Our Family Christmas in Pictures

It's been a wonderful Christmas here in the Lah household.


Last week was Addie's Christmas Show at school.

I guess some goofing off is allowed at Christmas when you're 6.

Then, we spent a long weekend in Indianapolis and took the girls to Conner's Prairie. We at dinner there and went on a candlelight tour of Prairie Town at Christmas. Margaret was a tad cranky (ear infection), but other than that, we had a great time.

We also visited with Emily's Great Uncle (Fr.) Mel and had a nice visit after mass. Later, we went to the children's museum and played and played and played.

The Barbie Exhibit

I think one of Emily's Uncle's was the inspiration for this doll.

Dinosaur sculpting

The real dinosaurs (a little scary)

Addie taxing some shady characters at the Egypt exhibit

On Christmas Eve, we had brunch with some friends here in town.

Activities for the kids.

Food for all.

And a few gifts exchanged.

That evening was the Christmas Pageant at church. Addie was the Innkeeper and had one of the longest lines.

When we got home, Santa had come - the coats could not come off fast enough.Lots of excitement capped off with a bedtime story by the tree.

On Christmas day, we opened gifts from each other.

We'll be heading out soon to see our families - hopefully ahead of the latest winter storm. I'll try and get some more pictures uploaded to flickr before we go.

Merry Christmas to all!

Spooky Sisters

Happy Halloween!

At the beginning of the month we tried to schedule a 'Fall Harvest' party for the end of the season. After studying the calendar a bit, and seeing all the spoken-for weekends, it quickly turned into a Halloween party. We had also hoped to have it outside, but had to limit that to a photo-op due to the cold, breezy day.

We played games, read books and enjoyed some fall snacks and warm mulled cider. Later that evening, we had dinner with some friends and the kids went trick-or-treating together.

An End to Summer

School started on Tuesday and I just couldn't let my daughter start school without one last visit to my parent's farm. We had a wonderful week of enjoying nature and other local activities.

There were flowers to decorate with


Cool evening breezes to rock in


Sisters to play with


Slides to ride


Grammies to hug


Birthdays to celebrate

Tractors to ride


Zoos to visit


Even free hair eating to boot'

Funny faces to make


Webs to conquer


Farmer markets to sample


Evening rides along the creek


Morning walks through the wildlife preserve


Wildflowers and weeds in the ditch to clip

It was a wonderful way to bring summer to a close. Just a few more sweet memories of a summer's past. The memories will be priceless and oh so precious as she grows older. She will never once stop to think about the amount of money I spent on those memories. She will only remember the things we did, not the things we didn't do.

Shock and Excitement!

These were the emotions I felt when I looked out our back window and saw this in the bushes just three feet away.

14 EGGS!

Our silver laced Wyandotte named "Night" started laying eggs but instead of putting them in the nesting box decided that this would be the perfect place. So after 14 days of laying eggs I finally noticed the pile. We had been making comments for two weeks now about her making "egg laying" noises but could never find any eggs. We took 12 of them inside for us to use and moved the remaining two into her nesting box.


After placing her in the box the next day she had taken to it. Just this evening I went out there and the two eggs had become three. Including a blue/green one from a different hen!

It's exciting to start getting the fresh eggs from our own chickens. I'm sure the other two will start laying in about 1-2 weeks. Oh all the excitement at our house!

Farming for the Future

Check out the great photo of my dad with the girls. If you would like to support farm aid by voting for our photo (votes are made by donations) feel free to do so. Just wanted to share the photo with everyone.

Farming for the Future

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Family Update

As you can see from the roofing project we have been very busy at our house lately. I've uploaded a ton of photos from June and July to our flickr account. Feel free to browse them to see how the girls are growing and changing.

Some of the happenings... Addie finished Kindergarten and we celebrated by going taking pizza to the beach one night for dinner. She went to a couple summer camps and is enjoying a lot of time with friends. Both the girls enjoy our Wednesday routine of going to story hour and then the brown bag concert at the local band shell. We have made it to the beach a couple times as well.


Michael finished the chicken coop and it looks great! The chickens love it too. He has started working on the fence to go around the garden but that project will be on hold until his thumb heals (he got it with the saw a week ago).

I'm busy in the garden and preserving all the local fruits and veggies we can get. Margaret is growing up to fast for me! She is changing every day.


It's hard to believe that it is already mid July here because we have only hit the low 80's a couple days this year. For the most part we have been wearing long pants! I'm not complaining about the weather, but it just doesn't feel like summer when we are still having spring weather. That is all that is new that I can think of. Maybe now that the roof is done things will slow down a tad and I can keep the blog updated more often!