"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."

(ok, so lame shot of the Christmas tree... but it's upon request!)

~ MERRY CHRISTMAS ~

The Work Continues By Night...

The Home Stretch

We are right in the heated center of an intense mailer for the local campaign we are helping with.  We are learning so much of the inner workings of a campaign, we are learning to how address envelopes quickly (you have to when there's 5000!),  we are learning about keeping those 5000 envelopes in alphabetical order, we are learning that you don't get things in life without a little (and sometimes a lot of) hard work!  It's been an honor helping on Jarad's campaign and it's been blast.  Here's a look at what our mornings have been looking like!  

Gotta keep hard after operation 'Address Envelopes'!

Here's our awesome mom carving time out of her busy days to address some envelopes!

YOU GET OUT THE VOTE!

ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART?!

Tea time is the best of times!

One of the best things to do on an over cast, cool day is to have a tea party. We decided to switch our tea party day to Friday since I have off. I happened to be randomly working for the Yoders this last Friday but made sure I was off in time for some tea. :)
Mom, Grace, and Aubrey, were home baking up a storm. (Beth had gone to work with Dad that day.) Mom put little flowers on the tops of all the sugar cubes along with making biscotii, rye bread sandwiches, and cheese patties.

A Mom's touch is the best!

Some people (no names to protect the guilty) get carried away.

Had to put this picture up. Grace took it. She's getting really good even on our little camera.

The lovely ladies. (Minus the camera girl, the china doll, and betty.)

Carpe Diem

THE GRAND OLE' PARTY

Saturday we kids walked for Jared Klein, a republican who is running for Iowa State House, in a local parade.  We spent more time preparing for the parade than actually walking.  Oh well, it was fun.

We were swimming in our XXL tee-shirts.

When I said swimming, I meant SWIMMING!!

God bless the USA!

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HERE COMES THE BRIDE...

Tiff, Chelsy Bontrager and I played the music for a wedding in Cedar Rapids Friday afternoon.  Then we sped down to Washington for another wedding at six... the same night! 

Always... talking... always...

Joe and Charity... the most in-love couple I've ever seen!  (This is the youth pastor at our church and his now-bride)

Don't ask me why...

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So here's a snippet of our weekend... and there's lots more to come!

We always have to remember to 'carpe diem' -- seize the day!

Ketchup

HERE IS SPRING AT OUR HOUSE...

and a few other random things that we've been doing!  We hope you enjoy this Ketchup Day and thanks again for your patience visiting!

Tulip Festival

May first, all of us girls went to the Dutch settlement of Pella, Iowa, to enjoy the annual Tulip Festival.  We watched the parade full of people dressed in Dutch costumes, enjoyed yummy food, and scouted out all the little shops down Main Street!

THE FAMILY ADDITIONS:

Our family recently grew by four:  three goats and one lamb.  Here's a little view of our trip to the sale barn to get them!!

My favorite red-head sister!!  

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PS. We are sorry to admit that our three goat friends didn't make it more than a month at our house.  I should say they were sick before they got to our house... and -sniff - they never recovered.  You might not want to come to our house if you are a goat.  We don't have the best track record! 

A Random Picture From Tiffany's Birthday!

Don't they make the sweetest couple?!

An Overdue Sprinkling!

Ok... so thank you all for your patient hounding. Yes, we are very very very very very (very into infinity) overdue on posting. I won't bore you with excuses... just post. I had all these really cool pics to post from the additions to our family... but couldn't find my flashdrive... get to the library, sit down, look in this one part of my purse and vwala... there's the flash drive. So I'm not sure what all is on there, so what you get today is a very random sprinkling of our life since... well, I'm not sure when. Enjoy!!

Chris and I took care of Dad's delivery business when he was gone in March. (Yes, I drove it!!)

What do you think... is this shirt green?!

This is the new and inovative way to keep close tabs on rowdy kids!

Wow, this is really digging back in the archives! We have about this much rain at the moment!!