Christmas 2008

For Christmas we went to my parents place. We had our typical Christmas. We were up early on Christmas day to open presents and then mom made a HUGE dinner and the grandmas, Kayla, Will, us, Mike, Tonya and the kids, mom and dad, and uncle Russell pigged out until we couldn't move and then we grazed all day afterwards.

My dad and all of his cats. Sadly, this is less than half of them. They talk about the "Crazy Cat Lady"...

Santa Marshall

Kent and Me with our New Stormy Kromers. Ya, we are hicks, what can I say?

Mia was so happy to get her horse trailer that she wanted so bad!

Isabelle and her new sewing machine and first sewing project. She wants to sew like her mom.

Marshall's Baptism

After THREE attempts to baptize Marshall, I did not let the circumstances of December 21st keep me from having him baptized. Because of the snow storm, only Will, One of Marshall's Godfathers was able to make it for the weekend, Steve and Laureen were snowed in. Also, Kent's dad got sick that weekend so his parents didn't make it. THEN that morning Kent woke up sick and could not make it. So, other than reschedule AGAIN, we went on with it.

Will and Marshall with Marshall's gift.
My mom's attempt to get a picture of her grandkids.

Pastor Jahnke, Marshall, Me, and Will

Pastor Jahnke

Me, Marshall, Will, and Kayla

My Little Kitchen Helper

I made a cake for Marshall's baptism and Mia helped me by little the scrapers. She was really good at it!

Eggs!

Also in early December, our hens starting laying eggs! At first it was 2 or 3, now we are getting a little over a dozen a day. We have let our co-workers know that we are selling eggs for $1.50/doz and so far, people at my work seem to not be too excited about it (darn city slickers! :) ) but Kent is like a rock star at his work place and they are selling like hot cakes over there! He already has regular clientele that almost leaves ME scrambling (scrambling - get it? HA! ) to keep eggs at home. The eggs are so yummy! Mia was pretty excited that her chickens started laying eggs, but she was a little "freaked out" about eating them.

Snow Storm #1

In early December we got our first snow storm. At the height of the storm, we couldn't see the barn or chicken coop from the back door. Once it was done snowing and blowing this is what we were left with:

We sure thought with was a lot of snow then, but now, this is nothing!
Kent after blowing the driveway.