Beginning of January

Rett getting ready for his first karate class in his gee. So stinkin' cute!

He loves getting to spar with the black belts. He couldn't believe it when they said he could hit them, they would act like it really hurt them and he loved it!

James's cub scout den had their 1 mile hike on his den leader's hunting land. They identified plants and found lots of animal tracks and animal signs.

Then we got to fish from his fresh water pond and eat lunch.

James caught the biggest one of the day. It was huge!!!

I was holding one of the boy's fishing rods while they went to do something and ended up catching one myself!

Anthony got to work early and caught a picture of the view of the sunrise from his office window. Amazing.

We've been trying to take more bike rides as a family, so we've been exploring the bike paths near us.

We found a little path into the woods, so of course the boys wanted to check it out. I didn't want to trespass on someone else's property! We walked back through the woods and came across what looked like some kind of grave. After looking around some more we saw a house and realized that we were probably in the back of someone's yard! I knew it was a bad idea to snoop :)

Rett loves to get way ahead of us, but we hate being behind him because he will stop suddenly right in front of you.

The new playground at the school was finally ready for the kids to play on. They have been watching it being built all year and have asked all the time when they can go on it. The day finally came!

I had to send my brother picture evidence that both of the boys eat kale:

On another bike ride, we discovered a bunch of helicopter seeds and the boys had so much fun dropping them and watching them spin.

Love these cuties!

We found a wild orange tree! We were able to pick a few of them so we could take them home and try them. They ended up being really sour.

Helping me use the big manure shovel in the horses pasture:

Our neighbors offered to let us put the horses and goats into the pasture behind us, so we took them up on it. They have so much more grass for them to graze on! We opened up the fence between their pasture and ours, so the animals can go back and forth whenever they want. So now they have 8 total acres to roam instead of 1.

We have two turkeys sitting on eggs right now and they decided to put their nests right next to each other. Sharing the workload I guess!