Combining on our Farm

Grant on the combine

Ian posing with the combines

Ian on the combine

I always tell folks we have a farm, but we are not really farmers. I say that because people want to come and buy our eggs and milk, but we don't have any. We have chosen the option to lease out our land to a seed farmer. He has grown several crops and this year it is clover. I didn't know my boys were so much into tractors, but when the time came to harvest. Daddy took them down to see if they could go for a ride. It lasted over 3 hours! The next day they made Dianne stay home in case they came back again (and they did). Another ride and they finished up. Wow! It was so much fun and they talked for days about it. They even got to drive a bit. They called their cousins to report the news.

Boys will be boys! Tractors are cool!!!!

Weekend with Daddy before 1st grade

Lighthouse in Newport.

Grant getting ready to climb.

Daddy starting the trek.

Grant taking a minute to pose for the camera. :)

It looks like a long climb from here!

Having a snack of chips with daddy before bedtime.

We decided early in the summer that Daddy and Grant should have a weekend away at the beach before he starts 1st grade. It is a sort of a new family tradition to mark a rite of passage. It was so fun for them to plan and they decided on Newport. They went to a lighthouse in the fog and climbed it. They had a nice lunch at Mo's with a window seat overlooking the bay. They watched the loud and crazy sea lions in Newport. Even did some shopping along the bayfront and brought back prizes for Ian and I. :) It was so good for all of us to have some one on one time with the boys. Of course, their behavior is much better apart from each other. These are the times when you know they really love each other, because they talk nonstop about each other. A glimpse of brotherly love.......