Visit!!

Sarah was playing around with my camera (again.) FELIX! You need a shave buddy!! (I found a few more like this too.. one of me, Aunt Wendy and the dog. Too funny!

Maggie and Sally begging for meat. :)

Sarah and her Auntie Wendy. My brother and family came to visit us for a few days which was a real treat. We normally don't see the Drake side of the family over Christmas since we've moved to NH . We had so much fun!!! We miss them already!

Zach and Christian got to hit the Dartmouth ski area two times during our visit. Zach was in HEAVEN!! Here they are in the lodge.

Getting ready to go up the lift

Here comes Christian!

Christian and Zach goofing around!

Sarah and Maggie (who was smacking her lips or something?!). As usual Maggie got tons of attention from Sarah! :)

My brother Randy with Maggie and our pup Sal on his lap (some jealousy going on there!!)


a dim-light picture of our tree.

December 2009

I thought I would add a bunch of pics (since my wonderful husband got me an air card type of thing for the computer!! wow.. it's SO much faster!!!) He's heard enough complaining out of me about how slow our Internet WAS..! Here are some pictures from this month. Merry Christmas everyone!!!




What are these???

Celtic's tickets!! It took him a while to actually look at the tickets to see what row he was in. He was just so thrilled with the actual tickets themselves.. when he saw row 5 he was even more excited! Daddy is going to go too, plus a friend and his Dad. A very special treat. (he's not going to believe just how big those guys are!!!)
(I just added these two (12/30) so they don't really go in order here!!)







Christian, number 14. Go raptors!!!

Sarah with the big guy himself!

Sarah opening a birthday gift from her pal Shannon

Christian at his band concert, playing trumpet, third from the left in the back row. Good job on the solo bud!! :)

Sarah in the choir at school (5th from the right on the bottom row.. counting the girl with the violin, who did a great job might I add!!) This was Sarah's first year playing flute too, so she got to be in the band. The pictures never turn out well for me in the gym..

Sarah after her concert at school with the snowman she made!

Christmas eve service, happy birthday Jesus! (Sarah is an angel in there somewhere!)

three wise men!! (no pun intended..haha!)

reading "twas the night before Christmas" a tradition at our house!




Santa came to the barn too!

Happy tenth Sarah!

Our little girl turned ten yesterday.. she's not so little anymore!! Happy Birthday Sarah! We love you!

our Christmas tree!





The power went out on Wed. night for at least 5 hours.. what else to do??? Watch Sarah and her amazing cats do tricks!! Here is lacey showing us the "high five". haha!!






Christian read and we all played trivial pursuit. After that we made popcorn on the woodstove then we went outside and had a snowball fight in the dark! (I won...) :)

Thanksgiving trip to NY '09

Here are some pictures of our annual Thanksgiving trip to NY! For some reason I cannot type anything under the pictures.. not sure what is going on! We went to the barn in Cape Vincent and spent a lot of time with "Sarah's NY horse", jake. She also got to ride the Knapp sister's other horses, Copper (with pink boots on..) and Charlie Brown. (thanks to Grandma too for the lesson on Jake!) There is a cute pic of Melinda texting on a yawning Charlie Brown.. too cute! Thank you girls for all of your assistance with Sarah, she looks forward to seeing you when we visit. Not to mention I love watching you ride... you girls are awesome! We had ourselves a regular pony party!! :)
More pics on the bottom of my nephew Tyler with his cousins..
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!!

update!

Sarah and pal Shannon getting comfy :) (do they really look comfy to you?!)

We finally updated Sarah's blog!! Our neighbor let us borrow a wonderful high speed gadget so we put a slide-show (all about horses.. of course!)on her blog.. (unheard of for dial up!!!) Please visit! www.asilearnasigrow.blogspot.com

Romi

Eric's mom just sent us this one.. her horse Romi on the left (who is filling out quite nicely might I add!!!) meets his half sister. The email was titled "am I looking in a mirror??"

more of Nana and Papa's visit

We did a fun craft over the weekend when Nana and Papa came over that was recommended to us by a co-worker (and dear lady!) of mine. You gather leaves and things and press them in a book over night, then you arrange them on wax paper. After that you take a carrot shredder (one that you don't want to use on carrots anymore!) and shred some crayons over top.

next, cover the leaves and crayons with another sheet of wax paper then iron until all of the crayon shavings have melted. Note the night gown.. this was a different day as Sarah made a bunch of them!! As soon as she woke up and ate breakfast she was asking to make more.

the finished product ! (well, one of them!) the funnest part was finding the leaves. We took a walk to the farm with Nana and found all sorts of things. We raided the flower garden there and got some pansies that survived the last frost under some leaves, some mum flowers and Sarah even found a guinea hen feather to add. Very pretty Sarah!

My Dad loved our 4-wheeler.... he was watching Eric ride it around and Eric got him on there.. he rode all the way up the hill and back (I was a bit nervous to say the least... what we call "the hill" is actually a mountain.....) then he rode around the yard!! He thoroughly enjoyed himself!!!! (you can't really tell, but his pockets are full of snacks. When he got off the 4 wheeler the first thing he did was take out a snack and eat. You're too funny Dad!!! :)

A nice shot with Nana.

Sally-Sniffers is ready for Halloween....!

We decided to walk Kit to our house to visit while Nana and Papa were here last weekend.

Nana and Papa

our dial-up is back (sigh..) so I only uploaded on picture this time. My parents came to visit for the weekend! We had a nice visit! Miss you Mom and Dad!! :)