Story time with Grandpa Peless

While daddy had some meetings at the stake center, mommy and the little ones hung out with grandma. But this picture was snapped when grandpa came back an all three kids asked him to tell them a story. They love the stories he makes up for them.

We’re from the country…

This beautiful piece of equipment came with our house and up until yesterday the wagon had flat tires. Once we realized all they needed was air, it was a quick fix and the kids were super entertained while riding around. Luke kept singing……. chugaluga lug 5 miles an hour, on my international harvester.

The amazing part about this is that between getting home from work and going to the church on Wednesday he only has about an hour of “down” time and he figures out how to use that time the best with the kiddos. They are always so excited to spend time with him when he is home.

I am sure there will be a lot more rides around in the evening before the snow flies.

Little girls at breakfast

Here's our two princesses eating their oatmeal cereal with daddy before he's off to work.

They hate missing him by sleeping in.

The Golden Honey Harvest

This being Luke’s first year of his venture with Beekeeping we weren’t expecting any honey. It takes a year usually for them to build up their supply that they use to stay alive in the winter. They go through about 70lbs. To our surprise the bees must have been good hardworking bees because we ended up having a few frames with honey that was ready for us to harvest. We ended up with one gallon of liquid gold this year---yes it was pretty expensive to get started----which is about 12lbs. In the Beekeeping book for Dummies it says that to collect a pound of honey bees must fly more than 50,000 miles and visit more than 2 million flowers to collect enough nectar for ONE pound of honey. So, to think they had 70lbs in each hive and between the two we ended up getting 12 lbs means those bees were working HARD. That is a lot of miles and flowers.

Micali is as much into beekeeping as her daddy. I didn’t get pictures of them out there stealing the honey from the bees but they sure weren’t happy about it. Micali got a little nervous because they were flying around her so much but kept asking her daddy if she was okay and stayed right there with him to help him with what he needed. She looks so cute in her little bee suit.

To end the bee harvest that night Micali decided to pull out her first tooth. It had came loose while she was eating corn on the cob a few nights before and instead of worrying for another night about swallowing it she just yanked it out all by herself. She was excited for the tooth fairy to come visit since Eli had beat her to loosing a tooth by about 2 months.