Merry Christmas to all...

Merry Christmas family, from our family. Love and kisses to all

Where is everybody???

Hey admin, you may have to call and walk some of the family members through on how to establish their blogger upgrade. When I tried it the first time I had all types of trouble with the browser freezing up while creating the google account.

Well, everyone who still reads the blog, today is my due date. Not much is happening, yet. I have small contractions, but nothing that makes me want to go to the hospital. We have changed her name, again. We took Lynn out of the mix, so her name is just Jessica Justina Zike. I hope the next time I'm posting something, I will know her weight and height, hair color, and especially, her birthdate. Love to all, Cindy

Our christmas and New Year wish

From our Family to yours, we'd like to wish everyone a beautiful Christmas and successful Happy New Year.

Connie, Michael and Raven

Caden's First Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving with Andrew's mom in Arkansas. Caden didn't know what to do with the turkey leg. He didn't even want to touch it!
Now on the drive home, he sure didn't mind finishing the apple that Andrew had been eating. Caden still doesn't have any teeth but he sure can gum it good! 

puppy pics

finally got the pics up. I know it was pretty late, 1 week, but there has been a lot hapnin around here. Take care, Eldon

Lita's Puppies

Hope everyone is doing good. We're doing good, we have 6 new puppies and all are strong and healthy. Lita's doing good, being a good mommy to her pups. She has 3 boys and 3 girls, we'll see about getting a pic up soon. The kids can't get enough of them, they want to hold them all the time and be right there next to them.
Don't know how cold it is everywhere else but it's pretty darn cold here, haven't gotten much past 50 today and the nights have been in the low 30's, it's nice but cold. well more later
Love to all,
Margaret, Eldon, Eldon, Jayden, and Ashton

The Puppies r comin, the puppies r comin!!!

Since no one is viewing/posting to the blog anymore, and since I have to be up at this time of morning, I'll be posting the happenings at the Brewer Kennel just for fun.


Looks like Lita is finally having her first litter of pups.

3:55am Numero uno showed up, Male, Black with white feet and chest.

4:34am and not a sign of number 2

Will keep this post updated as things get rolling.
Pics sure to follow.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!

Hope all of you are enjoying the day together with friends and/or family. Here in Houston, we have G'ma and G'pa Brewer visiting us and the kiddos.
For the big feast we are chowing down on a fabulous deep fried turkey, spiral-sliced ham(I glazed it with my recipe), stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, sugared/nutty sweet potatoes, devil'd guacamole eggs, and for desert(probably after our tryptophan nappy time), we will enjoy a fresh made(not store bought) pumpkin pie and chocolate cheesecake(home made too). By that time, and after watching a football game or three, we will all be comatosed and ready for beddy-bye. Thinking of all y'all, Luv n Hugs, Margaret, Eldon, Eldon, Jayden, Ashton and G'ma and G'pa Brewer.

More birthday wishes!

Happy Birthday, Aunt Veronica, Carrie, And Thad!!!!

Happy Anniversary!!

Happy Anniversary to you, Andrew and Sam!!!

Late birthday wishes!

I know this is a little late, but better late than never. Happy Birthday, Martin and Uncle Wayne!!!!!!

Family Hunting

Family weekend, week, hunting days start on the 24th of Dec. through the end of the season and the entire three weeks of the January season. You will see a lot of young bucks. I do not allow my hunters to shoot under eight point with a spread less than the tips of the ears, so please maintain the same standard. Additionally, I allow hunters to shoot long horn spikes with an unbranched antler longer than the ear, when the ear is laid up beside the horn. All of the young 1 and a 1/2yr old 40-60lb baby deer are sporting head gear. These do not qualify as shootable spikes. Match their body size to the mature deer around them and you will see the difference. Now, when he is all alone in the field it is harder to tell how big he is. Signs of an older deer would be a ponch looking belly, a sway looking back or a longer nose. Young deer have tight bellies and sleak straight bodies between their front shoulders and hind quarters. When you have a pile of does in front of you try to pick out some of the characteristics for practice.

Important Note: None of the above restrictions apply for young family hunters who have never harvested a deer, but will be going on their first hunt to actually pull the trigger. Anything with a hard horn counts and you better take lots of pictures for the blog and website.

Have a safe fun hunt. If I don't see or hear from you before hand, have a merry thanksgiving and a happy christmas and I'll be up some time during the hunting week with the Game Warden.

Love,
Thad

just kidding, the Game Warden has already been up and he usually only visits once a year

Why Rednecks can't be Paramedics

This is a funny joke from my sister....

Bubba and Dwayne are out in the woods hunting when Bubba grabs his chest and falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be breathing; his eyes are rolled back in his head.

Dwayne whips out his cell phone and calls 911. He gasps to the operator, "I think Bubba is dead! What should I do?"

