Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.....we have enjoyed spending time with family this weekend and just taking it easy - well, except for the 4am trip to Walmart that I took BY MYSELF????  I was embarrassed by how people were acting...I just stood there and watched...it was something else. 

We hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well!! 

Wanted to share some pictures of some of our crazy family.....enjoy!

I LOVE HOT CHOCOLATE - WELL, WARM CHOCOLATE!

It's a good night for hot chocolate here in Kansas - it's about 20 degrees outside.  Carlee loves her first cup - can't you tell??

Stay warm everyone!!

A normal day.....if there is one??

Hello everyone....this is a bonus day...normally I wait until the weekend to update this - but, I was thinking of all of my family and friends tonight and kind of missing everyone....I know - I'm a sap....

I wanted to show you Cayden's new haircut!  He is SOOO handsome!  I just love it...as he would say - I am really going to get the chicks now.... (He really has said that - he's just like his dad!)

I also took a snapshot of the girls playing/coloring together as I know that someday in the future they will not play this well together...Ha!! No really, Carlee loves the kids so much - she gets so excited when they come home from school.  And - the kids are very protective of her.....she really has made our family come full circle.

I hope you all have a wonderful evening.....I am thankful for all of you!!

A quick trip to Grandma & Grandpa's house...."The Farm"

We took a fast trip to Western Kansas this weekend to visit my grandparents.  I took a picture of their house and the view from their front porch to share it with all of you.  This homestead has been in 

our family for over 100 years.  Everyone in my family has lived, learned, laughed and loved on this farm.  So many memories for all of us.   It is so peaceful and quiet out there...the air is clean, the sky is beautiful and life is at a much slower pace much of the time.  

Added a couple of pictures of my "hunters".  Matt got a pheasant, a quail and one jack rabbit.  We took our German Short Hair - Sadie - and she was wound tighter than a tick!!  She went nuts.  Doesn't care for the pheasant too much but, LOVES the quail.

 Matt skinned the rabbit and quail so the kids could see.....apparently he is going to making some kind of stew for them. Yeah right - I am taking bets now on whether or not the kids will eat it.  Considering the stock market...this might be a safer bet for everyone!

The picture of Carlee is her playing with some toys that me, my mom and my grandmother played with when we were small.  I felt bad for her - she had a cold and had just gotten 5 shots the day before - she wasn't her normal happy self - but, she played a little bit anyway.  This was her first trip to the farm!