Happy 30th Birthday to my honey

❥Happy 30th Joey! ❤

Happy 9th Bday Jake

Wow, it's hard to believe he's 9!  9!!  To sit and talk to him right now you'd find out pretty quick his favorite thing to do and talk about is hunting.  He'll tell you in great detail about the deer him and Joe saw bow hunting or the squirrels they shot or turkeys he scared walking down to Grandpa and Grandma's house.  And, I mean, in great detail, he remembers it all ;-)  He loves to be outside, preferrably hunting with daddy, also target practicing with his gun or bow.  He's getting pretty good.  When he "has" to be inside thank goodness for Joe's hunting magazines, they're getting their use!
Happy 9th Birthday Big Jake!

One Fine Fall Day Up North

 One of the gigantic piles of leaves we raked that day.  I think we had 5 rakers going and the wind to help us ;-)

 A little boy loving the pile of leaves

 Girls in the pile

 The 3 boys---buried

 Then, come eve we had 3 big leaf piles burning.  It took a little over 2 hours to burn all the leaves, so it was quite a bit of fun =)

 Getting it burning

Jael stirring the fire, Luke getting a head start on marshmallows!

Maria roasting marshmallows 

 Yep, I was there, mostly taking pictures and keeping baby out of the fires

 Erika and the s'more station!

"I just need 1 more" and so on

 This was just ONE big leaf pile.  We dragged tarp after tarp of these to the fires to burn

Luke & Seth roasting some mallows.

All in all it was a great time together!