Recent Pictures

Here are some pretty recent pictures.....

Daddy and Gideon playing soccer.

Anna in action (sort of, she would be the one picking her fingers in the back).

Asher is such a hoot.  This is last year's Christmas present and he rock's it all over the house, much to the dismay of our floors.  Check out under the saddle..... closer picture to come.

This is trick or treat at McAuley's Center.  We have two fairy princess', a pumpkin (my niece Gracie), Superman, Bob the Tomato and Captain America's daughter (my niece Cadance).

                       Iron Man (my nephew Jack), Logan in his ghillie suit and Tyler as an army man.

Madeline in action.

Gideon and Anna playing soccer.

       Logan and Gideon taking a break.  Logan had just played a game in Bellefontaine (hence the mud).

                                      Leah ready for the 8th grade dance.  Ahhh, my beautiful girl!
               

                                    Madeline at her birthday celebration #1, at Aunt Sue's house.

             The kids asked me to take this picture and it is awesome of all three.  Man I love these monkey's!

                                               Daddy getting one of Madeline's bear hug! 

                           Madeline and one of her wonderful presents.  She got so many thoughtful gifts.  Kayla     
                       (you can see her in the back of the pic) made her a wonderful card that Madeline adores. 

    Madeline and her birthday celebration #3, at home on her actual birthday.  This is her princess ring from Daddy and I.  Later in the day we went on a 4H trail ride.  Maddie got a nice long ride on "Mousy," our friends pony.  She loved it.

           Asher and Lucy at gymnastics last week.  It was visitor's week.  Look at Lucy's huge blue eyes!

                            Gee on the balance bar (in the back) and Ava on the balance bar in front.

Ok, so this was under Asher's saddle.  Aparently it is how he gets his crayons from place to place.

That is all for now!

Julie 

All is well.....

Well, life here at the Cole house is moving right along.  My husband treated me to an evening away tonight.  We went to Columbus and did a little shopping and ate at Chipolte.  It was great and much needed and appreciated.

Life has settled down a bit now for us.  Volleyball finished up a couple weeks ago and our last soccer games were Saturday.  It looks as though Logan is going to play basketball, so that will consume some time.  To be honest though, I don't mind so much in the winter.  There's not a lot to do anyways. 

Our newest "fun thing" around here are our horses, Sophie and Charlie.  They are great and gentle and just a joy to be around.  Having horses is something we have always dreamed of doing and here we are.  Charlie is a 14 yr old Quarter horse and Sophie is an 11 yr old Paint.  I need to get some good pics of them and their completed stalls (and tack area)!  We plan to do lots of trail riding some showing.  Leah is already working on riding Charlie English and Logan has been riding Sophie western (they are taking riding lessons from local lady who knows her horses).

Even though sports aren't real intense right now we are still very busy trying to get some projects finished up before winter.  Plumbing was ran to the barn last week and the electric will be finished up tomorrow.  It is so cool to have plumbing in the barn.  Last year was so trying when it came to getting water to the animals in below freezing temps and we only had chickens last year.  Oh and we are already enjoying the electric that is already in.  It is good stuff and I feel so blessed to have all these new things.  We still have to finish the hay loft before winter and we have some major dirt moving to do.  Moving dirt has been slow due to the rain and mud (and my yard is a mess), but we are at least headed in the right direction.

The kids are doing great.  So far no major illnesses this season (knock on wood, I know).  I am homeschooling Anna, Gideon (K) and Madeline (1st) while Leah and Logan attend West Liberty.  3 little ones all at one time is very tricky.  Plus Asher wants to be a part of everything.  He is quite cute trying to be a big kid, but he is very loud and he can really slow down the learning process.

We are looking forward to a fun weekend.  Friday night is a playoff football game at the school.  West Liberty went undefeated this year I believe.  Saturday during the day we are doing some special digging (more about this in another post) and then we have church.  Sunday we are going to go on a trail ride with our local 4H group.  It will be our first real trial ride and it should be a good time.  Also, Sunday is Madeline's 6th birthday.  My smart, beautiful and fun baby girl is growing up into this amazing big girl.  How did that happen?  She is pretty excited also to be spending some of her birthday riding.  She loves the horses and wants to be in control of the reins as soon as she sits down.

Well, until later......

Julie