Yep you read the title of this post correctly, and yes Weston is in it. Sometimes I feel like I am a single parent, Weston is so busy trying to balance his town job and the farm and cattle. When he started his town job I was so excited thinking he would be home at 5:30 for the night. I am not real sure why I thought this, I was so naive. Weston's town job just made it so his farming day starts at 5:30 p.m. Why you might ask does he do both? Well the answer is quite simple really, we wanted the stability of a town job yet we both agree that the farm is necessary to raise our kids the way we want them raised. (Not to mention that farming is more like a hobby than a job to Wes).
We don't spend a lot of time together camping, fishing, hiking, gardening and some of the things that many of you enjoy doing as a family. We just don't have time, therefore I have found that we don't have very many pictures of our family activities. They just aren't that exciting to photograph. Wes usually gets home around 5:30 (except during the tax season) I try to have dinner ready and the kids in their farm clothes when he gets home. We eat, and then the whole family heads out to check cows and pivots and change water. The kids are learning a lot about the farm and they get so upset if we don't get to go. We are very grateful for the time we have together and I am so grateful to Wes for teaching the kids the importance of work!
Last Sunday we took the kids on a picnic to Warm River and fed the fish. This is the first time we had done this with them and they loved it. We took the scenic road home and were able to see and osprey dive into the river and come out with a fish. It was awesome!
Every time we try to take a picture of the kids Kallie busts out some kind of a pose. Should I be concerned? After our picnic we did this..... Pony Rides!!
After much begging and pleading and a little push from the neighbors, we partnered up in buying a pony. I am positive Weston has had more fun with this than the kids. He loves it, but so does Cole. Diamey is a good little pony that is broke to ride and pull a cart. She is really gentle and lets the kids maul her to death.
Kallie and Jalyssa are besties. We are so grateful for cute little Jalyssa letting Kallie tag along all the time and for being such a good example to our little girl.
Now that is a good pony for letting Wes hitch a ride. (she was not thrilled) Wes is such a nerd, I really try to not let him get too far from the house when he tucks his pants into his boots like that!
Weston has basically been MIA this summer, he is taking a class in Pocatello on Saturdays from 8-5 (crappy), he studies in the morning before work and at least 2-3 hours after work. Lucky for him he is not alone in this misery and has a friend doing the same thing so they study together. Un-Lucky for me is that he has no time to manage his irrigating so this has become my duty. We rent a piece of ground about a mile down the road for pasture for some of our cows, it is all flood irrigated. Usually once a day sometimes twice I drag a couple neighbor kids with me to change the water. The pasture runs right along the river and it is gorgeous, we almost always see wildlife including deer, moose, rockchucks and a bald eagle that has a big nest. Usually this is a good experience for all minus a few times when we got stuck, couldn't stop a massive flow of water, just minor mishaps like that. One day we found a turtle it was super cool and pretty big for what we have around here. We brought it home and kept it in a bucket for a few days to show off to all our friends. (P.S. That tiny blue bucket is not what we kept it in it had a much larger home.)
Cole really liked the turtle and was concerned that it was hungry, one morning before he woke up I had put some old lettuce in the bucket to see if the turtle would eat it. When Cole went out to check on his turtle he came in the house and said "Mom, thank you for making a salad for my turtle". What a cute boy!!
