Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Back 2 School...

Put him to bed as a Kindergartener....woke up as a First grader.
 


Off to school!
 

 
And an after-the-first-day-of-school picture...this year Jace, along with Colton and Kyler, are riding the bus to my room after school.  Jennifer provides the snacks, and I try to keep them from eating all the snacks we have in one day!


Random picture of Connor and Cassidy...
 

Still our favorite Kindergarten teacher...
 




Back-2-School night!
 

 
 
Ms. Jenkins again! She moved up to first grade and we are so lucky to have her again!


 
It's gonna be a great year!

Thursday, August 25, 2016

New Wheels...

We attempted to take the kids to the air-show, and by that I mean we went to a pasture outside of Wathena....it started raining....so we left.  It was still a fun pasture picnic/ride!
 

We have some extra help this year during harvest...is excited the right word when you are buying a combine?  Not sure...but Jace and Jed are excited to put it to work!




 
And I'll leave these pictures of Connor right here...this is how she would like to dress herself every day if she could!

 
Sometimes, Monday's are hard, and the sun is bright...


Tuesday, August 23, 2016

More August Happenings...

Annual seed/chemical customer appreciation meeting....joined by the Albers' kids, Cooper and Claire!


Put the kids to work one day...Colton, Kyler, and Jace got their first taste of throwing hay, on a hot, hot day!



The alfalfa got mowed, which uncovered all the rocks underneath...we "employed" the help of Jace, Connor and their "equipment" to get them picked up before a storm rolled in!


Lots of girls gathered around the dollhouse at Grandma B's!



Silly kids after we did some pictures!


Jed's gone...so slumber party in mom's be


Some cookie baking with the nieces....


We tried to watch the air show...but got rained on so it was short lived!


Took Grandma to church and Jace escorted her to the car.  :)


Went fishing one night and we actually caught one!  Ok, when I say "we" I mean Jed caught it and that was as close as Connor would get...


Connor in her "Heidi" dress just reading some books...


And, another attempt at back to school shopping....starting with dunkin donuts!


Sleeping beauties...


And then there is this beauty...



Monday, August 22, 2016

Time for a Birthday Party!

But first, Connor has started driving the gator by herself.  SO, watch out!




Anyone see the irony in Connor playing Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots?  :)



Luedke, party of 5!



Also in August, Jace got to ride in the sprayer for a little while to spray our beans at Nick's.


Pond progress....


And a pond picture that one of them wasn't too happy about taking...