Line Dancing

One of the highlights of my time on the farm this past 6 months was line dancing with the ladies at the community center in Brookings twice a week. Lois had been dancing regularly with this group and invited me to join her. I had dabbled a bit with line dancing during college with my sister at a country line dancing bar. But hadn't hit the dance floor since then. It was a fun outlet and good exercise. I brought Luke and Sophia with me every week and they played while we danced. We took some pictures the last time at line dancing before we moved west.

Here we are posing....
And one with the kids....

Potty Success

After 4-1/2 years of having two kids in diapers, we are happy to announce Luke's latest accomplishment -- he's wearing big boy underwear! It is so nice to have only one messy bottom to clean-up throughout the day and think of the money we'll be saving not having to buy diapers for two anymore!

Here he is standing proud with his potty chart.
Luke's greatest motivator for keeping his pants clean this past week was being able to watch his Bob the Builder DVD. Prior to that positive affirmation was the #1 motivator. He loved to hear us cheer after he had a successful trip to the bathroom.
Yeah for Luker!

ski race

A few weeks ago we were supposed to compete in a ski race at Oakwood State Park with Jacob and Hannah. Pat and I were both feeling sick the day of the race. So we had an impromptu ski race at the farm. I made racing numbers for the kids and pinned them to their coats and Lois made a race track for the kids. I was the official time keeper and photographer and Lois raced with the kids. Here they are getting ready to race....

And they're off...
The Home Stretch
Jacob won the race! And Hannah made it around the whole track without falling!
They are becoming great skiers!