A Recap of November

This is my absolute favorite time of year! HOLIDAYS! With time spent with family, decorating, farm-life sorta dying down with no meat chickens, and of course the yummy food!;) Can't forget that one!

How was everyone's Thanksgiving? This year we spent it as a family which was really nice. Though it was sad not having Maddy here for another holiday, but we're really looking forward to spending Christmas with her!

On the roof to get pictures of the fall colors before they all fade away

Izzy enjoying the view...

...and then there's mom worrying!;D

Hard to beat this view!

Last one:)

This year we participated in the Operation Christmas Child. Here, everyone is packing their box!

Cutie

At the Ford's home sewing baby blankets for a pregnancy center.

This was the first time the little's got to sew something big like a blanket, and they did a great job! Here, Peyton is cutting out her blanket.

" There's CUPCAKES!"

Kaitlyn wouldn't stop taking pictures of us.;p

Peyton's 10th birthday!

Face-timing with Maddy. I'm pretty sure Isaiah was playing peek-a-boo, however, he might have been hiding....;)

Happy birthday, Peyton!

Hey, look! We got a deer! Not ourselves though. A couple of Dad's cow-workers love to hunt, but don't want anything to do with the meat, so Dad told them that we'd be more than happy to take em'! We got three total!

Yeah, we looked like a processing facility.

Meat! Lot's of meat!

We had a beautiful snowfall!

I did that! ;)

Face-timing Maddy, once our sister, now a puppy!

Ashley, Izzy, and I got a lesson on how to shoot a gun and going hunting. This was our first time to do both! Thank you Drake for teaching us the basics of it all!

Ready to go!

Smile, Smile, " eww, a bug in my coat!"

Thanksgiving meal prepin'

Katherine did this platter all by herself!

Instead of doing the traditional turkey for the meal, we had our own beef tender loin!

Thankful for everyone right here...and Maddy who is sadly not here.

A few ate too much!

We had a nice bonfire in the evening

The moon rising in the distance was so pretty!

Yay! I got a bow! Now to practice and hopefully put it to use in the future.:)

This was before we put the ornaments on, but it's still pretty

Out at the Andersland's ranch and shooting range for a lesson in gun safety and shooting! This was Norah, Peyton, Havi, and Joe's first time to shoot a gun! Thank you Anderslands!