Lauren is 11!

 

 Here is Lauren in 2006 heading to Preschool.  She has always loved school.

 She is a busy 5th grader!  She plays piano, sings in the Yankton Children's Choir, plays basketball for the "Zelles", participates in AWANA, and so much more.  She is kind,caring, bright and was even selected as "Student of the Week" this past Monday at Lincoln School.  She is growing up too fast :(  We love her and are so proud to be her parents!  Happy Birthday Lauren!

Happy Birthday Will

 Will turned 38 on October 19th.  We enjoyed an evening doing some of his favorite things.  We went to Charlies for pizza, opened presents, had his mom's famous angel food cake and then watched the Cardinals in the playoffs. 

 The kids created this card all by themselves.  It was very special!

Happy Birthday!

Fall fun!

It was a big night here on Pioneer Road!  Archery season for bow and arrow opened 2 days ago and Will took a nice buck on his second time out. If you know Will, he has lots of pictures with him next to a dead deer, but this one was special because it was the first buck here on our land.   The kids got to join in the fun with flashlights last night while they followed the blood trail to the 4x6 buck.  Good memories! 

Madelyns turns 7!

Madelyn Lilly Eidsness born on 9/19/05 in Omaha NE at Methodist Hospital.  She is all girl!  She loves to wear dresses.  She enjoys ballet class, dolls and barbies.  Here she is dressed and ready for school.  She helped me make her birthday treats which were chocolate dipped pretzels rolled in heath bar and sprinkles.

 This pictures says it all!  This is Madelyn on her 3rd birthday.  She received this shirt as a gift and its so true!  She loves to talk and has always been our "Little Miss Chatterbox"! 


 

Owen's first day of Preschool

Owen started his second year of preschool today.  He goes on M-W-F from 8:30-11:15am

1st day of school 2012

Lauren- 5th grade.  Mrs. Roth

Jillian-3rd grade.  Mrs. Fitzsimmons

Madelyn-1st grade.  Mrs. Hacecky

Lincoln school.... Here we come!

Summer 2012

July 4th celebration at Grandpa Cliff's farm. 

 

 Madelyn played softball for team "First Dakota"

Will was her coach

Jillian played softball for the" Fury" 

Lauren played for the "Shamrocks".  This was her first year on a traveling team.

Owen completed "Safety Town"

We all spent lots of time spraying weeds and watering!

The summer went way too fast but we sure enjoyed it!  We had record breaking heat this summer so it was a great summer to have a pool.  We loved following the kids softball games, playing "hot box" in the front yard, going out for ice cream, riding our bikes and so much more!  We ended our last day of summer with our annual "Back to School Supper"  We enjoyed a great supper and set our goals for the school year.  We always look forward to this tradition.

 

Our guiding verse for the school year:

"The Lord does not look at the things man looks at.  Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."  2 Samuel 16:7

Looking forward to the first day of school tomorrow morning!