Surprise!!

Uncle Brad's Surprise

On Saturday we all went to Ruthven to Uncle Cory & Aunt Sandy's Christmas Tree Farm to help decorate and get ready for the season. When we walked into the barn - Brad was there!!! What a surprise! He had driven all night from Oklahoma City, to Rachael's and then they drove over on Saturday.

Here's dad finally figuring out it was actually Brad he was seeing.

Becky and Miles
Brad, Jacob & Sophia

Here's the Thomas Family

Christmas Tree Farm Creations

I just added a new link to my favorite links list: www.christmastreefarmcreations.com
It's my Uncle Cory's new website. He does amazing custom wood laser gifts - you'll have to take a look. He has some really neat things. Great ideas for christmas presents. He has more products to add, we just started the site so keep checking back.

Also check out my mom's website: www.quiltnkaboodle.com
This is her quilt store that she co-owns with Kim Barrett. They have a really great store - for all of you quilters! :-)

Harvest

While we were in Texas Ashley got to stay home with the grandparents. Here she is riding the combine with Bappa.

And here is what daddy came home with the other day while mommy and Ashley were painting the corn crib... Honey wants a ride.

Ring of Success Texas Pig Sale

On Thursday night we left for Plainview, TX for the Ring of Success Pig Sale. Daddy did AWESOME and got Grand Champion Spot, Duroc, & Landrace barrows and Grand Champion Duroc Gilt which then went on to win the Overall Grand Champion over the whole show!! At the barrow sale yesterday Daddy was presented with a big texas belt buckle for having the champion. The sale went great and the pigs sold really good. It was a long trip but well worth it. Here are a few pictures....

On our way through Oklahoma City we met Brad for breakfast. It was so good to see him!! We sure miss him. Doesn't he look GREAT!!This is our pig man. He was hauing pails, hitting pigs with sticks and watering them all day. He just loves to be in with the pigs.


Here's Jacob showing his very 1st pig! This was one of the very last pigs to sell for the day so the crowd is really small but for most of the sale it was standing room only.
We're almost home!!!!!

Here's the belt buckle that daddy won for Overall Grand Champion. Ryan can't wait to take it to school tomorrow. :-) Now daddy can fit in with all the Texans with their belts. ha ha

Miles Baptism

This weekend Ashley, Jacob and I, along with Great Grandma Shirley made the journey to Minnesota for baby Miles baptism. Here are some pictures we got.

Ashley reading to Sophia

The Godparents - Lon and Rachael with baby Miles
Ashley with baby Miles. She is such a great helper and so good with the little ones!
We tried to get a group picture, this is as good as we could get. They don't sit still for very long!
Sophia and Jacob - he would rather be on the floor playing with the farm animals and tractor.

Adventureland

On Saturday we met the Boothby family at Adventureland. We all had SO much fun! The weather was perfect (until about 3:30 when it started to rain) and the lines in the morning were short. The kids had a blast - and so did the parents :-)

Here's Mason in front, Ryan, Jacob and Tyler in the middle.

Mason and Jacob's favorite ride was the Semi's.
Here's Tyler and Ryan after getting wet on the log ride.
For some reason everyone but daddy gets drenched in the water rides - is it a weight thing??
We had to take a few minutes after the log ride and the tube ride to wring out the kid's socks. They were soaked.
Here's the group on the log ride - who will get drenched this time??
Ashley and Tyler just got soaked!

Ashley got pretty wet from the log ride but Tyler got it the worst!! Guess who came out dry again - Daddy!

All day Ryan and Tyler held hands and hugged from ride to ride. It was the cutest thing. They were so happy to be together.

And here is Jacob riding the planes.

Pioneer

Today we celebrated our 10 year anniversary at Pioneer. We actually hit 10 years last year but didn't get the chance to celebrate with the community until now. We hosted the chamber coffee and had about 70 or so people from the community come. Then we got the afternoon off!!

Here is the group. They are a great group to work with.