June 2011, so far!

Ohh our crazy summer days! I was hoping to update this at least every two weeks, but last weekend caught me off guard. I finished the first of my two summer classes and got ready for our church's annual BBQ baking pies, cakes and making rice krispie treats on Saturday. Sunday was the big day and we spent the majority of the day at the church. We followed with showers and dinner and Chris and I attended our marriage encounter circle in the evening. We have found that keeping our family strong through our faith and great friends has made a huge difference in our family-and when your family and work spend so much time together, its important to keep them all healthy!

I started a new online class on Monday and the week also included two softball games for Jordan, and a special treat, my sister was here from Lincoln to see one of them!!

(our lefty up to bat)

(at the rodeo)

 We also got to enjoy free tickets to the Nebraskaland Days rodeo Thursday night and took in the parade Saturday afternoon. The weather has been typical of June around here, we joke that Nebraskaland Days brings in thunderstorms and boy this year has been no exception-Thursday night we had a good soaker two to three inches around most of the North Platte area. So my pictures of cultivated corn don't look much different from the last time-except it is taller now :)

I also decided to check in on the rest of the crops.  The first cutting of hay is baled and looked really good thanks to a wet spring, the wheat is starting to turn from its fresh deep green to a little paler on its way to gold (probably by the end of the month) and the beans that were planted about three weeks ago are about 4-5 inches tall now.

We are ending our week with a nice relaxing Father's Day, then it is back to another crazy week. However we are excitedly looking forward to Brad Paisley in concert this Friday-a great reward for a stressful spring!

Done Planting-Bring on the Sun!

June 1st 2011, finally saw us out of the field with the planter for the last time this spring. Praise the Lord, it has been a long spring! Now Chris is in the field today (June 6th) cultivating the flood irrigated corn. We have about 1/2 of our acres in the valley still flood irrigated with pipe and those acres must be cultivated and ridged to make a row for the water to travel from the pipe to the other end of the field when it is time to irrigate. We have officially hit summer weather with the last few days into the upper nineties-wow what an adjustment from last month! I can practically hear the corn growing it is coming up so fast now!