Sterling's 4th Birthday

We had a John Deere birthday party (of course) for Sterling's 4th birthday. He invited a bunch of his friends over and we did JD coloring pages, JD corn hole game, JD bday cake, and then pictures in the JD tractor with Sterling and each of his friends. It was a very fun afternoon! On the actual day of his birthday we took him to dairy castle because it was their first day to open of the season. Kara went with us.

The Boys Lately

This is Luke's basketball team that he coached. They are done now, but had a fun season. I thought Luke did a great job coaching :)

Sterling in his element- living it up on the farm.

Sterling got some new sunglasses and for the first few days never took them off :)

This is Mackinley, sterling and Nelson's (second) cousin! He's a cutie!

Luke's exercise routine

It's been freezing cold and snowy out for the last couple of weeks, so we've come up with some interesting ways to spend our time. This video is one of them...and it goes along with luke's new year's resolution to lose some weight.

Christmas, New Year's and Nelson's B-day 2009-10

It's been a while since I posted pictures, but I would like to do a better job of keeping this updated from now on (although I think most people just look at facebook anyways...)
So here is the month of December for us at a glance...
These are all before Christmas. We made cookies together, the boys got to go out and do the feeding together, we let the boys open some of their Christmas presents. We had a great month of family time together.




We had tons of fun in St. Louis visiting all of Sterling's aunts, uncles and cousins. We barely saw Sterling because he was off playing the entire time!



I think this picture is cute. It's at a basketball game and the ref let Sterling throw the ball back into play.

These are some of our various Christmas' we had. Sterling got way into opening presents this year and Nelson didn't really care for it too much at all :)





This was our new year's eve party. we invited our small groups and some other friends we've made here in Greencastle. Plus my brother, some of his friends and my sister Kayla came, which was really fun.


These are from Nelson's birthday party. We had a great time with our family here to celebrate. He's the sweetest little boy!

NMC and Thanksgiving

We found out Nelson loves pickles!



This is at the b-ball scrimmage- Nelson is the ladies' man.

We went to the national Missionary convention and tried to go swimming- but it was really cold. So the stairs were as far as we got. But the conference was really good!



Our trip to see Kyle was great. We had a ton of fun and the boys were excellent on the long car rides.





Kyle had to work on Friday so we went to the Insectarium and then walked around the French Quarter. It was really cool to see everything.

October moments

As many of you know, I've been slowly re-modeling/re-decorating our house. The bathroom is the most recently finished project. I'm very pleased with the end result even though in the middle of it I was seriously stressed out!
The next pictures are of my dining room. The bottom picture is before I tore the lovely, but not exactly my style, wallpaper down, the other picture is after I painstakingly spent hours tearing off wallpaper. Hopefully in a few more weeks I will be able to post a picture after I have finished with another room!!





Sterling and his friend Kallie skipping along together.


For Halloween Nelson and I were mama and baby lion, Sterling was Robin Hood and Luke was Little John. We went "trick or treating" but Sterling didn't want to say trick or treat, and we only went to my grandparents' houses. After that we went to the church for the harvest party. Both boys had a blast there. Sterling got to play games, decorate a cookie, go on a hay ride (as well as ride in the tractor with my dad) and we did the cake walk.






Reading library books while daddy works


Visiting Rosy and Francie when they came to stay in French Lick, IN. The boys had fun.


My birthday breakfast burrito (and also, apparently, an add for the "great value" wal-mart brand). Luke made it for me and it was GOOD!