Wow.... a COW!

 

Nathan and I were invited to buy into a cow at the end of this year by our good friends the Arnetts.  We will end up with 100lbs of alfalfa pasture fed beef - pretty exciting.

One of the others cows was taken to be slaughtered and the hide and head were left, unwanted.  Nathan thought that he'd like to have them and so that morning Scott and Nathan came home (Dec 7) with a whole cow head and hide.  They worked on the head that morning and then Nathan worked on the head for the following few days.  I had never seen anything like this, not even close...gross but also totally cool.  I even got to help a bit...as much as I wanted to anyways.

Nathan has got the hide looking very nice and has salted it...come spring or maybe even in 2014 we'll probably be trying to tan it.  It took a lot of work - something that Nathan is not afraid of.

**Hope the pictures don't mess you up too bad**

Testing out the new Snowsuit

This is going to be a stressful few days for Nathan - it's finals week at BYU.  He's studying hard and so ready for this semester to be over - Keep him in your prayers.  Well, amidst all that he has going on he decided to spend the morning with us - it was the BEST to have him home!  

It has been lightly snowing for the past few days and today there's finally enough snow to cover the ground.  We got ourselves bundled up and then got out our little mr-s new snow suit:

Thank You Monique for the wonderful snow suit! He stayed nice and warm while his crazy parents took him up and down the small hills behind our house.  He could barely keep himself sitting up it was so poofy :) (don't worry, it wasn't overly poofy by any means.  It was seriously perfect!)

Daddy had fun pulling his little Harlow buddy around in this shnazzy pink toboggan and Harlow only toppled out once...which is saying something.  The small hills were the perfect size for him.  He even went down some on his own - and oh boy, did we cheer for him :)

My guys were cute and we enjoyed this family time together!

This was the same look that stayed on his face the entire time.  No crying, no smiling, some talking, no arm flapping...just the look of 'I have no idea what the heck is going on'.

Eating Snow - YUMMY!

Getting Ready for Christmas

Each year we get a new ornament to put on our Christmas tree.  Here is Harlow playing with Daddy's deer ornament and his blue bell ornament.  His favorite thing to do is use Daddy's deer to hit his bell and make it chime.

Last year we weren't around for Christmas much and decided not to put up the tree but this year, with Harlow's first Christmas and us spending more time here I wanted it up.  I came home from a meeting one night and my sweet Nathan was putting it up for me!  I could have kissed him a thousand times right there in the family room!!  I have having all the decorations up - it really makes it feel like the Christmas season and reminds me of my Mommy, who always had our house nice and festive and full of love. That's what I want for my kids too.

Our Sick Boy

Having a sick baby is miserable!

Our Harlow Boy was having a rough little go, finally I took him into the dr when his eye swelled up, nearly shut.  He had an eye infection, ear infection, cough, runny nose, fever, and yeast rash in his diaper area :(  He was so good not to be fussy but the poor guy wouldn't hardly smile or laugh, just wanted to sit and be cuddled.