorite season!

Fall leaves always bring joy! The leaves are really beautiful this year!

Apple sauce, your not the boss

the day before apple picking it was 60% chance of rain and then when we got up, it was 10% and just before we left at 10:00 it was raining and 70% for the rest of the day. luck had it that it didn't rain very hard and it made the trees sag for easy picking. we picked 5.5 bushels in just over an hour with the five kids (helping!). There was also tons of poison ivy everywhere, literally everywhere, but by the grace of God nobody got any on them. We got home and started cutting. we did a bushel and a half, two gallons of apple sauced and a gallon of apple butter.

Dan, The bug and snake handler

Dan is not afraid of too many bugs or snakes, Oliver loves them too but doesn't like them enough to get them so he gets Dan, Oliver is getting good at taking pictures of them so I think we are going to start a bug blog.

Hair Cuts

It was pretty painful to cut the boys longish locks off, but they're still so very handsome! Ellis was less than thrilled to get his head shaved ( he scares easily). They all felt better when it was done.

Solomon

Solomon is such a smiley little guy!

One of the Cutest boys in the World

Back to the Zoo

The weather has been so nice lately, we took another trip to the zoo this week ( or did we come from the zoo). Look closely, Ellis has no fingers in his mouth! Click on the picture to enlarge it.

Happy 5th Birthday Lily!

Lily is 5 now! She had her very first slumber party this year. Three of her friends spent the night. Girls only ( and two baby boys). They had so much fun! Everyone had a manicure, given by yours truly. They dressed up like princesses and fairies. They caught lightening bugs,ect.

Roaring River

We went on a fantstic camping trip last weekend at Roaring River State Park here in Mo. Tammy was here for the week, so Mom and her came too. The kids had a blast swimming, fishing, going to hatchery, hiking, exploring, ect. We had a glorious heat wave( temps were around 100). Fortunately, our dog Max is great at guarding our campsite, and chased all the racoons and the like away!p

Roaring River

Another Tooth Bites The Dust