Jam in January

--- quicksilver and a mandolin, coincidence? ---

--- Georgie brought his harmonicas ---

 --- Nate 'n the Baby ---

--- Nolmes 'n the Baby ---

--- this is one of the ways the little people kept busy. ---

--- Abbie ---

--- Davy  ---

--- a pic of Jeremiah with his eyes open ---

--- Sarah 'n the Baby (I think we like babies) ---

--- Nate the Great ---

--- I love it when my brothers have a conversation with anyone.  They really get into it. ---

--- Annamae and Emmaline ---

--- Kathryn, Lydia, and Nolmes ---

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Forgotten Photos of 2011

Well, folks the time has come to post all the embarrassing, funny, and those that we don't want to ever see again photos.   

  Sit back and laugh.

The twins getting a picture.  I guess Sarah decided something was terribly wrong!

The brothers enjoying the attention picture time gives them

Pool time is sooo restful . . .  . . 

"Wall I lost my dear ole darlin the night they were playin the butiful Teenisee Walltzz."

Nate

Riah

Did catch a few off guard!

We've had fun blogging this year and I hope you enjoyed these special pics.   Since both of us are headed off to college in late January don't expect to see much until May.  

Until then . . .  may your days all be sunshiny, your schoolwork easy,  your food delicious, your friends kind, your room clean, your chores be all done and your life be fantastic. 

Audios!

New Year's Eve

There is not a better way to bring in the New Year than getting together with great friends and having fun together!   Saturday night we invited the older Bender kids over and had fun playing all sorts of games!

The boys are enjoying the new Xbox they got for Christmas.

Kathryn playing the piano.

 Amelia and Sarah playing tennis

  Our brothers were generous and bought everybody pizza, chips, and pop.  Brothers are the greatest!  There were also games of Midnight Madness, Dutch Blitz, Apples to Apples and Pit.  Thanks Benders for coming over!  We had much fun!

     Welcome 2012!!!!!

-Christmas 2011-

Starting to really like this game :)

Since "clown" has long since gone on to a better life, Uriah decided that Jeremiah needed some lovable stuffed animal to take poor clown's place.  This fella should suffice.

Our two strings of Christmas cards.

Christmas day was not white. :(

Can't think of anything to give your son?  Give him socks...

 A big fat book of all the tractors in the world.  

We get blamed for everything.

Jared, just woke up.

`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

Christmas Caroling

After we caroled the children worked on a craft and...

...everyone munched on cookies.

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!!

Jared has been recruiting his brothers for work on his Jeep.  Can't wait to see and ride in the finished product. :)

Treasured ornaments on our Christmas tree.  Why do we all have to grow up?

Definitely

Levi is becoming quite the craftsman.  Notice:  Money has multiple uses; see photo.

Whenever we come in need of something, Mum immediately tells us "write it on the whiteboard or we will forget!"  

Yummy!  Chocolate and peanut butter goodness!

 Delightful Dirty Snowballs  

  

   Mix together crushed sandwich creme cookies and cream cheese.  Form into balls and roll in powdered sugar.  Make sure you don't eat to many, though it is quite tempting!  

Did you know?

 The song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Riendeer"  was started all because a little girl was worried because her mother was sick and was going to die.

The song "Silent Night" came about all because an organ was broken.

"Winter Wonderland" was written by a tuberculosis patient.

Jingle Bells was not even written for Christmas!

Hope you are enjoying the season!  

Guess who is coming home soon!!!!

 She will be coming home from college in less than two weeks!  

  Can't Wait!