Tea Party

This is a Tea Party at our house. Rachel the princess, Johnathon the prince, and Gideon the protector. Can you see the weapons? He gets tea and popcorn standing up because it is really hard to sit down with a big sword stuck in your belt, but no one dares to hurt the princess with him as the bodyguard!

Adalli 1 Month Pics

Here is our little girl at 1 month. Believe me the more kiddos you have the FASTER that month goes by. Adalli is doing so good! She is happy all the time and when she is a little fussy we can handle it because she sleeps from around 10:30pm until 5:30-6:00 and has since she was 2 weeks old. It is amazing what you can do on a good nights rest. Praise the Lord

This is what we do on snow and ice days, train tracks and farming.

Ice Storm

I was thinking that maybe just maybe we would miss out on an ice storm this year. I was really enjoying the nice fluffy snow that has fallen regularly this winter. On Wednesday it hit though, it rained and rained and froze. We get at least one ice storm a winter but it still truly amazes me how the ice clings to everything! Here are some pictures of the ice and the kiddos too.

It amazes me how evenly spaced the icicles on the power lines are.
Love her dress, pajama pants and snow boots :) It was not that cold out today thank goodness.

The kiddos take turns holding Adalli every chance they get!! She does very well and puts up with alot of shuffling around.
This is the "yoga outfit" that aunt Kay and uncle Ben bought for Adalli. And she is laying on her very nice soft pillow from Grandma Jan.
Adalli got to use her chair for the first time because she wasn't hooked up to the light anymore.
Adalli in the sun. This is the way she spent the last five days. Sprawled out in the sun (when there was sun) with her little light on her back too. On her 2 week birthday we got her numbers back and Dr. Bruxvoort said we could take her light off and no more heel pokes. That was the best birthday present! Her numbers were 14.5 and the poor girl had been poked in the heel for thirteen out of the fourteen days she was out. We are so very thankul for all of your prayers.

Jaundice

We got to come home Saturday of last week and got to stay home one night. The nurse took Adalli's blood and it was at 19 for jaundice so they said that we had to head to the hospital again. We were finally able to come home yesterday with a little light blanket that she has to lay on. She was down to 15.1 when we left yesterday. Now today she is back up to 17, so please pray that she will drop again tomorrow or we will probably have to go back to the hospital.

Adalli Grace

Going home.

Adalli Grace Boender Born December 31, 2009. 8 lbs 1 oz. 20" long.
Very proud Daddy!

Trapping excitement

Josh did a great job of trapping this year. He would have to get up early before school and check traps but his work paid off with unusual catches! He caught a Badger and an Otter this year. He caught a few raccoons, some squirrels and a couple skunks. The kiddos always got up and asked Josh what he caught that day. It was a fun experience considering you really don't know what you are going to end up with.

Trackhoeing

So when BJ wasn't in the tractor putting anhydrous on he was borrowing Mark's track hoe and digging out trees from the Hartman farm. Thank goodness for the track hoe there are some large mud holes that a dozer will not make it through. It is so much fun to watch the farm continuously look better and better.

Fall NH3

BJ put in some really long hours and went through two tractors this fall. He got lots done but has quite a bit left for spring, the quick freeze this fall put him out quickly.

Kelita and Ben's House

This is my sister and her husbands cute house in Morrison, IL. I should have taken a pic of the outside. It is a really nice older farm style house with a nice wood stove and enough room for all of us to stay the night and hang out comfortably. She had two really nice trees out front that made the prettiest yellow leaves so I got some good picture of the boys playing. Rachel was pretty sick the day we took the pictures so that is why the boys are just in them. Next time Rachel will have her turn.



Kelita made supper, then breakfast Sunday morning and lunch after church. We had a great time and we are all very thankful she only lives a couple hours away.

Poor Leah

We have had an extremely wet and cold fall this year and this is what I have to look at all day when it is pooring down rain and just nasty outside. Leah just sits at the door so sad and watches everything going on inside. She is very smart though and never barges in the house until she gets the okay to do so. On these rainy days she does not get to come in though.

More Harvest

Just some more harvest pictures.

Harvest in the Snow

Okay here I am again blogging a month behind schedule:( Sorry. Hope it isn't to confusing.
Yes, these are pictures on the 10th of October IN IOWA. I told BJ we always have snow in Colorado around the first couple weeks of October but this is Iowa. To be honest though, I woke up to the big fluffy flakes and they really made me smile. :) We tried to combine in it and it worked for long enough to get some pictures but that is about it. The corn plants held so much snow so when the combine sucked them into the head it sent snow everywhere and you really couldn't see the head of the combine at all. We were all pretty thankful it only lasted a day.

Autumn Acres

Rachel's preschool went to a local greenhouse that has a lot of fun things to do in the fall. Rachel's favorite was the big slide!