December 2018

Raleigh's stocking- from Aunt Sharon

Haul of Christmas goodies from Hattiesburg

Cookies with Santa visit at Kansas City Hospice House

Jordon received an award for "Student of the Week" for character trait of responsibility!! Yay, one of  Mom's favorites! Good job buddy!

Tristan's Christmas program at school- he is on the far right, two rows down from the back

Tristan's 2nd grade artwork!!

A swarm of birds descended on our backyard.

First trip to Kauffman Perfoming Arts Center to see the Nutcracker! We all enjoyed it and came home with a nutcracker with an owl on his head.

Boys helping to clean out gutters (and playing on the roof)

Footprint of Rudolph on canvas that Tristan made at American Dwelling in downtown Pleasant Hill and sent to Aunt Sharon

Jordon's 5th grade DARE graduation

Jordon was killin' it this month! This award was for "Outstanding Effort in Art". He doesn't really like art and doesn't think he's any good at it, but I'm so proud of him for continuing to put forth the effort in trying to do what is expected. 

Love the windmill across the road from us and the "tire tracks" in the sky here.

Tristan and baby cousin Kinleigh

Kirchhoff Christmas goodies

Yay, play dough kitchen set!

Soft puppy blanket hemmed by Grandma!

Moo Moo in an Tutu book! Quite a find at Hyvee, LOL!

Jon made this for Mom out of metal in his school shop, very cool.

Thought this t-shirt was a great fit for Aunt Sarzah!

The kids love playing on the hay bales at Uncle Tim's.

The football went into the cow lot. Logan said it was all slobbery after the cows licked it. The boys didn't seem to want to get out of the pasture once they were there!

"Show Aunt Whitney how good I'm holding her."

Jordon and Kinleigh- he might be a baby whisperer.

Sunset in Concordia on the way home from Christmas at Tim and Lauren's

Our family Christmas card this year- I only took like a 4 year break from doing cards, ha! And not sure I'll keep doing them but this year we had some great pictures done by Charlotte Long at the farm in June so it was fun to share them with others.

Christmas eve program at Our Savior

Tristan's drum set

Whoop whoop! A pop-a-shot!

Raleigh got tire toys and Nubs treats. He was more excited about the treats.

Smokey got cat nip toys and treats.

Little man had oral surgery on 12/29 to have the 2 extra front teeth lodged up in his gums surgically removed. Jordon had the same procedure in April but only had 1 extra tooth removed. I told Don this has to be a Ferrell trait. Anyway, this sweet boy did great and enjoyed a brownie batter smoothie on the way home! He became very talkative with the staff upon waking up after the anesthesia.

Weenie roast at the homestead since Dad had a brush pile to burn

Marshmallows- he likes them black!

Berries I noticed on a trail walk with Raleigh on the last day of 2018

One of Char's family pics from June. I did not think of including any on the blog till now, but love this one!