Church Christmas Program

The little kids (2 yrs-K) sang a couple songs up front at church this past Sunday! It was too cute!

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Singing Go Tell It on the Mountain

"...lay down his sweet head..." She had some very silly boys around her!

"...look down from the sky..."

It was so much fun to watch our little girl sing up front at church for the first time! She did such a great job!

Lake & Thanksgiving

A couple of weeks ago we went out to the lake to see the progress on the lake home that my parent's are building. I was trying to take pictures of the construction, but this silly girl kept jumping in front of the camera! _______________________

This year we spent Thanksgiving with the Rogness crew and of course had a lot of fun catching up with everyone! Apparently I did a lot of visiting & eating, because I didn't find time to take too many pictures of the day! Playing a game with the BIG boys!

'What do you think of my move Darren?'

Book Lover

Doing some light reading in her "comfy chair"!

Successful end to a season

Many hours of sitting in a treestand came to a successful end. I was able to fill my buck tag during the regular firearms season. This is by far the biggest deer I have taken. It weighed a little over 200 lbs, Nine point rack, with an inside spread of 15 inches.

I was watching some deer being run out of a harvested wheat field to the south of my treestand. Two great bucks, a small buck, and a doe were being chased by a coyote. The largest buck turned, put his antlers to the ground, and chased the coyote away. I decided then to try to climb down the tree and sneak over to the edge of the wheat field. At this time, the doe bedded down in the wheat field and the 3 bucks were standing around her. The wind was right so I decided to make a move. I was half way down the tree when I looked to the east of my stand and saw this buck walking about 30 yards away. I quickly hid behind the tree, repositioned my feet, one on a branch of the tree and the other on the treesteps I had in the tree. I leaned around the tree, put the crosshairs on him and fired. I gut shot him. He hunched his back and ran about 40 yards. I regrouped, aligned the crosshairs again and dropped him in his tracks. He wasn't the biggest I saw that morning, but I couldn't pass that shot at that distance. I am very excited.

I took Addie into the garage because she wanted to see the deer. We touched the antlers and looked at the deer. I had plastic under the hanging deer to catch any blood. There was a little bit of blood and Addie commented...

"look daddy, he's painting!"

To which I replied.. "Yes he is, yes he is!"

Thank You!

Thank you Grandpa Rusch! We appreciate what all our Veteran's have done for us and our country!

Thank You!

Future Pilot?

Here's our pilot in her very own airplane!Directing her flight crew! Lovin' the Ride!

Showing off her new T-shirt that we all love, especially daddy!

Wow, my 2 year looks so big in this picture!

Our Happy Halloween

For Halloween this year we had an adorable little Ballerina!

Our night started off at church where they had all sorts of fun things going on! There were a number of games that were perfect for Addie's age!

You would get a piece of candy for playing each game and 2 pieces if you won! Here she is dropping her candy into her bag - she did really well with the games!

Of course we ran into some family! Here we are with my cousin Kevin and his boys - Harrison the Dragon & Emmett the Pumpkin!

The church also had pizza! Check her out eating her pizza like a big girl!

Our dinner was followed by some lovely music complements of the Dragon & Ballerina!

The duo soon became a trio!

Showing off our Ballerina twirls!

After leaving the church we went out to go Trick-or-Treating to just a few houses. Our last stop of the night was to Nama's & Tampa's house! Checking out our loot!

When we got home we all agreed it was a fun night!

Building at the Lake

So after quite some time my parents have finally begun construction on the new lake cabin out on Pickeral Lake! This week we thought we'd go out and see how things are coming along! We had been telling Addison in the car that we'd be going to see the lake cabin, but this is one smart girl! We get out there and the first thing she asks is "Where is the cabin?".

Here's what it's looking like so far - next up is framing!

While we were checking out the new, BIG addition to the shed on the back lot Mike tired to point out a deer to Addie!

Checking out the deer in the distance!

What a girl!

Doing some posing!

Taking a bow! Watching some TV

What a basket case!

What we learned today...

Can you see her "waving" hello to her big sister? We had so much fun watching our little girl move around! The technician even commented that she is a mover, especially a kicker - I turned to Mike and said "That's what I've been telling you!"