Busy, Busy, Busy!!!

Ok, really quickly here is what has been going on here!

- MacKenzie left to Alabama to the Donor's house for 5 weeks. She will be gone until August 19th.

- Our house is making GREAT progress! Today was the midpoint inspection. We pointed out what flaws we saw. The Superintendent is going through it with a fine tooth comb as I type. This is the last point for framing flaws, plumbing issues as well as electrical to be dealt with BEFORE the inside gets started.

- I have been driving combine in the evenings anywhere from 2-4 hours- and occassionally in the afternoon as well.

- This week is fair. I am staying down at the fairgrounds' R.V. park in my mom and dad's 5th wheel (theirs is WAY nicer than ours, thanks guys). My SIL Jeannie and her 5 kids, My SIL Sherri and her 2 kids and my SIL Joan and her 4 kids are all staying down there as well- in addition Gpa Frank and Gma D (elores) and Aunt Kathy (Sherri's family) are with us. SO you can say we have Fessler Village down there. Sometimes that is good- sometimes that is bad. Not sure what it is right now! But I am out of it! Just there to help since my wee-one is gone :( Showing steers this year- Matthew (just graduated H.S.), Tyler (going to be a Junior), Brent (going to be a Freshman), Austin (going to be a Freshman), Justin (going to be 8th grade), Brianna (going to be 7th grade). And then we have 2 showing hogs- Jahnie (girl, going to be 7th grade) and Jamie (girl, going to be 7th grade). So, how's that for a family a"fair"?! Jaycee is going to show pee-wee showmanship tomorrow evening. She is showing her brother's steer. MacKenzie was going to do pee-wee as well, using cousin Brianna's steer, but she went to AL instead. Next year, I do believe she WILL BE HERE for fair- especially if we get a bottle calf for her to do open class showmanship with! And then the following year she will be in 4th grade and old enough to do fair and sell her animal in the auction.

- Lots of laundry and housework as usual.

- Changing the water on the lawn every few hours, as it is SO HOT that the lawn is yellowing! Since we are BIG TIME grass seed growers, we need to keep our yard looking nice!

- Running back and forth, back and forth, back and forth to Cenex- our seed company taking truck loads of grass seed in.

- Last week Gabe man had 4 month check up. 15 pounds exactly and 26 inches long! Big Boy! 80th percentile for length and 50th for weight.

- Running lunches and drinks to my hard working family in the field.

- Picking up nightly after the contractors @ the house.

- Last weekend hubby took me on a date! We got rain and were not able to combine. So we saw a movie "Chuck and Larry" and had dinner @ Coyote Ranch. That is where hubby took me on our first "official" date. We eat there every year around our anniversary- I guess July is close enough to August :) That is what hubby told me anyway :)

Ok...a few pics and I gotta run!!! OOPS! up top and in reverse chronological order, sorry :(