Sunset in Lake Andes, SD

I was getting ready to take some pictures the other day and I found a bunch of pictures on the camera. I had forgotten I had taken them and was going to blog them. Well, here they are. The one evening I looked out into the front of our house and the room had an orange hue to it. The sunset was beautiful and coming through the glass in the front door make the front room look nice too. These pictures are what I could catch of it. I'm not good with pictures like that, but I thought these looked nice.

(I just realized I ha never published this)

Antonia and her blankets

Antonia took all the blankets that were in these crates and dumped them on the floor. After the girls were done playing, I told Antonia to put the blanket away. I didn't keep up with her and make sure she kept busy and she played as much as she could. It ended up being three days or so before they were all cleaned up. These pics are a few weeks old. When we were looking at the pictures today, Antonia remarked that it had taken her days to clean up these blankets. These pics are a few weeks old now. When we were looking at the pics today, she told me, "Those blankets took days to clean up." I said "Yeah, that b'c you kept playing around." She informed me, "It's b'c it was BORING!!"

Marshmallow Guns

Eating the ammo

Scott decided to have the boys help him make marshmallow guns. They had a lot of fun putting them together. About halfway through making them, everyone grabbed pieces of PVC and started shooting each other with the marshmallows. I even got in on that part of it. After a while they got back to making the guns. I don't have pictures of the finished products yet, but they are interesting looking :)

Charity

I can't believe my baby is two years old already. This is as far as we got with Christmas pictures for the kids. Scott wanted to get Charity's pictures while she was in a good mood. She has a goofy look she gets when she knows she is supposed to smile so he had to try to get her to laugh before she realized he was taking the picture. He had lots of fun :)

Happy New Year

Hello! I hope you all had a happy New Year!! We had Donald and Rachel over New Year's Eve. We played games until about 3:30 or so. The kids stayed up late so I got to sleep in some. Then we had our traditional lunch of sauerkraut and pork :). Thankfully, most of the kids are starting to like it so I haven't had much trouble getting them to eat the leftovers. I didn't think to use the camera once during those two days so I don't have any pictures...again....sorry!!!.
Yesterday, we had to make a hospital visit in Sioux City, Iowa. Thankfully, Esther was back and we didn't have to take the kids with us. The waiting room in the ICU was not very kid friendly and we had to wait almost an hour before any one got there and we were allowed to visit. The kids enjoyed visiting with Esther and they also enjoyed waiting another day to start school. Today we are slowly getting back into school.

Christmas

We had a very nice Christmas this year. I don't have any pictures b'c the wrong camera card was in the camera and we can't get the pics off that card. Wed. evening we had a Christmas Eve service at the church. We had around 50 for that. It went pretty good. The church in Fredonia sent out gifts so we were able to pass out some gifts then.

We were going to go to our house to open our gifts after church, but we were invited to someone's house after church so they could give our kids some things. Well, it was 9:45 when we left there. My mom's church had sent out gifts for our kids and for another family in the church. We decided to open the gifts from Scott's family and the ones from Blue Knob on Christmas eve. Then on Christmas morning, the kids could open the gifts from us. The kids had A LOT of fun. (I wish I had pictures :(. )

Donald and Rachel came over around 1 and we had lunch with them. We played games until about 6:30 or so then they left. After that, we delivered the gifts from Blue Knob to the other kids. It was fun watching them open them ;).

Computer Crash!!!

I hope we have a learned a lesson out of the computer happenings of the last couple weeks. While Dad was here, we did some work on the computer and ended up losing all my pictures. There was a chance we were going to be able to take it to someone and have them find them for us. Well, as of last night, that won't be happening. My computer crashed last night and we had to redo everything....once again we lost quite a few pictures. Thankfully I have the few that are on the blog already, but I don't have the ones of us opening our presents with Mom and Dad b'c cause I hadn't loaded them on here. Hopefully we will have learned to backup our pics one way or another!!!!!