Hannah's Birthday

Wow!  It's Hannah's 17th birthday already! 

Here are some photos that we've gotten over the years.  It was a lot of fun going through them and seeing how much she's grown.

Happy 17th Birthday, Hannah!  It is amazing how you've gone from a little baby to a young lady who fears the Lord, and so quickly too.  I thank God  for you and what a blessing you have been to us over the years.  May you continue to grow more in Him this following year.  I love you very much. 

Elijah 

Dear Hannah,

Happy Birthday!  You have been a very good sister to us. I hope that you have a very good year.  I love you very much.

Love,

Jeremiah

Hmmm...what's this?

Ewww.  Won't try that again!

We got this at Como Zoo.

"Super"

Wow!  It has gone from four to seventeen!

Gardening buddies.

Happy Birthday again.  We love you.

Hunting

Wow!  Hunting season is already here! 

We are hunting on some friend's land in Wisconsin.  It is actually their neighbor's land, right across the road, which we have permission to hunt on.  The woods back up to a corn field and on the right side is a soybean field.  The deer seem to use it a lot.  We've been going out there quite often to hunt, though we haven't gotten a deer yet.  On my first time out, I had three does run behind me, but I was unable to get a shot.  Yesterday, I saw a buck following a doe, but it was too far off. Hopefully, we'll get one sometime soon.

Here is part of the woods.

Here's the soybean field.

Texas Ho!

Last week we were gone in Texas.  We left Sunday, late in the afternoon, and arrived early afternoon on Monday.  We went on a business trip with Papa and one of his friends. The purpose of our trip was to sell syrup to some Texas grocery stores. We left our stock with the Heaneys so that they can market it.  Here are some photos that I took of our time there:

We did lots of things on the way, one, of course, was sleeping! 

The Beach Family

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Hannah, Ethan, Mrs. Beach, Ellie, Mr. Beach, Ben

We stayed with them Monday afternoon and left Tuesday night. We had lots of fun and played a lot of games. 

One of these included sword fighting and wars.

While we were there, it happened to be Mrs. Beach's birthday.  Her Mom and Dad came over and brought this cake. 

They had trick candles that relight themselves after being blown out. It was hilarious to watch. 

4-square 

Major, the Beach's dog. 

Parting group shot.

After we left the Beach's, we went to the Heaney's.  They are the family that we plan to work with for selling Old Heritage Maple Syrup down in Texas.  They live out in the country and have lots of animals. 

They have cows... 

...chickens... 

...turkeys... 

They usually gather 80-120 eggs daily, depending on the weather. 

...2 outdoor cats.. 

...and 6 dogs. 

Some of them even know how to smile! 

Oh! And they also have two playful kittens. (Bubba and Sissy) 

While we were there, we built some wooden block forts for the army men. 

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Jeremiah, Jonathan, Miles, Travis, Christian, Sean

After we finished building them, we took turns trying to shoot the army men down with rubber bands.  You should have seen it after we finished! 

We called the kitty "black panther". It seemed like she purposely ran through to mess up the army men! 

INTENSE!

We had a wonderful trip down south. 

Thank you Beach and Heaney families for opening up your homes and for the fellowship.  We will never forget it!  We miss "y'all".