oh! and something else!!...........KYLE!!!!! you better change the little title thingy and pronto!! cuz that is false information!! people should never forget who i am!!

Spring Break!!

The first picture is when we were at the magic show. it was intermission so it got a little boring! the second is Kaden dying my hair! he was hurting me! then the last but definetly not least is me and kaden getting pedicures together! I think you can truly call us best friends now!

The Hereford ( The RED Cow)

The first two pictures are of the RED cow and the very first one from left to right is Kara, KAB, and Chase. The last one is an actual brown cow and black cow then a gray calf. This is to help Sterling with his colors!!

We wanted to post this picture of two of our Sunday school kids decorated like "lilies of the field". Our lesson was based on having to much stuff in our lives to keep us from keeping our focus on God. Not even Solomon was dressed like one of these with all of his wealth. Here is our new vehicle, which by the way is very nice and rides great. It is an 06 Envoy.

More tractors

Then we have Jake pulling.

Here is Jerry, talking (as usual) to Shane & his father-in law, Keith.

Another tractor being pulled.

Here it is actually pulling.

Here are some pictures from the farm show in Louisville. The first one is a tractor that was in the pull.


This tractor was in the farm show. Just a fancy tractor I guess.

This is a huge grain wagon that can load a semi in a minute!

I honestly am not sure what this is, but apparently thought it would be a good picture.

Excavator Project

Well it has been awhile since we posted anything and a really long time since I posted something on here. It has been pretty busy here at school with everything finishing up and then the job search on top of that. One of the things I have been working on is a project for a class called Mechatronics. My teammate (Patrick) and I decided to make a game that is loosely based on the crane game you see at grocery stores sometimes where you control the claw and try to pick up a prize. For our project we used an excavator toy and a plastic tub with Easter eggs in it and the goal was to operate the excavator to try and pick up the egg. We presented the project on the last day of class and it worked quite well. Patrick ran the demo and was able to pick up an egg really quick to show it working properly, then our professor tried to play and showed how difficult the game is because he was unable to pick up an egg. You also only have 60 seconds to pick one up before the game shuts off and you have to start over again. The only piece that we didn't build was the excavator arm which we bought and it had the motors in it to make it move but we did have to hack into the wiring in a way so that we could control those motors with our buttons. We also designed the rotation of the entire arm with a lazy susan, a rubberband, and a small motor. I got a few pictures of the project the night before we presented it and they are below.


Patrick and myself with our project setup in front of us.

Here Patrick is getting some practice on the controls gathering the eggs.

The first picture is an operators view of the arm and egg bin. The second picture is the egg being dumped into a catch screen I made to sit in the corner of the bin. The screen let the sand fall back into the tub but obviously holds the egg out.


We had quite a few people from the house stopping and watching us put the finishing touches on the project and give a few demos.


Here is a short video of the excavator at work picking up an egg and putting it into the catch screen.




P.S. I have to credit dad with the idea of using Easter eggs. We tried sand and rice but the arm did not have enough power to dig into those things like we wanted it to.



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The mini truck is very versatile! It is being used as a tent for a baby calf (which you can't really see)
Next is Hanah Serlin helping save a life! Get that baby warmed up, thanks Hannah!!

Is this a truck load or what?

This is Kaden on the truck hood sled, we dumped him a couple of times!

Hannah S, Hannah Deer and Kelsey enjoying a really cold ride.

Here is the line of cows being fed and trying to count them all. You'll be glad to know they were all there.

This is just a cute picture of three babies being comfortable around a bale ring.

Just to give you an idea of how much snow we received, about 12 inches!

Brad & Cooper helping feed the cows.

Spike & Ruby wanted to ride along to watch the car come out of the pond.

More cow pictures (it was raining)

These are just some of the new pretty cows and calves.

This is the car that took a dive into Willers pond

The divers located the car in the middle of the pond.

Jerry with his Rose Hulman shirt on and Dad with his Cummins shirt. They were in the Christmas spirit.

Here are some pics from Christmas. Kara, Kris & Laura being cozy on the couch.


Kyle, Kolt & Papaw just sitting and being trash collectors.

The Faust kids (minus Kyler plus Jessica Pasho) and half of the Birt kidsMariah says thanks for the coat Luke!!

I think this was my favorite tree yet! Mariah likes it as well. Sorry, I forgot to rotate the picture. Don't be upset with me Kyle!