Happy Thanksgiving

We had a very nice day at home today. We started with brunch this morning and then pulled all the Christmas decorations out and the kids put up their tree upstairs, while I was restringing the tree downstairs :( that was not a fun job. I had to cut all the old lights off b/c half of the lights didn't work and I couldn't just replace them because they were the frosted lights. So I/we (Alysha helped me) spent half the day replacing them, argh! Tonight I cooked a traditional Thanksgiving dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes, salad and dressing (mom you should be very impressed) my mom always makes the dressing, since the rest of us don't really know how. It was actually pretty good, still not as good as my Mom's. We topped it all off with pumpkin pie.

Darrell and the boys spent a good part of the day working on the zip line. Hopefully it will be done soon.putting up the tree

Drew carving the turkeyour yummy dinner

day 1

It was a good day for hunting at Beachy Creek. Darrell and Drew were out in the stand by 5:30 this morning and it was veery cold out. They had to wait until 9:15 for a buck to make his way past the stand, they almost missed him. Darrell had dozed off and Drew was on the lookout when he saw this buck come up behind them, so he woke Darrell and the rest is history. Drew couldn't shoot b/c he only had a doe tag :( So, tomorrow will be Drew's lucky day!
Drew had a great first day of hunting and is ready to go again."the big one"

work in progress - part 2

Darrell and the boys (& Grandpa Beachy) have been working hard to get this zip line done. Drew is very anxious to try it out.

nailing down the first floorfirst floor platformlearning to use the saw
team work
floor joist for second platform - yikes it's high!
They just need to get the floor nailed and some steps built and then they will
be ready for the cable and wheee.........