Pinch Me, PRETTY!

so 

my Machine Man's Brother came

with his lovely Bride

AND

(drum roll please)

their beloved daughter

Yippee!

another one of my nieces came to the farm!

At 17 Months she really 

IS

"Pinch me Pretty"

a TOTAL cutie patootie 

She's most ALWAYS happy

pleasant

and cute

now...

having had four this age

I know that things may not 

BE

as they appear

(toddler-hood WHAT it is)

but we have been SO blessed

to always seem to catch her on her BEST days!

She's a BLAST!

and hard to track down with a camera !

Meet J.J. !

Little Man and J.J get along JUST fine!

he's pretty glad to see her 

she's pretty happy to see 

well

EVERYONE! 

Posing so like a 

Ballerina

what a pumpkin! 

Her lovely coloring makes me think of a 

wee

Anne

of

Green Gables! 

look what she found to dance upon!

my beautiful

PINCH 

me
PRETTY

floors!

for all you who guessed 

here and/or on facebook..

The color that won

was Larvik

the black one!

it has rich brown tones

but the stain is a black

and 

we LOVE how it looks

with the Paris Grey Trim

and the China White walls

what do YOU think

just being family

HEY!

WAIT for ME!!!!!!

aren't Toddlers just DARLING?

always a few steps behind,

but Little Man is fine with that today

he's got a song in his head 

and his singing something that sounds very

Winnie the Pooh Inspired

fee dl dee dee dum

The kids LOVE this spot in the woods they have found for me

and I loved this photo of them

on THEIR farm

I love just BEING family with them

come to think of it, 

in the past weeks

I have got some nice shots of the Blessings

C.S. my handsome eldest

Buddy's Birthday week..

my how he's grown

COULD Little man be MORE in his element?

he's just plopped down where a tree has fallen out, 

sat in the leaves 

and decided it was a good place for a break..

He ALWAYS makes sure we have a good break!

In a fun spot

and this.. is a classic Princess shot if EVER!

Love the Blessings

and my new camera!

Exploration Hike with Cousins!

confession time

(clearing my throat)

This past trip... 

I did not accomplish much of ANYTHING..

did not build anything

sand anything

scrape anything (do dishes count?)

did NOT paint anything,

saw anything

nail anything

do much OF anything

well..

anything that you can photograph..

I DID cook, but I pre-made all the meals BEFORE the trip

because we still live in the MOCK kitchen..

so 

really I didn't accomplish 

anything 

anything that you can look at, and say... 

"accomplished"

nope..

My brother CAME!  

it was a rather social trip...

Machine Man and Opa DID chop down some things.. 

LIKE

that really weird 6 ft tree stump directly in front of my house...

(do you see that tall thing on the FAR left... that TALL Stump?

next to it is a beautiful maple)

Yippee!

it's gone now..!
Not the maple, just the creepy stump

and some other stumps just layin' about

It was a hunting weekend,

and cousins weekend!  

Machine Man, C.S. were hunting,

there was food

and Princess & I did do some shopping for Christmas 

But that doesn't seem like it counts.

What we DID do, that was SUPER fun

was take our little explorers on a good 

EXPLORATION HIKE

ok.. sometimes it was more of a run than a hike

here the Blessings are showing the Cousins 

the bones of a coyote

fun right?

ever discovering things

i don't think they even NOTICED how beautiful this view is..

they just see the faint images of 

a trail that needs remembering

a little attention and this trail will be simply gorgeous!

my wonderful nephew has discovered a GREAT 

deer rubbing

and they all WANT Uncle Machine Man

to PLEASE PLEASE explain

why he hasn't got a deer yet?

here we are at the "EDGE"

see the groovy old forgotten car ?

it's in our neighbors yard..

and the tales of HOW and WHY and WHEN 

have already begun to be spun...

love this tree.. so sad it was probably struck by lightening..

kids thought it was SUPER

apparently this is THE thing to do...

touch the bubbles?

yep.. we ALL have to take turns..

parents: bring muck boots in the Spring, 

I have a feeling we will have VERY messy children!

pretty Queen Anne's lace

rabbit fur.. 

more evidence of coyote issues...

did you know it's SHOOT on SITE here ??

neighbor came over to make CERTAIN we knew that..

hmmm

a different edge to our property.. 

looks like my fence needs a wee repair

blissfully pretty!

ginormous foot prints of ???

frost in a hollowed log

blessings on a bluff

ending in Christmas Tree forest :)

fun!

What a glorious time with Family!

I feel so thankful to spend time with my niece and nephew 

my brother and my father

Family is a true gift from God