Happy Birthday Aaron!!!

Aaron was born 31 years ago today. He was just the most adorable baby ever! It's not hard to believe that this cute little baby grew into the handsome man my husband is today!
Aaron and I love to travel and we like to take our dogs with us as much as possible. Aaron is very family oriented and that is one of the things I love about him.
Aaron and I have moved across the country a couple of times. It doesn't matter where we are as long as we are together we are home.
Aaron has a passion for life and speed. Last year he bought this motorcycle and we love going on rides together and spending time together.
Another passion of Aaron's is the outdoors. I love how he loves to spend time in nature and take time to enjoy the simpler things in life. If Precious and I are unable to join him on his activities, Armstrong is always there to go on the next adventure with his dad.
Aaron and his baby girl. He is so great with our animals and is so loving that our dogs just adore him! Precious is such a daddy's girl and he is always the first one she likes to wake up with her kisses!
Aaron and I met in college and I feel so lucky to have such a wonderful husband. He inspires us to try new things, to continue learning and improving ourselves . I love his sense of adventure, his love of travel, the love for his family, his drive and intensity for life and his hard work ethic. He is my best friend and I love that he is my partner in life. He is so amazing and I just want everyone to know how great he is on his special day!
Happy Birthday my LOVE! You deserve a wonderful day! I love you very much!!!!

USS Midway

When we were out in California in April we visited the USS Midway Navy aircraft carrier. The pictures were on Aaron's phone and I just now had some time to upload them on the blog.Aaron's dream in life is to learn how to fly. This plane is similar to the ones flown on Top Gun.
Look at my stud muffin! Aaron loved the tour and so did I. We love visiting historical sites.
Here I am trying out a jet seat. They weren't too bad.
Here I am at the helm. I was chosen as captain on the tour and sat in a nice comfy seat, with the best views of the ship.
Here I am on the flight deck. There were so many planes and I loved seeing all of the parts of the ship. It was very interesting and well worth the visit.

Father's Day

Yesterday everyone decided to come to our house for Father's Day. It was a spur of the moment thing and we had a great time. We started up two more tractors and played on those and had a BBQ. Everyone had a fun time.
Dad pulling the kids and grandkids in the wagon.
Aaron jump starting a tractor
Aaron and Ryan jump starting the red tractor.
What a happy guy! He is so handsome on the tractor!
Blake going for a ride with his dad.
Armstrong giving Kinlee kisses.
Kinlee and the turkey.
Blake was a little uncomfortable holding the turkey since it was squirming around the whole time.
Kinlee and Moe.
Here is the Midget White Turkey. He/She (we don't don't know yet) is getting so big. It's head is turning red and it is really looking like a nice turkey.

Farm Visitors

Last Thursday Katlyn, Ashton, Lisa and Linda came to visit us on the farm. Here are some of the cute pictures of the kids and the animals.Aaron is showing Ashton how to hold JoJo.
Katlyn and JoJo.
Ashton and Nala.
Katlyn and Flopsy. The kids were very good with the animals and I think all of the animals liked the special attention.
Aaron and cowboy Ashton. We sure enjoyed having our visitors. We just wish they could have stayed longer.

Blake & Kinlee's Birthday Party

On Saturday we went to Janae & Ryan's for a BBQ to celebrate Blake & Kinlee's Birthdays. Kinlee's was on June 9th and Blake's is June 23rd. Here is the Birthday girl in front of her cake.
Janae forgot to buy candles so they blew out the candle lighter. They are good sports.
Kinlee wants to make herself a quilt so we bought her some fabric to make a quilt. Janae and I are going to help her make it while she is here this summer.
We got Blake a water gun. He loves dart guns and water guns.
Here's my dad with Blake & Kinlee. Everyone had a good time hanging out and visiting during the BBQ.

Here's the cute little birthday boy.
Blake got Guitar Hero III for the Wii from Janae & Ryan. He was very excited and plays it all the time now.
Kinlee got DDR for the Wii. She loves to dance and they have two mats so they can challenge each other to dance offs. On Saturday night we all played DDR and it was a lot of fun. It was a good birthday party.

Kinlee's & Blake's New Chicks

Kinlee and Blake are visiting for the summer and they came over to visit yesterday. We took them to the Feed Store and Kinlee got two chicks and Blake got a turkey. This little black one Kinlee named JoJo and I think it is Kinlee's favorite since she holds her all the time.
Here are the 3 new babies that Blake & Kinlee picked out. The yellow one is called Oreo because when she gets older she will be white with black spots and the one in the middle is the turkey that Blake named Turkess.
Here is Kinlee with JoJo. JoJo sure likes to snuggle.
Close up of little JoJo.
I heard of chickens taking dust baths, but I didn't realize they like to do that in their food. This one is so cute and funny.

Growing UP

Well the first batch after Michael's chicks went out in the yard for the first time on Saturday. They seemed to love pecking in the yard.
We also merged the second batch of chicks with the first ones that have been out in the hen house. We were concerned about everyone getting along but now they all hang out together.
Here's a close up of the two black giants. Aren't they cute!
The youngest batch we took out into the yard. I thought they would run around, but they all hung out around me and climbed on my feet instead. They are so small and friendly.
This one is Kevin's favorite and she decided to try out the sea-saw.