Driving Under the Influence of Thumbsucking

Thanksgiving 2009

Turkey came out great. Had a great time with Papa and Grandma. We missed you Robert, Debbie, Jake, & Kyle.

Kailey's Birthday at Big Bad Bubbas!

I was home with the flu! Happy Birthday Peanut!

Toffee Covered Peanut Adventure

Decided to play dreidel with the kids using toffee covered peanuts tonight.  Didn’t like the idea of using gelt – was too much like teaching the them to gamble.  So off to the store we went – a 30 minute round trip (max).  $40 bucks later, we had our peanuts, and a few other items.  But before heading home, everyone wanted to go looking at Christmas lights.  3 hours later, we were taking the long route home, through the back road where I ride by my road bike.  About 2 miles away from my house, I decided to pull over to show my family a really nice landscape job that someone had just completed. Only  I forgot.  It had been raining all day.  The soils out near our house darn near turn to quick sand when it’s saturated.  Well, down went the right side of my car.  Covered about ¾ of my wheels.  ½ hour later, AAA arrived and barely tipped our van over pulling us out.  We made it, though…

 

We had to move our vehicles down the road to do the paperwork.  I told the kids what we were doing, and my sweet Hannah (4) said, ya’ know, how Daddy goes to work and does stuff there.  That guy is going to help Daddy with his work!

 

Anyhow, our trip started around 5pm.  Around 10pm, Caleb had dreideled away everyone else’s peanuts.   I think that’ll make the good memory list!

This Year's Persimmon Adventure

Dancing Beauties

Isaiah 40.31

Can you tell who's new to this motley crew?

There's the persimmon tree

You can't see me!

Picking Persimmons from Mrs. Tanaka's house!

Oh...you are so funny!

Individual Portraits

Homeland security rejected our other family portraits for new passports,
asking us to please review rules for sending photographs. We opted to
purchase these pictures at the local drug store. The results are strikenly similar.

Family Portrait Fall 2009

sketches by Amy Shick, 7 years old

Our New Picnic Bench...made the Lil Shicklet's Farm

Lisah making grape juice, too :)

Making Grape Juice

GeoCaching @ Santa Margarita Lake

Cute Kids

Elsy's Artwork

Aubrey's First Goat Show

Good Job Aubrey and Mary!

Family Pose, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

Outside of Wal-Mart in Mexico :)

Aubuelito's Paradise

If you need a great laugh....

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and click on any of the images to open a sample of Tim's hummer.

You can also visit him here.

Joy in Heat

Well...it’s that time.  Joy came into heat about a week ago, and all the children took notice.  They were concerned about her bleeding, and I told them she was in heat right now… and then explained to them what being in heat meant. 

 

Caleb shouted, “Oh, I know, mama is in heat all the time because she’s had a lot of babies.”  J

Civil War Ball

So much fun!