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We've been very busy lately doing a lot of visiting with family and playing with friends. Andrew's sister Janet came from Arkansas for a visit to Idaho and while she was here we had her come and play with us in Ashton. She had her cute kids with her and they loved playing our Just Dance game.

Also while she was here wen went to Bryan and Lisa's house and played one of the funnest games I've played in a long time. It's just simply volleyball but instead of a regular volleyball you use an exercise ball, you know one of those massive two foot diameter balls. It was a blast, we established rules and everything! We have to do that again for sure!

Tuesday was my birthday and it was a great day, thanks for those who called and gave their birthday wishes. Andrew and my mom put together a great dinner, ribs and my favorite lemon poppyseed cake. I got a beautiful jewelry box from Andrew and from my parents a Cuisinart Ice Cream maker, we all need one of those am I right? 

I've been crafting a lot lately.... okay when am I not crafting? Anyway I have been spending a lot of time with my good friend Britney, she has a little girl between the ages of my girls so we get together and craft while the girls play. It's a perfect situation! So of course our projects have been based in Independence Day, so we made some cute "fireworks" and I printed off a fun Fourth of July subway art display and put it in a frame. So fun, and cheap!

Also this week, a friend of mine called me up and told me that she had been cleaning out a lady's house and came across a huge stash of fabric, the lady apparently didn't want it anymore so told my friend to find people to give it to.  What luck! I stopped by my friend's house and felt kind of guilty for taking as much as I did because I just quadrupled my stash of fabric, and the best part of all was that it was F R E E, FREE! This picture doesn't do the fabric justice, there is so much fun stuff, flannel, cottons, minky, canvas, ric rac! I hit the mother load. I'm kind of.... no WAY excited for all the fun quilt and clothes I can make with this stuff!

News to those interested in the farm, the farm officially has two new pivots on the field behind our house. To most this may not seem like a big deal but it's literally in my backyard which makes for an amazing view, you know if you like the look of pivots :)

They just turned the water on this morning so I've been in heaven listening to one of my favorite sounds, irrigation sprinklers! I know, I'm weird!

  Oh yeah, this is Leah the other day when there was a beautiful rainbow.

On to the pivot pictures.

If the pivot were another ten feet longer it would go right through my garden.

"A Great Farmer overlooking his Great Crop"

***If  you thought that was just a small dark smudge on your computer screen when you saw the picture above, you are wrong, that would be one of the millions of mosquitoes that were hovering around us outside. Yeah... and we JUST started watering.***

 It was a beautiful night tonight. It was perfect, we were able to eat dinner with my parents, Grandpa and the missionaries. Then we had to watch as the pivot got ever so close to our house, my Dad had to figure out when to turn off the end gun (that Mega Sprinkler at the end of the pivot) so it didn't completely drown out our house. We'll leave the smaller sprinkler on that's just below it so that it can water our lawn and garden, a little overkill I think but at least my lawn will stay green until the grain starts to ripen. I can tell Andrew's in a good mood too, I think secretly he likes irrigation season. :) So now we are enjoying a night alone, the girls are at G and G's house and now it's time for a little SYTYCD on Hulu, yes Andrew watches and LIKES So You Think You Can Dance. Perfect, all except for those pesky mosquitoes that have infiltrated our house!!!