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I love these two pictures of Jared at Grandpa and Grandma Ellingson'sGrandpa, Grandma Jared and Jade.

Visitors

Amy and Jared came in August to visit us. We always love having them around. This is Brent, Grandpa Nelson. Jared, Blake, Todd and litle Charly.At the Far Wesrt Show, Todd, Scott, Blake and Jared.

This is the morning Jared and Amy left for Utah. Kyle, Jared, Brent and Amy. Thank you Amy for bringing Jared, and for letting us take care of him for a few days.

Stuffed Dog

Here is a picture of the patchwork stuffed dog I made this last week for Carissa. Carissa likes to save children's books, toys and clothes. I had fun sewing a project I have not did before. The scrap pieces of material are from the quilt I made Carissa for her wedding.

new puppies

We have new puppies. The black puppy (Cache) is Blake and Savannah's. The brown puppy (Mazie) is ours. They are just eight weeks old. We are keeping them together until they get a bit older. They are sister's. I forgot how fun puppies are to have, they are not old enough to destroy every thing in sight, but I am sure it is coming soon.

This is Mindy, she will not even look at the puppies. For two nights she would not even sleep on her bed because the puppies were by her bed, so we moved the puppies and now she will sleep on her bed. Why we wanted to get a puppy is because Mindy is getting older and we are hoping that a new dog will learn Mindy's good nature.

beach

Kyle, Davis, Brighton and Brax, I took them to the Lincoln City last week. The day before Davis had to leave to go home. On our way into town, poor little Brax had to jump out at the red light and throw-up in a parking lot landscape. After that he seemed to be fine the rest of the day. The weather was incredible.

We went to the beach, to the Salt Water Taffy store and then J's, the best chip and chips ever. On our way heading home we stopped at Devils lake. This is Davis holding a crawdad.

The boys posing for the picture. It was a nice relaxing day. I am so happy that we went.

Cousins

I thought these were some fun pictures of cousins.
This is Jared and Charly. Shawn, Kara Rosey and Brock

Brent and Lonny

Thomas, Davis, Brock and Carissa

Bats or not

We kept hearing sounds from the fireplace downstairs. I was convinced that we had bats living in the fireplace, and from the sound of it I was not going to be surprised if there were at least 100. So Brent, Blake and Shawn decided to wait until dark (because that is when bats come out to fly) they were going to see. Blake took a newspaper rolled up like a lantern lite it on fire and tossed it up the fireplace and closed the damper.
Shawn heading out the door to see if he could see any bats.

Brent and Shawn then would shoot anything that flew out of the chimney.

After Brent shot two so called bats, they soon find out that what was living in our fireplace was Starling birds.

Since then I think the birds decided that it was not a fun place to be, we have not heard the chirping again.

Yea! I was not that excited with the thought that we had bats living in our fireplace.