Hotties or Not??????

Santa (aka Bud)

Santa and The Babes

 Tired and Hot Santa

 Santa and the Brats

 Santa and his Helpers

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WARNING--This is your local BLOG PATROL!!!  If people do not POST--wedding photos(Chansee & Nessa!), babies(Brittany, Trina, Tasha, Becca),  toys(Gay), etc.  or make comments we will close down this blog.

Here's a mystery for you--- What exactly was Dean doing to pass the time in the airport?????

Merry Christmas from Wellman!

It was a perfect Christmas Eve weather wise.  We had a great snow.  See the white spots in the picture?  Those are snowflakes.  It was falling softly all day.  Just what I like to see.  The lights were twinkling and looked great.

For those of you who never see our house at Christmas, the outside is Bud's job.  He may moan and groan, but really he enjoys the lights and is always on the lookout for something new.

We do kind of have a theme of red and white in our decorations, except the trees are multi colored.

We were alone for the first time since we've been married.  We decided to go to town about two yesterday afternoon and run some errands.  Then we went to the four o'clock show which was cheap since they obviously thought Bud was a senior citizen and only charged us $8.00!!!  LOL  We saw Lil Fockers which wasn't good.  Don't waste your money.  In fact Bud woke me up during it!  We then came home and ate our Christmas Chinese food and watched another stupid movie--SALT.  We're going to have to rethink  Christmas Eve next year.

I hope you had a good Christmas!

Sunday at the Graham's

Have been busy getting ready for Marybell's toy give away. We are giving some really fun gifts away this year,including 8 trampolines, 2 swing sets, 2 motorized ford escalades. We did take some time out for family pictures. At the last minute the photogher canceled. We were all dressed in our Sunday best . Thank goodness Becca's Mom Kathy was here and came to our rescue. She took some at our house and the tree lot. Here are a few. Did not realize how hard it is to get everyone together at one time and one place. After pics we went trap shooting. It was Nessa's first time and boy did she kick the boy's butts. I am not joking, she rocks. We then did a little target shooting with everyone's pistals. The last to shoot was Chase with his new 44 mag revolver. While shooting metal targets a bullet rekicheted (misspelled) and hit him in the hand.He spent the next 5 hours in the emergency room and still has the fragment and a few stitches for his trouble. Hope we see our Santa and his helper in the next few

weeks.

Great Family & Friends

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and remembered to count their blessings, big or small! We had a busy few days. On Thanksgiving day, Clint, Brittany, Rory, Evan, Dakota and a family friend, Nick Becker, was at our house for dinner. Everyone ate too much and then had a lazy afternoon watching a movie.

On Saturday Bud, Kim, Mike, Payton, Kyle, Travis, Kerry & Chance came to cut up wood. A few friends of ours, Chad, Junior and Ben were also here to help. Clint and Chad had marked trees a week ago, so they knew ahead of time which trees to cut down. They all started very early and quit when it got dark. Tasha, Kim, Kerry & I made plenty of food to keep the guys full. It was a long day and alot of hard work was done. Dale even managed to drive the tractor some in the morning. No one was injured, but there are alot of sore muscles today from all the hard work. We are guessing that the wood pile could possibly last us until February.

We have alot to be thankful for this thanksgiving and after the year 2010, we know what great family and friends that we have.

Love
Kath & Dale

Chance

You know I couldn't let a little thing like a black eye get in the way when I wanted to take pictures. Besides, I have a feeling this is what things are going to look like around our house for quite some time to come!

Now before you start thinking everything we do is sports related, he did get a book out to read! His farm book, of course.

He is growing up so fast, but we are enjoying every minute of it.

Grandma Bev and Great-Grandchildren

We had most of the great grandchildren at our house Saturday. (We were missing Kadelynn and Chance.) This was the best picture I could get. Hopefully someone else has better ones.

Trick or Treating

Here are Mario and Luigi aka Nate and Cael trick or treating at Nana and Grandpa's. We had gone to a Halloween parade and kids party earlier in the day and they took first place in the costume contest!! They were totally cute!! And we put the costumes together ourselves! Not a whole lot of money spent! That is the best way to do it.

Of course here is Payton! He of course had to pick something scary!! He loves to completely scare anyone he can and laughs his butt off about it!! He borrowed this costume from my nephew. The first year my nephew wore it Cael was about Nate's age. Cael took one look at him and slammed the door in his face and ran to me screaming!!!!

We didn't end up trick or treating last night. Payton and Cael had trick or treated Friday night on the square in Williamsburg and made a haul. And between Grandma Shirley and Nana, they made an even bigger haul!! We have plenty of candy to last for a while!!

Plowing Party--Woohoo!!

While we were checking out campgrounds along the Mississippi this weekend we ran across a plowing demonstration where they were using antique tractors and plows.  Bud was thrilled to reminisce about his life as a farm boy back in the day!

Here is a guy driving exactly what he used to plow with--a G John Deere and a three bottom plow.

Of course the BEST way to do it was to stand up, which is how Bud remembers plowing.

Now, there's your little "slice of Iowa in the good ole days"!

Keepin' Busy

Wow, it's October already!! We all have been busy...Travis is either at work or in the fields helping with harvest. Kerry keeps busy at work, home, and helping on the farm where she can. And Chance, he keeps everyone busy!!James' girlfriend Kelley was nice enough to take family pictures for us a few weeks ago. They turned out great!

