John has been posting the pictures for our blog this whole time. He is showing me how and so I decided to post a picture of him (finally). Isn’t he so cute:)

I just came across this picture, we took it a year ago this month, we thought you’d enjoy it.  I also have some without the rooster but Sue liked this shot the best.  This is really a sunset, but thought it would be fun to show the rooster (which is attached to our house, it’s a bell that we use to call the kids in).

View from our house

It was so bright out that it appeared to be dawn, it was brighter outside than inside our home (with all the lights off…getting ready for bed).  This was last night at 12:30am.  I could see other houses, cars, roads, and if there would have been anyone out this late, I would have seen them clearly.  The moon was breaking through the clouds (it had been overcast all day/night).  These pictures don’t do it justice… (click to enlarge)

View from our House

The Moon directly above.

These pictures were taken last Sunday from the window of our house:

Look's like their kissing.

The Herd

While I’m thinking about it, and before it get’s much later…

We wanted to wish everyone a Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy New Year!  Our intentions were good, but Sue’s been sick for the past 3-4 months (yes we’re expecting again), and so we didn’t get any CHRISTmas cards sent out (we all know our wifes run our homes).  So don’t feel bad if you didn’t get a card from us, nobody did.  Please enjoy the pictures below and our warmest holiday greetings. 

With Love,

The Strock Family

This was taken about a month ago on our way to church, I forgot about it until now and wanted to post it.

We took this on the way to Church

A river runs through it

We took down the tree today, Sue took a break with the kids to sing for you:

One of Sue’s favorite things to do at this time of year is to create a sled run for the kids:

Workin on the sled run

This is our backyard, snowball on left, sled run on right.

Watch out for this snowball

The following pictures was taken today (a couple days after the above pictures), the snowball on the left and the sled run on the right.  (There’s actually another snowball that you can’t see just behind the swing set.)

Snowball

Here’s the final picture of our tree (see post below for our adventure in getting the tree):

Our Decorated Tree