Justin always loved to read Ryan’s farm magazines. I always kept one in the diaper bag when he was a baby. Rett has just figured them out and loves it too.
I thought he was done with it but he would keep dragging it out of the garbage if I left it on top. He is a farmer boy for sure!
The kids are back to school today. Somehow a kitty or two made it into the pictures this year.
Emma is a 4th grader this year, and she is wearing her new glasses. I forgot to blog them, she is just so excited for herself!
Justin 1st grade.
Ashley 6th grade….. YIKES!
Claire was pouting in the back of this picture because she didn’t get to be in any. So of course I obliged.
Justin was not as excited as he was for Kindergarten. Emma has been scaring him to death about his teacher so he was SUPER nervous that she would be mean. He was all set to ride the bus but at the last minute just couldn’t do it and needed his Mommy to drive him in to school. I was sad last year because he RAN off and left me and never looked back, I was scared this year because I was afraid he wouldn’t ever want to go to school again and first grade is a little early to start not liking school! We checked out his class and got him settled in and he had a great day.
His first words when he got home was, “Heidi is AWESOME.” (His teacher goes by her first name) He cant wait for the second day of school it is going to be so fun! FEWWW!!
It has been a while since I have done a chicken post. They are still fun to have, I worry about them getting eaten by a predator, or the neighbors dog, but so far so good. They just own the place and go where they please. They are really noisy at egg laying time, but are pretty quiet for the rest of the day. I love that they have such a happy life, but the problem with free range chickens, is free range eggs! We found a lovely little stash in the front flower bed tall grasses. 40 EGGS! REALLY, come on ladies, you have that darling house to lay in, use it!
I just couldn’t bring myself to eat them so we threw them all out. I even tested them by the sinking, floating method and none of them floated, but I just couldn’t eat them anyway. Claire was devastated! They are all laying every day, so 7 eggs a day is plenty for us. Since this they have all started to lay in the coop except the red chicken, she lays green eggs and we have only collected two, I know she must have a stash somewhere around here.
It rained! We were so excited to have rain that we went out in it until the lightning got to close.
It was raining with the sun shining it was a warm Washington like rain. We got just over a half inch, thankfully because the lightning was so bad I’m sure we would have had lots of new fires if we wouldn’t have had the rain with it. It was so refreshing, and just what we have been needing!
On the way home from Washington Rett fell asleep right after we got a hamburger. Emma has waited his WHOLE life for him to fall asleep eating. She loves it when babies do that and he never has, until now!
Emma’s laugh was the best, it would wake Rett up just enough to make him giggle and smile too and then he was back asleep. We were all laughing at our tired little brother!
I couldn’t resist taking a spin on Bode’s awesome motorcycle. Once Emma saw that I could do it she was determined to do it too. She did really well, pretty fun ride!
Justin burned up lots of miles on that super fun four wheeler!
Summer even tried it out for a short ride.
Bode was the best sport letting us all take a ride on his awesome motorcycle!
Mom and Dad are trying to get rid of stuff that doesn’t need to be moved so I went through my stash of STUFF that was left at home. It was fun to look at all of the old stuff, but I didn’t need to bring it home with me either so I took some pictures and tossed it! How about a box of old corsages from proms and homecomings.
Old letters from old friends…. and a few old boyfriends.
Some interesting old clothes and shoes, really I loved these ugly old shoes…. oh dear!
It was fun to look at it all and the kids each got to pick a “treasure” to keep, I’m such an old softy!
While we were out at the pool we walked down to the bluff to look at the river. It is always and amazing view. The nature trail is still there to hike down on.
Oh brother Ash,
We haven’t made enough trips to Grandma’s house in the summer for the kids to ever get to swim in the pool. They were all so excited to get to go every day we were there. Justin and Claire were super brave in the deep end.
The girls loved the slide.
And the diving board.
Rett just wanted to be in that water. He would not stay away from the edge. We brought the pack n play the rest of the days to keep little brother from jumping in too!
So many fun memories out at the pool.
We have been wanting to go to Grandma’s house this whole month and never had a few free days in a row until last week. So I loaded up the kids and we went to Washington! Ashley is so much help taking care of the kids while I drive that it is really like having another adult in the car. She is great. Everyone traveled well. We actually got to drive from Ontario on with Mom and Dad, so that helped too.
We got right into it right when we got there, kids in costumes;
And out in the garden with Grandpa. There is always lots to do!
Ashley and Emma had their Summer recital. It was a long time coming, the girls have practiced a duet from Pride and Prejudice called the Ash Grove. They did really well despite all the weeping and whaling that went on every time they practiced! They both also got to do a duet with their awesome piano teacher, she really is the best!
Emma got to wear her pink sneakers with her dress, we thought she looked pretty cute!
Most of the students, we had to hold the recital at the church because we have outgrown Margaret’s house!
Margaret and Emma
Ashley and Margaret
Sisters playing.
It turned out great as always!
Rett is making the BEST tractor sounds now. I think all of the boy sound effects are pretty fun. He loves Justin’s trucks, tractors, and can make a really good moooo sound too!
He also is really good at saying cheese. He discovered I was taking his picture and loves to see it on the camera after. I have him well trained!
We got our “summer” calves. They are all healthy and doing good. I love this chore for the kids, it is hard work, but kids can do it, just perfect! We moved them out to the coral which I love.
Claire always has some divalitous outfit on! I am going to have a hard time convincing her that I pick the outfits around here, now that summer is over!
Little brother just cruises around like he owns the place! Gotta love the jammies with sandals! He loves chore time because he gets to go outside too!
Emma’s calf always jumps out the little window and chases her around, he likes his mommy.
Quite the little farm and farmers!
