Fall Photos

This evening I took fall photos of the kids playing in the leaf pile that Chad was working on! He has a bagger for his lawn mower so cleaning up the leafs is a breeze. And my yard looks much nicer! Chad kept adding more leafs to the pile so it kept getting bigger and bigger as they were playing! They were also a leafy mess by the time it was over!

I love this with all the leaf's in the air!

 Of course Lindsey had to do it too! Just not so many leafs!

Dive in!

Jacob who is always busy, was putting them in his little wheel barrel! Making his own pile!

The kids had a blast tonight, and it was fun to watch them interact with each other! I know where they will be tomorrow when they get off the bus!  Leaf pile 4:00pm, OK maybe 4:30 gotta have snack first!                                      Lisa

Another Trip to Indy!

On Monday Jacob had another doctor's appointment down in Indy, to meet with his doctor and get his new pressure garment glove from his physical therapist. He was excited to get his new glove considering his other ones were wore out and to small! His doctor said that everything looks great, he has to go back down toward the end of December. The doctor suggested seeing him in two months rather than three since he is such a growing little guy! So he will have to be fitted again for another glove when we go back down, this will hopefully prevent the gloves from getting so wore out. After his doctors appointment and on the way back home we stopped by the Harley Davidson shop to do some shopping! Jacob was excited to see the bikes, he liked looking at the toys they had, meanwhile I was trying to find the boys matching shirts. 

In the picture below, Jacob checking out the bike!

"Yeap dad, this is the one!" Forget those plastic toys!

Not to worry, he did settle for those plastic toys after all!

And as for Chad, well lets just say he was dreaming and drooling! Of course he had some things to show me, just a little out of our price range! (OK did I say a little, I mean a lot!) 

Here are the two wild boys in their matching shirts! 

Overall we had a great day and I was just glad to see Jacob get his much needed new glove! I think he was too!                                Lisa

Denim Ruffles

I finished up some denim ruffle pants for the shop on Saturday, they will listed soon! I took Chad some dinner when he was at the other farm filling the grain bins and decided to take Lindsey back to the barn lot for some pictures! Let me just tell you this it was freezing out! Some of the pictures turned out well, the sun was setting and the lighting was great. I got excited when I seen this old truck out there! Lindsey wasn't quite sure about sitting on it but I insisted it would look marvelous! I actually like the old truck, I think it adds lots of character!

This one here is one of my favorites, I just love the colors in the background!

And here is one last picture of Lindsey doing her supermodel pose! 

I do have admit that it is always so funny when we do a photo shoot together! I tell her to"work it darling work it" in this super funny french accent! Its always hysterical, and I do manage to get her to pose for me and have fun with it! I have lots more things that need to be photographed for my shop so be sure to check it out within the next few weeks! On a different note, tomorrow Jacob has his doctors appointment down in Indy, he should be getting his new glove! I sure hope so because his other ones are to small and have some holes in them! He is definitely a hard working country boy! Also, we are writing the first check for the money raised with Riley's Pop Garden Knot dress, the total comes to $84! Wahoo! The money will be going to the Riley Hospital for Children's Burn Unit! A huge Thank You to all of my sweet customers!  Lisa

A farmer in training!

It's that time of year again, the harvest season is upon us! Last week was the first week that we got into the fields. Jacob of course was excited to see the combine drive past last week and I mentioned to him that they were going to "pick beans". Well Jacob says to me "no cut beans", wow I thought this coming from a two year old! So of course I just had to ask him "do you cut corn?" and he says "no pick corn" in a very stern voice! I was just too funny, he was so serious when we were talking, he probably thought I was out of my mind not knowing how to farm! On the first day the guys got in the fields I took the kids down to the bean field for a ride in the combine. At first Jacob was excited to see the combine in the field but when it got closer and when it came time to get in it he seemed a little apprehensive. 

We assured him that it was fine and away they went down the field, he was excited about the ride when he got back! And still talks about it allllll the time!!!

This past Saturday when we were picking corn, the kids got to ride to town to the elevator to drop off the corn.

Kyle has gone lots of times so this was nothing new to him but for Lindsey and Jacob they thought it was pretty neat! Of course Chad mentioned to me that we can't waste time at the elevator and we soon found out why! When we got back to field the auger wagon was full and the combine was almost full! I don't think I could make it being a farmer, way to much to learn! That and you really don't want me driving a combine, now that would be scary! OK I think that's enough farming pictures for one blog!                                                              Lisa

Breakfast at Tiffany's!

