First Day of School

We now have a first grader and a fourth grader!  We are still attending Grace in Mankato, and I am still working in the office with a little study hall overseeing and even substituting here and there! We are looking forward to a great year.   So far, so good! It's a happy place to be, and the kids are meeting the academic challenges so far.  The drive is beautiful, and lots of reading and chatting happens along the way.

Industrial Farmhouse

A fun Craig's List find! An "industrial farmhouse light fixture" was how it was described.  I have loved these for a long time and got a good deal on this one and now I have a direction for my design on this farmhouse.  Industrial.  I will still try for cozy too though!

Last Waterpark Day 2016

We have hit a sad word..."last". We have had the most fun, relaxing, eventful summer!  And this year at the Waterpark, Jack learned to dive and Ava learned to go on the lily pads by herself and also to do it standing up with the ropes. She did it over and over, of course!

 I love that she really works at things she wants to accomplish.  Jack is getting to be a good swimmer and practiced different kinds of swims he saw on the Olympics this year.  So it was a great summer, and now comes school!!

Reunion

Somebody was glad to see Somebody when we got back!  And we have welcomed two new family members to the farm.  Shelley and Shadow are our new (outside) cats who we hope will be good mousers.  Right now they're just pretty cute.  

MN State Fair

A little preview for our real state fair visit next week!  We had a blast going for a few hours with my siblings, and the pronto pups were great!  Can't wait to go again! Ava got a unicorn named Rainbow (fitting) to carry around so that made her happy.  And we had a fun skyride and mostly walked around and ate food and tried to stay dry.  It was a little rainy but was still a great day!

Trip home

We had a trip home last week to help my parents after my dad's knee surgery, and Ava read a LOT of books!  She literally read all day on one of the days and said her throat and tummy hurt after that.  But I love that she loves to read and that she really practices.   We also had a first.  She cut her hair!  So we will be waiting a while for this to grow out but she's pretty cute still and she loves less tangles and she loves her bangs.  And probably no flowers for a while.  She was trying to get bangs like me.  She was pretty proud of it, but of course has since learned not to do that again!

Trip home

We had a trip home last week to help my parents after my dad's knee surgery, and Ava read a LOT of books!  She literally read all day on one of the days and said her throat and tqummy hurt after that.  But I love that she loves to read and that she really practices.   We also had a first.  She cut her hair!  So we will be waiting a while for this to grow out but she's pretty cute still and she loves less tangles and she loves her bangs.  And probably no flowers for a while.  She was trying to get bangs like me.  She was pretty proud of it, but of course has since learned not to do that again!