Monday, October 10, 2016

Fall pictures

Just a few more pictures from the last month or so....
Haddie started eating some baby food. It's hit or miss, some days you can't shovel it in fast enough and other days she has no interest.
 
Fall fires and Smores with friends are the best.
 
So sweet.
 
Dog trainer extraordinaire  :) Maggie has spent a lot of time working with Wrigley lately. She's becoming quiet a jumper amd
she does a great job listening to Maggie.
 
 
 
 
 
A few weeks ago we surprised Grandma and Grandpa (and actually the kids) with a Disney Cruise. They took this
picture in preparation of the surprise but never asked why I made them put on their mouse ears :)
 
 
 
 
Bareback has been all the rage lately :)
 
 
Gracie got to bring her friend Lily home from school for an afternoon a couple of weeks ago.
 
 
 
 
 
The girls made a couple dozen dog collars for a fundraiser at the Animal Shelter.
 
They made sure Pop's got to spend some time in the dog house at the fundraiser.
 
They each took a turn too!
 
(Maggie has her face painted like a dog nose, not a mustache :))
 
Hanging at the barn.
 
Sweaty girl and sweaty horse!
 
 
Who's that??
 
"Gracie, why are you wearing safety glasses?"...."I wear a seatbelt don't I?"
 
 
 
Some days I find dozens of Gracie selfies on my phone :)
 
 
We moved Breezy and Jude to a new barn last week. This was the girls last ride at Arista. Their new digs are way less fancy, but they will be well cared for and both the horses and the girls will have an opportunity to learn from a new trainer. There's no heat in the new arena so we are all going to need more layers this winter!
 

House Update

Our new house is coming along. Never as quickly as we'd like, but they are making progress. Hopefully by the end of this week the second floor will be framed and they'll start working on the roof.
 
 
Shed from the camper side.
 
 
Steps inside the shed.
 
The extra garages and camper shed now that it's all closed in.

The main floor before the walls.
 
Standing between the kitchen and the garage.
 
We'll have a great view.
 
My office....all I need is a desk :)
 
 
 
 
 
The main floor, almost all framed.
 
 

Monday, October 3, 2016

Mom's Birthday

We celebrated my Birthday weekend in Lincoln. There is a campground right near downtown that works great when we have things to do in Lincoln. We visited Papa, Arnie and Maggie went to the Husker game and we had a chance to relax and play a little.
 
 
 
tickle, tickle :)
 
 
We got to see Brandon for a few minutes when we went to pick up Maggie and Arnie.
 
Go Cubs, Go!
 
My girls!
 
Happy 35th Birthday Mom!
 
 
 
 
 
"Roughing it" and watching the Cubs play.
We came home Sunday and I got to celebrate my Birthday with some of my favorite people, with a picnic in my new dining room. It was our first official dinner party :) Hopefully we'll have walls, a roof and maybe even a toilet before we do it again, but I'll never forget this one.