New Guns

Ashlyn got a 30/6 for Christmas and Garrett got a new airsoft gun.  Today we took them to shoot.

 Kicks a little!

Christmas

All the loot! They must of been good kids this year.

 I was a little late smapping this picture and missed the best part of...Ash got a cougar tag and was so excited. She also got a 30/6, new cowboy boots, outfit, and a dress. (I may have left some out)

 Braden got a Nook, barnes and noble card, itunes card, clothes, wallet,

 Garrett got a green machine, two guns, two giant cookies, a gun sling,

I think everyone was happy with what they got and had a good day.

 

Dress Up

How many 16 year old boys do you know that will play dress up with little girls? Braden is so good with kids and they love him. We were delivering the Willden's Christmas presents and Zoey wanted help getting dressed up.

Ashlyn's New Room

Ashlyn's room was a little bigger than the boy's and had a bigger closet so we decided to switch. She wasn't very happy about it until we told her she could keep the deer heads! I seen this wall on a blog and have wanted to do it ever since. Matt thought I was crazy! It is done with pallets. After we figured out and easy way to take the pallets apart it wasn't to bad. We painted the walls in both rooms and laid new carpet in this room. Matt kept telling me it was ugly but when it was done he had to admit it was pretty neat. It feels so cozy in there and she loves it. She's even been keeping it pretty clean!

Gingerbread Houses

Matt and I got to go to the school today and help Garrett build a gingerbread house. We had a good time!

Cutting Wood

I don't think we've ever been able to drive to the property in December! We haven't had any snow. There's some piles of logs by dad's property so we headed up to get a load today. It wasn't even that cold. After we got the truck loaded the kids wanted to play at the pond. It had a layer of ice on the top and the kids would skip rocks across it. It made a really cool sound. A beaver has made himself a house on the pond and had the stream damned off. Then the kids got into the cat tails. What a mess. They would run their hands through them and they would shred into millions of little pieces that stuck to everything. You couldn't even breath. They had to take off their pants for the ride home cause you couldn't even wipe it off.