Family Christmas

4 generation Call men

Got to spend some time with our Call parents during Christmas, it was great!

 The grand kids watching a video together.

 fun times!

 Decorating our second tree. We tried cutting down a juniper but the smell and allergies forced us to buy this one from the lot December 23.

 We decorated houses and gingerbread men.

 Sledding

 We put together so many puzzles I started dreaming about it! Loved it, thanks guys!

 Gkids

 The fam Christmas Eve

 Trying to ice skate.

 Lots of fun

 By the end of an hour the kids were getting the hang of it!

Wonderful muddy fun.

Took all the gkids up Hill Cumorah beside our house.

The whole Family!

Young Women Shooting

 We took the YW out to shoot.

 It was pretty cold, we froze our toes and fingers.

We even got to shoot off a canon two times; what a blast!

Halloween

WA Visit: Bill's Berry Farm

 The kids rode the ATV train.

 We bought 4 dozen pumpkin cinnamon sprinkled donuts and ate them all before we left the farm, yum!

 The kids rode the horses.

 We took a hay ride.

 Went through the corn maze.

 Ate some caramel apples.

 The grandkids got to pick out their own pumpkins.

 I hit the wooden donut with the apple sling shot, if it goes through the hole you get a dozen free donuts. So close and yet so far away.

 We got apples to make 6 gallons of fresh apple juice.

 We washed them and put them through the grinder.

 We put them in the press and got the juice.

 Poured the juice into jugs.

Tasted our yummy fresh made apple juice. What a fun day!

G-Kids and Conference Weekend

 The girls loved raking leaves and then throwing them all over the place.

 Youngest to oldest; just happened that way!

We took them to the school playground and had fun on the play structures. Great weekend with some of the family.

Fixing the house

 Studs up for our bedroom and hall in the basement.

 Sheet rock up for the bedroom and tomorrow they tape and texture it all.

 We cut these railroad ties for stairs from the garage to the backyard. It comes down where the shop is going in.

 The leveled area for our 18X24 foot shop.

Got this futon bunk used today for our grandkids to sleep on.

Louisa May Alcott and Battle Road

 We went to see the Orchard House Museum; Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in.

This is a map of battle road, which is where the shot heard round the world started the Revolutionary War in 1775. Red Coats marched toward Concord to take guns from the militia but were met with men who heard about the shots in Boston and were ready to fight back.

 Visitor's center at North Bridge where the first British soldiers died.

You can see the bridge where the Colonists and Red Coats faced each other. The Red Coats turned and fled back towards Boston but were ambushed all the way back to Boston by the Colonists. About 100 British died and 49 Americans died.

We watched a 20 minute video of what happened on this day to start our country out towards independence from Britain. I love history and loved seeing Lexington Road where all of this happened, between Boston and Concord, MA.