Holidays in the South

We headed to North Carolina for the holidays on Thursday afternoon and spent the night in Bethlehem, PA and arrived at Johanna's parents house on Friday afternoon. We got a nice snow storm on Saturday and Sunday. On Tuesday we went down to see Matt and Christina and kids for the day and also some of Johanna's other relatives. Wednesday night was special meeting and Thursday 10 of the workers came for lunch. Matt and Christina and the Berwaldt's came for supper and the evening Thursday. Friday night was pretty low key, made it to midnight and called in a day. We left to come home on Saturday just after lunch. We spent the night in PA again and got home mid afternoon on Sunday. Now it is back to work and school.

Playing football with Shannon

SNOW!!!

Winter Wonderland in NC

Having fun in the snow

Clearing snow from the driveway with a rake, the next best thing to a snow shovel.

Monday we went to see Tama at her work

Shaelyn and Betty D.

Phoenix and Shaelyn being Princesses

Gillis

Paxton drawing a picture for Phoenix

Reading comic books

Helping vacuum

Going down the slide at the playground

Swinging

Shaelyn and Karra

Just before we left to come home

Picking up Brush

Today we cleaned up some dead trees and limbs in the woods. The kids were helping me this morning while Johanna ran some errands. Paxton was using his fourwheeler to hall some brush over to the burn pile. Shaelyn had a good time putting sticks in the bucket of the tractor. It was a great day for working outside. These pictures were taken with my phone so the quality isn't very good.

Paxton using his fourwheeler as a skidder.

Shaelyn helping load the bucket of the tractor.

Thanksgiving in Pittsburg

We went up north to the Lodge on wednesday with Mom and Dad and Brad and Shelley's family for Thanksgiving. It was a fun time. We rode the four wheelers a little bit and did some sledding out on the front hill. It spit snow off and on most every day we were there. There was only a couple of inches of snow, but it was enough to do some sledding. We had a fire in the fire pit one evening, played some games and read books. We went out to dinner one evening and had Neal and Debbie and Bill Smith for lunch on Saturday. We headed home on Sunday after meeting.

Danny giving the kids a ride up the hill

Paxton and Shaelyn out sledding

Are we at the North Pole?

Giving Brody and Paxton a ride

Paxton and Brody headed down the hill

Dad with a load of kids

Shaelyn in the SnoCoach behind the fourwheeler

Nice weather

Playing Farkel

Chappell Thanksgiving

The Saturday before Thanksgiving we had a meal down at the barn with all of the family. There were about 70 people there. Lots of food, laughs and games.

Center piece on each table

All of the Kent Chappell Family

Our family

Brad and Shelley's family

The four cousins

Mom and Dad

Playing games

Sitting by the Fire

Tonight we built a fire in the fireplace and the kids are sitting by the fire with their pillows. A good way to spend a chilly evening.

Laying by the fire

Watching the fire

Paxton reading a Sponge Bob book to Shaelyn

The Wiggles Show

Friday night we went down to Boston to see the Wiggles. We had taken Paxton a few years ago when they had come through the area before Shaelyn was born. Shealyn really likes the Wiggles now so we decided to take her to see them this year.

Outside the Orpheum Theater before the show

During the show

Shaelyn clapping along with the song

Sam coming around through the audience

Murray coming through the audience

Capt'n Feathersword getting ready to do something crazy

A fun show

Halloween Party

Last night was the Halloween potluck down at the barn. After supper they had a hayride with stations set up in the woods for the kids to go trick-or-treating at.

Our Family

All the kids

Shaelyn (Dorothy The Dinosaur) and Paxton (Luigi)