Wow!!

Our blog has been kerflopping lately, and now we are FINALLY able to do it again!!!  All of us are doing well, we had a good Thanksgiving and now are really looking forward to Christmas!  Praise the Lord for another good year!  Here are some recent pictures of the family.  The picture of the yawning cat is one Micah took with the new camera he just bought, and he's really enjoying that.  Baby Kebron just turned one, and he is such a cutie!!  I have recently started doing fresh bread deliveries in town, so I've been busy doing that.  Papa has also really got into making routered wood signs, and they are SO nice!  Here is a link to his blog with pictures: http://www.fossilwoodworks.blogspot.com/  More posts soon!

Wheeler County Fair and Rodeo

Posted by Mykaela Karee McDowell
Here is a post about the Wheeler County fair and rodeo that went on in August, 2011. We all entered things, and most of us got first on at least one of our exhibits. Papa won the Bob’s Red Mill best bread contest, so he has $50.00 and 10 lbs. of flour coming to him!! Micah got first place on a coin collection, and also on watermelon eating for his age division. Mercy also won the watermelon contest for her age group. I won both watermelon eating and seed spitting, so I got a $5.00 gift certificate and a t-shirt. :) I also got first prize on some bread, and on a necklace I had made. Mama entered lots of photos, and got quite a few ribbons for those.

On Saturday, a new family in our church paid our way into the rodeo…we have lived here 9 years, and had never been to our own rodeo!! :) So we went with them, and had a really good time.