Kanine Mis-hap

'Ol Crunch had abad run-in with...... something  a few days ago.

He's only been out of our site for ten minutes, I have no idea what happened but it left a lot of tendon, muscle and bone exposed on his front leg. 

I didn't get a pic of it before surgery ( and I wouldn't post it on here anyway) but this is what it looks like now.  He has stitches all the way from the " armpit" to below the knee.

At first he could barely walk but now he's getting around pretty good. Really hates it when I change the dressing though. And we've been making him sleep inside at night, which he also hates.  Looks like he'll be fine after all the swelling goes down though.

Happy Anniversary !

Today marks  twenty-seven years that Mom and Dad  have been married. 

To celebrate the girls and I made a cake and Dad took Mom out for dinner.

Here's a picture of the cake...... um, don't look to closely, it's been suggested that I take decorating lessons ;)

The Green House

The green house is in the making. Dad and the boys have been working on it like crazy this nice windy monday afternoon. It's starting to cloud over and I can hear thunder as I type...here are some pics.

Dad is drillin a hole in a board.

Dad and Levi working together.

Dad nailing a board.

Abigail bringing dad some eggnog.

Boaz enjoying some eggnog.

Here's what's done of the green house.

sharing

boaz is such a nice little guy. Here's a few pics of him sharing a seat with our snippy old cat, Houdini. 

Allen Dances

Allen likes to dance. It's so cute! Laurel took this video while TJ played Michael Card's "Starkindler" and I attempted to play the violin part on the piano!

New Post- Finally

Well, well, well, It's been almost a month since the last time I updated this blog- whoops ! time to fix that problem. 

 Our whole family is preparing to attend another wedding in Michigan this weekend, this time Johanna is a bridesmaid which means I get to handle the camera ;). All the kids who didn't get to go the last time are looking forward to seeing Lake Michigan and the lighthouses is Manistee.

 This is the first time in nearly a year that we've all gone on a trip together and the farthest we've gone in a lot longer than that, so it should be a lot of fun. 

Guess I'm rambling but hey, I posted ;)

Happy Birthday

Sunday evening we Celebrated T.J.'s birthday with what has been traditional ever since I can remember (for him anyway)- pizza and dirt cake.
Yes he's an old man now, more than halfway to fifty and I have pictures to prove it.

Okay so you can barely see the candles but they do say "26"

I thought this was a kinda cute picture of the oldest and youngest.

and of course there were presents;

Of course what he really wanted was Final Cut Studio 2, but none of his siblings were willing to cut quite that deeply into our pocket-books.

After the festivities we all sat and listened to T.J. and Dad read short stories




Of course no gathering is complete without everybody's favorite (only) nephew :)


P.S. Sorry the pictures are so small :}