Finishing up the Fall 2013 family photos.

So I was going to do the AZ trip in this post but still have not cornered the pictures so I will finish posting the photos from this years family pictures.  I am trying to take them every six months but for some reason that is difficult to accomplish...weird.  So here are the three childers who were home for pictures...Cody had some lame excuse about being in France or Belgium not sure which one.

It seems like just yesterday that this young man was my little Irish sprite sidekick!  Wah...not ready for this.

Yes, he is already the tallest member of the immediate family (5ft. 8 in.) and such a handsome farm boy he is!

What can I say Sweet Bubba (cousin Brenda added the sweet, we think it fits) is beautiful inside and out.  Now if I can just find a way to help her reach her dreams...

Hugh is my little man in every possible sense of the term.  He brings sunshine everywhere he goes with his hysterical sense of humor and family trait of quoting movies way too much!

Love that smile...the same forced, painful look his brothers had at that age.

So the kids are adorable as always and the pictures were fun to take, we like being together and the weather was about perfect.  We also took a bunch of pictures with the goats and a few with the dogs.  The goat pictures will hopefully be on their website soon as kidding season starts next month.

I was not as thrilled with this picture as I had hoped, but the dogs are still wonderful!  Yes, they are loved and spoiled, drives Brenton a bit batty I think.

Here we are with just a few of the 'girls', they have been a good addition to the 'hobby farm' program.  I should have engineered a picture by my awesome pink chicken coop!

The owners of Shamrock Farm and some of their 'girls', no pictures of Thor and the boys as they are grumpy most of the time, unless it is Bubba who wants something from them.

So this wraps up the second half of the family photo posts, tomorrow I will share whatever I can find from whatever event I missed in the past 6 months:)!

Still here:)

Well I certainly dropped the ball on keeping this blog up to date, I have all the usual excuses so I will skip those.  I decided to do a few catch up posts and then I am planning on a weekly update...just in case someone actually reads this.  So...November was great we made it to Arizona in one piece with no meltdowns.  It was great to see Grandma Glennie (97) and Jack and Mom and the kids and Lisa...I have a few pictures that will be posted next time as I have no idea which chip they are on and yes our digital photos are a unholy mess at this time.  I need Bubba to organize them but she is buried with college, work and she is the Sunbeam teacher at Church (she is great at it).  So I will start with our family photos for 2013, it was so odd not to have Cody there but we worked it out, his last picture came.

This was taken across the street from our place...we live in a neat place if I do say so myself.

Same basic place with a more "modern" pose?  There is a ditch just to the side of Liam that I threatened to push him into.

We took a short drive up to Forsberg's place to take pictures by Mel's old barn.  It is a neat little place and I did not want to go so far a field that it wasn't 'us'.  Hugh hauled that picture of Cody all over the place.

My sweetheart!

Don't they look great?  They have really missed their brother but have grown closer for it I think. They are all growing up, not sure I like it all that much but at the same time it rocks!

So this is update number one, we took the pictures on Conference weekend in October.  Life has been good and busy for us.  The goats are (hopefully) all bred and should begin kidding in March.  The boys are swimming, Bubba is in college and working with her dad two days a week.  The trip to AZ was good and will get it's own post very soon.  So here's to hoping I can keep this going a bit better if for no other reason than my Cody might enjoy reading it when he gets home in July!!!