Kitty Birth Announcement!

On Thursday, April 30, three kittens were born to a first time mother, Miss Kitty, and Mr. Orange Tom Cat. They were born in a box inside the sugar house at the Kromminga's residence. 

awwww! Aint they cute! 

Boiling Maple Syrup 2015

The very first step of syrup making, tapping the trees! 

And I putting the tap in 

Emily drilling the hole... 

roasting hotdogs 

Quite a few people came while we did our syrup making, including Jo and Joel Carter! 

Josiah, Ruth and Jo collecting sap to be boiled down into syrup 

Daniel and his family also came that same Saturday  

Daniel, Emily and Ruth 

 The Funk kids came out on a Thursday afternoon to help gather sap, collect wood, etc. 

Lydia gathering 

Esther pours sap into the jug to make it even 

Chris 

We use the sap thats in the pan to make our tea with, it makes it nice and sweet! 

drinking tea.

                           And of course smores are a must! 

myself partaking of a smore! 

When Brant and Jessica came to see the process, Nathan and Landon found the  riding lawn mower, and had a blast playing on it! Caroline, Gabe and Jack also enjoyed 'driving' it when they had been there. 

Nathan taking Emily and Landon for a 'ride' 

Landon helping 

it was Brants first time seeing how we do it! 

taking the now almost syrup off the stove 

We had the entire family over, (minus Josh) plus, Josiah, Jo and Joel, the Funk kids, and even a small field trip for a young homeschooling family, the Hans.  All on different days of course. 
Most years we only get in about three, four, even five boils in,    but this year we boiled seven times!