Jack of All Trades

Since Brian has an abundance of time to kill (notice the hint of sarcasm in my typing) he has decided it would be fun to try his hand at being a hay farmer, so for the past few week he has been out late every night after work cutting, raking, and bailing his hay...luckily it's only 5 acres and it will come in handy when we have to feed out the cows.

Farmer Consumer Awareness Day 2010

For 3 years now Alan, Amy, and Nora have come to visit for Farmer Consumer Awareness Day in Quincy and we love having them visit! Shoot we love all visitors! We go to the Parade and Balloon Festival and see the sights. This year's parade was awesome...you don't see floats like this too often.

Nora and I at the Parade.

Ashley, Hayden, and Payton joined us for the day's activities and it was great! At the FCAD grounds the kiddos jumped around in the bouncy toy, we ate lunch, checked out the car show, tractor pull, petting zoo, etc.

The weather was perfect for the entire weekend!

Nora insisted Brian wrap her baby up...hahaha!

The Balloons before they all lit up.

At the end of the night it was an awesome fireworks show, I mean better then the 4th of July! And the best part is that we didn't even have to stay up late to see it! We were home by 9.

2 views...

So Friday night was an intense amazing sunset because of a huge brush fire north west of Quincy...Brian had a tractor at home and was taking it back to the field and he took this picture with his phone....

I on the other hand was out side with my camera...go figure! The orange glow of the sun was so amazing!

September....

I have succumbed to the fact that summer is pretty much over and that any boating to be done now will be in a wet suit...I will say I love fall, I love pumpkins, the color orange, the smells, the weather, everything...so I have decided to put up my fall decorations...(yes Jolene, I know, you can roll your eyes at me for being a seasonal decorator. :) I love this sign, got it last year at the craft warehouse.

Pumpkins are so much fun in all shapes and sizes!

On a side note, Emily aka: Martha Stewart, actually I think she is better then Martha, but regardless, she made me this AWESOME clutch for my birthday...out of my favorite fabric and old jeans, how cool is this! I can't wait to use it!

Canning Marathon

This last week/weekend was chalk full of canning...and not much else....Jolene brought up ridiculous amounts of pears and peaches so we went to work. We made 2 batches of pear butter, 1 batch of spiced pears, about 7 batches of pears, 2 batches of spiced plum jam, 1 batch of peach jam, 1 batch of spiced peaches, and probably around 8 batches of pears. It was insane, the messes were insane. Good thing Grandma was around to help us!

That was most of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sunday we had an awesome mexican feast prepared by Uncle Russ and Cousin Brandon even came over from Missoula. Monday I had two senior shoots and we managed to get a little boating in.

Here's the crew!

Me and Baby LindyJean taking a break.

Boss and the Itty Bitty on the Ranger...look at the pure joy on her face.

August Birthday's Are the Best!

Anyone born in the month of August is extra super duper special....right Rachel, Brandon, and Cousin Russ? (funny side note: I have the same bday as Rachel's dad and nephew Mitch, hooray!) That's what I thought. Rachel and I went out to Cave B (she had never been) for a little birthday celebration. It was a fantastic dinner, I had crab cakes...heavenly, and Rachel had their handmade ravioli's topped with arugula...sooo good. I made her a chocolate cake since she loves chocolate and we sat on the tailgate of Ellie enjoyed the view and nice night and had some cake. Thanks Rach for a great evening!

Posing in the grape vines!

Rachel's delish blue cheese appetizer...

My amazing goat cheese nectarine salad.

Such a pretty view.

My husband is a machine....he worked from 3 am to 8:30 pm yesterday...I can't wait for winter to come...normally I wouldn't say that, but when corn and lima beans are on at the same time it's a long season. It's friday, thank goodness, it a long weekend, thank goodness. And because every post is better with a picture...