Century's Homecoming 2009

Ryan, Autumn, Taft and Christina

Ryan and Autumn

Autumn with her shoes off and bending her knees!

Taft and Christina

Our Family

Our Family

Us with Grandma Nila

the gorgeous flowers my Mom brought - they've lasted all week!

All about Chad

Papa helping Chad with his new Hot Wheels set

Uncle Duane and Aunt Norma enjoying birthday cake and ice cream

Grandma helping Chad put his new puzzle together

CHAD!

Chad's birthday party

I just love this picture - he's so cute!!!

Chad's Baptism

Craig and Chad

Ryan, Craig, Chad, Courtney, Joslyn and Jessica

Our family, plus Grandma Nila, Papa, Aunt Myrna, Uncle Duane and Aunt Norma - they are Chad's great-great aunt and uncle! It was So nice to have them all there!

Our family

Chad turns 8 and gets baptized!

Chad turned 8 on the 5th of September and was baptized that day!

I love this picture!

With Craig standing there, you can get some idea of how out of control my garden is - but my motto is - "It it grows, I'll water it!"

Craig got the fence done and both sides of our are now stained too!

Sunflower waiting to open

sunflowers are just happy flowers - who doesn't love them?!?!

the shed gets concrete!

We finally got the concrete poured for the shed, now we just need to put up some walls and enclose it!!!

Ryan is cleaning up the edges

Garden

Our garden has gone wild! The pumpkins and spaghetti squash have come from the very back to the zucchini and the spaghetti squash has started to climb up the sunflowers - so we find them hanging from the sunflowers!!!

the corn next door has finally had a growth spurt!

I might get enough for 1 meal - but that's good enough for me!

Spike

Chad found this porcupine on the 31st of July by our garbage cans, which are under my carport!!! We called animal control - they said they only did dogs and cats! They suggested we call fish and game and they said he would "just wander away" WHAT?!?! We live in the middle of town! So we called them back and told them to come and get him! TRhey did about 45 minutes later. He didn't do anything, just sat there, very calm. But when the f & g guy tried to slip the noose around his neck, he kinda freaked out - who wouldn't?!?! He left a bunch of quills behind, that are kinda short - about 2" long and half black and white and kinda greasy! We only had him for a short time (it really seemed long enough to me!) but we named him "Spike".