We are stilling trying to make time to get in as many Hawkeye football games as we can. Trilby has been great...she watches Chance for us while we are at the game.
Chance spent some time tailgating with us last Saturday before the game. He enjoyed seeing his Nana and Grandpa Bud, Aunt Trilby and Aunt Tasha and his cousins. He also loved talking to everyone that walked by!

Owens' Update

I just thought I would update everyone on how things are going for us. My job is good. Some days are pretty interesting and tiring!! Payton and Cael love it. They don't have to ride the bus and think it is a pretty big deal that their mom works at the high school with the big kids!! Payton and Cael are both playing soccer. (I would post pictures but every time I try my computer shuts down!!) They both enjoy it!! Payton is gaining more skill but Cael is still playing "swarm ball" as dad calls it! The kids just swarm around the ball not really having a clue what they are supposed to do. Cael runs around with his arm pointed towards the back like they are wings or something. No we don't feed him redbull before the game. Nate is going to Connies (the sitter) and loving it! She is terrific and she just loves him! Mike has picked him up several times and Nate thinks that is awesome! Mike is still on 1st shift and will be staying there. He has not worked over time in several weeks, which is bittersweet. We get to see him more and he isn't as grouchy but it sure hurts the paychecks!! Payton and Cael stayed over night on Saturday night with Nana and Grandpa Bud. They did some fishing and then went home with them to do some work. We got to see Grayson on Saturday night and Clara on Sunday night. Man we don't see them often enough! I can't how much they have both filled out!! We get to have Chance this coming Saturday while Travis and Kerry are at the Iowa game!! I have my cheese puffs ready for him!! :) (I won't feed him too many Kerry!!) We also have an Owens' gathering to go to. Mike's mom will be having carpel tunnel surgery on Monday on her right wrist and do the left wrist in a couple of weeks. Mike informed me that that means that we will be butchering her chickens for her!! And that is one of my worst nightmares!! I would rather mess with a 1600 lb steer that mess with a chicken!! Oh the things I get to look forward to in the next couple of weeks!!!! I'll let you know how it goes!!

A few pictures of Kadelynn' first XIT Parade. Grandpa feeding her a popsicle.

All the Grandchildren in One Place

All of us managed to be in one place last weekend.  Kerry is doing a great job of taking pictures with her new camera.  Now, if the photography subjects would cooperate!!

We will start posting soon. Don.t shut us down. Patience please. By the way Carritt is with 2 t,s. Will post pics fron camping trip and Chans'ee and Josh's house.

Trilby Turns 35!

Thirty-five years ago today Mom became a grandma for the first time!!

Hard to believe it's been 35 years!

Happy Birthday Trilby!!

Chance Turns 1!

Helloooooo!

Just wondering if anyone is out there????? No comments, not many others posting.  Should we close this blog down?????

Silly Cousins!

Dakota and Clara

Last week Brittany and the kids came down to Trilby's so Evan could play with the boys. Since she was so close, Clara and I decided to go up there too. This was the first time that I had seen Dakota and Brittany saw Clara. The girls are only a couple weeks apart but Clara is definitely more filled out than Dakota. I didn't get a great picture of them together but here is a couple that I got.

(the pictures aren't doing what I want them to, sorry I can't get them to turn)

Iowa Gurls--Just for Fun!!

Cute video, but it won't show the full screen for some reason. Click twice on it and it will take you to utube where you can view the whole screen. If you have trouble with loading it, give it time to load the whole thing before you watch it.

Disclaimer: Not ALL Iowa girls drink beer!!

Happy(belated) Birthday, Travis!!

Happy Birthday Travis! 32 years young!

Cheerful Grayson!

Trina, Tanner, and Grayson were over to visit on Sunday. Now, I know that some of you think he spends too much time crying, but I wanted to show you how happy he is.

He wasn't too sure of Grandpa to start with, but he quickly warmed up.

And he entertained himself for quite a while with just his feet and toes!

(I have a video, but blogger is not cooperating, so I may post it at a later date.)

County Fair!

County fair has come and gone and State Fair is just around the corner. That means summer is almost over and I am just now getting some pictures of the boys showing their calves posted!
Cael showed first, so Travis, Chance, and I missed seeing him in the ring and talking to the judge. We did make it in time to take pictures after he got his trophy! This was his first year with a bottle calf and he did a good job. We will see if he wants to do it again next year.

Chance enjoyed getting passed from person to person and seeing all the calves.

Finally Payton showed. This is was his second year, so he knew what to expect.

Here he is in the ring after talking to the judge.

And here he is after the show with his trophy! We were so glad we could make it over for the show and proud of the good job they both did. Next year will be Payton's first year in 4-H which will be even more fun...and more work!

Happy Birthday, Tasha!

August 3rd, 1981 brought us our little red headed daughter.  Tasha turns 29 today.  Now she has her own little daughter.

Happy Birthday, Tasha!

Great pictures. Hope everyone had a good time. Next time Hopefully we can get together for no reason. And just visit. After everyone left I had an empty nest feeling. Glad ya'll made it home.

TEXAS July 2010

This one is for Mom!!

Mom has been giving me a hard time since Clara was born that she hasn't had a bow in her hair or had on much pink. So I took a couple pictures today just for her!!