Target practice at Christmas......

Sat. morning the boys went clay pigeon shooting. Us girls decided to go along. We thought that they would just shoot a few clay pigeons, right? WRONG!!!!!!! There was fifty rounds for everyone and their was about 8 people shooting! It was really cold out so Uncle Jonathan brought down the van so us girls could sit in it and watch.

Waiting at Aunt Glenna's house.
At the target place, Glen and Jonathan H. sitting together.
The first shooting stand.

The guy who would throw the clay pigeon.

Uncle Galen ended up hitting the most clay pigeons.

Glen and his girlfriend, Bethany.


Thankfully the van gave us a little shelter from the cold!
Kaitlyn wasn't feeling good, so she laid down in the van.

Hannah, Elizabeth, and Kaitlyn watching.

Dead Deer Update

People have been emailing, wondering if we were able to continue on our trip to Florida after our deer kill. The deer did 3,000.00 in damage, including ruining the radiator, making the van unable to be driven. The collision place said that it would take 2 weeks to fix, but we were able to borrow a van to continue on our way, and we are in Florida at our grandparents, and will be in Hobe Sound all of next week.

Preparation for the family Christmas get together...

Sat. was the family reunion, so we went to help get it set up Fri. night.

Uncle Jonathan dropped some of us older kids off at the church because some were getting car sick. While we were there, the assistant pastor came and let us in. We got this bright idea. When Uncle Jonathan and the rest would return, we would be inside with the lights off so it would look like something had happened to us. So we waited till the pastor left, then turned off the light and talked till the rest came. When they pulled up, we tried to hide; but unfortunately they saw Jonathan's head. It didn't end up working how we wanted it to.


We are laughing at something funny the assistant pastor said.
Waiting till the pastor left before we turned off the lights.
Sitting on the stairs chit-chatting
We occupied ourselves by playing games.

Hannah and Aunt Karen putting pictures on the wall
Look who is not working!!!:)
Caleb David

Random pictures of Friday......

Elizabeth and Jonathan arm wrestling
The neighbor kids came over a little, and played with the little Kline kids.
Our sweet Aunt Karen




Hannah and I at an auction



Elizabeth and Jonathan working in the kitchen

Playing Skip-o
Grandpa eating his "Yuckert" ice ream! ( It is the name the Kline's gave to grandpa's frozen yogurt. They combined the word yuck and yogurt)






I think this is such a funny picture!! To me it looks like the classic gossipers:)

The cousin Pyramid

Jonathan's great talent...

Jonathan surprised us by playing his mandolin behind his head!!!

Shopping with Aunt Karen....

While we were at the park, Aunt Karen came and picked us girls up to go shopping. We had a fun time!

Fun at the playground....

Near our grandparents place, there is a park. To give the moms a break, Uncle Jonathan and Daddy took us kids to the playground. We had a blast!



My wonderful twin cousin!!!
Daddy pushing Sarah in the swing.

Uncle Jonathan with the 2 youngest
On the way to the park
The kids having a great time spinning!
Our wonderful Uncle


The twins chasing Jonathan Jr. (can you guess who won:)

Friday with our cousins....

We had a delightful time with our cousins ! Their were 17 people staying in one house which made for a very cramped house!! Especially with most of the population of kids!!!!!!


Elizabeth, Jonathan,Evangeline, Christopher


Matthew was the cutest thing you ever could imagine!!!!







Sarah Rose
Jonathan being a kind older brother
Evangeline trying to play the mandolin:)




Cute little Caleb

Arriving at our grandparents...........

This year was the Hostetter get together. The Kline's came up to PA and we went down to PA.










Our sweet Kaitlyn found out on the way up, that she has sugar diabetes.She was very brave when she had to get the shots!!! We all felt really bad for her, because the rest of us would be eating ice cream, and she couldn't have any! She handled the situation very well!!!
Heidi in action!
Most of us kid stayed on the 3rd floor. All of us 7 girls slept in one room! It made quite cramped conditions!!!

Some of the time our other cousin Danielle came over (the one in the green shirt).

Sarah had fallen down between two of the beds.

Daddy got his 1st deer......

This past Thursday, our family left to go down to our grandparents in PA. We were having a peaceful ride on the side of a steep incline, when all of a sudden, from the side of the cliff, a deer leaped right in front of our van! Usually you miss animals by a little bit. Not this time!! It hit smack in the front of the van. Thankfully it didn't hit the windshield, but it smashed the radiator. I was sitting up front when all of a sudden I saw this brown thing fling at us. I thought it wouldn't hit us, but then it crashed. All I could distinctly see were the hoofs flying up. We were going about 65 miles per hour. We could hear it crunch under our van. When we pulled off the road, and another car stopped and checked if we were alright. Thankfully, we were okay!!!! I thought our van was fine till I got out and saw the front smashed.. We had to wait till the tow truck came, then we had to go back to the garage to change drivers, because we were about 80 miles away from our grandparents.



The police car that came to help us.
The back of our van, with the flairs
Elizabeth, Evangeline, Me, and Mommy.
Daddy was freaking out, but I thought it was an adventure.

Our van on the truck.