A visitor from Pennsylvania!!

  Hello Everyone!!
  Sorry It's been awhile since I've posted!  I've been keeping busy these past few weeks..

  At the beginning of this month we had a very special visitor from Pennsylvania; my Mom!  Kyle had So much fun with his Grandma!  It was so wonderful to have her here for a few days, was very sad to see her leave..  I think we will have to make a trip to PA in the near future :)

She was trying to sneak him in her carry-on bag  ;)

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Kyle has been growing up so much, just this past month....

Kyle loves his books... 

  Lately he brings his books and sits by my feet and quietly looks through them while I'm washing dishes or something :) Its so cute!

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I always enjoy decorating for Christmas...

We got this cute ornament the first Christmas we were married, so this past year I finally bought Kyle his own ornament with the year he was born on it :)

Made this garland with branches from our pine trees..

My Favorite Christmas decoration to set up is the manger scene :)

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Its been awhile since I've posted updated pictures of some of the new decorating I've done around the house...

I made this photo collage a few months ago...

And Jaylon installed rock back splash in the whole kitchen for me!  He's so sweet :) He did such a good job

I also recently added these mirrors in our bedroom.. 

 Sometime I'll have to do a post with a full house tour :)

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Jaylon is still busy with all the field work.  They are hoping to have it all done by the end of January

I drove over to the main farm the other day and thought it was neat how they had all the tractors and equipment lined up...

  

There was a fourth tractor with the spreader at the end of the line, but couldn't fit them all in one picture..

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Last week It was colder than I can ever remember it being out here!  The temperature was getting down in the single digits at night!  And it even was snowing one day at our house, but it didn't stick.  They did get a lot of snow up on the mountains though...

This week thankfully it has been warming back up a bit to normal AZ winter temperatures. 

 I enjoy seeing the snow, but I think I enjoy my warm weather more :)

HANNAH

Thanksgiving Day!!

  Hello Everyone!!
  We had a very wonderful Thanksgiving this year with our family!!

My sister-in-laws did a very good job setting the Thanksgiving table :)

Yummy Thanksgiving food!

Me and little Kyle on Thanksgiving day...

I'm very thankful for my wonderful little family :)

 Its a Strite family Thanksgiving tradition to shoot skeet on Thanksgiving day :) Everyone had alot of fun.  We shot 600 shotgun shells, and threw 450 clay pigeons....

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 Remember the giant tumbleweeds that were stuck on my fence from the last blog post?  Well my sweet hubby hauled the prickly tumbleweeds away for me so I didn't have too :) 

All you have to do is pull them out to an open area and let them go, and they just keep on rolling..

Yesterday I was out gathering pine cones for Christmas decorating and I literally Almost stepped on this gopher snake, I just about had a heart attack haha.  Of course there was a nice pine cone right beside of him, so since he had his head down a hole, I grabbed the pine cone :)

The other day when me and Kyle were outside he stopped in front of the lawnmower and was pointing at it and making tractor sounds, so I let him sit on the seat for a little while and play with the steering wheel.  He had a blast and didn't want to get down :)

 This little lizard was happily sunning himself on our sidewalk today....

The past few days have been very windy, so almost all the leaves have blown off of our pecan trees...

 Today was the first day it hasn't been windy, so I took Kyle outside to play in the leaves.  He had So much fun!  He was laughing hysterically while running through the leaves :) he started laughing so hard he fell over, it was so cute!

HANNAH

Pecan Thief!

    Hello Everyone!!

  Yesterday I saw this coyote munching away on the pecans that have fallen from my pecan trees.  He was a pretty brave coyote to be right beside the house in the middle of the day.  Something I never knew until I moved here, is that Coyotes Love pecans!  Last year we would hear them out under the pecan trees at night, but you don't usually see them this close to the house in the middle of the day.  Well I sneaked back inside the house and got the shotgun, prepared to kill him.  But when I came back outside with the gun somebody drove past in the tractor and scared him off.  Oh well, next time I'll be ready with my shotgun when he comes back....lol

 (I apologize for the bad quality pictures)

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Today was a very windy day and there were Lots of tumbleweeds rolling across the fields.  This Giant tumbleweed got caught on my fence.  It's going to be fun to try to drag that thing out of the yard, tumbleweeds are covered in thorns......

A little bit later this second Giant tumbleweed got caught on the other side of the fence..It's as big as the lawnmower....

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It finally looks like fall in my yard :) my little maple tree is all orange and red :)

HANNAH