Can you say BRRRRRRRR?

It started sleeting here around noon yesterday and continued off and on until about 6:00 this morning.


David leaving for work at 4:00am. He had to leave his car down at Dads house.


These are pictures that I just took outside. You can see the highway in the upper left of this picture. It is covered in ice.


It is so quiet outside.

The infirmary!

At this point the barn at our house is currently being used as an infirmary. We have 3 small calves that need a little extra attention. 99 was born just before we got here in May and stayed in the barn with her mom for a little while. She is still not thriving like we would expect her to so we are feeding her special in the barn. 79 is older than 99 but also not looking so good. We are trying to get her along as well. Now, #9, more effectionately known as "Scrawny".....I am not sure what is up with the 9's......"Scrawny" was born over the summer and we started calling her "Scrawny" as soon as she was born. She just looked scrawny. We are bottle feeding her to help her become...well....unscrawny. She is very sweet!


This is 99, obviously, and he is very sweet too.



Sunni giving "Scrawny" a bottle. She drinks two bottles each day.



This is #79 and she is kind of a brute. She pushes the others around. She will be back out with the heard as soon as she puts on some weight.


Sunni and Scrawny!

Then we made our own candy!

After having taken our first candy making class we decided to try it for ourselves. It was very simple and did not take very long. The girls loved making the candy and of course it did not last very long. We gave some away and ate the rest. We may have to make some more!


Chocolate covered Ritz crackers with peanut butter, bears, snowmen, spoons, flags, flowers, suckers, sea shells...you name it we made it.

Sunni, Molly and Lillie having a little taste test.

These were the best. I did not think they would taste good but they were delicious.

This was way too much fun!

Candy making class

Last Tuesday we went to a candy making class with our homeschool group. The girls loved it. We learned a lot about making chocolate candy using molds. It is simple and the girls could not wait to try it at home.

Lillie and Molly sat on the front row.

Sunni and her friend Alaina

Curls for the girls!

Well, the first one is Daddy. Then the rest are of the girls. They love having curlers put in their hair and it looks great in the morning! Very easy. (This was last Saturday Night.)

Daddy

The Christmas tree and Sunni.

Molly and Lillie

Sunni, Molly and Lillie enjoying "Movie Night" last Saturday Night.

Lillie with her curls!

Night Cam

Here is another picture from our neighbors night camera. A red fox. This was taken Sat. night.

Thanksgiving Day

We went to Aunt Colleens for lunch today. Her daughter and her husband were there with their children and their children's children. Great grandma was there and Grandpa was there as well. The food was wonderful and we have enough turkey left over to make it through the winter. (yum)

Last night we went over to some friends house and we rolled the girls hair. It turned out so cute. Molly did not want to be in the pictures today so some are just Sunni and Lillie. We had a great day and the weather was awesome. Happy Thanksgiving to all.....we miss all of our friends and family that are not here with us. Stay safe and have a wonderful weekend!


Lillie feeding the goats.

Sunni, Lillie and Molly at Aunt Colleens.

Sunni and Lillie looking too cute with their curls.

Molly, Lillie, Devon and Sunni.

Little Devon is Aunt Colleen's Great Granddaughter.

Lillie and Sunni in front of our Christmas Tree.

Thanksgiving Tradition Continues

The Thanksgiving Ride was once again a hit with those who participated. We changed gears and did some road riding instead of the usual mountain bike trip to Chicopee. Danny and myself rode from his house on some Arkansas back roads. Traffic was not a factor either but the dogs did try to chase us down the road a bit. The weather this morning was clear and cold. We set out a little after 8am and we made it back in time to have some coffee. ~David


Danny and David give the thumbs up for a good ride


Arkansas back roads


Cold and crazy

Danny smiling after first big hill

Getting ready

A visit to Clarendon

We went to Clarendon on Saturday to visit our family. The girls had way too much fun with Aunt Becky and Uncle Jimmy. The girls always seem to get into something while we were there. I am sure there will be more pictures than these later. These are just the ones from my camera.

That is just freaky!



All I can say is that I was not there!



Molly being very glamorous.

Molly and Sunni after playing in Aunt Becks makeup.


Lillie is thinking that she needs to rethink letting those two do her makeup.

Lillie, Sunni and Molly with Grandma and Laura's cousins new little boy.

We are behind on our blogging so we are trying to get things caught up.
These pictures are from last Sunday. November 9th. We went fishing in the afternoon for about 2 hours. Just enough time for David to catch one of "the big ones". We had fun! It is always fun to hang out at the pond.


Lillie fishing. She has not caught one yet but we are still holding out hope.

Molly fishing. She has not caught one yet either but she will keep trying .

David caught this one. So far, it is the biggest one we have caught.

These picture were taken with a game camera by our neighbor. They show a buck and a grey fox. The fox has been getting into the chickens at our neighbors house but so far he has not been in our barn. We just thought these pictures were cool.

Halloween

The girls ride the four wheeler with our neighbor to take "Dandy" to his next post. He is the "bull" of the goats around here.


Grandpa got us a John Deere Gator. For some reason David and I do not fit on it very well. However, the girls seem to like it.



Too cute! Sisters.




From left to right. Sunni as a cowgirl, Lillie as a cowgirl, Molly as a unicorn and Dakota as a black lab.





For the record....I was not home during the pumpkin carving.