1st racoon we skinned !! Dad was at work so boys and I attempted!

 Creath cousins during trick or treat!

The Army Man and sniper for halloween

november

So November flew by in a wink and well we have been busy as normal with basketball 4 nights a week...  519 Christmas wreaths made, 20 some cows hand bred by Brandon and his awesome helpers... !   Brandon also got a nice trophy with his bow.  Tayden turned 11 on the 14 and trapping was fun but short lived due to the price if hides:(  here are some picture to enjoy and hope to have more than one post on December! :)

 I squished 120 wreaths in my car on Friday;)

 The big ones we love! Mixed greens and beautiful

 We got 2 muskrat this morning !!

 Tayden Bish is 11-  he is happy, ornery, fun, most of the time loving!  He is all boy and love outdoors, rabbit hunting with his beagles and animals in general!! School is challenging but we will get through it...he is playing basketball, baseball a d flag football for now!

Brandon shot a 170 inch deer with his bow!

Chuck Utt reunion

 We had a family reunion at the cabin for Grandma Martha "chuck"  She still enjoys us all and does very well to attend and be a part of all things!! She was at the flag football game this am at 9:30, to watch 3 great grandsons play ball!  She probably then got as much done in her saturday as I did and will be up before sunset in morning!  We love her dearly and hope she stays spry!  These are the 9 grandchildren, the 3 children picture i missed sorry!

 The 9 grandchildren have created these 16 great grandchildren so far, and the 2 youngest grandsons haven't gotten hitched or reproduced yet!

These are the 10 first cousins on the Utt side!   Grandma Suzy and Papa Gary call these their grandchildren!!!  In this picture the oldest is in the top row black sweatshirt and youngest is in the bottom right blue sweatshirt.  13- 4 and the ones in between are in between in ages!!

Cows

 we had the first experience with a c section on a cow last weekend also! It was not a banner day at the Bish homefront!!!:(  Good news, we are all still alive and kicking except the calf sure didn't make it he was too big!

Dr. Rasmussen was preparing this wonderful 4 legged animal for a c - section right here in the chute in our barn lot.  He did get it accomplished and the cow is still going strong for now!

Show time

 We have another show and first 2015 fall show under our belt.  Tayden did a great job with Jackie and she is fairly calm.

He is the master showman, who is going to remember his comb, everytime in the ring, even when dad takes it out!!  He didn't win his showman ship class because his comb wasn't in back pocket.

Football

The boys are on the same flag football team and their first game was Saturday!  They won!!  Not sure why it is black and white, but kind of fun! 

Homecoming Week

 Homecoming was last week and the boys dressed up to support the Mustangs everyday! Tucker is still in elementary so they did colors.  This was "black" day!

Tayden wore farm clothes on the dress what you want in the future day!  He looks pretty normal and told me he wanted to be a cattle man!  Oh man, we have another generation farmer, "maybe?"  He could change his mind a few times!!!

Deer Hunting

 Tucker shot a 12 point buck last weekend the first day of youth deer season!  It was fun to go and he was pumped when they tracked it Sunday morning.  I was at a golf tournament but the boys had a blast!

Tayden and I went also on Saturday, but we weren't as successful!  Here is the big boy pretty much on his own mom just goes to supervise

Teeth

Teeth are obviously our journey this month or the next few months/years whatever it takes.  So most kids loose their teeth one by one or two by two and they go under pillow and tooth fairy arrives and new teeth grow in and it is growing/getting older and part of life.  Well not Tucker, he had help today from Dr. Vannucci and the oral surgery team!  He however has 8 pearly whites to put under his bed tonight!:)  Hope the tooth fairy remembers him!

 His mouth full of teeth today as we pulled into the office!

 The picture before we left for home!

They stopped bleeding and they are gone!! What do you think is Tucker now resemble a jack-o-lantern!?  He is resting now on the couch and luckily had 2 replacements in the bottom!  So Tayden got braces off, Tucker got teeth pulled and they both go back to orthodontist on October 1!!!

Hank and Haas

 Meet Hank (brown) and Haas (black and white)  new dogs!!! (please don't be offended by the dog house inside the kennel, and yes it is no longer there!  boys are creative)  6 weeks ago Tayden begged grandpa Dickie to breed his mountain fiest female to a male he liked, and well they did!  We were to get one puppy and Tayden picked out the brown one!

