Mother's Day Gift

Ain't sha a beauuuttty!!! Yes, this is really what I got for Mother's Day. And yes I really wanted it!

And here's proof that I can use it and that I do use it!


We won't mention that it's just as finicky as every other machine I touch and regularly refuses to work for me......even though it is MINE.

We'll just focus on the nice picture of it running and finally cleaning up the apple tree that went down TWO winters ago.

Brent was supposed to get a large waffle iron for Father's Day, but instead I super suprised him with a new cordless drill. Ours bit the dust and Dad's needs a new battery.

So I decided to get Brent a new one for the farm and then we're supposed to get Dad's a new battery, hasn't happened yet......But then it'll stay at the cabin.

Having two places is lots of fun to juggle, really....don't you believe me.......

Max's b-day

Here's another post that was hiding in the list. We had another pink b-day, but not quite like the one that we had the year before.

Than was right there, willing to help him open and read his cards.

And use his pocket knife to pry out the My Little Ponies that got added to the herd.

Lee too was happy to help, since it involved using a pocket knife!

Grandma and Max work on Max's Lego set "themselves". Every one else was shooed away so that Grandma and Max could work without the help of eager hands and voices. And they did just fine, thank you very much!

Jayden and Nebby

So then of course like any good respecting younger brother, Jayden wanted to ride Nebby.


He does a pretty good job with her.

Collin and I riding Nebby and Leo

These are from April. I was going through the list of my posts and discovered that I had uploaded some pictures, but never posted them! So here is one set of them.


Collin and I are riding Nebby and Leo and there is a tractor heading towards us. Nebby doesn't like tractors. Collin doesn't like it when Nebby acts up, he's come off her one to many times. So I suggested that we turn off into the dirt field and ride away from the tractor. Which Leo thought was a fine idea.




He's pretty easy going once you get on him. Getting on him is a whole nother story, due to the abuse he's been through in the past.

Nebby on the other hand not only doesn't like tractors, she doesn't like it when the ground changes color under foot.


I was really proud of Collin, he calmly kept working with her and didn't panic.


And she finally took that first step that told her the ground really wasn't going to eat her,

This was a really big step for Collin and I was very proud of him for staying calm and working through it with her and with himself and his fears.