Today was another very eventful day, Jacob had his doctors appointment this morning down in Indy to get fitted for new pressure garments also its Chads birthday, and we went to Tiffany's! Jacob is getting two new gloves made, one in camo green (for hunting season!) and the other in light blue, he will get them when we go back down in  the middle of October.  After Jacobs appointment we went to the fashion mall in Indy and we went to Tiffany's, this was my first time there so I was extremely excited! Like a kid in a candy store, I could barely contain myself! After looking online at the website I knew what I wanted and how much I could spend. Let me just tell you this the workers there were extremely nice, and not the fake nice that you get at some stores! The sweet lady that was helping us let me try on the jewelry, even asked us if we would like a bottle of water and/or a cookie, it was like she really did want us to have Breakfast at Tiffany's! I didn't do the whole Audrey Hepburn thing in front of the window, I will need to do that next time when we go back and pick up my new ring! Sorry folks but it's not the $84,000 ring on the website, nope that ones just not for me, instead I just got a pink gold band cause that's just how I am! Nothing too fancy or frilly for me! We also went to Williams Sonoma and oh my gosh did it smell good in there! (OK so us country folks just don't get out much!) I loved looking at all the kitchen utensils and gadgets they had, wow if only I knew how to cook (OK so I do try!) When I got home I checked out there website here and they had lots of different recipes to try! After shopping we went out for lunch at our favorite restaurant in Zionsville that has the best sweet potato fries around! Chad, Jacob and I scarfed them down in no time! I did have to miss school today but it was well worth it!  I will have to miss class again next month when we go down for Jacobs gloves, I feel that I need to go as I also have a dozen different questions to ask each time we go. Thank goodness Jacob has a really wonderful physical therapist and is under the care of one of Indiana's top doctors!    

Happy Birthday Chad!!!                                                     Lisa

Parking Instructions!

Today seemed to be a very busy day for us, we went quite a few different places all in one day! So this morning  I got the pleasure, not really, of taking some tires to a recycling center about a half hour north of were we live. Chad and Kyle left to go to a farm machinery auction and so Lindsey, Jacob and I drove the truck to the recycling center. Then when we got back to the farm I decided to go to an Apple Popcorn festival in a town close by, it was about two or three in the afternoon when we got there and everyone else and their brother were already there! I tell you what, finding a parking spot was eventful! Then I found one, this lady had just left so I pulled in her spot and then decide, well this isn't going to work my back end was still sticking out. Just great I was going to have to parallel park like I was taking my drivers test all over again! For me that was easier said then done! So I started backing in of course I was thinking wow this is pretty easy, then I hit the curb so I had to pull forward and try it again! I got backed in but I was still on the curb just a little bit so I had Lindsey jump out on her side and tell me how far I was from the car behind us. She, being the drama queen, said your this far with her hands all of six inches apart seen below!

Oh my I thought so I pulled forward and she was saying oh no mommy your going to run over the flowers right here! Just great who in the heck puts flower by the curb! So I finally got the van in a somewhat good spot and when I got out to open the back and get Jacobs stroller out you will never believe how close I was to the other car behind me! About four feet yes four feet rather than Lindsey's 6 inches she was showing me! I couldn't help but laugh, I bet we were a sight to see! A mother listening to a six year old directing her how to park! Gotta love it! Since the festival had lots of people we didn't stay very long, we did stop a few yards sales and all we got was a 50 cent pop from this really nice lady who I chatted with for sometime! Then we walked back to the van and went home, so we took the scenic route and I took some pictures of the brand new windmills that are about five miles away from our house! There are so many of them its crazy and to think we are going to have to be looking at them for a very long time!

Lesson learned for today is, do not take parking instructions from a six year old!       Lisa

Small Town Fun!

This past weekend the very small town that we live outside of had a festival on Saturday. They had a parade, circus and some rides, it wasn't very big but hey it gave us something to do! All of the rides for the kids to ride on were free for anyone that came, they even had an elephant that you could ride on! We were in the parade in the afternoon, in the photo below you can see Chad, Jacob and I riding on the small tractor pulling (or so it looks) the Semi that Chads dad is driving and his grandfather is riding in the cab! On the trailer they put all red international tractors on and the kids rode on the back with my mother-in-law and Chads good friend, throwing candy to everyone.  

Jacob got to ride on a carousel for the very first time! (he doesn't get out much!)

They even had a mechanical bull that the kids could ride on so Kyle and Lindsey gave it a try! Lots of redneck fun I tell ya! Can you see the elephant in the back ground! (Just for the record Lindsey did stay on the bull longer than Kyle by about 20 seconds!) 

Jacob enjoyed watching all the crazy kids ride on the mechanical bull! 

And then that evening they had fireworks!!! (Which Jacob loved watching!)

Overall it was a fun day for all of us, the kids enjoyed seeing most of their friends from school and it was nice to see everyone from the town come together for this event!    Lisa