Beginning of Novemer

 Big Guy's home made auger. He made it out of Toilet paper rolls and tape! Just something to keep him busy.

 More things to keep us busy: Gingerbread...Grandpa and Grandma got these gingerbread kits for the kids the last day they were with us. So Mommy....brave or a few short of a full load...decided it would be a good activity one afternoon. Needless to say She had her hands full trying to keep everyone in a good supply of frosting so they could stick their candies and from eating the whole thing before the candy reached the gingerbread! But they had fun and NO we don't have any left any more!

 Wish we would have gotten a picture of the 'finished' products. Big Guys' house was completely covered. No gingerbread showing.

Slime: anyone ever made slime? It provided hours!!! Of entertainment!

 Slime starts out pretty...well...slimy at the beginning but becomes more like Gak the longer it is worked with.

We also have had some more company....after Papa and Momma Bear (Grandpa and Grandma B) were with us we had some company for supper, and Auntie C, Uncle K and their Boys for supper. No pictures :( Some ladies think they need a maid to help with the cooking and cleaning...We think we need a maid to take pictures and do hair around here!

September/October

Taking pictures is something that gets neglected around here...so our selection from September and October is scarce! But here are a few of the 'highlights' from the past couple months. Little Britches getting into the tub AFTER he already had a bath and was ready for bed! (but mommy the toys are still in here...)

 Taking a walk and watching the 'bombine' (his own words!) aka combine... it is hard to believe how much he really is talking. He will repeat anything and everything you say...if not the whole sentence then the last word of it for sure. He is always ready for a laugh...either to make someone laugh or to go along with a joke someone else is playing. And heights? What are those??? Surely Mommy will catch me....every time!

 The other night while getting supper on the kids needed a distraction...so we put a Pinterest idea to work. Send a Hug: you have your kid lay down on a large piece of paper and draw their outline. Then they can decorate it any way they want, roll it up and stick it in the mail and the recipient gets a hug. :) We did not get pictures of the finished projects but that would have ruined it for the recipients.

 Big Guy's garden produce this year! I think we mentioned  before that the total cantaloupe count was 31?! That is our little green thumb.

 Everything that was brought in before the freeze:

 Fresh Cut Flowers from the garden. The Cosmos were free seed sent by the seed company and the yellow and orange flowers were 'pot' marigolds. The pot marigolds were supposed to help keep grasshoppers out of the garden. Not sure if it worked or not but we did not have as may as last year.

 Big Guy working on his Hug.

 Getting ready to go to Kindergarten in a year!!!! That is hard to believe and a new reality that will take some getting used to!

Playing dolls at the home of some dear friends. I thought these dolls looked a lot like Little Lady and Big Guy.

 

 Playing with the many many tractors. 

(it is hard to get him to 'pose' for the camera!)

 On the way to convention.

Food Blog

An interruption of regular posts to bring you this news flash!

We have to tell all our readers about this blog we found tonight!!!! We have not figured out all it will do yet but what we have seen has been awesome so far! Here is the link http://www.myfridgefood.com No they don't have any idea who we are but wanted to spread the word! All you have to do is tell this site what you have in your fridge and it will give you a list of all the recipes out there for those ingredients!!!!!! Now to get back to meal planning! (not that I ever get meals planned out. I'm not that organized!)

Garden 2012

Our garden this year was a lot of fun! We watered constantly due to the dry year we had but it made for the best gardening year so far. We had (starting at the top left) Green beans, banana peppers, onions, strawberries, kaleidoscope peppers, green beans, marigolds, full garden picture, cosmos, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers zucchini, okra, azaleas, cherry tomatoes, green peppers, okra and sweet meat squash. Other things not pictured are beets, carrots, tomatoes, garlic, yellow squash and peas.

Two things I will do different next year?
1. Don't plant okra next to tomatoes.
2. Try growing broccoli (request from Big Guy) and watermelon.

One thing we will do again: plant lettuce really close to something tall! Our lettuce lasted well into the summer. It was nearly hidden under the tomato plants and seemed to do really well there.

Baby #4

As many of our followers may already know we are expecting one more addition to our little Frontier! This one is supposed to be another girl due to arrive the last part of January *smile*

 We never could get a very good look at her face but did get these adorable pictures of her little legs crossed at the ankle!

Just this for now...there will be more to come! We have wrapped up the garden for the year and have pictures to post of that so stay tuned!

Here Kitty, Kitty...

 ...or rather...here kitties, kitties, kitties!!!

All of the Cat pictures that have been posted, are posted and will be posted on this blog were taken by the trail cam placed in one of the pastures we run cows.

Welcome Cowboy!

 We took a little trip to Welcome Cowboy C! Here is Little Lady loving her time with him!

 Proud Papa, Momma and Grandparents!

 I Love this picture!!!! Three generations and totally enthralled with the precious little bundle! He sure is a precious little baby!

 We got quite a few glimpses of his big blue eyes...

Checking out, and quite pleased with their new little cousin.

 The four Grand-kids for Papa and Momma Bear :)

Another highlight of the trip for the kids is playing at the park. You can walk here from Papa Bears house so we made a couple trips down there...

 

...the bridge is also another highlight. The kids like to throw sticks in on one side and watch them come floating down the river. Momma Bear had LOTS of sticks to throw in.

 Not a very good picture but it is the sticks floating away.