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.........

skeletons

Trevor's class has been making skeletons this week, they are pretty cool. They are made out of paper plates and they also have to label all of the major bones of the body. Drew and Trevor love science.

wild wednesday

Alysha and Drew had "wild wednesday" at church last night. They looked a little wild. They had so much fun getting all their clothes and dressing up. Drew got comments of looking like Steve Erkel.

Alysha and her friend Kayla
they were the "rejected supermodels"

drew - the geek

Trevor couldn't be left out...

sniff...:(

Our hamster, Piett, died on Sunday. So the boys dug a grave for the poor little guy.
Our animal cemetery keeps getting bigger.
We are down to two cats and a woodchuck who lives under the barn.

work in progress, part 1

For the past several weekends Darrell and the boys have been working out in the woods. They are building a tree/zip line stand. It will be a 30' tower with a zip line attached to it. You will sit on a board and zip down the line approx. 200' :) sounds like fun to me! It started with cutting down some trees to make the path and then holes were dug for the poles and today they are working on the platform floor. Dad and Doug came last weekend and helped put in the poles for the stand.

cutting down trees

digging the holes for the posts
they also used Uncle Fred's post hole digger (much easier)

making the seat

ta-dah, the seat