Everybody learns to work the Big Blue Tractor!

In preparation for building the wedding gazebo, there's been a lot of moving stuff around: moving rocks, mounds of dirt, heavy trees and their even heavier root systems. Using the Big Blue Tractor makes all this manipulating of the earth, easier.

Noel working the Big Blue Tractor.

Who is the project manager in this photo?

Big machines, heavy chains, manly men.

Look at that grin. He just earned a lolly pop!

Isaac digs out an old dead tree.

Isaac takes charge of Big Blue.

Wedding Gazebo ~ Getting Started

Rob arrives with the backhoe ~ on loan from our friends Lonnie and Steve, who love to bless our socks off. We love you guys!

Cheering their Daddy on as he digs out a stump and root system.

Isaac with his Dad.

Robbie concentrating. Check out that tongue.


Big machines are so much fun!

Building the Wedding Gazebo

Noel and Danny will be married this June 5th, 2010, on our property, but first we need to move some more trees, remove a lot of stumps and brush, level some ground and build a gazebo. We really only got started a few weeks ago, with the weather getting warmer. Here are some photos to show our progress.

We've taken down several large, old, dead trees and a few trees that were in the way, but we've been very thoughtful about downing trees. We love our trees.

Watching a grown man down a tree with a chain saw is like watching a little boy with a new toy, only with a lot more testosterone. Taking down trees is manly. Argh!

This is Danny, Noel's fiance. He's so strong!

And the big old dead trees falls!

Good job Dan!

The photo above is our driveway...

I like these...

This is the style of raised bed vegetable, herb, flower garden I would like to plant in our open field at the farm when we live there.
Here's another view.
This is the perfect barn-like shed design.

Spraying mud...

April 4, 2009 Day at the Farm

Becky and the turkey egg bra.
Frying a fresh turkey egg from Becky's farm, over the fire. Yum.
Cracking the beautiful turkey egg, with brown speckles.
Anna's friend, Michaela, trying her very best to toss a rope over a tree branch for a rope swing.
Anna took a fabulous trail ride with our friends Becky and Michaela. This is Anna hanging out with Pete.
Michaela and Pete.
Isaac - could a boy ask for more?
Robbie and Isaac went mudding on some trails at the back of our neighborhood. This was not at the farm, but looks like they had fun.
Robbie, Shaughn, and friends, Phillip, Matt, Tyler, and Jordan hanging out at the farm.
Sweet Sophia on the tractor, which Robbie had just used to pull his pick-up truck out after getting stuck in the mud. All in a good days fun.