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Well, haying season is pretty much finished. Or so I hear, anyway. Stu still has a couple ditches to cut, but nothing too pressing. Now the real fun begins...hauling hay. My favorite thing to do. Nothing like sitting in a dusty, dry field with two crabby kids in a non-air conditioned truck watching the field mice fall outta each bale Stu puts on the tractor. (Could you detect the sarcasm in that last sentence?!?) ;) I guess I should point out that I am VERY thankful that we have the hay we do. In fact, we will be selling some off because of the severe hay shortage in the area. A little income our way and helping out the neighbors in the process. If we wouldn't have had the hay we did this year, we would probably be selling off quite a few cows.

The girls are doing good...still growing like crazy. Each day Grace says or does something new. We love watching them grow and learn. It's so neat seeing you babies start out as so dependent on you and within a year, they want to do it all on their own! Em's pushing the three year old mark....going on 14! She' s getting better about listening and is becoming a great helper. We're implementing a chore chart for her and to make it even, Mommy has one, too! She helped me write it and alongside cooking supper, doing dishes and laundry, there's "read to my girls" and "play toys". It seems she does better knowing that I have rules too! Her and Grace tend to butt heads quite often, also. I guess that's how it is with two very independent girls only 21 months apart!

Stu's enjoying his new job. The heat's been a little hard on the guys, lately. Their shop is a steel building and when the breeze or wind is out of the south or southeast it's really smokin' in their, since there are no doors or windows to help circulate the air. With the haying pretty much done, he's been able to spend a little more time in the house when he gets home. Grace is usually the first to detect when it's getting close to Daddy home time...she starts babbling "Dada Dada Dada...home".

We're planning on making an offer on a house in town. We know the adjustment will be hard, but it will give us the chance to get buildings and corrals up on our land before we decide to build a house there. The house we're looking at in town is nice. It's not much bigger than what we live in, but we know that not everything can happen right away. It's got two lots so the yard is nice, along with a double heated garage and a nice sized living area downstairs. We're hoping all works out well.

Not too much else going on here other than the obvious. We were planning a 5th Anniversary Honeymoon (Cancun) in October with another couple, but aren't sure how that will work with buying a house. We'll just have to see I guess.