Wow! A new year! Can't believe a year has past and moving forward. Looking back has been a great year. The kids are growing everyday and learning a lot.
Chas is headed to St. Joseph, MO to work which is two hours away and we are trying to deal with that. Not sure how long he will be there but are trying to hang in there while he works to become an electrician.
We had a great Christmas, the kids really got into the Christmas spirit, thinking of others and playing together.
Went to Grandma and Papa's house, rode horses, helped with chores and saw family. It was a great Christmas on the farm, great cooking and goodies and good weather. Actually, pretty cold but at least we got there safe. I'll post pictures soon. Love to you all and have a great year.

For the month of November Macy's class earned feathers for their indian hat and then put on a presentation. They chose indian names and Macy's was Sundari, which means "beautiful". They had to write the indian name on all their papers and remember the other student's name. This was a presentation the class put on for the community. We are very proud of our beautiful little indian, she earned a lot of feathers and worked very hard.
Mark was helping me make cake jars for visiting teaching. Here he is holding one up that is all done with the ribbon on and everything. They are cakes that are baked and ready to eat, sealed in the can so will last a long time, and you can give frosting with them as well. Mark is a wonderful little helper. Lately he has been in the christmas spirit and is wrapping stuff for everybody. The day Mark and I were doing the cake jars Tyler got the family picture book, a movie, and fell asleep. He loves books, reading, and looking at the pictures of the family.
This suit is very handsome. I have a picture of Mark in it as well and it's about too little for Tyler. I had to get a picture with him in it before he couldn't wear it anymore.
Macy loves to get on this bar that is part of the swing set. She can now flip herself up on top all by herself and swing.


Both the boys love to play outside and despite the cold weather they still go play until I can tell they are froze and tell them to come in. Now when I tell them to come in Tyler says, "Mom, I frozen."

Last night I looked out the window and saw my two boys sitting under the playground on the picnic table. I don't know what they were looking at but they were enjoying the time together and looked so handsome. Mark would scoot over and Tyler would scoot over by him.