Happy Birthday Glenda.......................

Happy Birthday to my sister Glenda....................... you are for sure into the 50's now. Last year you were just in the door............... SMILE


Also happy birthday to my nephew Eric Loesch............ next week
Also happy birthday to Swonger nephews Cuyler and Caleb at the end of the month

I need to check my calander to see if there are more family members this month.........

Happy New Year..............

Best wishes to you all for the year of 2010.................. crazy to start it out so tired after staying up to see it in.............. Traditions.................... I always like to see in the new year in ........ it doesn't look much different though.

I'll post a few pictures from the past week................

I tried to put the pictures from oldest to newest but........... the first two are the newest, like this

morning...........

Charles and Jason before leaving this morning

Joseph wanting to get into the pictures........... and yes he is still
in his pj's.

Kristi saw these pj's the other week and thought of Joseph. They are
Doctor Suese...... Thing One and Thing Two

I think he like to get his picture taken or really just acting silly

Jennifer........... our winter meeting visitor

The newlyweds............... Terry and Sarah Ault
They were married on Wednesday 30th and their reception
was yesterday 31st in the afternoon.

The Ault and Lester family............

We went to a nice get together for New Year's Eve

Great bunch of folks and good food.................. nice combination

Music from those who would share it with us............
Some singing too.........................

Lots of children............. well in comparison to some places I've
been in.

A sideways picture.................. Joseph has really warmed up to people
and other children in the past year........... maybe a bit too talkative........

Lazy me!! I found me a seat and stuck with it much of the

evening..................... my goal last night and in the coming

weeks is to be comfortable................

Snow...... snow...... snow

Couple pictures from our first snow........... maybe 2"

Joseph playing with his trucks............

Our second snow that arrived Tuesday............ Wed AM
Total might have been somewhere between 7 and 10 inches.


Joseph throwing a snowball at Dan

He found a big chunk of snow to throw................

Joseph sitting in snow fort. We used some ice cream pails........ didn't
really take time to fill in the gaps because it was getting too cold




Any way he seemed to like it................ not knowing what it could
look like

Today it is too cold to go out. Earlier this morning it was -4 with the windchill being -23. Now it looks like the temp has dropped a few degrees.

Thanksgiving in Indiana

Turkey made out of butter. I beheaded the one on our table.

Almost to pretty to eat.

We failed to get everyone's picture. We usually like to
try to get the families together but didn't this time. Didn't even

get individual random shots.

There is Janet and her 2nd daughter Kara

Joseph with his cousin's daughter Skyler. That would be his first cousin once removed................

Joseph is joined on the couch with Skyler and her brother Caleb.

Joseph doesn't look too happy........ maybe because Skyler had
a hold of his hand.

Tired after not having a nap all day............. afraid he would miss
something or someone coming by. This was probably on Fri.

Grandpa reading a story........... either Sat or Sun night

Monday morning before we headed back home to Wisconsin
Joseph with Grandpa and Grandma

All of us together................

More toys.................... John Deere trucks, trailors, tractor/mower, four wheeler and cows.

At Randy's

Went up to Randy's for opening weekend.

Joseph got his birthday gift from them as we did see them
near his birthday. As you can see he is very pleased with

his new John Deere tractor and cows.

They decided to do Thanksgiving that Sunday. So we enjoyed
having Thanksgiving with Dan's side also......... don't get to do
that very often. I mean having Thanksgiving with both of

our families since we usually alternate each year.
No luck on getting a deer......... we even stay through Monday

afternoon so Dan could get another try. He did see a 70 pound
doe on Saturday morning but let it go by with hopes of getting
a bigger one.

Got a few pictures of those there but not everyone.
I forgot to take pictures after the food was set out or

those good pictures while everyone is eating........

A happy family but looks a bit tired after a big and long
weekend.

Joseph at Playschool and Tereasa's visit

Dan's sister Tereasa, husband Jim and Rebecca came down
for a visit. Took them down by the lake










Joseph ready to go to school. The Mukwanago High School 6 days of playschool on Tues and Thurs in November for the cost of $5. I guess it
was part of classes for the high schoolers.













Here he is at his table. Next to him is Natilie... she was in our earlier play group. She lives next door to Blaine (Anderson).
Blaine is setting at the next table over.







We stayed after mtg for dinner............... so no nap. Joseph took a
cat nap on the way to gospel mtg.

Lana has brought it to my attention............

I've gotten behind again on blogging. Health wise we are all doing fine............ did have a cold over Thanksgiving time. Pregnancy seems to be coming along fine and as expected. The discomforts this time are more than I can handle sometimes................ I will not go into detail. Doctor says I need to lay around more (LOL) and on my left side to help circulation. I guess I have around 9 more weeks to go..............

Now I will catch up by posting some Thanksgiving pictures and the latest/first major snow.