Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Happy Birthday Benjamin!!!

Today is Benjamin's 16th birthday!!! 


Benjamin, may you continue to: seek the Lord... work hard on whatever you set your hand to...


...be resourceful... jump right in and not be afraid of getting your hands dirty...


...And whatever happens, Maintain A Sense Of Humor!! :-)

Happy birthday!!! I love you!

Mark and Hillary's Couples Shower

By Becca
A few weeks back Lana Petersen held a couples shower for Hillary and Mark. Mark and Hillary spent the afternoon with us the day of the shower.

They are sooooo cute!!!! :P

Mark amazed me with his Backgammon skills. First it was Rosie and Mark were playing; then Rosie passed the match to John who gave it to me. I won the match!!! 
(with some help from Mark :P)

That evening we headed to the shower. Lana did a great job with the decorations!!!  

 The Nebraska football game kept us all busy until the rest of the guests came. :P We did win by the way.


 Leah and Trina

 Trina, Rosie and the baby bump. :)

 Opening gifts!!!!!!

 And thanking people for the gifts. :)

Me and Katie Wattermann. I love her!!!!!

Hillary, Leah, Mark, and Me 

 I love you two a ton!!!!!!! 
Thank you Lana for the awesome shower!!!! :)

Monday, November 12, 2012

Typical


I know, I have not done a 'Typical' post in a long time... come to think of it, I haven't posted anything in a few weeks... Sorry! 
Nevertheless, here is a taste of what has been going on in our lives in the past few weeks...


The sheep were looking tasty, so we weighed one to see if it was big enough to butcher... In order to do this,  the sheep must first be caught and brought to the scale.


Which happens to be in the house. :-) Then you stand on the scale, weigh yourself and the sheep, go put the sheep back where you found it, and then weigh yourself. The verdict: hello lamb chops! :-)


John, rocking the inside-out pajamas


Ingenuity in its truest form... :-)


John got a bad sliver in his toe the other day. He brought it to me, I took one look, and decided surgery was in order.


Rosie was my very competent nurse, who held John's hand and screamed for him. :-)


Check out that whopper! John was so brave; he hardly made a sound!


Benjamin and I playing our guitars one evening. He has really gotten good; I'm going to have to work harder if I want to stay ahead. :-)


Due to a rather unfortunate and very amusing incident, our old roping saddle was more or less ruined.
 So Benjamin bought a new one! Here he is modeling it. :-)


Another angle...


John tried it out; practicing riding a bucking bronco


As did this little cowgirl. :-)

That's all for now folks!

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Caroline and Melanie....


.....Are the cutest nieces on the planet!!!! :D
Melanie thought I was very comfortable, as you can see! :P

 Caroline and I went outside to play.....Hand in Hand

 She is such a cutie!!

'Auntie Becca......'

 Caroline's favorite "oh no" face


 No other word than cuteness.... :P 

 I love her sooooo much

 'Shutting you out Auntie' 

 Melanie while she was awake. Isn't she a doll?

 I just adore her so much

No words for this one either!!!!! 
If you have not gotten the message yet... I adore/love to death my nieces.! :D 
By Becca