 I was overruled shortly after by grandpa and we now have 2!!  Tucker picked Haas who already had a name !

Tayden named his Hank and so we now have to whining puppies at 5:30 am.  They are not inside dogs however they are home on the entry way now!

Phase 1 Braces removed

 Tayden started the journey of braces about a year ago.  He needed phase 1 to help with an under bite and to pull the front teeth together to prepare for more. 

We have ended phase 1 for now.... He has a retainer to wear all the time, and some pieces on the backside to try to prevent those 4 from moving.  We will see when all teeth come in what our next adventure is!!

1st Day of School!

 The first day of school is today!~  Tayden is a middle school aged boy, the big 5th grade and he is excited, nervous, scared, and well truthfully he said "ah man school starts today?  I don't want to go!"
Tucker is a 3rd grader and he got up dressed and said, "I am ready for school and can't wait to go to Mrs. Lindbergs class!!"  Hope the best for the year and it is fun to see a new fresh start!!!

 Way to please your mother Tucker!

The brace came off Thursday the 20th and found out yesterday the braces are coming off next week! Whoo Hooo!!!!!

we hope!!!

Yes I figured out how to upload photo off of kindle!!!we are waiting on dr. To see if brace gets to come off?

Week of family time!?

So Tayden has wanted some coon hounds, or beagles so he can rabbit hunt, or take a dog and go hunting by himself.    We found some beagles and he purchased one with the money from the fair....  it can't burn a hole in his pocket!!!  Welcome in the dog world Ms. Kitty and puppy Rachet!!

 We have had some quality family time in the truck to retrieve both dogs and we are hoping they will run a beagle..  Have hunted some however not the best yet?  New hobby here we come!

Rachet is a 4 month old puppy and he is cute, however I have been warned not to baby him, he is not a lap dog he is a rabbit dog!

We also sheared the sheep last week and great job Tucker for stomping the wool.  A little heritage for those of you that don't know our family... Grandpa Harold was a sheep shearer and everytime we shear we think about wow.... he did that for living it is hard work!

July 2015

So we have had a successful fair with the help of friends to show and family to help with animals to get them there!  However July wasn't our best month.  We began with Tayden and the accident, then we made it through the fair with only a few mental melt downs!  The Tuesday after the fair Tayden woke up and ran into the bedroom.  The dog of 5 years had been hit by a car and was in the driveway.  He said, " Dad Casey is dead!"  after a what?  Are you sure I got up and looked, sure enough!  We also lost Brandon's grandpa who married his grandma 21 years ago!  We were glad to see August and hope the doctor appointment next week, beginning of the school years, and the ending of summer treat us a little better!!! We spent yesterday getting a new hobby...  we have a beagle for rabbit hunting!

D.C Fair 2015

 Tayden did monster cookies, container garden, and green beans for the 4-H building this year!! He recieved 2 purples and a blue and also the Horticulture Award!!!

 Kaylee Snyder was a very helpful friend/4-Her/ person and offered to show all 6 lambs Thursday night at the sheep show!! She did a great job worked hard sweated a lot and we again are very thankful that she offered to help!!

 Tucker showed his bottle calf Zoe on Thursday night and won the 2nd grade class!!! Way to go Tucker

 On Wednesday they dress their calf up for the costume parade and Tucker loves Despicable Me, therefore we dressed him up as a minion!

Tucker also helped with the lambs at home daily, the walked them and we walked them and we (tucker and I) did most of it toward the end because the 4-H er is out of commission!  Thanks Tucker for the awesome help and thanks for working your tail off to be helpful!

On Friday it is the calf show and Tayden has showed Nancy and washed her, and combed her, and worked with her 2 times a day for along time.  He loves her and it might have been the biggest struggle that he didn't get to show her!  Thanks Justin for showing her and Tayden will be eager for next year!!  He also showed his cow/calf  77 and her calf and he got 3rd with them!!

July 3 & 4 pictures

 This was first picture in the doctor office after a little pain medicine via shot in leg.

To this momma, this is the most scary/overwhelming/ wow he is hurt---  picture of the entire accident!! Poor kid!

 Saturday morning after a bath and brushing of the teeth!!!

