Thanksgiving Eve

An eventful day in NW Kansas....Andy felled some trees.  We laid a target on the ground to see how close he could put the tree....he wasn't too far off.  Later I was put in charge of rolling out and cutting out the sugar cookies...so I took some creative license to expand past the traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas symbols.

The Santa's are creations of Andy and Mark, from the left they are : Jaundice Santa, Angry Santa, K-State Santa, Breast Cancer Awareness Santa, Sunburnt Santa, Multicultural Santa,...hmm can't remember, and Seasick Santa.

I also thought that cowboys and cows should be part of the mix...so we have a herd here with our lonely cowboy.  Mostly red angus and hereford.

And lastly a goose and egg.  

"Bedder" late than never!

So we have been looking for a new bed for a while now....

...by "a while" I mean like a year and a half...why??? well.....double beds are not made for happy marriages...and the double bed we have been sleeping on my parents bought when I was in like 6th grade.

Why has it taken us so long.  Good question..I have no real an

swer.  But we have finally bought one! Yay! We got this new bed today!

And we got to buy new sheets too because we didn't have any queen size sheets!  We are so excited to get a good nights sleep!!!  And to finally be able to use the queen size blanket we got LAST Christmas, when we told everyone we were getting a new bed....I'm fairly sure we do have flannel queen size sheets, that we also got last Christmas, stored in Atwood in some of our boxes.

Hard at work

We regret the delay in blogging that has occurred over the last week or so.  One week ago, Andrew decided to move to Manhattan.  That meant only one thing....

We had to commence a crash 2 week reintegration course for him to complete before he can be awarded his house and mail keys.  He has to complete several tasks and pass three exams with a 90% or higher in order to pass the course.  Failure to complete these tasks will result in remedial training and he must retake and pass the course in order to earn his own set of keys.  Unfortunately I do not trust that you all won't help him, and therefore am reluctant to explain in detail the tasks he must complete and the tests he must pass.  I can tell you many of the tasks are skills based, some relate directly to household skills, and other seek to slowly reintegrate him into the "real world", where life moves at a somewhat faster clip that "hanging out in the woods all day."

Anyhow, that is why we haven't blogged in a while.  More to come soon..