Got it Mom!

Jasper is a delightful dog to have in our family!

His type of play is working, which is in his breed.

Actually, this is cheap entertainment for a dog!

He would catch it and then run to me like ....should I go get more Mom?

I'd tell him, "Go get it!"

And he'd run back to catch more flying snow!

During the summer it is the farm irrigation sprinklers that pump out loads of water, during the winter it's the snow blower....I think for Jasper, it doesn't get any better than this!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the Headley's

Mary Did you Know?

My favorite Christmas song is Mary Did You Know?

And I love this painting of Mary kissing baby Jesus.

I often think of when my children were babies and kissing their sweet necks.

Who would have thought that they would grow up to be who they are today.

I think about Mary, and how I'm sure she kissed baby Jesus at that moment, not even thinking about how he was the King of Kings, and definitely not knowing that he would die on the cross for all of us.

I can just imagine that she lived in the moment with her sweet baby, kissing his chubby cheeks, uncurling his fingers wrapped around her hair, prying Joseph's tools out of his chubby hands, and playing peek a boo with his blanket. The King of Kings came to us so he would know us better before he was sacrificed for us....sinners. Thank you Lord for caring for us so much that you came to us as a little wee baby. Thank you for all the love and grace that we don't deserve but are given to us anyway.

Jesus is the reason why Christmas is beautiful! 

From the Big Guy

Who knew that Santa lived in our house.

No wonder why he is sneaking off to go work in the shop out back.

People are always saying that Kirk is lookin' more and more like Kris Kringle.

Now we have proof!
Merry Christmas Everyone!

Kaleb's Graduation

Kaleb graduated from Bridgerland Technical College with a Welding Certificate.

He is officially a welder and couldn't have gotten there without Poppa getting him started.

I think this is where Kaleb gets his genetic goofiness. He and my Dad are so much alike it isn't funny.

They both love to work with metal, and have a silly sense of humor.

We are really proud of him. He put in lots of hours to accomplish this and made friends for life with the instructors. He is in the Building Technology program right now but sneaks in to the welding shop and has hamburgers with them when the shop is BBQing. It's kind of funny. 

This is Poppa's Howdy Doodie Face.

Kaleb trying to shrink so Nana doesn't feel so short!

Winter Show

The Winter Show was awesome as usual. Victoria did not want to do a Christmas song....remember...she's 14. So she skated to Touch the Sky from the movie Brave.

And of course she needed a new skate dress to play the part.

I designed and sewed this archer's dress. It was a first with this type of fabric but it turned out wonderful and made Victoria very happy to skate in it. 

God's Love for us

Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever. Psalm 136:26

Who knew that our very old apple tree reminds us of God's love for us every year!

Thunder and Lightning

These two have a love hate relationship. The basket has come out for the winter and they both want in it. Lightning looks pretty comfy cuddled into his sister. It will be a matter of minutes before he decides to irritate her and one of them will jump out ticked off at the other. Then they will be back together all cuddly and cozy when they get cold again.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I guess our contractor works on holidays. I knew he worked weekends but I wasn't aware of holidays. I was busy working on Thanksgiving Dinner and came around the corner to set up the table when I saw this. I don't complain when I see this. I just change my plans. I am so grateful to have boys who are hard workers and will help their Dad and I accomplish and work through the challenges of this old house. We couldn't do it without them. They were about to put the insert in the chimney for the second time. Our roof is extremely steep. I don't remember the degree but really they need climbing gear to do it safely. Which is why Kaleb is on the ground with rope around the pipe so they don't lose it off the roof. Long story short, the pipe was too wide about 6 feet down! We returned it and cleaned up the old one that they took out of the OTHER chimney. 

Sigh....You gotta love this house!

Hiking with Kaleb

These pictures are from Fall break in October.

Kaleb and I were eager to get out before this area will be blanketed with snow.

It has already snowed and higher up the mountain there was still snow in the shade.

We took Jasper along with. He is such a good dog. He stayed close by and did pretty good off leash. All that training is paying off. It was early enough that shadows made a cairn look scary which made him very worried. It took a few minutes for him to finally approach it to see that it wasn't some weird thing that would hurt him. 

All the foliage was a beautiful shade of yellow.

 The beavers have done some hard work to get their dams rebuilt after their areas were flooded a couple years back.

I love to hike with Kaleb. He is my adventuresome child. I can always count on him to want to go out in the wilderness to get away from the hub bub of daily life. The down side is that he is a really fast hiker. At my "over the hill" age, I'm not that fast any more. So he purposely hikes behind me so I set the pace, which takes lots of patience on his part. I don't know if I could do that.

It looks warm but really it was really cold in the shade. All the little leaves had frost around their edges.

Jasper was watching a bird on a rock...he really wanted it but we were able to call him off it. If that were Henry he would have been long gone, and we would have been spending the next hour getting him under control.

Beaver gnawings were all over. They have been hard at work.