January 2, 2011
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Chores & Christmas
This is going to be a quick post. I loaded the pics a couple days ago and there they sat. Now I have more to post, so these are going up quick!
Our neighbors, Jonas & Emma B. were going to Ill. for Christmas and were going to be gone about 6 days. They asked our kids to do the chores for them while they were gone. I went with them the first day....
Walking through the woods to their house...
Getting feed mixed up...
This day, the goats were not around so they were able to fill their troughs with no interruptions. If the goats were nearby, they would be very eager to get the food and about knock them over!!
Calling the goats and here they come....single file!
Mmm, yum!
Collecting chicken eggs...
Feeding the catfish...
Put feed out for the turkey's and deer too.
Christmas Eve we opened the gifts that were sent down from the Henry family...
Aunt Esther gave this to Tamara. She was thrilled!!
She also gave each of us a souvenir from her mission trip to Alaska this past year. Tamara got a little trinket box, the guys got knives and I got a purse holder.
Christmas Eve supper....we had pizza!
On of the perks for the kids doing Jonas' chores, was he allowed them to use his Gator to run back and forth. Christmas morning we all went over and took the long way over to look for deer.
~CHRISTmas Day~
Tamara chose her BIG gift first. She was sure it was a scooter....
But it was luggage!!
She was still happy!!
A headlamp for Danny for upcoming camping trips!
Gifts from Dan's mom...hand soap for me, a calendar for Dan.
Jonathan Park CD's...
Books....
A remote control flying saucer....most of these gifts I bought at the Homeschool convention in May. Was nice to have stuff on hand!
Danny's "file cabinet" that he wanted to organize the papers in his room....and he did great at cleaning it all up!! **Happy Me**
Littlest Pet Shop set...
Lego's
Dan bought me a new deep fryer on Black Friday since we think the other one's thermostat went bad. The oil kept wanting to boil over....NOT good!!
Yup, that's us! Christmas Day~
Danny didn't waste any time putting his new Lego set together!!
And we had to try out the deep fryer....made french fries and also fried the turkey for lunch!!
They were SO good!!
My new deep fryer is much nicer than my old one...which I got about 10 years ago! 
A little electrical kit we gave Danny. You can do different experiments with it...
Tamara with her pillow pet....
On Monday Danny and I did the chores by ourselves. It was a COLD day and windy!!
Yup, I trusted him to drive! He did a great job!
Comments (1)
Doing the neighbors chores reminded me of a time years ago when my girls fed our neighbors animals and watered their many plants in their greenhouse when they were away. That job included feeding the peacocks, trying to give a dog medicine pill in a hot dog, and feeding the snake mice. They didn't like the job, but the pay was sweet!