Craziness at the Hoch Ranch...

This one's for you, Jason! :)

How many hillbillies can pile onto one sled?!?!?!

The lovely PA roadways...Township work at its finest...

We love you too Connie!

Are you serious?!

That's right Steve...Take advice from the man on crutches...

"I'm telling ya, the Steelers are too the best team!"

Hello Penny!

The great thinker...

The three hats...

Whatever....

How crazy is that!?!?

I'm ready to go where the flowers aren't covered in snow....

snow buddies...

Look at what we woke up to today!

Stay warm everyone!

Timberwind....Here we come...

Can't you almost taste it, Jason????

The rainbow after the storm...

After it rained the entire game, on the way out of the stadium, this is what we saw...needless to say the sun came out and the weather turned nice as soon as the game was over... :)

We are....Penn State!

Brady and I had great seats...3 rows up from the field!

Brady's first Penn State game....Go Penn State!

Holden's disguise for Tom Turkey!

Holden's assignment:

Help me! Help me! I was recently informed that Thanksgiving is only three weeks away. Well, since I am a turkey you can understand that I am in BIG trouble. Everybody likes to eat turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, including my owner, Mr. Farmer. I really need you to disguise me so that on Thanksgiving morning, Mr. Farmer won't be able to recognize me. My tail feathers are shaking. I am so scared. PLEASE HELP ME! I know you can come up with a great disguise for me to wear. Thank you for your help.

Gobble-Gobble (that means sincerly yours in turkey talk)

Tom Turkey

I thought this was cute and this is what we came up with...Holden is quite talented with a paintbrush! :)

Brady is Mario!

Look at this Mario man!

Odds and ends...

The new "art" in our entryway... Holden, the grim reaper...oooohh scary!

Brady dressed as Alex Rodriguez holding Alex the puppy...

Aren't they both adorable???

Puppies...puppies...puppies!

This is Ainsley...

This is an outside pic of Mollie

Mollie...

Mollie and Max

Alex and Maggie

Mollie, Ainsley, Alex, and Max eating...

Look what Steve made for his boys...:)

Brady and Holden have been wanting to kick field goals, so....Steve used some old broom sticks and other odds and ends to make a goal...spoiled children....:)

Happy Birthday to Grandma!

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Love Brady and Holden...

Home 4 Sale...

So, in an effort to build our dream house, we have finally decided to put our house on the market...If anyone is interested, please let us know! ;)

So many projects...

Shutter painting project---check! (Kudos go to Steve's parents) :) So give me your opinions...the good, the bad, and the ugly! I can take it! :) I'm tough!

Brady's room makeover...

Brady's been wanting to get rid of the "trucks" bedroom, so I gave him 3 choices of colors for his walls...and this is what we came up with. It looks like he needs a new nightstand now...that one still has trucks on it -- also I think it's time to set the singing Winnie the Pooh free from the headboard of his bed. He's been hanging there since he got that bed when he was 2 years old! :)

There goes Steve...on his way to Texas...

Steve is going to Texas to help his co-workers at Sunoco who lost their homes during hurricane Ike. He is driving an RV down so they have a place to live and then he'll be flying right home...

FINALLY...Maggie had her puppies---two boys, two girls!

The boys wanted to take pics of the pups to take to school, so I took some of them with the puppies and they took the following of the puppies all by themselves...quite the photographers! :)

Guess where we stopped on the way to Gram's house???

If it's not so obvious to everyone...It's Punxy Phil! :) We were driving through on the way to Gram's from Tim's on Labor Day so we stopped to take a peek at some sleeping ground hogs--how glamorous! This little town sure does take advantage of the publicity, though...there's even a little painted up groundhog outside the McDonald's, which gave us a good laugh! :)