Our Family Garden

Pumpkin!

"Best" Summer Memories

Dakota and me at Youth HRC Camp

Dylan turned 10!!

Stocking our pond with fish:)

Meeting my favorite music artist Francessca

Dylan's Field Day

Dylan got 3rd place in 1 mile run! We are very proud of you

Also, he is got 3rd place in the mile relay!

Drake vs. baseball bat

Bat won!

Friday night, the boys were playing a game with some friends at the baseball field. Next thing we know Drake was inline with the swing from a bat! Knocked his top permanent teeth loose and bruised up his gums. Poor guy! This picture was taken the next morning and it looked alot better, believe it or not!

Drake's Field Trip

Alligator!!

Snake!!

Turtle!!

and friends!!

Perfect day for boys!

For all you busy moms out there!

I just had to share, I found a new site by surfing my other friends blogs:) This blog was made by a lady that made a new years resolution to use her Crockpot everyday for a year in 2008 and she did it! You can find her recipes at http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/ There is every possible recipe you can images...even making yogurt! Now, that is amazing! Just thought I would share:) Just go to the left side on the blog and you will find them categorized for you:) Have fun!!

Camping with Friends

Dakota loves to fish!!

Dylan and Drake

All the kids making memories:)

What a relaxing weekend:) Much needed!

Baseball Season is in full swing!

Assistant Coach "Daddy" helping Drake get his catching gear on!

Dakota fixing to steal 2nd!

Big hit!!

Drake loves to be the catcher:) He loves to have all the gear on!

I will post pics of Dylan as soon as he has a game that is not rained out!

What a Beautiful Day!

Shade and Claire got to browse around all the property today, they met the neighbors horses:)

Grandpa and his 3 best boys :)

Drake doing what he does best....getting dirty!

Tonight, we had some of Rody's amazing steaks right off the grill! He is such a great cook! We even sat outside and had a picnic! What a great day!

Announcing....Levi James Best

Proud Parents!

Welcome Levi to the Best Family!
Oh, all the adventures that my boys will take you on!!

Aunt Kristin and Uncle Rody

Isn't this so cute! All it is missing is baby Aaron and we would have all 5 best boys!

As you can see, I am in alot of the pics. I just couldn't put him down. There is nothing like holding a newborn best baby!

We got to go up on Sunday night and meet the newest best boy! He is so precious! I just couldn't put him down! He has the most perfect little features and the cutest facial expressions! Rody had to drag me out of the room!!

Please Vote for Rody and Buzz!!!

The Super Retriever Series is hosting a "Wild Card" vote so anyone can to go online and vote for your favorite Handler and dog to go to the Crown Championship this summer. This is like getting an invitation to the Olympics for dogs! If they win, we have a great chance at winning $50,000 in cash and prizes!!! Please take a few minutes and go online and vote.

Please feel free to forward this one to anyone you want- co-workers, friends, family...the more the better!

Best Retrievers and family are thanking you in advance for taking the time to do this for us!

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Thanks!
Rody and Kristin (and Buzz!!!)

Team Mario Cart Driving

Talk about team effort! We just got the Wii game Mario Cart and Drake and Jordan are taking this game on head to head:) Jordan is one of our neighbors, but we have grown to really enjoy him around and feel like has become part of our family . The boys even call him Uncle Bob!

Building of the "Best" Clubhouse

New Best Retrievers Blog

Just wanted to let all of you know that we have started a blog for Best Retrievers @ www.bestretrievers.blogspot.com. We have a post up of 13 day old yellow lab puppies:)

Our Gold Medalist

Dylan worked really hard over the passed couple of months on his "Life on the Ranch" art project! It paid off! He got called into the art room today and they announced that he got the Gold medal for the best picture in the Giddings Elementary school at the Houston Livestock and Rodeo show! He won tickets to go the the show and Rodeo. We will be heading there March 7th for the awards ceremony. His art teacher said that they will roll out the red carpet from him. We are very, very proud of him!!

The true reason for the season....

The video below is a song that just hit home to me. Just a fresh reminder of what an awesome God we have! Merry CHRISTmas!

By Your Side - Tenth Avenue North

Oh deer, oh deer, oh deer?...what a weekend!

Dakota with daddy and his 1st doe!

Dylan with daddy and his 1st doe!

8 point buck and all the boys...it was a team hunt!

Best boys and the 8 point buck!

This past weekend we went to the deer lease to get a break from life:) and Rich was there with his 2 boys Coby and Landry. The boys hit it off and played together all weekend! On Saturday afternoon Rich and his boys were headed out from camp to go the there deer stand. Rody headed into the camper to get ready to go out to and Rich calls him on his phone? He answers and Rich says "grab your rifle there is a big buck here in the field next to the campsite. If I get out and get my gun he will run away!" So Rody jumps up and grabs his gun and heads that way. He gets over there and he sees it but is hesitant because he feels guilty shooting it since Rich found it. So he looks at Rich and he motions to shoot! So Rody aimed and pulled the trigger! Down he went and all the boys got to be part of it! They all were so pumped up they could hardly contain themselves:) The next morning Rody, Dakota and Dylan headed to the "hilton" deer stand whiled Drake and I stayed in bed:) Rody had told Dakota that since he was the oldest that he would get to shoot 1st and then he told Dylan if anymore come in that he will get his chance. Well, they were hanging out in the stand and Rody happens to look out the side window and sees 8 doe come out from the thicket. He helps Dakota get the rifle ready and told him to pick one. Dakota aims and fires, hits her! She drops right there! Then, Rody notices that the others do not leave? They just hang around like nothing happened. So he get the gun and hands it to Dylan he aims pulls the trigger, NOTHING! Dakota forgot to reload. So they reloaded and the does were still there. So Dylan pulls the gun up, aims and fires! She took off running but the boys thought that he had hit her. So they ran out there and check out Dakota's deer. Dylan started searching for blood and found one drop on a leaf (all that arrowhead hunting has paid off!) so an hour later after they scared her up a couple times, they got a 2nd shot and she went down! By this time Drake and I are up and helping search so it was an awesome family memory!

Priceless Memories.....

My family had the honor of having my grandpa dear come and visit from Kansas. I know that it was hard for him to make the drive to come here and see us, but none the less he felt that is was important to come and see our lives here:) What an Honor!! He got here on a Saturday afternoon and we showed him around the property. He was really impress with the place and all the work that we had done. I loved watching him walk around looking at the soil, the plants and all the terrain. He loves to take walks enjoying what God has created. He has lived on the same wheat farm his entire life. My grandparents took over the farm from his family many years ago and has harvested wheat up until he retired a few years ago. My grandpa has always been a man that I respected and honored his choices in life. My grandpa is the one that always said the prayer at every meal and truly has tried to live his life according to God's will. I know that His time left here is short and to know that he spend a little bit of it with us is priceless.

The rest of the halloween pics

Happy Birthday Nate!

Trick or treating at Drake's teacher Mrs. Morgan's house...

One more pic of the chipmunks :)