A Fun Friday Night with the Nissleys :)

Playing outside...

Looks like the competition was fierce!

Another game they enjoyed a lot.

And one of the reasons for our visit... going to the workshop to check on Caleb's progress...

The band saw :)  Caleb needed to use this to make cuts for a project he's working on.

Intent, isn't he?

And what is everyone else doing while Caleb works?

Lessons from Grandpa

Oohhh... looky at the pretty colors...

What have we here?

LOL!  Playing with magnets, I think.

And what is this?  A wooden circle mounted to a bicycle rim.  It's a spinnable screw holder!  How clever!!

Caleb's miniature duck decoys!  The basic cuts are done and now's he's finishing them up.  :)

We had such a great time.  Burgers and hot dogs on the grill and lots of good visiting all around.  God has richly blessed us :)

Fire Dog Day 08

Five years ago we decided to create a new family tradition, our very own holiday... we call it Fire Dog Day (because when we had our first holiday Elijah was little and called hot dogs 'fire dogs' because they are cooked on a fire). Our Fire Dog Day consists of a bonfire with roasted hotdogs, s'mores and sometimes a new family game or movie. This year we were blessed to have our 'adopted' parents over for the evening, Mr. Lonnie & Miss Alma.

Visiting while Tony manned the grill. It rained :-( so no bonfire this year.
Joseph snuggling with Grandpa.
Snuggling with Molly.

Grandpa Lonnie with some of the boys.

Grandpa with "his" baby!

Gathered around the table.

Nehemiah snoozed through supper.

Grammy Alma enjoying S'mores with Luke and Elijah.

Aren't his eyes just dreamy... :-)

We had a really great Fire Dog Day 08! Won't you plan to join us November 13, 2009 for our next one?