Lily is walking!!!!!!

FINALLY!!!! We were so anxious for her to walk. I thought that something was wrong. She could stand and walk holding onto our fingers or push something so why could she not just go. But as my mom pointed out to me and reminded me, this fits her personality. She is so laid back with everything else she just took her own sweet time in this milestone. It took her a long time to crawl and she did it just after her first birthday. She scooted for a long time before that. And she was walking holding onto our fingers when she was 14 months and finally started to push things everywhere at 15 months and day by day she was starting to get more courage and today at 16.5 months she finally took off!!!!! It is so fun to see her walk. I love to see how the kids are all just so excited at each milestone she crosses. And they will be able to enjoy it all over again with the new little one coming.

Sooooo . . .

Look closely at the following pictures. We made one for each of our family members.

We are expecting number "5" in mid June!! And we are all very excited.

Fall Harvest

over grown after a long vacation (let's say chicken food?)

Hot summer evening in the garden next to a Red Mammoth Mangel Beet

Our September Garden

Baby who LOVES tomatoes (she eats them like apples)

Green beans from our garden. We, with lots of my mother-in-laws help and their green beans too, canned 67 quarts.

Yukon Gold potatoes. These are so good roasted. We love them.

Fall has come with Oct. weather finally.

Ben, Logan and Dave working the potato/apple cannon

Team Bronson kiddos harvesting pumpkins

Getting a ride from Little Red (we almost got 7 kids in)

Picking the last of the black berries

Harvesting pie pumpkins

Our first Red Mammoth Mangel Beet. Look at the size of this thing. They are great for feeding animals during the winter months. The leaves are just toxic to animals, but the chickens will have a nice treat every now and then. These beets can get up to 20lbs. but this one was only 6 lbs.

Our fall Harvest and there is lots more to go pick too. Dave just came in with more tomatoes and zucchini. Surprisingly they just keep coming. We found a favorite way of eating the zucchini now so it doesn't get to tiresome. We still are enjoying them.

Just some fun pictures

Three ninjas

Dave and Lily doing push ups (Lily does some great sounds affects with them)

Just cute!

It's fort season.

We get about 8-10 eggs a day now. They are sooooo good. And I love not having to buy them anymore.

Our second Honey Harvest

Home school lesson. We invited a few families over and the kids had a great time playing together, more then watching the harvesting. But it was fun all the same.

Honey and biscuits. YUMMMM!

Our final product. 4 gallons!!!!

Making Vanilla

So a blog that I enjoy had a recipe for making homemade vanilla. That was something that I have been wanting to try this year. So we got the two items that are needed and voila. It was so easy. And in a few months I will be able to enjoy some yummy REAL vanilla.

Father's and their helpers

Who needs a ladder when you have a son on hand?

All for a clothes line.