These Boots Are Made For....

Eden started walking at 11 months old, in October. Once she figured out she could do it, she practiced diligently. She didn't seem to like the idea of crawling anymore and gave it up completely within a couple of weeks when she started hoofin it full time. She's still a bit wobbly but that doesn't stop her from running around the house. Yes, you read that right...running. And dancing. oh she likes to dance...she has her own dance. It's a bopp bopp up and down, stamp stamp your feet, turn a circle backwards round and round while watching your feet go, on earm up and one arm down. Every time she hears music or singing, off she goes into that dance of hers. Its the cutest thing.

Eden is ONE YEAR old!

I don't know how it happened, but it did. Thank goodness Chris and I have two awesome helpers around here. We had a small party, mostly for Ami and Noah (and thier friends), they were looking forward to cupcakes of course. We decorated and sang and Eden got one big pink Dora rubber ball from us and clothes from family (which she needed! Thank you!). She's mostly too little to notice her b-day and hardly knew what to do with her cupcake! She mostly just smashed it up and played with it.

In the Kitchen with Daddy

Noah likes helping in the kitchen. Here he is helping Chris prepare venison jerky marinade. Chris has been emptying out the freezer of uneaten deer meat from last year, making room for this year's supply. He has shot one doe so far and will keep going out til the end of the year to get 1-2 more for the freezer. When Noah isn't helping his dad in the kitchen, he's helping me. His favorite thing is to punch sweet potato rounds out of rolled dough using a glass and arrange the on a cookie sheet.

Curlie Girlie

Check out the smile and the curls. I couldn't decide which one to post so you get both :o)

SNOW!

It snowed recently! Big wet sticky flakes. The kids got up out of bed, got dressed and ran out in it. It didn't stick much to the ground, but about 1/4" ended up on our porch, some of which ended up as snowballs. We don't get snow mauch around here and we aren't much prepared for winter, we could only find 3 mittens, so Noah had to wear a sock on his hand! Needless to say, the kids were pretty much freezing by the time they came in and they warmed up with hot chocolate (double dose of mini-marshmellows of course). Next time I went out I bought new gloves/hats, etc (now it probably won't ever snow again!)