Spring is here?

Well, it certainly seems like it could be... This is what I saw in the back yard today. It was 55 degrees out there!

The lilac bush is ready to go...

Curiosity....

Belt testing!

You'll see she's not keeping her guard up. But held her own pretty well!!

I love this tree

This is across from our front yard. I get great pics of it with the sunset behind it in all seasons. It is a great tree!!

I did my spring yard cleanup!

On December 13th!

It was 70 degrees out! I cleaned up most of the leaves in the back yard. But, as the grass is not dormant yet, the leaves have killed a lot of grass. Between that and the lack of leaves covering the pre-existing mud, it's going to be muddy & messy w/ these two clowns! It is so convenient to back to the woods.... All those leaves just go over the fence!!

Last visit to Santa?

We will see. Apparently the debate rages in 3rd grade. I hear different things every day: Joey believes in Santa, but not the flying reindeer. Robbie says that moms & dads buy presents and say they're from Santa......

Chris (visiting from point west for a few weeks) kept telling her to ask for an aardvark, but alas, she did not.

Her basketball career has begun!

Today was basketfest. Three scrimmages back to back to back to give the girls an idea how a game goes (and get them used to running back and forth!).

She looks like a natural out there!! I think she's going to be good at this sport. We are coaching. Well, Dan is. I'm more of a general manager, as I know little about basketball!!

We have a mouse....

We have a mouse. Who doesn't like raisins and has systematically been removing them from the bag of trail mix... And presumably been eating everything else... I'm not taking away the food till I catch the little bugger(s) and am sure they're gone....

Family picture 2015

More basketball

Basketball

First day of school!!

This was from July

But it doesn't look like I posted it. We've never seen a ship come into the buffalo river. It went to General Mills.

Summer pics

I will try to post smaller batches more frequently..... There are several new batches posted here today!

Summer pics

From nature camp

More

Family picnic pic

Still more...

Wedding, reunion stuff

Dancing with dusty at the wedding.

Birthday stuff

Trying on the costume grandma gave her.