raw meat anyone?

Johan made almost an entire deer into venison BILTONG...
a.k.a hanging raw slabs of deer meat that has been soaked overnight in vinegar, salt and spices up in a warm dry room which results in a South African jerky "biltong"

this is how our front porch looked for a couple weeks during deer hunting....

it did not smell very nice (bloody meat smell is not the best way to attract a buyer) :-0

my babies

are not babies anymore :(

the kids had a blast playing in the
foot deep leaves in the backyard!

MONOTONY?

nope, not here. will there ever be an end to

Adon's daily fort-building..
finding dirty mismatched socks under & behind every crevice no matter how many times I pick them up..
Zian's continual singing under her breath while she does whatever work she is "supposed" to be doing...
Jonah's letting you think he will sleep through the night this time but surprising you with an 'ALL-NIGHTER'...
food stuck on the newly cleaned dishes when you open the dishwasher because someone "forgot" to rinse their plate yet again...
needing the 1 ingredient that you're out of right in the middle of a recipe..
wiping sticky hands 10 times a day and wondering how in the world they always seem to get sticky again just 5 minutes after..
that growing stack of mail that nobody wants to deal with..
the endless piles of laundry waiting for me the second I think I'm "done" for the day...

9 weeks already...

our cute little Jonah is growing so fast

Scruffy men at work

What the men do when they're not hunting....Wii
(and apparently NOT showering or shaving) ;)

swapping some good stories

The bucks the Men shot

Our annual Nelson Thanksgiving was this past weekend up in Hinkley and the men stayed at the cabin while the women decided to stay home with the kids until Sunday. Then we all met together for the FABULOUS Thanksgiving meal Sunday afternoon to talk about who shot what, homeschooling, and everybody's health (etc.)

This was a proud moment for Seth and Johan
(although bigger bucks were shot last year).



They did a great job and we are very thankful for the meat (which usually feeds us until next hunting season)!

Also, we got an extra doe this year so that Johan could make one ENTIRE deer into BILTONG...which Zian is very excited about since it's her favorite snck of all time :)