Talmage's Baptism

Talmage was baptized on Sept. 3rd. He had been counting down the years since he learned to count. It was a great day for him and was fun to have family here for the baptism and then for a lunch/birthday party after.

Our family before the baptism.

Talmage with the four Grandparents that could make it. My dad and his wife Tina came up from California for Labor day weekend. Aaron's parents came up from Syracuse.

Here's the whole group. Stephanie (Aaron's sister) is in the front with an oh so cheerful Anya. Vicki and Larry are behind Stephanie and Anya. Then there is Lindsey (Aaron's sister) between his parents, and her new husband, John, behind her (they came down from Idaho). And Berry (Larry and Vicki's son) is the one all the way on the left.

This is Talmage's cool birthday/baptism day cake that Annette made for him. She does such a great job with cakes! Not only did it look really cool but it tasted great. Good thing Tina was staying at our house to help us eat all this cake.

Happy Birthday Anya

Anya just had her 6th birthday! She is in Kindergarten, she lost her first tooth, and she has her own chicken. She's pretty much satisfied with life right now. For Halloween she wants to dress up like Laura Ingalls so we started figuring out a costume in September. By the time we got a pattern and fabric this costume was getting pretty pricey so it became a birthday gift also. I worked super hard on it all week and she loves it! I'm still critical of it but she's happy so I should be too.Here she has it on over her school clothes.

I have been reading the Little House series to Anya, at her request, and she loves it. She already wanted to be a" farmer's wife" when she grows up and now that she's learning all about living off the land she wants too be a little farm girl.




Anya has been doing a great job taking care of our 3 chickens and she was super excited to where her Laura costume out to collect eggs.



I'll need to do a post about our chickens sometime soon. But for now I'm going to pat myself on the back for actually making a new post. Hmm maybe an ice cream reward is a better idea!