June 2014

Howdy-

Wow, June email already. Hopefully by the next email we'll be able to add another name to our family. This month brought the end of school. Rodney's taught for 7 years now. The last day of school was the Wednesday of Ronan and we were able to get there partway through the evening meeting. Had a wonderful time there, as usual. When we got home Sunday night, Rodney needed to get ready to head to Great Falls early Monday morning. Was there for his Ag teachers update conference for the week. The girls and I went up Tuesday afternoon and came home Thursday afternoon. Rodney enjoyed seeing the place where Tracy works, as they gave the teachers a tour. The girls and I had fun checking out Giant Springs and the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center with the Isaacs. Feeding the big fish at the hatchery was the highlight for them. Dale and Bonnie came down Sunday evening and they brought Jace and Paige with them. We tried fishing with the kids, but nothing was biting and soon the rain chased us home. Monday morning we brought the cows over to summer pasture. Was able to vaccinate, but it decided to rain that morning so branding was outta the question. They left after lunch. Thursday brought a trip to Highwood for Rodney, he brought some FFA kids to the Alumni Leadership Camp. Went back on Sunday to get them. Manhattan convention was this past week. We were able to get Wednesday evening, we brought Gene Halsey over with us for the meeting. Then were able to get the weekend. In between this and that we had quite a bit of rain this month, which we really needed. Made everything nice and green, but also brought a good batch of mosquitoes. Girls look like they have chicken pox, with all the bites on their arms and legs. Girls enjoyed all the puddles. Went through multiple changes of clothes each day. With the rain, it's pushed the haying back. Rodney started cutting yesterday, the 30th. Now we hope for no rain. :)

"Life's a struggle. Struggle for the best."

'Til next time-

Rodney, Amanda, Hannah and Nicole

A few random pics from the month:
 

who put who to sleep?

naptime snuggles

a june sunset

did some decorating with rocks, grass and flowers

grass has since died out - need to try something different with that

more things to climb on now!

the lilac bush that didn't last more than a couple days - molly chewed it off - it's slowly coming again, but it's considerably smaller

molly took out the chive plant, some flowers outta each pot/bed, the strawberries, the basil plants, some veggies outta the garden - guess we'll try to get a strawberry bed going next year - and the dog better leave it alone

they're "sleeping"

dad made me the cradle for my dollies back in the day