Happy birthday to all the Johnny's

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And now it's time to start celebrating Christmas

We embarked on our yearly, family tradition of going and finding the perfectly BIG tree.

I think we finally finished all the birthday celebrations this month. :)

Happy Birthday Johnny and Steve!

We found the perfect spot for Julie's mini-figure cases :)

Love these boys!

Thankful!

Apparently, I'm not the only Buckeye fan!

Yo-yo surgery!

I think my mom likes us. ;)

Touchdown AND snuggles. Life is good!

Lego and MineCraft were MEANT for each other!

Best part - this is how Andy elected to spend his gadget/screen time for the day...!

Now THAT's turkey!!

Free range, naturally fed, fresh slaughtered, dry brined, spatchcocked and oven roasted! Julie!

And to top it all off, gravy is out of this world!

I decided to take the birthday boys out for dinner last night.

Happy birthday breakfast with the boys.

The boys and I agree, this is one case where the food marketing picture (upper right) looks way worse than the real thing.

A very yo-yo birthday for Johhny!

Happy Thanksgiving

None shall pass!

Now the boys are debugging their crystal radios

Johnny heard a football touchdown! :)

Nice view

Johnny learned how to code a light saber into Minecraft

LegoFest time again!

Andy is building a giant, monochrome Steve from Minecraft.

Tyson is all relaxed today... ;)

Andy took this and entitled it, "First Date" ;)

The cousins sure seemed to enjoy a few games at Marion's :)

Happy birthday to my sis!

Nice to know you can still buy REAL comic books!

And that the kids will enjoy them. :)

"This is SO fun!"

Andy might be taking this a little too seriously...? ;)

He had to extinguish it in the pond last night since it kept flaring back up! Haha.

Last weekend. I thought this was too vibrant to pass up. ;)

The sunset was hitting the autumn leaves.

We all had a really great time celebrating Johnny and his Grampy's birthday at our house, last night.

Bonfire, hay rides and Underground Church. Good memories.

Andy started work in the tech ministry this morning.

He received several compliments on how well he did.

A five generation hay ride in the making.

My kids being given a ride by me in my dad's tractor. They used the stool made by my grandpa to get into the trailer made by my great grandpa. :)

The boys are making their contribution to our work Thanksgiving party.

"Yep, Andy sewed me up"...

Chocolate chip cookie surprise!

Another gorgeous day!

This thing is "old as the hills".

Julie has a new tray/decoration for her kitchen.

Prepping for a "hay" ride...

Johnny's eighth grade 2015 school picture.

The boys are experimenting with ways to make counterweights for their yo-yo.

This was Andy's first attempt. It actually worked pretty well.

Julie salvaged a mirror, from my grandparent's house, for our bedroom.

70 in November!

We couldn't have had a better day for our companies annual Shoot (with) Your Boss Day.

You can see the "bird" flying if you look closely.

An autumn stroll

I love this picture Andy took back when he was picking blueberries.

He found a great big one and was using scale to show us how big it was. :)

I'm was nice eating out, with the boys, after church this week.

They like the fancy table cloths, since that means they get covered with paper!

The intoxicating allure of a bag of candy?

The Sort!

We added a ninja and a vampire to the group.

We had fun trick-or-treating this weekend.

The Grim Reaper's a Accountant, a First Responder, and Clark Kent. :)

My sister asked me to send her a nice headshot so she could use it as a contact picture... ;)

A bad time to be a turkey, this weekend.

But Andy and I gained some valuable experience.

Johnny and a capacitor. He figured this out all by himself.

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The boys are making progress on their crystal radios.