A quick trip

On a whim, we decided to go to the World Dairy Expo. We left our house Monday at 3:30pm, drove to Loves Park, Il, because I was going to loose it if we spent any more time in the car, spent the night, got up, drove to Madison, spent the day at the expo, left at 3:30pm, drove straight home, got here at 11pm.

And since we left on a whim, I just did a quick google map from Hesperia to Madison and called it good. We drove through Chicago both ways. I know, not every smart. But we didn't have map, and it was kind of neat to see the city and the kids were sleeping. We only missed 2 tolls the whole way.

Here are some pics:

Driving through Chicago.

Finally getting to a hotel!!

All set to go to the Expo.

Posing by a ceramic cow. Enjoying the machinery and having one sleeping child. Georgia driving away.Oh, look, another ceramic cow.

Cook out

Thanks to all who came and stopped by! It was great to see all!

Dig, dig, dig.

All the water on our farm comes from one well. Everything, from our house to every pen. Yesterday Case worked on digging up the one line we had with a giant union outside of the house and moved that into the basement, with many lines. It was a dirty mess. This left us with no water anywhere and...
and son that looked like this, and his sister was equally dirty. They both had tumbling class yesterday. So that left me scrambling to get the kids to my in-laws, washed up, changed and to tumbling within about 20 minutes. We did it!

What a sibling is great for...

Waking up with!Helping you put on their old shoes...
And patiently waiting for your Dad to come home!

Swinging

Who needs an audience when you have steers watching you?

1 week

In 1 week we will be heading down to Temperance to visit with Grandma, Grandpa, Uncles Mark & Tom.

The kids are so excited! I am too.

We'll be there Thursday and leaving on Monday, it would be great to see lots of people while we are there!

I'm trying to talk my parents into hosting a little cook out.... hopefully everyone can stop by!!

Labor Day

We went to a picnic at a family friend's house for Labor Day. They have a pavilion built in the middle of a hay field. Surrounding the hay field is a woods with a deep gully in it. The gully has a small creek at the bottom. Every year we take the kids down to the creek and walk along in it.

This was the first time I took Austin down. When he first got into the water, he was not happy and wanted to go back, but then changed his mind and by the end of the walk, he was soaking wet.

25 weeks

25 weeks until this baby is due.

I feel like that is so far away.

25 weeks ago was Tommy's birthday, 3/15, and yep, that seems like a long while ago!!

UGH!

Daddy's Little Girl

Old Projects

Way back in March we ripped off the entry way that was on our house and added a little "boot room" on. When we re-did the house before we moved in, we never touched the entry way and this past winter the roof was leaking horribly. It had to be done.
Before:After:And yes, I did not inherit my mother's gardening gene. I like to do as much from my lawn mower as possible.

Anyhow, the outside was complete by mid April, electrical done in June, and that was it. Since it has started to get cold at night, and with another one on the way we have finally gotten up to finishing it. I've been insulating the past two days. I should be done by the end of this week, hopefully. Then Case plans on dry walling himself. Which, I don't think that he has ever done. I'm just excited for all the storage space that we will have in there.

And here's a picture of me hanging up the plastic vents on the ceiling before putting up the insulation.