October 2014

Howdy-

Kinda hard to believe October is here and gone already. Rodney was kept busy with school and getting ready to go to the National FFA convention in Louisville, KY. He took 11 students and 4 other adults and they flew out of Bozeman early Tuesday (28th) morning. The Parli Pro team competed and came in 29th. Tonight they're in Nashville, TN. They went to the Opry this evening and are planning on seeing downtown Nashville in the morning. They fly out tomorrow (2nd) about 5 and get into Bozeman late. We're ready for Daddy to be home! For MEA a couple weeks ago we went to Missoula, as that was where Rodney's teacher convention stuff was. Spent a couple nights there and was reminded again why we don't live in a big city. This little corner of the world works great for us. Spent an evening with Logan and Elissa. A house of boys and a house of girls collided...and had a great time. Last Friday we worked cows; vaccinating and preg checking. Nicole was sure watching Rodney for the first few cows that he preg checked. Hannah remembers it from years previously, but it was a refresher for Nicole. The life of a farm kid. Other than that, I don't think anything else happened except for the daily living. Janell is a growing and a changing. She's into blowing bubbles at the moment. And she's just about ready to full-out laugh; we've been getting some giggles outta her. For the most part, she's been sleeping through the night for the past couple of weeks. Which is nice. :) Not much else has changed. Nicole and Hannah are still amazing us with their skills. :) Nicole has really gotten into doing puzzles and Hannah likes to write her letters, asking how to spell words. Can't think of anything else to add, so...

'Til next time-

Rodney, Amanda, Hannah, Nicole and Janell

 

 

The camera was MIA, so here's a few pics from the month that we had on the ipad:

H's writing on the ipad

big sisters brought her lots of babies to play with

 

 

art project

cute little chubby cheeks

hangin' with daddy

 

huh. guess she didn't want to be put down. even if i did want to get a picture of her in the cute pink bibs

jack-o-lanterns

drawing faces with markers on one side...

...but we didn't get the other side carved. next year

happy halloween! :) had a cow and a princess to go shopping with. and "mommy's cupcake". but didn't get any other picture but this one. we were gonna go to the story hour at molly's library, but a low tire on the van changed our plans. we ended up going to butte to get a few things and then we stopped in whitehall at allen and linda's and david and peggy's for trick-or-treating on the way home. then i decided to go down to dillon so the girls could show auntie linnet and papa george and gramma nec their outfits.

For story hour at the VC library that week, the kids (and others) dressed up:

craft that day was coloring trick-o-treat bags. that i forgot at home on halloween.

shoes are usually on the wrong feet :) she was so excited to finally be able to wear the cow outfit that was been hanging in the closet for the longest time (to her).

September 2014

Howdy-

This month we celebrated our 8th anniversary (eight?! where have the years gone?!) and Rodney's 30th birthday. He's feelin' old :) Rodney was kept busy with school, doing concessions at the home football games and with FFA activities. Ruby Valley FFA hosts a contest each fall called the Ruby Valley Invitational and it consists of 3 contests: livestock judging, range/soils and forestry. Each year it gets bigger, this year 439 kids competed. Luckily the community is a great supporter of the program and willingly offer their help. Second cutting hay got done this month, thanks to Dale who did most of it. We had some cold nights (and days) that finished off our garden, but we did get some produce outta it. We actually was able to harvest some sweet corn! Molly the dog liked to pick the corn too, the little stinker. The girls continue to grow and change each day. Janell weighed in about 14 lbs at her 2 month checkup. She can carry on a conversation, with lots of big, toothless grins. Likes to sit up to see what is happening and likes to watch her sisters. Hannah and Nicole both like to hold her, sometimes Janell gets more loving than she wants to. :) Nicole's slowly starting to talk more, but she's getting there. Sometimes she takes us by surprise at what she can say or what she knows. She knows how to count to 5 and quite a few of the ABCs. Hannah's a great help with Janell. She likes to be in charge; that works out as long as Nicole is alright with it. :) We've enjoyed having Gospel Meetings in Dillon on Sunday afternoons. I better get this email sent before I need to add another month to the news. Can't think of anything else that happened.

'Til next time-

RAHNJ

 photo overload:

the night of 9/3 it froze....the corn, squash and potatoes didn't fair very well

9-4

peek

multitasking

she was pretending to talk on the phone

pickin' spuds

it's bedtime

kids found the camera again

thanks elissa for the cute outfit! janell didn't think much of it when i laid her down for a picture :)

 hannah likes to take pictures:

 the goofy dog started barking and when i looked out, this is what i saw. i dunno if she was playing with the deer or if she was trying to run it off the place and the deer wasn't having any part of that and was "fighting" back. they were like this for quite a while.