What a full week!
Silly me, I had thought since we weren't having family visit for Thanksgiving or Christmas, it would be a slower time for us. Wrong... November's calendar is full, and December is filling up fast. It's time to plan my annual cookie swap, so I pulled out the calendar....whew! Busy, busy, busy! But, each year when January rolls around, life always slows down a bit. So, we soak up the extra activity now and will have some slower days later. Rebecca's trip to Cozumel is coming soon. She's so very excited! We're excited for her return...and she hasn't even left yet! We sold 4 steers and 2 heifer calves last night!!!! WAHOO!!!! A friend of ours and his friend came to pick out which animals

Happy Birthdays to Martha and Penny
Today is a special day!!! My MIL and SIL share a birthday today!!! What an incredible gift, to have a daughter born on your birthday!!! Wishing you both a very special day!!! Wish we were together to celebrate!! Love you both!!!

A small rant on birth certificates....
Okay, so my driver's license needed to be renewed by my birthday. Course, in that week was Veteran's Day, that was the day I had planned to stop by the office to renew my license. They were obviously closed. Next day, we ride all the way over to the license office. Only to find that my birth certificate...which is the only birth certificate I have ever had....and was issued by the health department and had sufficed for ID for 39.99999 years of my life...was no longer valid for ID purposes. WHAT??! I have to have a state issued birth certificate. Who came up with this craziness?? Why is my birth certificate no longer valid?? I looked at my bc versus my children's (issued by the State of F

Monday and vacation is over....
It's Monday...a day I usually like....but not today. Today's Monday means vacation is over and Honey had to go back to work. Not cool, not cool at all! We had a wonderful week. We didn't do anything out of the ordinary, just really enjoyed being together, all of us.... Today, it's back to work for Honey and back to school for us. A busy week, with quite a few busy weeks ahead. We'll be having company for Thanksgiving. We had thought we wouldn't...but a friend we haven't seen in several years is coming to visit! How cool is that?? We had a busy weekend....Thomas did a job for a friend and cleaned a piece of equipment. Since we had rented a pressure washer for that job, we used it to cle

Happy Birthday Baby
 Today marks one of the greatest events in world history....the birthdate of my beloved wife. Our children and I are infinitely blessed and continually encouraged by her positive,bright outlook.    As a mother she sees to our children's every need all the while working to form them into independent, self sufficient, confident adults.  As a teacher she works diligently to provide our children with the intellectual tools necessary to navigate whichever path in life they should choose.  On our first post-introduction in-depth conversation I learned that while she possessed all she needed to pursue a truly professional occupational career, her desire was the higher