Once again it has been forever since I posted a blog.  It has been hard to post a write up of our lives, without the pictures.  I am bound and determined to get some pictures on this blog, and if I don't I may never write again.  Or I may just change photo services, and do it that way.

Since last I wrote, Lexi has been in Volley ball,  and is now in Basket ball.  She has a game on Tuesday and Thursday this week.  Her class is able to go to Washington DC this spring, so we came up with a fund raiser to help her pay her half of the $1550 that she needs to go (Mom and Dad are paying the other half).  We made and sold pies for Thanksgiving.  A week ago Saturday, we baked 28 pies.  The first pie went in at 7:30am and the last went in the oven at 8:30pm.  We still have 4 pies to make, as some people wanted theirs after Thanksgiving.  All told, she will have made a little under $500.

Kyra is deep into her multicultural fair.  What the heck is that you may ask?  Her class at school is putting this fair on Dec. 5.  It is like a science fair, only each kid picks a country and sets up a table with all the things from that country.  Kyra chose the Netherlands/Holland.  We have had a lot of fun researching and finding things for her table.  Mark and Kyra are at this minute working on her Dutch windmill.  My Mom is making an authentic Dutch costume for Kyra to wear that day.  I have ordered a dutch hat and now all we have to do is find some wooden shoes.  They will have a day of food from each country, after Christmas, and Kyra is making Dutch thousand layer cake.  Will let you know how that turns out.

Thanksgiving was spent at the ranch with Marks brother and family and Lonnie and Verona.  The guys and kids were gone most of the time fixing fence.  The kids did have fun discovering the barn and "cleaning" it up to make a club house.  I had to come back one day early to see a home health patient, then spent the day Saturday cleaning before my family came home and destroyed the house again.

We are now waiting for the snow storm that is predicted for tonight and tomorrow.  I hope we get a dumping, even if I have to stay inside with my kids all day.  It doesn't feel like Thanksgiving, and sure doesn't feel like Christmas with 70+ temps.

Will go for now, and try to be better about keeping my blog up to date.

Laura