New (Old) Machinery

Last week, Shawn came across an old hay bale-ing machine for a good price.

As we have recently lost our contact for helping us with our hay and sharing the bounty,

we have been pressured to work on harvesting our hay ourselves.

As with any old equipment, it needed work to get it running.

All of the kids were curious and anxious to "help", knowing this eases their own physical work load a lot when it comes harvesting hay for their cows and pony and rabbits.

The girls especially spent several hours going over the baler, cleaning and greasing it.

Thankfully it runs well, and we are anxious to try it out, come next hay crop.

and this is just Hannah's photo of her rabbit, Butterfly, this morning, just because she's cute

T-28 Trojan War Planes

We took the kids to view these loud relics at the Sheb County Airport Saturday, where they were gathering to practice formation flying.

They plan to perform in the EAA AirVenture shows later this week.

It was a treat to get up close and personal to these beautiful stars of history and their colorful pilots.

inside the cockpit

an airport guide kindly led the kids out on the tarmac to touch and view the planes

Patient Fun Day

Dr. Meinhart, the orthodontist that treats Hannah and Miles, hosted a super-fun

patient appreciation day last week!

The kids enjoyed face/arm painting, making tie dye shirts, playing corn hole, eating pizza, and...

the best of all, the dunk tank!

Their favorite was getting to dunk their own doctor!

But they enjoyed having a turn in the tank too, especially because it was a steamy 90+ day with plenty of humidity to boot.

cousin Cherith did the body art :)

Hannah enjoying her turn at getting wet!

Miles took a turn too!

Radar

We've been pet-sitting Radar this past week and half...

and enjoying her so much!

her favorite place - in front on the fan - on these 80-90 degree days!

she's obsessed with hamsters and rabbits

fan

playing ball at the beach

Iola Car Show

Miles and Nate their daddies attended the Iola Car Show last week!

First time for the boys...and they had a blast!

Here are a few of Miles' pics.

Tea and Mulberries

Theo's charming little tea event

our mulberries are ripe! yum!!

so we made jam :)

Celene and Theo trying out a catapult she made 

Butterflies and Trees

Celene patiently chased and caught this lovely creature, took some pictures, and let it go. :)

Hannah's fresh red clover and honey tea - yum!

The kids went up the tree so high Shawn had to take a pic