Christmas

Christmas Morning unwrapping gifts together.

We spent Christmas evening with Auntie Lee, Uncle Roger and Craig. I brought Pizza and we had fun.

Christmas Eve we taught the "old men" to bowl. That's Tyler, then Lawrence 91, Grandpa 86 and Addlea.

Baihley and her friend Laura tubing

Target Field and Holidazzle Parade

Holidazzle parade!!!!

Have to teach those kids to not step into traffic..... Can't take the farm out of the farmer.

Whose idea was it to go to a parade in this cold weather???????????

We don't get out much. There is an escelator for carts. We had to have fun with an empty cart just to see how it worked. We wanted to put a kid in it but thought better.

Addlea with her favorite catcher.

We are seated in the dug-out; the visitors dug-out. We couldn't go in the Twins one. And we got to see where the press conference was just about to begin with the Jersey #1 of our new Japanese player. Media people all over; pretty cool.

Mom and Dad with the Twins Bear!

Target Field- the first of the fun dates planned by the family. This was Addlea's idea! It was great although a bit on the chilly side.

Winter Wonderland

7 inches of snow.... the horsees seem to not care.

Lost our dreidel- Tyler made a new one out of Lego's

A mans best friends.... snowmobiles and bobcats

Playing the Dreidel game during our Hannukkah supper.

Thanksgiving weekend

Putting the lights up on the Indoor Arena.

Jim's climbing down from the top of the silo where he plugged the big Star in.

Mom and Dad at Festival of the Tree's at Mayo Civic.

Kids posing outside the Festival of the Trees.

November

One last run around the lake before putting the boat back on land for the winter. It was a bit cold.

Emily, Arianna, Anna and Jenna playing!

Three of the six.... Marette, Terry and Aaron

Aaron playing the Wii

Baihley, Emily and Anna having a good time.

State Horse Show

Baihley went to the State Horse Show with Charlie. She placed 9th and 5th and did very good in the others. When it's the best horses and riders in the State, you are thankful to get a ribbon.

5th place in Equitation- her friend Aubrey won 8th place.

School and September

The new addition to our Horse ranch.

His name is Frankie........Tequila

We babysat kitties for awhile....

Beaver dam and the eagle taking off

Jim fishing off the dock.

One of our debris fire

Lake Zumbro

Spent a late afternoon on the lake tubing!

NYR

Garden of our God....Colorado Springs Last day, early in the morning... ready to go home.

Campfire Times

Balanced Rock at Garden of our God

Top of Devils Head, Colorado

Fair Ribbon Auction

Tyler's horse Buddy went lame so he auctioned off his ribbon- horseless

Charlie and Baihley ready for the show and auctioned off her Blue ribbon. She went on to have a banner day at the Open Show- three blue's and one red in performance and a blue and a bunch of other ribbons in gaming with Socks.

Fair

Our fan club... Grandpa and Grandma Maki were there and Dad is in the orange shirt. He ran arena duty most of the time. The wheel barrow race- ride your horse down, jump off and push someone back in the wheelbarrow- You should get a skinny kid. The skinny kid, Katelyn is leading Charlie and Aubrey is in the wheelbarrow. Shoudl have done it the other way around.

Baihley on barrels- correction- Baihley on Socks doing Barrels

Baihley doing trail class; She qualified for the State Horse Show in Performance, Gaming and Trail Class.

Tyler getting ready to do Halter Showmanship. Buddy went lame so that was the end of Tyler's day- 2 red ribbons.