I forgot to do a picture of the cake I made for Sierra's birthday.  She wanted a blue cat, so I winged it.  The ears were fun to make.  I melted some almond bark and formed the ears and chilled them.  That was a fun experience.

Sierra also enjoyed watching a movie of grandma's about a sled dog team. Kayla, was the name of the movie.  So being the child that she is...she wanted one also  So our dog became an experiment...

She was not at all unhappy with the situation.

 Sierra would "harness" the dog and then tie two ropes on her collar. To these ropes, one would be attached to the little red wagon and the other one would be the lead rope.  Sierra would lead the dog all around the yard and then tie her up.  The dog just sat there.  It was kind of humorous!

So since I am showing dogs, I thought I would throw in two more pictures of a neighbors dog that Kari would really like to have.  He is just a big ole teddy bear. He loves attention, but when he leans on you....you better be braced for it.

I would hate to overwhelm you.  So I will stop right there for now.  Maybe next time, I won't wait for 2 1/2 months before I post again.

While Kenley was at Halsey with Kevin at the Nebraska Bow Hunters Association  Jamboree,  Sierra and I took a trip to the Joeder farm.  One of Sierra's favorite things is sitting on Clem.  She thinks he is so cute.  So Kari helped up get Clem for the kiddos.

Of course, daddy could not be out done when he showed up.  I think he enjoys Clem also.

I am not for sure what Clem thought of all those kids.  As you can tell, Debi was up also.  I think all the kids got to sit on him.

So I am trying to figure out this  picture thing, so hang in there with me.

I was going to say short and sweet, but that would not be true.  As door monitor at the speeches,  I got to hear all of the 5th grade speeches.  Then I listened to Caleb's  and two more 8th graders speeches.  I picked up the last of the 6th grade speeches also.  We had one boy that was so frustrated that he forgot his speech that he would say 1/2 a paragraph and then his chin would start quivering and his voice would crack and he would go blank.  I felt so sorry for him.  I prayed that he would remember his speech and continue.  He remembered little by little but we had a lot of those breaks in there where he was so frustrated.  It made an emotional crowd.   Afterwards he was so embarassed, that he left and cried.  I felt so bad for him.  He did finish,  so I have to give the kids a lot of credit.  It would have been easier for him to quit but he kept at it and finished.  He got the biggest round of clapping, which I was glad for.

They take the top three from each class and then they have to do the finals.  Caleb and Kevin both made it into the finals.  Caleb has a very good voice for that kind of thing and was loving the 'being in front of everybody' thing.  He even added lib.  He didn't get that from me.   Kevin did good too.  He said that he did get a little nervous when he did the finals, but he did not get nervous when he gave it in the little classroom.  Where ever in the world did they get their love of being in front of people? 

It is snowing now, with the chance of up to 14 inches.  Wind is blowing, even down in our little valley, so I have no idea what it is doing on the flat up top.  It could get interesting around here.