Farm Fest

August 7th, 2013...

We spent the better part of a day at Farm Fest. It was a beautiful day and we had a good time checking out everything and anything that has to do with farming. The boys go every year. The girls are allowed to come along every few years. Aren't we lucky?! ;-)

It's not green and yellow but it's huge and that's all that matters!

My happy little farmer :-)

The girls had to get in a few tractors too!

"Just like Uncle Joe's!"

Keith would love one of these on the farm

The perfect kids' size tractor!

Shelling corn the old-fashioned way

Super strong girls! The fake anvil looked so real.

Jared thought it was pretty cool.

Now that's a big snow blower!

Monkey see, monkey do!

Morgan's first pedal pull

Chloe looking so serious

Jared got down to business

1st Place!

So proud :-)

One last ride...

September 2nd, 2013...

My dad's birthday. He would've been 61. For many years he went on a motorcycle run with a group of his friends on Labor Day. This year it happened to be the same day. They wanted to do it in his memory so I strapped his urn (that his good friend, Donnie, made) to the back of his Harley and took him for one last ride. We met at Donnie's place. The 'Garage Boys' hung out there every Friday night. Don drove my dad's homemade V8 motorcycle. It's a beast and not very comfortable to ride but he knew my dad was so proud of that bike so he was honored to do it! It was a beautiful day and I really enjoyed spending time with his friends and hearing stories from the good-ole-days with Frank. The rest of the family followed us in vehicles so we had a pretty big group.

Headed towards the Red Rock Dells near Comfrey...

The whole group

 

Donnie on the V8