Hunting 2013

Lyn had an opportunity to go sika deer hunting this fall.  A sika deer is in the elk family...must be the miniature breed....a full grown sika is only 50-60 lbs.  They feed mostly at night and aren't the easiest to hunt.  They live in the marshes along the Chesapeke and Lyn got lucky and got one with the bow on his first time going.  Most call it beginner's luck, he calls it skill.

He shot another interesting deer during MD bow season.  It's called a piebald....one that is mostly white with brown spots.  As you can see the antler was damaged while in velvet creating an unique shape, and it had a strange overbite which you can't really see in the pic.  It looks like we will be having yet another addition to the household! (groan)

None of the kids bagged any deer this year.  Lyn also got 2 doe.

Horse Lessons

Renae has enjoyed taking horse lessons from a widow lady in her late 70's from our church over the past year.  Jan is a young 70 and is so sweet.  Since Renae is going to school this year she hasn't done much riding, but we did slip one day in this fall on a day off school.

Back to School

It has been 13 yrs since we started homeschooling Darryn.  This is the first year that they will all be going to school.  Darryn is attending Del Tech Community College taking Business classes.

First day at GMS for Devan & Renae

Tubing

We finally were able to take the kids tubing.  It was such a busy summer that it was the first and only time that we took the boat out.  The motor didn't work right and we ended up anchoring our boat and just going tubing behind Brent Schrock's boat.  Thankfully we were with someone and were able to get towed back to the docks.

Graduation 2013

This was a big year for us....our first graduate from high school.  Darryn graduated at the top of his class of 13 grads and was the valedictorian.  Way to go, Darryn!

 GMS class of 2013

 Grandma Helmuth

Grandpa & Grandma Byler

Keeping the blog going......

Since we have the blog started now, maybe we should keep it going.  We need to decide on a new name, but for now I will post some other things that took place this summer

Wild Flowers

There were so many different wild flowers blooming along the roadways.  Here are a few that we got pictures of when we stopped or when we were hiking.