Can't believe he's 9!

Christmas, New Years....and BIRTHDAY! Seems like yesterday that Caden was a little four year old scoring touchdowns and playing in the dirt. He is still scoring touchdowns and playing in the dirt...just in a bigger sized body HA!:) We had friends over to play, family over to visit, plenty of presents and sweet treats AND homemade stuffed crust cheese pizza...all in celebration of a 9th Birthday! What a year it has been of watching him grow and change! Playing baseball, dirt bike riding, fishing, clay pigeon shooting, Star Wars action figures...have all been at the top of the list this year in his world.

Caden and his cute friend, Lane..(I love to squeeze his cheeks!)
And as you can see, NO SNOW!

First Egg!

Thanks to the 40 deg. temperatures we have had lately, our chickens are popping out eggs! This egg is even still warm! Josh was feeding the chickens when he heard a noise in the egg box--sure enough, there was an egg!

Christmas Vacation!

Lots of Fun! We had a weekend full of food, family, and presents in celebration of Christmas. With kids out of school this week, we have had lots of home/hanging out time together.

A Wii was this year's Christmas surprise. Caden gets pretty intense and has knocked his sisters in the head several times by doing his thing.

Lots of laying around, hanging upside down, and wallering going on!


Lots of smiles and laughing too! I am so excited about these pictures. My Christmas present was a new camera. I am so excited to have CLEAR pictures to post!

Macy, on the other hand, is not so dramatic in her Wii playing! She is very studious about her Dog Rescue game.

Mary Did you Know....(WOW!)

Worth It!

If you've read my previous post you will see by this picture that the tree came out of the van, lights got hung, kid decorations hung, and Macy reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to her siters in their PJ's....Ahhhhh....this picture is sooo worth the pine needles in the car and on the clean carpet. Mommy's heart took a picture!

Captain Clean!

The best phone call I've ever made! They showed up and cleaned my carpet while I was gone today. Love it! Love it! It is CLEAN! WooHoo! (It was really bad before, including blue marker, spilled food, and who knows what else!)
I don't even want to move my furniture back. As you see behind Noelle...this is our "war zone". Especially with the cold weather settling in, this is where the kids play all the time, they don't seem to want to go to their rooms or even the basement They want to play - usually extremely rough and loud- right where mom and dad can see them! This is our living room AND dining room space AND computer space. It will probably be full of toys by the end of the night if I don't reclaim the space with furniture!
I highly recommend Captain Clean!


What'd I tell ya......I look up from the computer and see forts--I guess they have officially taken over!

One more piece of information from our household....here's the Christmas tree! Yep, I managed to shove a 6' Christmas tree into the van today while my carpet was being cleaned. But now comes the dilemna of putting the tree on my clean carpet and cleaning pine needs out of the van (maybe I'll hire Captain Clean for that task)! OR maybe I'll just leave it in the van, who'd notice anyway, the kids can find seats somehow!

Hoping for some eggs!

We ended up with 30 chickens in the freezer to eat, 14 Hens left for eggs (hopefully in the next couple months!), and 1 Rooster (nothing better than hearing that Cock-A-Doodle-Dooooo in the mornings)! It has been a good experience and a pretty easy hobby. I think the hens are beautiful!

Noelle eating a fried chicken leg. She made buddies with some of the chickens, Caden and Macy were telling her, "You are eating your little buddy!" all through supper!

What are we up too?

We've been a little restless. Lots of wrestling matches going on during these cold nights at our house! This was actually at a Thanksgiving gathering last weekend. They put on quite the show! They had to show their stuff to a crowd!