The Weekend

On Saturday, we had a few cows to gather. We are scaling back on the cow scene and so we are consolidating the herd to sell some this weekend. We found them pretty easily and successfully pinned them. The day was so beautiful we spent the rest of the day outside. On Sunday, we had just a nice of day and spent the afternoon outside. The kids wanted to ride Blondie both days.

Christmas Morning

We enjoyed company with a big breakfast. We hung around the house for a while and then went to Duti's for a 2:00 lunch.

We had a good Christmas, celebrating the greatest gift ever, Jesus!

Christmas Program

Eventually I will get all these Christmas posts on.



On December 21, we had a Christmas program/concert at church. It was very nice. I taught all the kids a simple Merry Christmas Baby Jesus song and they also sang a few other numbers in larger groups. It was very cute.

The loud voice you hear towards the end was me, of course. I almost didn't post this video because of my voice. Ugh... The part of the song I like the most is: "It's Your presence not some presents we love most on Christmas day." I love how miraculous the Christmas story really is.

The Great Tree Hunters

Okay... so our Christmas tree looks like a greaseweed (I am unsure of the technical name) bush. Our days were getting short. I wasn't feeling well and no one else was up to making the trek to hunt a tree between Lordsburg and Silver City, so we opted for the next best thing. The best part of this picture is the fact that we are still on the road. I didn't even get any pictures of the kids and Jed decorating.

Easy Gingerbread Houses

About a week before Christmas, for the first time, we made gingerbread houses out of graham crackers. It was a lot of fun. Of course the builder had to instruct us on building the house. He used terms like gable ends...

A fun time was had by all. Leo was in sugar heaven. And by the looks of Bruce's face, he tasted the frosting a few times. Clea didn't taste too much, she got all involved making a fence around her house with gumdrops.

Not Bad for Animas

We had a little glimpse of winter here this morning. It snowed for about an hour. It even stuck a little. School got cancelled and there were three pile ups. Just kidding! But definitely not bad for Animas. The kids were so excited to go out and play in it. It took Clea thirty minutes to put on her cold weather clothes. I told Jed she won't last 5 minutes out there. Sure enough, she was finished playing outside in about 5 minutes. She never has been one to enjoy being uncomfortable. Leo and I went out together. He wasn't too thrilled to be out in it either. Bruce lasted the longest. He had lots of fun.

Happy Thanksgiving

I hate uploading pictures on my computer, especially if it is a busy time. So of course I will post things weeks after they happen.

We had a great Thanksgiving. All the families were down and even got to stay for several days. I read a question the other day about what is so much fun that time just seems to fly by. I think I enjoy spending time with family because the time just flew by and it seemed like we didn't have "time" to do lots of things. It didn't help that Thanksgiving weekend is the most popular cow works time.

The kids loved spending time with their aunts, uncles, and cousins. Since we will not all spend Christmas together, We thought it would be fun to exchange gifts at Thanksgiving time so we would be able to see everyone open their gifts, so we had Christmas on Thanksgiving Day. We also had a wonderful Thanksgiving feast. Lindy's beef was definitely the hit. We never did get tired of eating leftovers. Here are a few pictures of the kids enjoying the gift giving.