Meredith Jane

Happy Birthday to our sunshine, silly girl Meri.  There is always a sparkle in her eye, and mischief and fun where she is involved!
She is 5!!!  It's hard to believe.
Happy Birthday RillaRae ;-)

CAT work

Joe did some work on the Cat for a few days.  The kids loved it.  I was slightly surprised James wasn't a bit scared.  He stayed on there for QUITE a while (30ish minutes) and would have stayed on longer if he could have!

Bye bye Curlie-Q

 Before!

After...aww...

I realized it was past time to cut James curls when the older kids & I were sitting at the table doing school the other day and in walked James followed by a proud Meri.  He had his hair nice and slicked back with a ponytail in a clip.  hahaha =)  He thought he was something!  So when I do the girl's hair in the a.m. they sit on the edge of the couch and he had taken to climbing up to take his turn on getting his hair combed.  So, he was all too glad to sit up there when I cut his hair.  Well, that and the mini marshmallows may have helped a bit ;-) 
So, I miss his curls but he's still a cutie I think!

A past Summer's eve

 And then there was FIRE!

 silly girl

chubby bunny boy

We're still here.  Just bogged down a bit.  We've been busy with end of summer stuff--garden/canning, homeschooling, a bit of sewing, yard/driveway work.   Just life, really.

Looking forward to the cooler days, we already have a tree changing to bright red leaves in our yard!  This summer just vanished! 

The kids are enjoying school so far.  Jacob- 3rd, Emily- 2nd, Meri- 4K/K, James-Trouble.  I'll post new
"school" pics of them soon hopefully. 

Hope things are fine in your corner of the world!

fun and beans

 cousins swimming in the freeeeezing pool. 

 At our county fair.  Meri's favorite ride even though it made her belly hurt.

cowgirl

 cowboy

 This was funny to watch.  Meri wasn't sure if she should scream or laugh. They all liked it tho.

 Big stuff at the top of the rodeo arena with mom.  He did much better than last year.  But there is only so much rodeo an 18 month old will sit still for.

 The rest of our cuties.

AND...beans!
My first time canning them and it really wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be.  I now have 19 quarts of beans waiting for winter.