Well we survived the Holidays!  Had a terrible time in Hawaii over Christmas…. the sun and sand where just horrible!  Now it’s back to the grindstone, even though it’s February, it sure feels like spring has sprung.

Here are a few photos of the best moments of:

2014

 Betsy and Ranger sun bathing in the warm January sun.

Chip, our nephew Brayden (6) and Roy doing the morning chores.

We saw a wolf by my Sister’s house 15 miles East of Othello! What!!!!!!

Chip said that if we were going to have a garden, he wanted to farm it with a tractor.  This was the last time a tractor entered the garden all year…..

We milked my sister’s milk goat for a week while she was gone…… Betsy is a huge fan of goat’s milk.

Notice my sister’s milking equipment?

My Dad grew a beautiful field of sunflowers for oil seed.

Honey bees at work.  Sunflower honey is delicous! For Chip’s 29th birthday, I made him an apple pie.  First one ever!  Chip married me for my looks, not for my cooking or baking skills

Went on a quick road trip before harvest.  Always wanted to go to a drive-thru wildlife park.  Found one in Rexburg ID.

Almost watched someone get mauled by a bear!  But it turns out, they’re pretty good buddies.Craters of the Moon in Idaho was AMAZING!TWINS! Chip was on babysitting detail for a few minutes while these boys  guzzle down their goat’s milk (don’t get any big ideas – they are my nephews.)

Apple Harvest.   2014 was a record apple harvest for Washington State.  Look at these beautiful Galas.Grape harvest 2014.  Last truck of the year.  Thanks for all your hard work guys!My sister, Sandee with one of the twins, Jace.  She’s an amazing woman!  Jace and Wade (1.5) helping pick Semillon.  One of their faves.One of my favorite pictures.  His brother, Wade, is in the tractor disking with my Dad, and Jace isn’t about to miss his turn.

What a ham.

Our nephew, Jack (5) giving Uncle Chip a ride.Swathing Buckwheat.

You know you live in a small town when you can drive your tractor into town and though a round-a-bout.  Don’t mind me!

Made some apple cider with my good friend Alexis and her family.Had a ping-pong tournament in the shop for Thanksgiving. I made my my niece, Alex (9) a belt for Christmas.  She has been rodeoing non-stop in North Dakota.  Anything from barrel racing to goat tying, she can do it!

I attached her Great-Grandma’s belt buckle from Arizona.

This is why women live longer than men. Didn’t we just have a safety meeting?Christmas 2014!  We had a couple of good friends invite us to Hawaii with them! Did some 65 ft cliff diving.  I landed wrong and bruised my rear-end black and blue the third day of our trip.

Our good friends, Courtney and Lauryn Hirai.  Thanks for putting up with us guys!

Pearl Harbor was incredible.  If you haven’t read the book “Unbroken” yet, or at least seen the movie, it’s a must.  One of the MOST amazing stories of Louis Zamperini and his experience in WWII.