things I've been up too

So this past month has been busy I've laid ALOT of tile and grouted ALOT of tile and needless to say I am good for doing Tile work! But this past week my boss handed me a box of scrap slate tile and asked me if I would try and figure out something for this couples fireplace that had been sitting unfinished for years because they didn't know what to do so with only 15 full tile and alot of scraps and some Arizona rock viola a fireplace is born where once there was only plywood and this was not easy as the stove was not centered (which still drives me crazy) and nothing was square and yes that rock was heavy and lets just say hanging tile above your head is no easy task and yes I did curse but nobody was listening:)

Brody turns nine....

So another year has flown by and Brody has turn nine! I am so proud of him he has been doing so well in school and we have seen a huge improvement in his behavior he has finally settled the kettle as Grandma Schumann would say! He live for Dinosaurs, lizards and snakes and has not yet convinced me that a gecko would be a great addition to our family! He loves LOVES to read and you will find him in a corner sprawled out somewhere reading... right now he loves the Diary of A wimpy Kid series and will share with whoever will listen funny parts of the books! He is very much into Pokemon cards and will go on and on about them and Ballard and I will pretend to understand what he is talking about when we really have nooooo idea! He loves to play with his cousins and if Kayleb is not at school with him he is devastated and can't hardly stand it he gets a huge kick out of Charity and Tripp and loves the babies as he likes to call them! He has big plans to live in Australia but thinks we will be sad that he has moved so far away and likes to reassure us that we can come visit him anytime we want to! All in all he has been the best nine years of our lives and there is never a dull moment when he is around.... we love you Brody!

so many elk

We have been enjoying watching all the elk that are below the house, there have been around eighty-five head feeding in the bottom fields and across the river in Gulbranson's

Ballard has been busy planning food plots and what he will put in the bottom fields to ensure his luck for next hunting season! I am standing on the deck of our house as I am taking the pictures!