Thanksgiving at the Farm!

Sam on the four wheeler. Boys love anything with a motor!

Sam, cousin Gage, his mom Heather and

Great-Great Grandma Olga.

Sam learning how to smell. He's Grandma's boy!

Great Grandma Olga and me. I hope that

I can live to be as old and wise as she is.

Jesse(my cousin) and the pheasant he shot with Bob's gun!


Sam and his ever changing faces kept us all in

stitches! He is fun to be around but very independent.

October in Chicago!

Soldier Field. Home of the Chicago Bears.



The Field Museum, not to be confused with Soldier Field.
Meaning there are no football helmets in sight,
but there were tons of stuffed animals!




Lake Michigan. It was almost as good as the ocean!




"The big fountain"(seen at the beggining of the tv show Married with Children)
was quite the attraction! So is the beautiful city in the background.




Bob and I had our first deep dish Chicago style pizza at Gino's East.
One slice fills you up!




Our first snow fall of the year! We were so excited to see snow
that I must have taken 10 pictures of it, from the hotel room of course!

Wilder Home Mansfield, MO

The cabinets in the kitchen were so short they came up almost to

my knee's. Apparently Laura was quite a bit shorter than me!

They have beautiful grounds at the Wilder home! Quite inspiring! Laura wrote all the little house books at this home. The back stairs in the house are so small that only children and very, very skinning adults could fit up between the walls!

California here we come!

We really enjoyed our trip to California! There was so much to see and do, we barely brushed the surface! We will definitely be returning!

A mountain in the Sierra's.

Bob's first attempt at skiing.

Alcatraz Island

Bob's grandpa Glenn checking out San Fransisco, CA.

The Golden Gate Bridge.

Samuel laughs at the cows!

My sister Erika and nephew Sam looking at the cows
on the farm(Grandma and Grandpa's farm).



Sam laughed his head off at the mooing cows!
Erika and I were in stitches listening to him giggle!

Sam is our oldest sisters son. She is pregnant
with their second son and is due in April.