a long time coming...

Yes, I know I am so behind on my scrapbooking/bogging but i do intend on getting caught up before the weather changes much more. Playing on our deck last Fall, a warmmmm Sunday afternoon

 Dollies  have become a favorite of Bray

Stamping the edge of our driveway, kind of a pain when scooping snow we found out.  This is part of Dave Klyn's crew, Lloyd Uiterimarkt's son, Ross.  They knew I wanted something different but I didn't want it to take a lot of extra time.  So they stamped the outside edge and we actually like it a lot.

Winegardner Construction and Landscaping had to build more walls to hold up the driveway and tie it all in.  Josh Rinehard and  Allen De Bruin.

They stamped the sidewalk to the front entrance and also bordered it the same as the driveway.

This is where we are to back up, a little tight but it's working ok.

Brandyn helped us with the sealing the garage floor, I have a feeling we'll be doing another one someday.  After staying at Dad and Judy's last winter, with all the snow we had.  Their floor convinced us that we needed one also.  It cleans up very easy and quick and looks great most of the time.  We had many mornings at dad's last winter that we would back the Outlook out and squeege all the snow and slop down the drain.

We're thinking these trees and fence line need to come out on the south side of the pond.

Every now and then we still get a few geese, almost unusual though.  Kinze makes sure they don't make themselves at home too long.

Oh look!  The cat is back.  It  won't take Brackin long at all to push them out of there.

Bray has a mind of her own already plus she's working on wrapping her daddy around her little finger.

Enjoying a nice warm summer day on the patio with family friend, father, and Papi, Mike Cowman

She's trying to tell Cubby what to do as well.

Bill and Sara came in August for Bill's class reunion.  Bray thought Uncle Bill was pretty cool.

Making a birthday cake for their daddy

This is how Chelsea works in the kitchen, her kids are always right in the midst of cooking/baking.  They both love the kitchen especially when there's a few licks at the end of the project.

Is it passing their inspection?

Oh boy

Harper feel asleep with Nana on the Ranger and then she took a longer nap downstairs on the comfy blanket.

supper time on the counter

Taking my privacy away.  I didn't think when planning where the house would be that we would want any crop out front.  Then I noticed one day we had corn on row...I grew to love the privacy and dislike combining the corn out of there.

I went to KC myself and watched some football  and Soccer games of Payton and Cadynce.

This was actually Cadynce's last soccer game so I saw him get his trophy.

Where's Kinze...we had lots of visitors for a short time today.

Kinze just woke up and chased them away. 

Some cousin time.

"Nana is how old?"

I have moved this chair since the picture was taken.  It was at the end of the hallway downstairs.  Brandyn started using it for the "time out" at my house so I put it in the bedroom away from hime I thought.  He's still using it in there.

It use to be fun to sit on the bench but not so much anymore.

With Scott here of course the guys thought we had to celebrate by having wings.

We always seem to have a "good time".

Em's getting a tummy again

Brandyn, Rick and I were working on the placement of the rock when suddenly we thought we would call for some really good help.  Lake of course was out 10 minutes after the call and things started going a lot better with his great advice and muscles.

This rock is a bit oversized, now we know why they don't use it all that much.  It was very difficult to work with.