January 2022

The new year is off to a good start! Lots of basketball for both Piper (MS ball) and Bryndel (Y ball), and show choir season for Hadley. We also said goodbye to Opa, as he left this earth for heaven earlier this month. Having been married to Oma for SEVENTY years, it was a wonderful celebration of his life.  We are grateful for the love he gave us, and look forward to hugging him again in heaven one day.

Bryn with the ball.

Piper number #12

Hadley is on the right, in red.

This is how Calvin & Hobbes have been staying warm with the subzero temps.

Despite the cold, we have been thoroughly enjoying some snowshoeing right out the back door!

December 2021

It has been so fun preparing for Christmas in our new home! It began with the adventure of finding the perfect tree on our property...

Then getting the 14+ foot tree in the house!

Hadley got to sing at a local tree lighting ceremony with her school choir!

Piper played some hoops, with Kyle as her coach!

And Bryndel got to play the drums in her class Christmas program!

The girls decorated a lot of cookies on a snow day, and then got some serious sledding in right out the back step!

We threw Kyle's office Christmas party at our house, then headed to the lake to celebrate the Graham Family Christmas with cousins!

Christmas Evev to church and then home together ❤️ 

We were joined by a crew of Andersons on Christmas day to complete our celebration of Jesus's birth. 

November 2021

We enjoyed November, but are anxious for the Christmas season now that December is here!

Hadley turned 15, and has begun her driver's training  classes!

Kyle and the girls spent a lot of time in the stand, and it was SO easy to just walk right out of our house! Bryndel even got her first deer - a perfectly shot doe!!

Kyle and I were treated to a Packer game in a friend's warm & cozy box!

And we have continued to be wowed by God's glorious sunrises (below),

and sunsets!

October 2021

We had a beautiful October in our new home, appreciating the fall colors like never before.

We have been pleasantly surprised to learn that not only do we have a front row seat to incredible sunsets out our backyard, we have also been wowed some mornings by a sunrise out the front of our house!

We, unfortunately, had more quarantines this month 🤪  Bringing our total to 5 just during the first two months of school! Here are Bryndel & Hadley utilizing new space to quarantine this fall. At least the view, and the kittens, are a good distraction!

Hadley made it back from quarantine just in time for the Homecoming dance!

And then she, Piper, Kyle, Uncle Kraig & Ava went on an adventure to Wyoming! Uncle Kraig got the only antelope, but everyone had fun!

Meanwhile, Bryndel & I got some good Grandma and cousin time!

We finished out the month with Halloween! Bryndel was Mary Poppins, and Piper dressed up as a 'Copy Cat' for school.

September 2021

What an incredibly warm fall we've had so far! We've been enjoying all of the fall colors turning on our property with new eyes this year, as we get to experience right from our own home. We've also been enjoying school, albeit a quarantine or two for everyone 🤪 Hadley's been busy with volleyball and show choir, Piper has been playing on the tennis team, and Bryndel has been working hard in 3rd grade and taking good care of the kittens.

Kyle has been busy putting in our yard! He looks like a regular farmer out there.

We also hosted our first overnight visitors, who were adventurous enough to sleep in the unfinished basement 😂