Yea Me and Positive Thoughts

I fixed my blog without having to call Shelley or someone else. Here are some things I am looking forward to since I am not looking forward to school starting:

1. Spending the weekend with my family at the river in Waco celebrating my niece's 17th Birthday. What sweet and blessed child Rylee is. Poor DW has to stay at home and work.

2. Reagan's August Birthday Party. Reagan had asked me back in the Spring if she could have her kids party in the summer. I said, "Shoot yea!!" This make it way easier on me in December since so much else is going on then. She will still have her family party then but at least she will get to do something she likes for her party and with friends - swimming.

3. Ranger game with Amy and the kids.

4. Reagan's new teachers. (Even though I am not looking foward to the rigidity of a school schedule, I am looking forward to working with the people I am entrusting my child too.)

5. Getting our new pig barn. I just hope it is up in time for the new babies to come to our house.

6. Picking out Reagan's pigs for the coming stock show year.

7. Labor Day weekend. I want to be in Weatherford all weekend at my sister's pool but I am cathing a little flack from my niece Rylee and Reagan. They want to stay in Hamilton. This is the first year in a long time that HISD has taken Monday off and we could have 3 days of mean pool volleyball games.

8. My cousin's wedding in October.

Okay. I think that is enough to get me through for a while. One more thing that I need to brag about. My cousin, Jennifer McFalls, who played softball for A&M and then was on the Olympic Softball teams is now an Assistant coach at Texas. I don't particularly like the orange but it is a great opportunity for her.

Farmer's Bounty

I know. I haven't blogged in a VERY long time. I don't really know why except that I didn't feel like sharing. Yes, I was being selfish. However, this is my favorite time of year to get my camera out. HARVEST TIME. I blog about this every year but I love to watch our crop go from dirt to green to golden. Is there going to be enough rain? Will we get a late freeze and freeze it out? Will the army worms eat it all? Will a hail storm blow through just as it is heading out and destroy it? Or will God's light shine on us and enough rain will fall and we will reap a bountiful harvest? This year all the pieces fit. Our oats were beautiful and bountiful.

Every year since Henlee was born, I take pictures of DW with his girls right before the crop is harvested. If you are a regular to my blog, you see the annual picture change. This is the time of year for about 4-6 weeks that we see very little of our DW. He leaves the house early to check and feed our cows because he can't go at lunch, he gets home around 8:30 or 9:00 at night and eats a bite with us, and then he goes to bail hay until midnight or later. The girls get very excited when they see their Daddy and it also gives DW a little jump start to hear their squeals and laughter when he walks in the door. It makes a Mom/wife's heart melt.

Therefore, the title for my post - a Farmer's Bounty. I will let the pictures speak for themselves now.

Sisterly Love. By the way, Reagan is the best big sister Henlee could have ever hoped to have. I tell Reagan she is as good a big sister to Henlee as Lisa is to me.