November

 That time of year when they bring in animals to eat the fields...some years its horses or cows, but this year it's sheep, so we went on a walk to see them.

 Megan's birthday party

 Clara joining me for coffee...although this day I gave her Ovaltine instead...

 Britton wearing uncle Ben's boots.

 Because of the holidays, there were a couple of days at preschool that Gwendy only had a few kids so she said that Clara could come over. Clara loves preschool but most of the time Gwendy has a pretty good crew this year (10-13 kids) so only Britton goes, but that's a great problem to have!

 I took these pictures last May...but a last minute decision was made to pour the sidewalk on this side of our house before winter, so that meant that the big Elm tree in the back needed to go and ASAP.

 I hate to remove trees around here, but this one needed to go (old, multiple trunk, big branches hanging over our house dropping branches, etc...), and the two in the front yard need to go but Cary and I are still fighting about that. ;)
So anyway, John Paul and Dean started taking limbs down, Cary and I just happened to walk outside while they were cutting one down and I'm being totally serious when I say a big branch was an inch away from hitting the corner of our roof and the A/C unit when it came down.  They didn't cut anymore down since the rest were directly over our house.

 Phil Faber took the tree down with his big equipment that took a lot of maneuvering to keep it from falling on our house...it really wanted to fall on our house. :D Now our yard is torn up from the tree and the machine, but the sidewalk on that side of the house looks really nice. I'm excited to plant some new trees too.

 I wish I would have had Cary stand by this trunk and root ball, it was huge.

It's going to get worse before it gets better. ☺