update kinda...

It seems like I've just been posting pictures lately and I'd like to think that is due to a very active little boy... hard tellin' tho'. David is doing AWESOME these days, he had his 3 month birthday yesterday and we had a little photoshoot and went out for dinner. He was great at the restaurant until the very end and who could blame him. We were trying to keep him up so that the daylight savings adjustment would work out for him, and by him I mean ME. I think it went pretty well since he slept from 9ish till 4am!!! that's a nice strech of sleepin for the mama! We have our first doctors appointment this week so tht should be pretty exciting... I can't wait to get him all weighed and measured!

halloween...pooh on that...

OPA!!!!

we put those guys to work!!!

It was SO great to have Dan & Annie here last weekend.
They are fun to be around... it's not just that, there is something else that is hard to put your finger on about those two, but maybe I can just say that it is an easy feeling. I really appreciate that. Especially the part when Dan said it was ok if I didn't like a book... me and Wallace Stegner are still working it out.
Speaking of WORK!!! Wow - Dan & Aaron got some awesome stuff done while Annie, David and I ran our friend Sarah to Madison on Saturday. Then it turned out I had mastitis again, so I took care of myself while Annie, Aaron and Dan took care of everthing else!
On Sunday things were a little better for me so we went and helped as much as we could in the garden. Thanks Dan & Annie!!! Ya'll are the BEST!!

family heritage tour

Grandma Linda was in town last week! What a treat. She came for a celebration of her sister Peggy's 80th birthday and we were able to all get together. Aunt Peggy, Aunt Bonnie and all of Peggy's girls came to Viroqua for the long weekend! It was such a treat to see them all and one more on the list of reasons why we live here. It is always nice to see the Holty family, and that they are a big draw for Aunt Bonnie and Linda is great too. Linda was able to spend Thursday night with us and it was really great. On Friday David and I were able to join them for a family heritage tour, It was SO great. We really wished that Aaron could have been there because we have made a few drives trying to find family places, but it has only turned up with guesses. It was great to see these spots - even the ones we were kicked off of... (Not everybody wants to share...) I brought the camera but didn't get great pictures of David and his Grandma... ain't it the way. The Holty girls got some GREAT shots of David though and I really look forward to seeing those. We spent a lot of time in this graveyard because that is a spot where a lot of the family are buried. This house is where Linda's mom was born, and they said it looked the same as it did then... We had to leave the tour early but we are looking forward to doing it again with Aaron soon!

harvest

the other day...

we harvested the alliums in our garden... we wish it hadn't rained and rained for a week beforehand... but it did - hopefully they'll keep - at least SOME of them!
They are calling for snow and frost over the weekend. I've decided to abandon the tomatoes. I don't feel bad (or at least I keep saying that). The peppers have been picked and some have been roasted. Hopefully we'll get the squashes all cleaned up before the snow... Luckily the Kale can take it for quite a while and the chard too.... just not as long. I've got some recipes to check out that I am pretty psyched about, so maybe I'll do a stint as a food blogger. Tonight we had some really yummy leek gravy with steak and potatoes... fun.
oh and how about a few gratuitous shots of the kiddo. I like to think of these as the "look likes"; Doesn't he look like David Saunders? And tell me he doesn't look like Matt Tigan as a baby!!!Aaron says - do you just sit around and take pictures of him!? duh... of course I do!
Here's a mama's eye view....