Friday, October 7, 2011

Ready or Not!

 Yesterday we received our first snowfall of the year.  Not much, but enough that it actually stuck in the grass and on the cars.  This snow won't last, but winter is on its way!


Couldn't get the little stink to look at the camera, he was more interested in the leaves and falling snow.

Sure is cute though!

Notice that the neighbor kids built a snowman.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Bruderer Reunion

Just found this post in the "drafts" section on blogger.  Apparently it never got published.


As always, the first weekend in August is the Bruderer Reunion. This year was our first camping experience with Eli. Overall he did awesome. Now that we have Eli, Dan and I thought we should start collecting camping gear so we can take care of our family. This year we got a new tent, a camp stove, a 5 gallon water cooler, and a big cooler. Looking at everything we had, we knew we couldn't get it all in our car. We are lucky to have such great family members. Missy and Curtis let us borrow their car. With Dan's excellent packing skills (which he inherited/learned from his father) we got everything in with a little room to spare. It is always fun to get together with family and this reunion was no different. This was the first year all the siblings out West were together. Dan and I had our first experience cooking on a camp stove and Dan did awesome. We learned a few tricks from Keri and Tyler and next time we go camping we are going to be eating a lot better. Here are some pictures throughout the weekend.



Calin and Kenzi were battling in the bow and arrow. They had to shoot arrows at milk jugs filled with water on a pulley system. The first one to empty enough to raise their milk jug and drop the opponents jug won, in the end I think Calin won.


Xander had a lot of expressions but this one was my favorite so it made the cut.


Grandma and Grandpa Bruderer's posterity. If I counted correctly 32 of us.


Sawyer enjoying the dirt, he sat there playing happily for quite sometime.


Eli getting his first 4-Wheeler ride. Dan has been wanting to do that for a while.


Eli seemed to enjoy himself. Of course Dan did too!


I love my boys!