Christmas and Dave's B-day

Mom's coat tree,also known as a stocking tree.

Building towers with Dad.

Getting ready to empty stockings Christmas morning.

Evan found mustaches in his stocking

Ethan reading John 1:1-14 at our Church's Christmas Service.

Grace opening presents.

Dad's birthday cake.

Getting ready for opening presents.

Opening presents.

Playing our new game, Ticket to Ride.  It is a very easy game to learn, and lots of fun.  Sometimes it is nice to have a board game that does not require tremendous thinking power, and it is great for younger kids as well.

September on the Homestead

Butternut growing like crazy.

Helping with Grace.

Armed with Zucchini!!  Look out!

Getting over abundance of food. 

Snacking on some green beans.

Canning green beans.

Having really good zucchini sticks. 

A really good harvest.

Ethan working on his birdhouses.

Lily petting the cow.

Evan cutting up wood for kindling.

Evan helping Dad build the gate for the cow shed.

Cow shed progress.

Painting the cow shed barn red.

Honey harvest.  It is interesting that the honey seemed to be darker this year.

Lily is helping feed Gracie a snack.

She only missed a little bit.

Lambs Haven Picnic

This post is a little late, but this last year we were blessed to be able to attend the Lambs Haven Family picnic again in August.  We managed to arrive on time this year, and it did not take long for Mia make friends and start having fun.

The boys got to play some volleyball before lunch.

Jennie and the little girls enjoying some fellowship time.

Lunchtime was yummy with plenty of food.

Lily is enjoying Mrs. Organ's homemade donuts.

Listening to some wonderful music.

Pastor S.M. Davis preached twice throughout the day.
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After lunch we played some kickball.

Evan is kicking.

Ethan's turn.

It was a great time and we enjoyed the beautiful surroundings, encouraging fellowship, and time in the Word. 

 We seem to be very behind on our blog posts, so we have decided to outsource some of the blog post creation to Ethan.  This was his first post, and we slowly worked through it so that he could understand how to put it together.