We baby-sat Katy last night, and I just had to take some pictures.... She is such a doll!

My dear friend Ashley Riefer, came over for a visit today. We have not seen each other in about 2 months. So it was a lot of fun to catch up with each other~ I love you Ashley. And I had a wonderful time with you today. We will have to do it again soon!

The Lights were awesome!



Have you ever sean a blue tree?

The parade was really cool!







This Lady's dress was so cute~

We saw the Christmas Carol. It was very impressive.


Any and Amy~


Ben and Ryley~




Sorry this is so blurry, but I thought the snow was awesome!

On Sunday, Andy and Amy had invited us to go to SDC with them. We had a lovely time together. The lights were amazing, and there were a lot of very well done shows that we enjoyed. Thanks Andy and Amy and Ryley for the awesome time!!







What a cute little guy.... ;)

On Saturday, after visiting the nursing home, there was a really bad storm that we had to drive through. There was so much rain that it got into our van and the van died on our drive way. After about 25min. of waiting for the van to start again we realized that we could not cross our creek, because it was too high. 2 hours later the creek went down some and we were able to cross it. When we got home we found out that the electricity had gone out, and it did not come back on for 8 hours.

This is a picture of our pond, it was huge!



We had a candle light dinner and we had to cook the hamburgers with flashlights.




After dinner we all had a very fun evening telling stories and eating popcorn. I really enjoyed the evening with candle lights and story telling, it seemed just like something you read in Laura Ingalls stories. But after 7:40 the lights came back on and we sat back and watch a movie.

Fun Old Pictures!


Okay, these are all pictures from LONG ago.

This is Joel, on the four wheeler, and David, the one in dark blue, and some friends...


Ben is in the red coat on the sled, and I am in the pink and purple coat, with some of our neighbor kids.



And this was just too cute I could not resist to post it... This Esther Nail, isn't she just so cute?


The is Nathan Hickle on the four wheeler, and Mark, and Andy, and Joel are in the background.

This is David Hickle and Mark Hickle... Wow, that was a REALLY long time ago~

Wow... this picture was taken at Christmas in 2002.



What a crazy bunch....


( they tell me that I am related to these people)
LOL! ~

SISTERS!!!!


Grace and I.


Bethany and Ash.... Talking


Joel and Esther...


All of the girl cousins...


Well, Dan and Linda left for PA... I hate saying good byes, but anyways they left and that was the end of our visit with Dan and Linda and the ABC's. We miss you guys a ton :( Can't wait to see you again!

It's Tea Time!

My cousin planed a tea party for all of the ladies. Ryley came just to make sure that the "ladies" were polite, and did not chew with their mouth open, or gulp their tea, or talk to loudly.

He was also the ONLY boy so he got all of the attention from all of the girls.

The "little" young ladies were sooo cute.

(I love this one of Katy, she looks so grown up.)

~Katy~

~Brook~

~Eliana~

~Esther~Ashlyn~Bethany~


~Grace~Amy

~Amy~Elisabeth~


~Sad Ash... :) ~Me~Bethany

Please don't ask... :) Because I really don't know why. They are cousins, that all I can say.

Guess Who?






Funny Girls....

Ashlyn~ Looking so cute~

~me~