This thanksgiving dad cooked his traditional “smoked turkey.” First, he put some spice in the turkey. Then, Aubrey cleaned out the smoker racks where the turkey would sit in the smoker. Dad and Hannah started the fire, and dad placed the turkey. During the day dad would check the turkey. Late in the afternoon, dad said the turkey was perfect. And it was the best we ever cooked! J I hope you come over next time!
ABS
11/25/12
This picture is so cute. It shows Aubrey holding Joshua and brushing her teeth. Joshua saw the brush and wanted to try. He grabbed the end of the toothbrush and stuck it in his mouth. He then started to brush like Aubrey. He enjoyed it. J He is so adorable.
ABS
11-11-12
This month Amy and I have been participating in a program called Nanowrimo. The website is http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/. We have the month of November to compete, seeing who can write the best story. Everyone who competes will have their book published if they reach their word-count-goal. The competition requires each user to set a reasonable, but high word-count-goal. My word-count-goal is five-thousand, so far I have three-thousand, three-hundred and four-hundred. The website has many different features, allowing its competitors to have writing buddy’s, chat with people and much more! The competition has been very exciting.
ALS
11-16-12
A couple weeks ago we began to hunt pomegranates. We decided to stop by a house that dad said had a lot of pomegranates. He also said that he could tell the family didn’t eat them. When we arrived, someone pressed a button and the gate swung open. While dad asked them if we could buy some of their fruit, a boy said, “Yeah, two for a hundred dollars.” I was surprised. But the grandfather said, “Sure pick them and make me an offer.” So we picked two five gallon buckets and paid ten dollars. The store sells pomegranates for two dollars each, so what I want to ask you is, how much would the store charge you to fill two five gallon buckets? J
ALS
11-12-12
For a couple of months our family has smelt something burning every time we used the dryer. We decided to find out what caused the problem. Amy, Caleb, Dad and I took the dryer apart and literally found globs hair and bucketful’s of lint. We took out the lint, and had to untangle the hair from the spindles in the back of the dryer. We cleaned all of the parts, and with white vinegar scrubbed off the hair that was burnt on the sides of the dryer. It was a bit disgusting, but it was fun. Dad said that everything we learn now will help us when we are older, and I agree with him. Mom also said that sometimes we’re not thankful for something until we lose the use of it.
ALS
11-4-12
Joshua Is so cute. Mom found Joshua in a gift bag. It seemed like he was trying to hide, but instead he became stuck and started to cry. The reason we think he got stuck is because he was attracted to the colors and went inside. Then he trapped himself trying to get out the bag. He loves bright colors like red, blue, orange, pink, and yellow. Just take a look yourself! J
By ABS
10-12-12
This school semester we’ve been playing soccer. My sister came up to me after the game, and told me a funny incident that happened on the field. Joel asked Amy “How old are you?” Amy said “I’m 10.” Joel questioned “What’s your name?” Amy responded “I don’t know, we haven’t chosen one yet” thinking that Joel meant the team name. Joel exclaimed “Your name, your first name!” Embarrassed, Amy responded, “Oh! Amy.” I almost rolled over laughing. J
By ALS
10-13-12
Is it not wonderful how a baby learns new things? In the past Joshua has had to push against something hard which helps him go forward. That isn’t really crawling but we just call it that J. This week mom spotted Joshua crawling on his own. Mom was watching him and said “Look guys, Joshua’s crawling!” We were so excited.
By ALS
10-28-12
The other day Mom and Dad were looking at Lisah’s finger since her finger hurt. Dad remarked that it might be an ingrown nail. Caleb heard what Dad said and replied, “Dad my toe hurts; I might have an unknown nail.” Our brother was being very silly.J
By ABS
This week Hannah found a cat stuck in the tree. When she shared her concern with dad, he said “Have you ever seen a cat skeleton up in a tree?” Hannah and the rest of us kept watching the cat, and after two days of no movement, Daddy began to share our concern. He tried to get the cat out of the tree by climbing the ladder. He also tried to spray the cat out, which didn’t work either. He decided to call the firemen. so they came. First, they tried to shake the cat out of the tree by pushing a ladder up and down against the tree, but when they didn’t succeed, they sprayed it with their fire hose. At first, they did a light spray, expecting the it to come down; but after it became obvious that that the cat was not going to budge, they decided to spray it with at 200 psi. They succeeded! You should’ve seen that cat! It tumbled out of the tree. As soon as its paws hit the ground it took off like a bullet.
It was hilarious!
ALS
10/22/12
We all love Joshua especially when he is curious. This previous time his curiosity led him to the chicken bucket. He was in the kitchen when he spied the big white bucket. Then he peered inside and saw different delicacies. One of the delicacies was oatmeal. He smelled the warm custard milk, and then pushed the bucket and delightedly watched the milk flow in his direction. He thought it was fun so he slapped the milk and took a slurp. Boy did he enjoy his treat!
By A.B.S
Vanilla is alredy one years old, born on August 30 ,2011. As a special treat, Vanilla got to go in the Labor Day Parade. Why, might you ask. Because Dad took Vanilla to work on his bike, and on that day the road that Dad used was closed, so he had to ride in the middle of the parade. She is a big puppy now, and I still remember when she was a baby. She sure loves a good game of ball.
By A.B.S
Gracie is the subject again. We had pea soup for dinner, and some of her little peas got fell out of her plate. Like most families, we eat dinner before desert. Tonight we got ice cream.
While Gracie was happily licking her ice cream Dad came by and stuck a pea in it. Gracie looked at the pea, took it out, licked the ice cream off the pea, and promptly spit the pea out. Unfortunately I didn’t get to see it, but just thinking about it makes me want to laugh out loud.
by ALS
We had mating frogs last year but this time we got two pairs of mating frogs this year.
But besides having mating frogs we have six individual frogs, so in total we have eight frogs.
We don’t really get the eggs because the fish in the pond probably eat them.
They also keep the bugs down around the pond to. J
Yesterday was Memorial Day and mom maid this cake. J
Amy and I made brownies, and it was mom who came up with the idea.
She made the white frosting out of milk, sugar and cream cheese.
She also came up with the idea of putting on red licorice sticks as the red stripes.
And the stars are raisins. Even if the background is supposed to be blue and the stars white,
I think it was a pretty good idea. Don’t you think so?
Maybe you should try it sometime.
It was really good though! J
We got gifts from mom and dad,
My brother got cars,
And all the girls got dolls.
But instead of a doll I got a very small violin.
We were going to open them after dinner, but dad said that we should open
Before dinner, so we did. J
This is Joshua Obed.
We would sometimes call him Joshua O.
Because he would pretend to fall asleep and
Would start to cry when we put him in his crib.
(mom said that when he would pretend to fall asleep
He would be playing opossum. J)
Now we got him a small baby chair that can rock by itself.
(it needs to have batteries, and it also plays music!)
The first time we got it he slept for a long time.
He still falls asleep in it, but it’s a lot less. J
I was taking pictures of our farmyard, when I caught vanillas face.
I sure was glad that I had my camera. J
She looked away for a second, so I had to call her name softly,
And when she heard me she made that very cute face.
I’m glad that trick worked!!!
