Another year flies by again in the Baxley household. Here’s the update on what’s going on for those of you who are not on Facebook.
We officially now have 5 kids going to school! All the kids are doing very well and we’re very proud of all of them! Noah, 11, is now in 5th grade and eats like a horse. We have given him the name “bottomless pit” because he constantly grazes and eats whatever, whenever. He started playing basketball this year along with playing trombone in the school band. Marie, 9, is in 3rd grade and talks a mile a minute from sun up to sun down. Her biggest interest is horses and she can tell you all about all about horses. She was able to take riding lessons this past summer and loved every minute of it and since then has been asking us to buy her a horse. We’ll let the grandparents buy her one and keep it at their house. Calvin, 7, now in 2nd grade, is a Lego maniac. When we can’t find him he is either building some extreme contraption out of Legos or outside using his gargantuan imagination playing castle-fortress in the back of the barn. Molly, 6, entered the big world of kindergarten this year! She loves school and even more finally getting to go to school with the big kids and riding that big yellow bus. Dominic, 4, started preschool two mornings a week. When we ask him about his mornings at preschool he always says he likes playing with the toys and eating the snacks. Patrick, also known as Patch to us, is just enjoying being 2. He’s really good at demolishing a neatly organized things.
Just recently Nate changed jobs but he’s still at the University. He is now working full-time for the LAS department and his office is on top floor of Lincoln hall. One of his hobbies this past year was tracing family history. It’s always nice to know that our ancestors were either royalty or horse thieves. Sharon is still going strong at home and in survival mode trying to organize the chaos and put food on the table. She is expanding the garden and even convinced Nate to dig holes on the hottest day of the year to plant 18 new fruit trees in the back yard. Our garden wasn’t super successful with the excessively hot summer we had but she still managed to pack the freezer with tomatoes for some mid-winter salsa marathons. One of her goals for this year is to update this blog weekly so maybe when you check in here from time to time we’ll have new things added.
Here are some photos from the past year. We still feel extremely blessed and grateful for all we have. Drop in sometime and say hello, it’s always slow out here in the country…well as slow as having 6 kids can get!
Nate & Sharon
Noah, Marie, Calvin, Molly, Dominic & Patrick
Dominic planting the garden
Easter morning - On top of Mt. Evans in Colorado
