Happy Holidays!

Here is our family newsletter. Click on it to make it bigger so you can read it!=)
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OOOklahoma......

where the wind comes sweeping down the plains.......and we get to move there for 9 months. It's official as of today folks, we are going to wonderful OK. We'll be attending the july class, I think it starts the beginning of july. In anycase, for those that have no clue what I'm talkin about this is for Ryans warrant officer commission with the Natl guard. We decided it would be better training for him and he only has 2 months to get the online portion done. He is on chance 2 of 2 so we're taking the easy road......ok maybe not easy but the most logical one I guess. So just an update there. I'll keep ya'll posted as we learn more.
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Thanksgiving!

Well, we had a pretty uneventful and good thanksgiving. I tried my hand at baking pies, crusts even. They turned out pretty good. We had lots of good food and company. We spent our Thanksgiving day at Ryan's parents and most of his family was there, the rest we missed. This is always a good time to sit down and remember, of course, everything we are thankful for. Family, friends, a good life in general. I hope that everyone else has had a good holiday and can remember the things they are thankful for and have.
Thank YOU for everything
kl

Especially for Mel.....

Here are a couple pics of just them. I will have to play with that other pic though and crop it out. There are some pics of just me and Paisley and me and Brianna, but I think my huge belly is sticking out with all of them so I opted to not share them. anyhoo.......dinner time. Enjoy
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Paisley's Favorite Pastimes

Here are a couple of Paisley's favorite things to do. This summer she loved to ride the lawn mower, which isnt ours unfortunately. Whether it was with dad or grampa, she loved to do it, and Dad got her to sleep a couple times so that's always a bonus. Her latest is riding on Brianna's back. Brianna's a pretty good sport about it and Paisley loves it. Brianna was about to pass out in this pic I think!=)
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Halloween Photos

Here are some pics of the kids the day before Halloween. Brianna had a costume parade at school so we dressed everyone up for it. We went to the carnival later that night. It was a pretty busy day and it wasnt even Halloween! I couldnt get a very good photo of Nana so I'll work on that tonight!
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Family Pics

With as grouchy as all the kids were for this shoot we could totally be back in the time oh photos where nobody ever smiled. With these in black and white or sepia that's what it totally reminds me of. Except that I'm smiling in just about all of them so they'd have to photo shop me out or something. We got some good pics still and they're original, that's what it's all about. I still love them.
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10-22-08

Not much has been going on, we recently bought a truck bed trailer to use for hauling wood. Problem is we dont know where to find any. We went looking yesterday and came back with about 20 logs, little ones. Not enough to do much.
I am working on getting registered for school. Hopefully someone will call me today so I can finish getting everything set up. I have to wait and see what I get back for financial aid to determine whether or not I will even go back. I have my schedule almost all set up as far as what I'm taking in the spring. Guess we''ll see how it all turns out.
Brianna is doing good in school. She is learning to read and is awesome at it, even though she doesnt think so. She spells really well too. They have been learning doubles for math and she enjoys that.
Tommy learned the letter F at preschool. He enjoys it a lot. Paisley is busy as ever and I have a hard time keeping her entertained when her brother and sister are at school. Movies dont keep her entertained like they do the older two. It will be good to have a younger sibling here for her to play with.
Ryan stays pretty busy with work. We're glad when he's home and the kids get to be with him. Paisley is pretty fond of him.
That's about all for this update. Hope everyone is doing well.
kl
ps here are a couple more pics

Kid's Pic's

We got our pictures back that we had done of the kids. With so many it's hard to decide which one's to post. These are the enhancements. I will probably post more as time goes on. Big thanks again to Suzy for doing them!! It was a hard day for pics, it had rained all day and night before so we didnt have a lot to work with. But she's awesome and I'm convinced she can do anything. Especially with the help of our technological advances these days.

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10-20-08

I guess I better post something on here and keep it fairly updated. Let's see, this last week was pretty uneventful. We had dad home for half the week so we got some things done around the house. Grandma and Grampa were gone hunting so we missed them for a few days. We spent a lot of time over at the Morris'. The kids really have fun playing with the cousins over there. I worked on some seat covers that I made for the Performing Arts Center down at the high school. They are for the concerts that the PA council puts on. They were too small so I had to put a panel and used my Aunt's surger to put it in. I definitely need to get one of those!! Talk about handy!
On saturday we went in to a tailgate party for ryans crew from work, then we went to his brothers engagement party, ten we went to the ISU football game. It was pretty hectic as we only got to spend about and hour at each place. We didnt stay for the whole game, they were getting pretty slaughtered and the refs werent calling a very good game. I like NFL a lot better than college football personally. Anyhoo, that's about the extent of our excitement for the last few days. Guess i better see what excitement I can create for this week.
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Brianna's Soccer Picture

Here is Brianna's Soccer picture. She was sad for it to be over so I think she'll be excited when it comes again next year. She's finally starting to get past the fact that she's a head smaller than everyone else. This was a good confidence building experience for her.

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10-12-08

We finished up Brianna's first year of soccer yesterday. She did really well and had a fun time playing. We got snowed on too. We enjoyed spending some time with the Grama's from Arizona the last few days. We had to cancel going to the baptism due to the weather. We sure miss those Burley guys over there!! We're starting a new week and hopefully it will be a good and safe one with all the new snow, time to break out the boots and gloves!!
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Howdy

I guess I get to be the first to put anything on this. They have my blog under review for spam so I guess I'll see if I can even post anything on this. Things are going good in our little world. Brianna made wheat bread at school yesterday. It went with the story the little red hen that they have been reading. It was really good bread too!! We mostly just hung out yesterday. I did get a girls night out to go spend at Francine's house to play bunco, it was fun and good to get out. We are planning on going to a baptism this weekend. It will be good to see the burley family!!
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