September

We have had a great September. For Labour Day we went camping to Bear Lake with Al's family and the weather was great this year. Gavin, Luke and Braden playing on the beach. My hubby Alex. The little cousins had a blast running through the water even though it was freezing. Alex and his sister Jodi. Luke, Gavin and Braden loved playing with the dirt in camp. I have stayed busy with school and canning peaches. My friend just brought me a box a plums too, so I'm about to attemp some plum jam. And we can't forget what fall means in farm country. Yep, corn choppin time. The last week and a half Alex has been busy at the dairy. Corn choppin lasts about a month working day and night many times. They needed more dump truck drivers to haul the corn to the pits, so Alex has also been driving for them every night after work. They have something like 900+ acres of corn to chop and one of their choppers broke the other day. Anyway, Luke and I usually get to go ride along and Luke loves seeing the big tractors and riding in the dump truck. He just sits in there for hours every night making choo choo noises (we haven't quite got him to understand that tractors and trucks don't say choo choo). I took some videos of the chopper filling our dump truck cause I thought it was kind of interesting how it works.


Luke and Daddy

Luke and Momma

The dump trucks drive next to the chopper and the chopper shoots the chopped corn into the back. I keep forgeting to roll my window up when we're next to the chopper and end up being sprayed with corn.

Bow Hunt '09

The hunt was a blast. We were there for 7 days this year and it just wasn't long enough. We had quite a bit of excitment too. Luke took Grandpa's fourwheeler for a little spin in camp. He was sitting on the fourwheeler and somehow figured out how to get it into neutral. I was sitting up at the campfire and the next thing I see is Luke flying down the hill through camp. He crashed into Amy and Brandon's trailer leaving a dent which splintered the support wall. Dad and Uncle Randy took the paneling off and pounded out the dent, but there's only so much you can do. Luke went flying off during the impact but wasn't hurt at all. He was just mad because I wouldn't let him back on. He thought the whole thing was a lot of fun. I'm thinking of calling up Dave Ramsey and thanking him for his advice of having an emergency fund on hand. It's just sad that our two year old had used more of it up than either Alex or I.