Family Hunting...

Tree Hunting, that is!

We went up to Middle Beaver, I think. (It sounds familiar.) And after a few walks around, Christina found a perfect tree, up a hill side. Chris and Landon approved of it, anway! lol. Chris's family found their tree, shortly after.
Here's Korbin and Grandma (or mom...I never know what to say...grandma or mom??..depends, who's reading I guess!)

Korbin!! He had a fun time riding in Grandpa's truck.

Grandpa and Uncle Wayne (again is that Grandpa or Dad...lol!!...you get the idea!)

Grandma, Landon, Uncle Wayne and Korbin in Grandpa's truck!

And the finished product:

Thanksgiving 2008

This year was our year with the McDowell's, so we headed off to Wyoming for a few days. Chris's sister, Diana and her family, was there. Also, there was quite a few of Chris's cousins, uncles and aunts. Some of them we don't get to see very often, so it was really nice to get together and see everyone! And of course, Grandma and Grandpa Eyre, Mom and Dad McDowell and Wayne were there, too!
Here is Korbin with Grandma Great. (Grandpa Great is in the background.)

Diana and Isacc talking to Dad and Grandma and Grandpa.

Bracken (Chris's cousin), Landon, Isaac (my nephew) and Korbin's head

Me and my newest neice, Grace. (Justin and Diana's baby.)

Cousins: Isaac and Korbin

Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky.....

I have two places I keep markers. I have an activity cupboard in the kitchen that is up high and baby locked. And then I have a few markers in the classroom, in the closet, on the shelf, in a box and the classroom door is almost always shut. So, how was Korbin obtaining all these markers?!?!
Regularly, my walls were getting colored on. Each time I saw the marker he'd colored with, I'd pick it up and put it up in the activity cupboard, behind locks.

Still, my hardwood floors were coming up colored on, out of the blue! I was baffled!

Then, it was my couches!! How this kept happening I couldn't quite figured out! I was determined, by this point, to throw away every single marker in my house!!!! So, I threw them out!

By no other means than a miracle, I walked into the dinning room, after having a shower, to find this:

Korbin had been storing markers for all these weeks, in my flower vase, on the dinning room table. I'm guess he must of got his hands on them when we were doing an art activity, stashed them away and then zipped his little lips shut, not telling a soul and just basking in his artistic expression around my house!
The vase was just STUFFED with markers, crayons and colored pencils. What a smart little guy we have!! Thank goodness for Mr. Clean Magic Erasers!

Daisy

Daisy had surgery a couple of weeks ago. She stepped on some metal. It went all the way through her paw and metal shards stayed in her paw. They had to surgically remove the metal. She's okay now, but you can see by this picture how miserable she was. The medication they used to put her to sleep took away her ability to swallow for 24 hours, so she drooled PUDDLES for a day. Her fur was soaked from drool. Poor girl!!
Oh and she missed most of the Pheasant Hunt, so she's been pretty sad about that, too. She lives for Pheasant Season!!!

Landon's Sleepover

Well, I'm going to have to play catch up. I haven't blogged in almost a month!
A couple of weeks ago Landon had a friend sleep over for the first time. His name is Mason and he's Landon's BEST, BEST, BEST FRIEND,EVER!!
They played and then watched Kung Fu Panda. I figured they'd fall asleep, but at midnight they were still quite lively, doing flips off of the couch onto their sleeping bags. I went out a few times to quiet them down, but in the end Chris went out and yelled at them (at 1:30am) to go in seperate rooms and go to sleep! lol!!
It must have shocked them because when I got up a few minutes later (because I heard someone up walking around)Landon was sitting on his bed with no blankets or a pillow. He said, "Dad told me I had to come in here now!" lol!! So, I got the boy's situated with blankets, pillows and night lights and off they went to bed, in seperate rooms, at about 2am. lol!! It was a fun night!
Chris has made a new rule that there are no more sleepovers at our house on the nights that he has to go to work the next day. Fair rule, I figure.