HHF - Life Adventures of the Bontrager's

OK, I know that I'm weird, but I think it DEFINITELY runs in the family! :) She's just as goofy as me! Even my best friends are strange! Sorry Sarah! Couldn't resist! :) OK, so Sarah Mast tagged me in one of her blogs and now I have to list 10 random or strange things about me. Well if you know me well enough, you know that I'm just WEIRD/RANDOM period. Oh well, I'll do it anyways! :) This is for you Sarah! 1. I don't like watermelon or pickles. Which I know are American classics and it's weird, but I can't STAND the texture of them! Therefore, no go. 2. I HATE clowns. They terrify me. 3. I'm scared to death of chickens and think they only should be allowed to live to be able to eat them later. ( I was attacked multiple times as a kid by chickens, ask my sister!) 4. I LOVE to go hunting and shoot blue rock. I can't shoot anything besides birds though cause there's no way I could shoot Bambi. 5. I also love smoking cigars. Swisher sweets ar

Well, this is my family! Love of my life Dan and our two "boys", Milo and Otis. I thought that since this was my first blog, I would tell you a little about our lives in Hicksville, NE... I guess saying Hicksville isn't really ALL that true. We really live in a village surrounded by rolling hills of farmland and it's actually quite peaceful. We have a little Cape-cod style house with a large backyard and peonie bushes up front. We've lived in our house for about 2 years and have remodeled it from top to bottom. (we're working on finishing the basement right now!) We tore out the ceilings, floors, walls, EVERYTHING and started all over again. It took us a little over 6 months to finish the upstairs and it consisted of grueling hours and endless evenings. The work would have never gotten done without the help of our parents and friends. We are now blessed with a fabulous house and continue working on it all the time. (I'll upload photos from the r

Welcome Everyone! Here are a few pictures from the Thornton/Bontrager family's favorite place in the world...Cape Cod Mass. This is all of us last summer visiting Alyssa (my sister) while she lived out there for the summer. Dan, Dad and Mom...sunning it up. This is at Plymouth, Mass. (That's right, I've seen Plymouth rock!) Sis, Padre' and myself at the tip of the Cape, Provincetown. Momma and I shooting raw oysters on the half-shell...YUM!! Me and the boys around Christmas... At the beach again.... The first day we got to the Cape, we had to see the ocean right away! My friend Ali and I taking the ponies "swimming".... :)