My Guys

November was a great month! Long but great.

I now have the men of my dreams.

This is Bryant with our (MY) new horse Sawyer from Montana. He is a dream and anyone can ride him! I have really enjoyed riding him, I go bareback a lot around the property and boy does he fly! Bryant loves him to and is excited to use him for roping someday.This is Bryant Roofing he had a lot of help from friends and spent many late night up on that roof. But he did it and learned a new skill in the process.
We are both glad that it is over and done with now.

Pretty Pretty Princess'

This year we did a dress up party. Aubrey's 3 yr old friends all came in their dress up clothes and played games, decorated princess mirrors, and made "fancy" bracelets. It was too cute to see Aubrey with her friends on this special day. You can't tell by the pictures but they really did have fun, and all were sporting their jewelry on Sunday.

I was the "Best Mom Ever" that's a title I can live with.

Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Aaron were in town for Thanksgiving so they got to enjoy the festivities.

What are the odds?

So last January I was in search of a saddle for Bryant and instead of finding a saddle I found an amazing friend. But wait it gets better this friend also has a large family that Bryant and I have become very good friends with and our kids are best friends as well. Dianne and I have spent a lot of time together at horse auctions and family activities, but this was amazing.

In October we went on a Woman's Trail ride for a whole week end. Because of the weather only 3 of us brought our horses, and boy were the other ladies sorry. Although the trails were slightly slippery it just added to the fun. I took Bryant's newly broke out horse Duke, we were a great team.

Most of these pictures were taken while riding. It was extreme, there were times when I wasn't sure if we could make it up the steep hills or down the slippery slopes. Especially when you are to take it slow and your horse wants to run down the wet hill. :} But we made it, me on Duke (QH), Dianne on Libby (fresian cross), and Shelly on Levi (arab cross). This was my first "official" trail ride and although it would have been nice to have done it with Bryant, I am so glad I shared it wish such a great friend. I learned a lot and it was nice to get away

Why should this move be any different?

In the almost 6 years that Bryant and I have been married, this is now our 6th house. And every time we have moved we have had my family to help my Dad and brother's muscles to move and my Mom's amazing talents for packing and organizing. Since we are min WI and my parents are in PA, we figured we would have to manage on our own. Let's just say that didn't work out to well, so SUPER MOM to the rescue! She is amazing, not only does she pack in record time but when she unpacks there is no mess left behind. For example after our move to New London we were completely moved in, unpacked, and decorated in 2 days. This was a slightly longer process due to the remodeling but she did wonders. Thanks Mom! So Wyatt was turning one in a couple of days and Mom only had a day left before she flew home, so we had Wyatt's party with my Mom and some close friends. It was supposed to start around 6 but we decided to move our horses over to the new property that night. Needless to say the party didn't start until 8:30.

He was a good sport all things considered. (the time)

None of your beeswax

So me being the crazy person that I am have been contemplating being a beekeeper.

Everytime I drove past a hive this summer it would drive me crazy! So finaly I decided I was going to look into it. We have a Brother at our church that we have got to know more through housing his steer, he has several hives and has been doing this for years. I decided I was going to ask him, how I could get started. He invited me over to help "Extract honey".

This is called a super and in the super there are frames that the bees make the combs.

Most of the time when the bees are done with the frame they cap off the comb with wax. To extract we have to cut the caps off using a heated knife.

This is the extracter you place the frames in it and spin the honey out. The honey is filtered several different times before being packaged. It was a yummy expeince. There was a little more to it but this was the main process.

This next spring I might be bringing home a hive to experiment with, I am so excited.

Thanks Miller Family for letting us share this amazing experience!

No looking back

Well this year Joey started school and everything that goes along with it. Lunch lines, riding the bus, recess and sports which we will get to later on. At least it is only twice a week, for now.

He is really starting to grow up I can't believe how fast time flies. When school started we were still in the process of buying our home, so I would drive Joseph to our soon to be house every morning for him to take the bus to school. Dad said he couldn't make it for the first day, but when we pulled into the drive was SURPRISE! He was there how could he miss his first day?