Let's Color Some Easter Eggs !!!!

Looks like a happy bunch, dosen't it??

Coconut Cake

Easter is not complete until you have had a piece
of the traditional Sikes/Smith family Coconut Cake.
The recipe includes Seven-minute Icing and
was passed down to Susan from her Granny Sikes.

What are you doing, boy??!!??!!

It looks like someone might get in trouble this summer!!!

Happy Birthday Mikayla!!! 3/10/2009

Happy Birthday to our beautiful 10 yr old
daughter. We can't believe it has already
been that long! She is a wonderful little
daughter - very thoughtful and caring!
We Love You and hope you have a very
wonderful birthday!!
Love Dad, Mom and Natalie!!

Megastore, Megasale…

The manager of a megastore came to check on his new salesman.
"How many customers did you serve today?" the manager asked.
"One," replied the new guy.
"Only one?" said the boss. "How much was the sale?!?"
The salesman answered, "$72,316."
Flabbergasted, the manager asked him to explain.
"First I sold a man a fishhook," the salesman said. "Then I sold him a rod and a reel. Then I asked where he was planning to fish, and he said down by the coast. So I suggested he'd need a boat - he bought that 20-foot runabout. When he said his Volkswagen might not be able to pull it, I took him to the automotive department and sold him a big SUV."
The amazed boss asked, "You sold all that to a guy who came in for a fishhook?"
"No," the new salesman replied. "He actually came in for a bottle of aspirin for his wife's migraine. I told him, "Your weekend's shot. You should probably go fishing."

Snow!!! Finally!!!

We finally had a good snow yesterday. We had went a few
years without a good one. It amounted to approx 9" total.
The wind blew most of it away and deposited a lot of it in
a few choice places. This was the view from our front
porch this morning!! Lovely!!

Here is Natalie climbing the drift at the end of the house!

Also a picture of the girls and Toby playing on the

drift in front of the house.

I walked back behind the house and snapped a picture
of the farm behind us. I spy a mother cow about to give birth!!

Also checked on my in-laws horse and cows.

A few more Toby pics

Drum Roll Please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Hoch family has a new addition to the family! Please make
Mr. Toby feel welcome! The girls are so excited. They have
been wanting a dog for a long time!!!
It is a six week old Labrador/Golden Retriever.

Congratulations go to.....

Natalie for the loss of her 1st tooth!!

Polar Bear Attack !!!!

If you are real brave, you might want to take a look
at the photos below of a savage Polar Bear attack in
Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

These are photos of an actual polar bear attack which
recently occured.

The photos were taken while a number of people
stood by and watched, but were helpless to do anything
to stop the attack.

The local newspaper reports that miraculously, the
victim is expected to make a full recovery.

This is not for the faint at heart as the pictures are
very graphic!! Scroll down if you dare!!!

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They both made the Newspaper!!

Yep, that's right!! Both of our girls made the
newspaper on the same day! Congratulations
to Natalie on her ABC award and also to
Mikayla for her all A honor roll!!
We love you girls!!

Remember Susan's Class

Please remember Susan and her class in your prayers.
This girl in Susan's class lost her mother, step-sister
and step-father in a house-fire yesterday! Susan and
several others had to pull her out of class yesterday
and relay the news to her.

Tales of Third Grade Blog

Susan's blog seemed to have some trouble with comments. I think we have it fixed now. Link is listed below.

The Proof Is In The Pudding !!

I've tried and tried to tell Susan that Natalie didn't get
her antics from me!! Now I have proof!! It probably
came from the Hoch side, but it missed me!!!!!!

Diffendoofer Day !!

Our Galax City School Superintendent is retiring
and the school had a retirement dinner for him.
The drama teacher put together a dramatic reading
of Dr. Seuss's book "Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!"
One child from each grade level was chosen to read
a portion of it for him. Natalie was chosen for
Kindergarten and Mikayla was chosen for 4th Grade!
They were to dress very different to go along with
the book and the acting out of the story.
Here they are in their Dr. Seuss finest!!!

Loving Sisters!!

Natalie acting like her Uncle Den!!

Attention Fellow Bloggers !!

We have a new Blogger in the ranks!!!!

Susan has started a blog that will mainly follow the antics of her Third Grade Class.
Check it out: http://talesofthirdgrade.blogspot.com/