Thanksgiving Treats

We added some new additions to the farm about three weeks ago. They are growing fast. We have 5 white and 3 bronze Turkeys. Four of them we are keeping for friends and we have four. Looking forward to some fresh free range turkey for Thanksgiving this year!

Canoe Trip

Here we are on our first family canoe trip since we bought the thing this year. There are elaborate canal systems here in England and they are great for canoeing and canal boats. Kendal loved it and loved hanging over the edge and putting her hands in the water. Bryan and I learned about communication and coordination. It was fun. We maneuvered to where we wanted to go.

Here is Bryan pretending to have had too much. We canoed to a pub and had a drink. England is great for having a pub everywhere.

Family Picture

Princess Dress up

Here is Kendal in her princess dress that she got for her birthday. Thanks Mom and Sis. She loves it. Every time we play dress up I have to be the fairy. She always wants to wear the princess dress. Probably better that way as I don't think I would fit in the dress anyways.

Birthday and a few September tidbits.

We had a wonderful birthday party for Kendal. Few of her friends came and they had a good time. The Cake, if you didn't see it on Facebook, was fun to make. I had the cake completed and just needed to put the barbie on. I took it out of the package and realized that she didn't bend and I didn't know how I was going to get her on the cake. So we laughed a lot and had a lot of fun and finally came up the the backstroke. It was a great tasting cake and it was all from scratch. Enjoy the pictures and videos. The last one is of Kendal Dancing. So cute. She loves to dance when I put the music on.

Quick School Uniform Photo

Here is Kendal in her school uniform. She is so cute. She had a great first day of school. She was so excited and was also exhausted after only going for a 1/2 day. She had woken up at 5:50am that morning. She is attending three mornings a week.

Kendal and the neighbor children, Kate and James before school

Kendal saying cheese. Think we will work on the cheesey smile.

Baby #2

 

Well it is official - we had our 12 week scan this last week and everything is looking good. Praise God! Thank you to all of you that have been praying for us because this is an answer to prayer.

Time Flies

Wow here it is Sept and I haven't even updated for two months. Ok Here we go:
July: We didn't travel anywhere because we were working on our residency stuff, basically so we can stay here and work for as long as we want without a visa. Not citizenship that is something different. This required sending our passports in and taking a test. We both passed and they still have our passports. Hope we get them so we can go somewhere next month. Itching to travel. As we stayed close to home we visited Chesil Beach and spent some quality time with friends. Kendal also smashed her fingers in the front door. OUCH!

August: Was a fun month. We took to harvesting more of our veggies. Sweetcorn, onions, some potatoes, tomatoes, beets (beetroot- UK translation), carrots and cucumbers and zuccini(courgettes - UK translation). We have taken to learning how to can and have made some seasonal chutney, and Claussen style pickles. Which are fabulous. Kendal eats them 3 or 4 at a time. I am also learning how to be creative with these veggies as there are lots and we don't want them to go to waste.

The weather was warmer at the beginning of August and Kendal, Daddy and I spent more time out in the garden and sunshine. This led to going down to some good friends Caravan (Trailer- US translation) by the beach in Weymouth and hung out for the day.


Kendal helping me pass the time while daddy took his residency test. She is funny with chewing gum.

Kendal's Smashed fingers

Kendal and Beth at Montacute house. They carried that umbrella all day.

Beth, Kendal, Me, and Josh at Montacute house. Naomi was taking the picture.

Kendal and Mommy at Chesil Beach

Kendal and Elliot playing on the Turtle.

Kendal and Chloe enjoying ice cream in a lovely little shop in Weymouth

Bryan harvesting all the onions since we had so much rain. They were beginning to mold.

One of the many huge pumpkins out in the garden. Might need a crane to lift one of them.

Bryan harvesting the first sweet corn. It was so yummy.