Lambs

So far we have four lambs. We're expecting 14 more.

This year we're naming them all starting in "L".

This is Luthien. A girl.

Left to Right:Luthien,Ginger, and Legolas. Legolas is a boy.

These don't have names yet. Any ideas? A boy and a girl.

No name with his sister Nameless.-Hannah

New Arrival

Our first lambs came today! I promise we'll get pictures sometime in the near future, Grandmama. I love lambing season. This time of year we fight to go chore. I don't have any details about the lambs yet so I'll have to tell you later.
Ben has an All-Stars scrimage this afternoon.

Tree Sugar

On Saturday at about 11:30 Daddy, Ben, & I went to our friends, Doug Lewis's, to help make maple syrup. That is really good when it's done! It is also very hard work. About two weeks ago, we began collecting the sap from the sugar maples, then Sat. they (Doug's) started a fire to boil down the sap at 5:30 am. The kids usually just play outside in the woods because most of the work consists of working with boiling sap, huge pans, and large fires. Saturday the boys declared war on us girls. The war eventually moved to the hay-loft. At about 2:30 they moved the sap from the large pan over the big fire to another, smaller pan over a smaller fire. It finished cooking at about 8 pm. About 100 gallons of sap makes only about 20 pints of syrup. Playing war against the boys is no joke, I was very sore & tired by the time we got home. Hannah, Mamma, & Nathan joined us later, Hannnah had basketball & Nathan had soccer practice. Hannah was a spoil sport & wouldn't play war with us. (She SAID she couldn't play because hay might get into her contacts.)
-KD-

Saturday

This morning we had our first indoor soccer game. It's an extremely fast game and tons of fun. Katie, Ben, and I are all on the same team. We play an hour game every Saturday morning at 7:45. It really wakes you up, especially, if you're a spectator. There are no out of bounds, so you play off the bleachers and the walls. We don't normally kick it into the bleachers, but it does happen. Nathan's team plays at 1:00 today. My basketball tournament is today at 1:00 too, so we'll have to work that out, somehow.

Katie, Ben, and Daddy are going over to our friends' house to make maple syrup. It's always a ton of fun and, hopefully, everybody can go next week.

We are the champions!

Nathan won the championship for his league! It was a really good game and he got several rebounds. At the far left is Nathan with his trophy over his nose.

This is Ben's team. They played an awesome game and came in 4th. Ben is second to the right.

It looks as though both of the boys will be playing for the all-stars team. My tournament is this coming weekend.

This coming Friday, Katie, Ben, and I have indoor soccer. This is totally new for me. I mean, seriously, how do you play soccer in a basketball gym?

We had an interesting visitor yesterday. Jacques, I believe he is called.

Katie and I made Valentine's breakfast for everybody. We had two kinds of coffee cake, a fruit salad and tea. It turned out alright. I made a Valentine for Ben as you can see below.

In the case that you can't read this it says" Roses are red, Violets are blue. Lemons aren't sweet, and niether are you.

We went bowling with some homeschoolers. This is Katie's friend, Abbie.

Tournaments

Last night Ben had his first tournament game. He played really well, but they didn't win. They played against the best team(they're undefeated).Tonight, Ben will play again for 3rd place. We don't know who he's playing yet, but I think he has a good chance of winning. Nathan will play in the championship game tomorrow night. I'm nearly positive he will win, but not completely positive. We don't have any pictures because Katie had the stomach bug the past few days. I think she's over it, but we're still not holding hands when we pray.-Hannah

Busy,busy,busy

Sorry, we seem to be busy every night these days so it's kinda hard to blog. Tuesday night Uncle Stuart, Aunt Amy, Nixon(2), and Jeb(5 mo.) were at Grandmother and Granddaddy's house. Nixon is simply bursting with energy and is, therefore, very entertaining. Meanwhile, Jeb was giving extensive lectures on, well, I guess I don't know exactly what they were about, but he seemed to think they were important.

Nixon.





And here's Jeb.

Nathan and Nixon are wrestling or something like that.

On Wednesday they came to our house. We didn't manage to get any pictures, though.

This week Mama made cheese. The fun part of making cheese is stretching it. And if Katie helps, she likes to make cheese sticks.

She made monzerella and riccota cheese.

This weekend we had a revival in town. Katie and I helped with it. It was very good and I enjoyed it. What I thought was really cool was that almost all of the planning, etc. was done by teens.

This is Kaylin Carter who had the idea for the revival.

Of course, we had basketball this week. Last night Nathan had a tournement game, which his team won. On Friday, he will be playing for the championship. Ben's tournament games start tomorrow. My season will end in a week or so. Hannah

Let it Snow!

Sorry, no pictures today 'cause the camera belongs to Katie and she's running around somewhere so I can't ask permission. I would be with her but the afternoon and late evening is the only computer time I get. It's been snowing steadily all afternoon and we have our fingers crossed for sledding tomorrow. Next week is the last week of basketball for the boys. I go for a week after that. And then we have indoor soccer! And then spring soccer! And then summer is upon us with blueberry season, camp and sewing nets. We have the busiest mother in the world.

On Saturday afternoon we went to a planning meeting for a youth revival coming up in town. It was really awesome to see all the teenagers there. And other than basketball that's all that's been going on.