Sunday, October 3, 2010

Carter's first Birthday party

It was also Halloween at the campground. Here is Ethan, Hannah and Carter all dressed up and ready to go trick or treating!
Cousin Sarah and Carter were both dressed as dalmation puppies.
Alex was an army man, complete with a gun. Armed and dangerous! Brother Miguel was Mario, but he refused to get his picture taken.
Hannah just LOVES suckers!
The Birthday Boy Carter - his birthday isn't officially until October 11, but whose counting???
Ok guys, what is it worth to you to get a piece of my cake?
Opening presents - aren't birthdays fun!!!

Sunday, September 19, 2010

All right, all right....

Okay, okay, so I haven't updated the blog in 2 months, as somebody was kind enough to point out. So you are going to get everything in one massive blog. Hope you are happy :)Defiance County Fair always has the Tinora Young Farmer's Kiddie Tractor Pull on Sunday afternoon. It is a huge success every year. Here is a picture of at least part of the line up of kids and parents waiting to register for the even. They need to get to the gold pole building in the distance.
Our crew waiting to get the kiddies registered.
Miss Hannah in the tractor pull.
Alex gives it a shot. Both Hannah and Alex are only 2, so they had good spirit to even try.
Miguel and Ethan wait in line for their second pull.
Ethan made 2 full pulls and did well on third try. Unfortunately, he didn't win a trophy this time.
Guelly had one full pull and almost made the second one.
Bob Nagel relaxing at his camper back in the campground.
Part of the Canadian crew. Roy and Chris and Cory always come down and camp at the fair with us. Too bad they don't give a prize out for coming the longest distance to camp.
Carter Man is interested in doing anything that the older kids do. Mom, just let me go!!
Here are the goofballs he was watching. What a crew.
Discovered a big bee nest in the tree just down from our campers. It got taken down the next day.
Carter keeping himself occupied. Chairs and water bottles are always good toys.
Farm Bureau always has a kiddie pool with corn for the the kids to play in at the Barn & Grill. This group just loves it!

Mark moved into a new apartment in Columbus end of July. So the moving crew went down to help.



Not sure what these two screwballs are doing.
Got him moved in and went out to a Mexican place for supper. We are fairly certain that his new neighbors were greatly relieved when they realized that the screaming kids didn't belong to their new neighbor.
US 127 Garage Sale. This is the way our driveway looked for almost 3 days straight.
It amazes me every year how many people come to this thing. We had our best year yet!
Miss Hannah trying to keep tabs on everything.
It was unbelievable the amount of stuff we sold.
These are all pictures of how full the barn was when we started.
Just look at all this stuff!
We need a bigger barn - just for the sale!
By the end of the first day, we were able to move all this stuff into the other part of the barn.
Back in July, on one of the 100 plus degree weekends, we went to the church campout at Huggy Bear Campground near Van Wert.
What a cutie!
4 kids and Thunder's cage - what could they have in mind?
Yep, kids inside the cage and the dog outside!
We hosted a dinner and informational meeting for the Extension Service for the Field Plot that they have behind the barn. On yet another sweltering day.
Cooked a steak dinner with all the trimmings - yum yum!

Sunday, July 18, 2010

More Vegas!!!!

Here is another picture done by the spray painting street artists. Very patriotic.
Went up to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Before you go, check out the magazines found in your hotel room that has coupons in it. We missed the 2 for 1 coupon and saw it after we had gone up. Oh well.... This is looking south - you can see Planet Hollywood, MGM Grand, Tropicana (the small white tower), then on right hand side starting at the back is Mandaly Bay, top of the Luxor, Excalibur, and City Center. New York New York and Monte Carlo are hidden behind City Center.
The Paris Hotel, looking east.
Looking down at the intersection of Bellagio, Bally's Caesar's Palace and Bill's Gambling Hall.
Looking north, on the left you can bearly see Caesar's, Mirage and Treasure Island, with the Trump Tower almost hidden behind it (it is actually on the other side of the Fashion Place Mall). On the right from the front is Bill's Gambling Hall, Flamingo, mostly hidden Imperial Palace and Harrah's, Venetion, Wynn and Encore.
Bellagio and it's fountains.
Bellagio and Caesar's.
Inside the Bellagio is the Conservatory. It had a bug theme this time.
Giant Ants!!!
Ant and a flower pot.


Just an awesome display. Everything is done on a grand scale out here!