A good day hunting

A perfect afternoon together

Christmas 2012

Four and a half years old!

T is famous at church!

They used her as the artwork! Too cute. Tenille is not sure if they are pictures or her or not.

Santa visits !

Santa stopped by to check that Tenille and Katie are behaving .










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Santa's in town!

Christmas Letter 2012

All bandaged up... Must be from the guns!

Welcome to the gun show!

Watch your purse!

Yes the masked burglar has struck our house. She carefully wore gloves and a mask. She was in her Easter shoes too but they were too noisy!

Trying chop sticks for the first time!

We are at wasabi in Goshen. Tenille tried everything and used her chop sticks the whole time! What a trooper!

Black Friday shopping!

Happy Veterans Day !

Saw Santa today!

Always trying her best!

wogoman weekly - volume 5 issue November :)

We are still here! I promise we are all fine!  This year of school has been . . well crazy for me and since I am the author of this little email . . .it has went to the wayside.  Sorry to all of you who live vicariously through us.  I will say that I have been updating the blog with new photos from time to time so if you want to see what is going on, feel free to check it out. :)   Tenille is getting bigger and smarter and  . . um more vocal everyday.  This past week it was from her bathroom with the magic words, "Ahhhh crap!  Hank ate the toilet paper again!"  I mean how am I supposed to keep a straight face and tell her that crap is not the best word to use?  We settled for ahhhh rats!   Next, she sees Hank barking at the deer down below and yells, "Hank, what the hell are you barking at?"  Oh yes, our daughter is pushing her limits.    School has been for the most part insane this year.  It is like teaching for the first time all over again.  The laptops have been good some days and bad others.The students this year are pushing their limits way more than I have ever encountered.  Its a new challenge everyday.  Currently we are trying to get them to raise money for the food pantry.  The one in Middlebury here gives food to 500 families a month!  And our a good portion of our student body can't seem to relate to that need.    Garden is done for the most part . . I miss the tomatoes and peppers in my breakfast omelet, but have already got the leaves on there for next year.  Still have potatoes to dig up.  And the bees . . .well they are still filled with drama.  I need them to be filled with honey right now so the can have food for the winter but that doesn't seem to be what they have done.  So they now both have queen and I am feeding them.  And we are all going to say a prayer that they make it through the winter. Oh my oh my . . . bees!   J went to Maine to shoot a bear.  Unfortunately he shot one . .. but it ran away.  So now we are on to deer here.   I celebrated my 35th birthday last month.  It was an awesome day.  I spent the day trying to do 35 acts of kindness.  With planning and running around got them all in.  My favorite was leaving a dollar and ten cents randomly in the kids section of the dollar store.  (I had to leave enough so they didn't have to worry about tax!)  I am pretty sure the lady in the dollar store thought I was nuts but hey that was part of the fun.   We have already have fires in the fireplace and are planning on enjoying this great weather today.  I mean almost 80 in October?  That is crazy.  Tracy

Writing her name!

She is learning so much at Pre-k!

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Getting pumpkins 2012

Got our pumpkins at amazing acres again this year. Feed the goats and did the slide. I promise I was there, I took all these good shots!

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Away two sleeping beauties

Not sure who had the roughest day!

Hank gets a bath!

Hank got a bath today. Pretty sure he now hates us. :)



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Preschool picture 2012

Yes, this is how everyone dresses to chicken-sit.

Guess possums can't swim

Tenilles first paper home from pre k.

Picking up walnuts!

Hitching post - yogurt barn

We had a family date night tonight. We tried out the yogurt barn at the hitching post in shipshewana.


We even ate in a buggy!


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How we spend our evenings

Most people spend their evenings do many things. We spend our evenings doing mostly one.



Tenille is taking it as a personal. Challenge to wear that "swiper" battery out. Charged everyday we can get 30-40minutes on our hills. Seeing that we have some big hills I am impressed. She helps haul things ( tonight is buckets ) that I need moved from one spot to the next. She sings she carries on she has a great time. But mostly I am just happy she is outside!
Today she is also sporting a black eye. She beat up a bully at school today. No really It is from running into the wooden boat at school today. But I am sure she could totally take a bully!


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First day of preschool!

At the zoo today!

12 years!

Spending our anniversary in Nashville Indiana. Currently at brown county state park. So nice!

Mowing!

Tenille loves to help her daddy mow and Hank doesn't know who to follow.


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We all made the paper today!

So we are now famous! J was in for helping pull the car out and we made it for the clown! Elkhart truth, page a3 . So as tradition states, J owes doughnuts next day at work and now because T and I made it ( on the same page!) I think we owe a pie or something too! How crazy is that. Guess we r one good looking family!





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