 We get to go home, but Tayden spent his 4th of July in Des Moines and he is 10!!!

The proud parents to be leaving with only a brace after all the scary 24 hours we had!! We love you bug and hope you realize how lucky you are!

July 3, 2015....continued

So... we take the ambulance to Des Moines Mercy Hospital and at this time it is 7 pm.  Tayden or myself had nothing to eat or drink and didn't see any end in site and that was the least of my worry!  Tayden was a trooper in the ambulance and didn't say anything until he said " is that us"  we heard sirens in Des Moines when we were traveling.  They pulled up to the shed and wheeled him into Trauma E.R. room 3 and man that was amazing they did all new tests records and all.  Dr. McCleron was the trauma doctor and he checked him out and said, Mom...."he has 2 broken vertebrae that should heal fine, he is healthy and young, he has a small hole in his lung that will probably be healed by morning.  no surgery is needed!"  I sighed relief and asked the nurse what the next step was and they said you will be moved to a room upstair on the 3rd floor and we will continue to monitor him!  about 9:30 Brandon, Nikki, and Ash and Jordan came into visit us in the E.R.  I was relieved to have support or at least someone else to listen to the details and directions.  We then waited about an hour and we were wheeled upstairs to his room.  Brandon and I went after McDonalds and grandma nikki stayed with Tayden.  We ate, brandon and I showered (he worked all day until the phone call that we were headed in the ambulance-  record timing to go home chore, get clothes and be in Des Moines at 9:30)  Tayden rested and we laid down to rest until about 5 am.  they did x ray of chest and hole was gone lung was healthy.  The spine doctor- Dr. Gachinani came in and checked his neck, tightened his brace told us 6 weeks of this and he will see us again.  The nurse pushed and used her magic to get us released first so we left the hospital around 2:00 to come home!!! July 4, 2015 Tayden was dismissed from Mercy Medical Hospital in a neck brace with a few scratches!!! What a lucky boy/family we are !

July 3, 2015

The boys did swimming lessons for 2 weeks this summer and Tayden had several fair projects.  A breeding heifer, 3 market lambs, 3 breeding ewes, a cow/calf pair, and some projects in the 4-H building.  We have worked on them hard and daily since summer school was out the 12 of June.  He is all boy and loves to be outside.  Tucker, Tayden and I would get up, chore and start our daily routine, well the 2 weeks of summer school we had to be left by 7:15 or 7:45!  thanks to aunt Lindsay our mornings were a little later some days.  We also had the smith girls as helpers in the morning and then transported them to swimming lessons and back to Denny's!!! 
July 3 was the last day and we had a little work to do before going to the pool with Aunt Lindsay and kiddos!  I was trying to finish 20 minutes of brush cutting and take the tractor back to dad!  I get started and about 5 minutes into the task both kids are running over the hill at me waving their arms!  I didn't panic instead though, "they are stuck/" great now what? 
WRONG
Tayden climbs the tractor steps as I am shutting it off to hear the problem and he starts in "I flipped the ranger and it is on its side, i am ok, but the ranger is going to be hurt, i will pay for it mom i am so sorry!  Mom I am sorry and hurt and oh my neck hurts a little and mommy what are we going to do and hugging me and mommy i am sorry and....  I calm him and ask Tucker if he is okay and he says yep but now what?  I calming say....we need to walk to the Ranger and see what happened.  I call my mom and dad because I know they are home and tell them the situation and ask for them to come help.  They show up and we get to the ranger, the neighbor has seen the ranger and called Brandon, well Brandon called me... he knew what was going on and knew kids were on ranger. 
Mom, Dad, neighbor and I flip the ranger back over and decide whether Tayden is hurt or not a few scrapes, scratches and says his neck hurts..... so at 1:00 we go to the doctor and drop Tucker off at the pool thinking we will be done about 2:00 and will pick him up.  WRONG... a CT scan at 4:30 shows a broken C6, and C7 in his vertebrae and a punctured lung!  We decide on Des Moines and we rode in the ambulance about 7:30 to Des Moines.    

Happy Father's Day

 Happy Father's Day to Poppa of this house!! He has changed jobs and is working some nights so we will have to celebrate tomorrow or Tuesday when he isn't working or sleeping!!!  Happy Father's day to all the dads!!  By the way these are some old pictures so enjoy!!