Happy Thanksgiving - just a little late!

Hi and I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!  I started posting Thanksgiving morning at 6:30 AM and kept getting interrupted so here it is Saturday morning and I decided I should finish.  We had a great day here, we all went up to JJ's sisters house, had great food and of course ate way to much and then all went bowling which was alot of fun!  It was Kynnedi's first time and she loved it!  Then Kelli convinced me that midnight shopping would be a great idea - it was crazy so by 2:30 AM I was done.  We did buy a few things but of course all the special items were gone before we even got in the store.

I miss you all!

Love Jake

Halloween and a little more

Sorry about being a little behind but i am finally getting a little time to post some pictures.  We didnt get a whole lot from Halloween but as you can see we had a horse and a flower.  Tatum was not quite sure what to think about it all, but as always enjoyed the candy.  Trae likes halloween, however, he was scared to go door to door cuz he was afraid they might have dogs.  So all in all i would say halloween is not one of our favorite holidays yet.

Some of you may have heard already, but on Veterans Day Trista went to the park with the kids.  She had Tatum on her lap to go down the slide and Trae was behind.  On their way down Tatums foot got caught under Trista and twisted a little bit.  I was on my way back from Fargo, so she took her to the clinic and they deteremined she had a spiral fracture of the tibia.  We then took her to an orthopedic doctor thinking she would need a cast but he said it would not be necessary.  Due to her age, she heals so fast that it would heal before a cast would do any good.  We go back this Wednesday for a check up and hopefully they will tell us it is healed and she can walk on it again.  Lets just say this was harder on us than her, she has been a trooper the whole time.

Well we hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and look forward to seeing any family that comes back this winter.

Todd

 Our horse, flower and our niece (Tristas sisters daughter) Bryton

Getting ready to head out and trick-or-treat

Waiting in the orthopedic doctors office and Tatum was bored so she wanted to wear dad's safety glasses

Showing off her splint they put her in, this is also her "cheese" face

Trae wanted a picture taken too, but would not smile for it

Had to throw this in.  Can you tell which one is which??  pretty scary, this one is Tatum

This is Trae

Some of you saw this on facebook, but here is Traes farm we set up the other day.  Its a little extreme and yes that is an exotic animal exhibit to the north!!

Settling In

Hey everyone,

Sorry I haven't posted anything in awhile.  Our last couple of months have been crazy to say the least.  We moved into our new house the last weekend of July - we are absolutely loving it and slowly but surely trying to fill it up with stuff.  :)  We have lots of extra space and live about 3 to 4 minutes from my mom so please feel free to plan a trip out this way - we would love the company.

Some new photos...

Hi Everybody,
Here are a few photos from our family: 

First day of school.

Celebrating Matthew's birthday at a little amusement park in Bismarck.

Katie and our dog Bailey.  (Poor Bailey...Zoey, this is why you must keep your guard up with Katie - so you don't end up like this!)

Matthew doing his idea of shoveling.  More like beating the ground.

Enjoying the Fall riding our horses. 

Decorating pumpkins from our garden.

Our carved pumpkins.

Happy Halloween!  Matthew is a power ranger for the third year in a row and Katie is Snow White.  All she cared about was that her dress was yellow.

Our girly girl (not so much).  Katie reminds me of the fighting princesses in one of the Shrek movies.

Hope you all are doing well.  We are good here.  I'm just enjoying every day this Fall without the snow.  Sorry to rub that in Jake.  You guys are definitely getting plenty already down there.  For Joe's sake, I'm hoping for snow but just in his neck of the woods.  Lee and Shantelle, what a cute little skunk you have.  That's an adorable costume!  I have to admit I'm not much of a facebook user but Cody is and will usually let me know if there's pictures from the cousins out there.  So for those of you who are like me, you may want to look into a facebook account to see more pictures of all the little ones.  I enjoyed seeing them all.  Very cute!  Everybody is getting so big!  Take care everybody and have a good holiday season.

Love,

Christy 

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween.  At Aunt Jake's request I wanted to post pictures of Rhett's first Halloween.  We had a good time taking him around the neighborhood.  He wasn't really sure what to think but  realized it wasn't to bad when he saw the neighbor boy Charlie, who is two days younger, dressed as a shark.  The two of them laughed at each other all night.  Hope everyone is doing well.  If your in Fargo, look us up.

Lee, Shantelle and Rhett

Halloween

Since the Dutke family remains without any grandchildren running around, we decided to do the next best thing by dressing up Joe. Pictures below for your enjoyment:)

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