still here!

In case anyone was wondering or cared . . . we are still here! Haven’t blogged much lately. Earlier this summer I made a commitment to myself to not open my computer until after the kids went to bed at night. Well, by that time I really had no mental energy to pull the computer out and write something. I also spent many evenings outside after the kids went to bed visiting with my neighbors.

You may be asking what you have missed. Well, you have missed a post about our August vacation with Roger’s 2 brothers and their families (Great Wolf Lodge in Wisconsin Dells),

 

our second hog roast of the summer,

so, this was early in the morning and the guys had been up for several hours and as you can see had the hog roasting with a nice bronze look to it.

Callie didn’t want to be left out of our picture taking and discussion about the hog, so she made sure that her brother was taken care of and wrapped him up in blankets and put him in his stroller to roll him across the wet grass to pay us a visit. She takes such good care of him!

About an hour after we took the picture above a friend walked into our house and said, “Are there supposed to be flames coming from the hog pit?” Roger didn’t believe him! But as you can see below the hog got a little toastier than we really wanted. Thankfully we caught it in time and it was only the hide that was burned. The meat inside was still quite tasty! 

and our “girl’s day out” getting pedicures before school started.

I wanted to do something special with Callie before school started this year and I think that we have found a new tradition. She still talks about her pedicure!

 

Many evenings in the summer we would ride the 4 wheeler down the gravel road west of our house and just enjoy the peace and quiet that our area can bring. Below is a small attempt to show you what we would see each night.

Miles of cornfields.

Miles of train tracks.