Wheat Harvest 2009

Well, here we are again....wheat harvest! We went back again to help out....Brody loved it! The older he gets the more he understands......however, he still has this fascination with SWATHERS (oh yeah, thats the first thing he would like to ride when we go back to my parents....it was the story of the century when the swather had a flat tire, I think he went up to the shed to visit it a handful of times while waiting for it to be fixed) Anywho.....this trip was all about the combine!
The picture below, first of all is ADORABLE, but he was following "Crappa" around while he serviced and oiled up the combine before starting the day.

Daddy and Brody in the wheat field...love it!

something about this picture below....just makes me thank God for growing up on a farm and for the opportunity to share the memories that I grew up making with my family and making even more memories

playing in the dirt at the field

The pic below.....what can I say....makes me smile every single time I look at it. I can just hear Brody saying "Wait for me Crappa, what are you doing Crappa, why are you doing that Crappa, can I help?"

Brody helping Grandma water her flowers

Beautiful sunset after a great day of harvest

Wiffle-Ball Tourney

We spent this past weekend at the 7th Annual Brian Arellano Wiffle-Ball Tournament. Brian's family have put this tournament together every June in his honor since 2003. Tons and tons of people come to this event every year to have a great time with family and friends and mostly to honor the memory of Brian.

We also had time to do some swimming at Pat's Aunt Julie's pool! Brody LOVES going off the board....he would do it all day long if we let him!! That's Pat's cousin, Jeremy, and his little boy Kolten in the background. We had a great time!

This picture was taken a few weekends ago at the T-bones game. Aren't my boys so CUTE!?!?

Honeybees & Panda Bears

Brody had his year-end Honeybees program at Church last Wednesday...so here's a video of him singing "I'm a Happy Honeybee....buzz, buzz, buzz!" (He's the one close to the teacher with plaid shorts on)





And Brody had his last soccer game last night! Grandma & Crappa even came to watch the Panda Bears. Brody's next season goal...to work on going just for the soccer ball & not so much on who he's going to "accidently" knock down next.

Pat and I had a great time coaching the Panda Bears....and, HEY, I even learned a little about soccer! Go figure...

Taking you back...

I posted a few pictures on Facebook in honor of my lovely sister turning 30....so I thought I would share this picture of the 3 of us back in.....oh it was probably 1982, I think!

I remember that chair so vividly, plus we had a couch that matched!!!!! Oh yeah!

Just a little update on big man Brody....preschool is going really well, he comes home singing songs about the days of the week, the months of the year, it's darling! He is finally catching on to some of the kids' names, it seems that his new "best friend" is Clayton, he also have a twin brother in the same class, but the teacher says Brody knows exactly which one is Clayton. Brody has his first "Honeybee" program at church next Wednesday...they practiced last Wednesday and Brody came home excited to tell me the Bible verse he gets to say is "Love one another... John 15:12" so hopefully I'll get some pictures of that. And lastly, Brody had a soccer game last night and did really well...he went after the ball the whole time but shoved a few kids along the way...so we'll work on that! Have a good weekend!

Green Acres

(You may have to PAUSE the music at the bottom)

Brody got a cookie jar from Great-Grandma Ethel for his birthday that plays music. Here is the debut of his newest single "Green Acres"...ENJOY!

Happy 30th Sis!

Ann is 30 today! Help me wish her a VERY Happy Birthday! Wasn't she the cutest lil girl?!

See you tomorrow night!

New Toy...New Sport

Pat's new toy!

Brody's new sport! SOCCER!

He started last night and Pat and I are his coaches...and yeah, I pretty much know N-O-T-H-I-N-G about soccer, but I guess I know more than 3 & 4 year olds! We have 11 kids on our team and the kids decided they wanted our team name to be the "Panda Bears"!
Go Panda Bears!~!~!