Opening Weekend

We just celebrated our annual Opening Weekend for pheasant hunting!

It was a relaxing weekend with lots of beautiful birds (for the guys and a few girls), beautiful crafts (for the rest of the girls), too much delicious food (for all) and even the traditional bouncy house to celebrate all of our birthdays!

More photos to come as I collect them.

Corn harvest is still in progress, so it was back to work today!

Corn Harvest

It's corn harvest time!

Well, it has been for quite awhile, actually. All in all, it's been a good one. As always, I am thankful that my job at harvest time fits my time and talents well. I like being able to keep the harvesters fed, although it will be nice to have dinner in our house again sometime in the near future!

I found this inflatable ghost at the Eureka Thift Store, and Rachel loves it. Our little fall display hasn't blown over too much with our typical windy fall days. I love my new Wildcat sign made by my friend Tamara. It's been a good fall for our teams--our Cross Country Girls team won the Region and the Boys came in as Runners Up yesterday. Way to go, Wildcats!

Back to harvest, Rachel even gets to drive the tractor once in awhile. :)

Happy Harvest!

NW Middle School Music Festival

Landen represented Northwestern at the Middle School Music Festival again this year. This year, there were tubas from other schools as well, so he made some new musical friends throughout the day of rehearsal and concert in the evening.

 Papa Butter and Grandma Shirley were able to attend the joint Choral and Band Concert, too!

All of the musicians did a spectacular job, ending with both the chorus and band together for "God Bless America," which is a tradition for the festival.

Happy Birthday to David!

Today David turns 39! One more year in the 30's.

Craziness.

We realized just how old we are getting at a wedding last weekend. We were watching these "kids" dance and, well, even the bride and groom were "kids," when I realized that David and I had been married for three years and had two kids at that point.

Craziness.

And here we are, (well, he is, anyway!) at the end of our 30's with a teenager and our baby getting close to Kindergarten.

Craziness.

Wonderful craziness.

David celebrated his birthday with the traditional Melius Birthday Coffee with the area aunts, uncles and neighbors who were able to attend. You might recognize some of these faces. :)

Gypsy Day

The day after Homecoming was the Gypsy Day Parade and marching band competition.

Our band received their first Gold Rating in several years!