Her Halo is held in place by the horns

Amelia was in the studio the other day, standing in front of a large white canvas. I took out my camera and she started crackin' it up. I took 60 or so shots, most of them are blurry because she is in constant motion. but as you can see there are a few gems in here too.

Burn permit

last night was the first real day of yard clean up. Suzy and Mac showed up and all 13 of our kids "helped" out with yard work. Actually they did quite a lot! We burned a huge pile of weeds and thoroughly smoked the kids. We even did Boy Scout dinners on the hot coals. Ivie and Ethan Mowed the lawn for the first time this year... Ivie in her bare feet...

Amelia and Faith on the swing

Chef Todd, I eventually gave up on using that shovel to get the food out of the coals and used my hands (yes I had gloves on)

Dinner was really quite good, Lara made one dinner with stuffing and cram of chicken soup and chicken with potatoes and carrots and peas.. the bottom was a littel burned but other wise perfect!

this is the first time that night that Ethan didn't have a stick on fire in his hand

Hannah is doing so well with walking, its been 2 weeks since her accident... she is truly a miracle!

Ducks come and go

I never posted the pictures I took of our ducks. They were fun to have, the kids liked to chase them and watch them waddle all over the yard. The downside was the doberman sized turds and 15$ a week to feed them! Not to mention when I left for work at 4:30 in the morning they would make such an awful noise to be feed... I thought our duck-hunting neighbor might make good on his shotgun promise... Isobell was very fond of the lame duck she named "hobble" (because she can't walk very good)so we kept her.(the duck and Isobell) We also kept the male mallard but he left us one night and has not returned. We let 2 families come and get them, one was from Draper and wanted to add to their farm, the other was a nice family from Peru, they took the rest of the ducks and the rooster... I wonder what they did with them?