The operator, in a calm soothing voice says, "Just take it easy and follow my instructions.

..........First, let's make sure he's dead."

There is a silence... and then a shot rings out.

Dwayne comes back on the line, "Okay, now what ???

Caden the Cowboy

Here is Caden Mudd the cowboy.

We like to call him "The Pumpkin Whisperer" because he had this pumpkin trained within 2 minutes. :-)

There is nothing better than watching a cowboy ride away... into the sunset...on a pumpkin. Happy Halloween!

Grandma's Deer Hash Recipe

I caught this in the comments on another post....
Need to get it on the main page admin....

FROM JUSTINA:
Cindy—Making Kolaces to sell in Connies bakery is a truly inspired idea. I think its awesome that shes doing so well. Our family rocks...
Anyway, here's how to make deer hash like Grandma Mudd...
My mom knows it best (you can verify it with her), but I think this is pretty much it...
So you cook the hell out of the meat til its fallingoff the bones (covered, w/ a couple cups of water)...seasoned with s & p, and sage (I add sliced onions and garlic cuz I love em)... Scrape every last morsel of meat off the bones (keeping in mind all the kids in ethiopia)... Discard the BARE bones... Add to the meat and juices a cup (or two) of water, in which you will dissolve a tbsp (or two) of flour. Turn the heat down, so you don't burn the gravy—it needs to simmer to thicken. Stir it good to make sure there are no clumps of flour you may have missed in the cup... Cook it longer if you want it thicker and don't be afraid to add more flour or water if it looks like it needs it. When I used to help grandma make the hash, she was never exact with her measurements. I think you should just judge it the best you can—according to how muchmeat there is, how much juice cooked off, how much gravy you want, how thick you want it, etc—and justplay with it... Just remember this is down-homecooking, not a science, just more of a feeling. Thats how grandma did it. Every time was a little different.The only constant was that when she served up on a slice of bread we all scarfed it down. I have made some a couple of times with some of the deer meat my mom brought out here (thank you noble andgenerous hunters) and Sean loved it... up until I told him it was deer meat... ugh. Now he swears that he knew it all along. Yeah right. I still sneak it in,just like grandma used to do with Martin... ;o) He doesn't know the difference. I made some kick ass chili with it too and it was gone before I had achance for left-overs. Anyway, i love ya'll and hope that you whip up some good stuff. Eat some for me. I just love to cook, and sharing recipes—whether family tradition or impromptu experimentation—is what its all about... God bless you all and Dobrunotz!!!
Miles of love,
Justinka & Sean x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0.....

p.s. (gotta share a joke my mom told me, that her priest told her)
Priest: Do you know how to make Holy Water?
My mom: ummm... Yeah. You—
Preist: Wrong. You take a pot. Put it on the stove.Fill it with water, and—




BOIL THE HELL OUT OF IT.
hehehe. :o) I couldn't resist.

Caden's Crawlin'

Here he is just one week shy of 6 months old and he is already crawling, pulling up to standing, eating brown rice cereal, and almost able to get from a crawling position to sitting up all by himself. I'm telling you he is a wonder boy! Andrew and I love every ounce of him. 

Thank you Justina xoxo

the family portrait is a great idea we haven't had one in a few years...i will set us up for a setting in the next week. That is a very thoughtful gift..it was also good to hear from you....hey, i just realized that i haven't seen justina on the blog yet...has anyone sent her an invitation?

Have you seen these little breads before? I wanted to show these little guys off. Using gradma's banana bread recipe Eldon and Margaret have used the banana base and added a little fun...they have strawberry, chocolate chip, blueberry, pineapple (my favorite), a new 4 Berry and of course the ever popular banana nut. I have received 3 packages of 20-32 of this little breads. They are selling very well in my new Coffee shop. Which be the way I am already in the black , as a new business owner operating an already profitable business has been very fulfilling and a whole HELL of a lot of work. But thanks to Eldon and Margaret I have increased my product line at an affordabe price on a product that is worth having...plus it is something that Grandma would be super proud of.
I am always looking to increase the products I sell, so if you have any ideas or a product you'd like to promote like Jams, Jellies, Cindy is thinking about sending Kolaches, really any bakery item will do. Let me know. My home number is (502)413-5581, my cell (618) 306-1111.
Connie
p.s. our family is doing really well...I don't get to see them very much now that i am pulling about 15-19 hours a day. I am open form 6m-2pm I get in about 2:30 am make donuts and don't leave most of the time until 6pm. M-SAT. off Sun

Addresses Needed Pronto!!!

Hey everyone, Justina needs to get addresses of anyone and everyone in the family, so that she can send something to them. It is time sensitive and she wants to make sure everyone gets it quick.
Talk at ya later. Eldon