October....... fast goes the time, November...... fast falls the leaves

10 Years of Marriage
We can still laugh

And Smile

Two children and still smiles

Part of Hunter's birthday party was the corn maze...... Abigail did not enjoy

Now this was Abigail's kind of maze!

Home for Thanksgiving
This is my youngest great nephew Jacob
He belongs to my nephew Jared and Angela

 Can you tell that I kind of like the little guy?
I have to more greats due in May.

All of the grandchildren...... I should list the year
of each......
Back row L to R.... 82,84,85,86,87,88,89
Front row R to L.... 90,95,97,06,10

September comes Back to School

Joseph is ready for Second Grade
Not really ready to start in a new school

Getting on the bus at one of the many stops
in the neighborhood with some of the many
children in the neighborhood.

First day of school for Abigail and yes she is ready to go!
She is starting in the afternoon class of 4K

Walking to the bus stop

See you later Mom........ no tears
Sorry I couldn't get a selfie of me kicking up my heels

Home again after their first day of school

My friend Mr. Toad
I've seen him every night when I come home
from work

I was just kidding when I asked Joseph to pick up the snake
and even more surprised when he did!

Mr. Snake...... I will not call him friend.
We've seen him a few times.

 Mobley Parents 60th Anniversary

The Parents Came in June....Then The Fireworks (in July)

June means the end of school and summer break begins. Also means that Grandpa Sam and Grandma Mary will be coming for a visit. We often go to the zoo but this time we went to the Discovery World. Joseph and Abigail really enjoyed it..... I think we all did.
Later in June we went up to Dan's brother Randy's place. All the siblings were there (and some of the their children) for a camp out weekend. We helped Randy celebrate his 50th birthday too.

touching the sting rays

What is that?  Mom says its phone ?!?

Maybe like being on pins and needles??

Mobley Parents
 

 

Happy Birthday Randy

Wonder what they are up to

Got one!

The old Crow fishing



fishing with old crows wife

this snake had many, many, many brothers and sisters
everywhere we turned it seemed

I dropped hot grits on Josephs fingers...... it was bad!!

Hey everyone... look up here!!!  (picture out of order)

April and May......

In April we lost Dan's Mother Millie Swonger.  She had been on hospice for just over two years. When she first went on hospice they gave her just a few weeks but Millie was a fighter.  At the end when she was so bad hospice would say.... for a normal person we would say 2 days but Millie is not normal.....  The funeral was Saturday April 18th and we couldn't have asked for better weather (had we asked) because it was a nice day for April.  She will be greatly missed. For awhile Dan would pick up his phone and think I'll give Mom a call....... End of last month we all got together at Randy's and I kept expecting to see her at the table (and probably letting one of the youngins drink some coke)








Like I mentioned in the post before that we moved in May.  I can't believe it but I did not get any moving pictures.  While we were still there we had two special sisters come by for a little visit. It was special to see Arlene and Eleanor. Eleanor's home visit was soon coming to an end, she and Arlene were going to visit family.  We were glad they included us on their way north.

WAIT!!!!!!! Where has the year gone?????

Obviously while I've been lazy and neglectful of the blog the months have slipped by and winter will be upon us again.  Which makes me shiver to think of it. I will see what I can do here today and then tomorrow maybe enjoy a lakeside with the children.

Maybe you noticed some changes that I made to the blog. We are no longer on a farm in Waukesha and nor are we living behind a 15' chicken.  We moved in May to the Village of Dousman which is closer to I94 than we were. We are a wee bit north west of where we use to live.

Joseph will be going to a different school this year but still in the same school district. He will attend Dousman Elementary and Abigail will also start there this year in 4K.  The teacher that Joseph had at Magee for 4K went to Dousman a couple years ago so we are happy that Abigail will have her.

We are now in a 3 bedroom duplex in a neighborhood of apartments and duplexes. There are lots of positives and a couple negatives. We have more room (I think), 1 full bath and half bath, J & A have their own rooms, not far from our Sunday meeting though we are in another field (but that mtg is full to capacity), the children can ride their bikes here and we can walk.  BUT it's a lot more money than we were paying and the neighbors are like right there.....

The End of November

 We got a little bit more snow before Thanksgiving so there was a bit of shoveling to do. When Abigail learned her Daddy was going out to shovel a bit she told me she thought she should go out and help him. So I found some purple snow pants (thank you Ella) which looked good with her purple coat (thanks Ella) and she was ready to go.  I often forget to get these "first time" things with the camera like I did with Joseph.

Following Dad's example

Oops! Looks like she is pushing it back

 We went up to Randy and Debbie Swonger's for Thanksgiving this year. Dan had the van loaded up before they went to bible study and when I got home from work we took off.  We had planned to get there around 1:30 am but the last third of the way it was snowing, blowing and a bit slick so we arrived just after 2:30 or so.  Dan got less than 2 hours of sleep because he wanted to be out in the deer stand Thanksgiving morning.  We had our dinner around 3:00 or after.

 I saw them sitting in front of the heater with Joseph's arm around Abigail but then when they saw me they had to try to "pose".

 Dinner is served!!!!!  Yum......

 And then the here after........
 

 Dan got very lucky!! He got his deer on his first day! He got two!! BUT NOT JUST THAT...... HE GOT HIS FIRST BUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes I was excited for him...... because he got his first buck and would you believe that if we had the money I would have loved for him to get it mounted..... since it was his first!!
THAT IS WHERE THE EXCITEMENT STOPS!!!  What comes afterwards grosses me out.... I try to stay out of the cutting area as much as I can..... I usually help wash a bit and then package. I did not take pics of cutting this year.

The dear deer are lined out in the garage.... a bit stiff because that is normal and they were frozen.  They set up a couple heaters to warm them up... the hunters appreciated that too.  They had 7 lined up on Friday afternoon.... one of the hunters stepped out to take a "break", he look over his shoulders and saw 3 deer...... yep, he ran and grabbed his gun and shot one..... so then there was 8 dear deer.... and then one more Saturday morning.

 

 

Cuyler taking Joseph on the snowmobile

 Uncle Randy had promised Joseph a four wheeler ride before we went home.  So Sunday afternoon came, we were packing up and Joseph was wondering when this ride was going to happen........

Abigail got her a ride too

Corina gives Joseph his four wheeler ride

which he is enjoying

Abigail is loving her ride too

 They liked the four wheeler better than the snowmobile. They thought the snowmobile was too loud and smelled. It was an older snowmobile.

A picture that Abigail took of her bear