Wheat Harvest 2015

Wheat harvest 2015 is complete! It actually wrapped up Monday afternoon. It's always my favorite harvest with no school to worry about and it is the most beautiful of the crops we grow.  I don't have any photos of my kids in the wheat because most of the time, our boys were running a combine or two!  Even Teresa practiced steering the grain cart with grandma.

Time sure does fly!

It is fun to see the next generation of farmers taking a new role on the farm.

Jr. Pee Wees and Pee Wees

Here are our other two favorite baseball teams!

2015 Jr. Pee Wees

2015 Pee Wees

End of Season Tournament

2015 Northwestern Midget Team

We finished off the baseball season with the end of season Midget Tourney on Saturday. Our boys won their first game against Warner, lost the next one to Orient, and the 3rd place game was called suddenly on account of lightning. 

If we go by official baseball rules and go back to the last full inning played, Northwestern won 3rd place. :)  In between games, most of the team found their way to the balcony of the old school. I thought it made a pretty neat photo.

Landen went out on a good note - a catch for the final out in the final full inning, and a great hit to right field (that unfortunately was caught out). 

Pick-up game

Nathan often wants to go into Cresbard to play baseball. 

I usually opt for staying at home and playing in our yard, but this morning turned out to be a great opportunity for us to go to the park.

When we got there, we saw that a few of the kids' friends were already there and were looking for more players.  Soon, four more boys came over from the house they were vacationing in and began to play, too.  They all chose teams and played for an hour.

I barely caught this picture before the other boys had to leave and the Cresbard kids got too hot and thirsty.

It was all very "Sandlot."

A perfect hour of small-town summer fun.

Hangin' Tough

There was a flutter on Facebook yesterday that it was the 25th anniversary of the release of New Kids on the Block's Hangin' Tough. Although a little research has refuted that fact, it is still a fun memory of my early adolescence to relive.

I was going through old CD's this morning and came upon the Hangin' Tough CD (my husband's--I only owned them on cassette tape). Teresa was excited to listen to it, but she just had one question.

Was one of the singers a girl?

She was referring to Joey McIntyre's "Please Don't Go Girl."
I assured her it was five boys, even if she still thought he sounded like a girl. :)

Ahh, the memories. We all had our favorites amongst Jordan, Jonathan, Joey, Danny and Donnie. All of us divided them up fairly evenly, too. I suppose it was so we wouldn't have to fight about who's heart belonged to who. I was a Jordan girl and my mom once came home from a shopping trip to Aberdeen with the most wonderful surprise of all--a Jordan Knight t-shirt.

Just like the Garth Brooks music that has run through my life, I could probably sing all of the songs on the Hangin' Tough album word for word as well.

Our family just saw the movie "Inside Out" this past weekend and there was a clever scene with memory cleaners taking out what wasn't needed anymore--most of four years of piano lessons for one. For some reason, those cleaners always leave the catchy songs behind.

I think that's a good thing as this one brings back wonderful memories of Girl Scout Drill Team (we had the RIGHT STUFF) and screaming our heads off for NKOTB at the 1990 (?) South Dakota State Fair (my first BIG CONCERT!!)  Yes, that would make the concert at least 25 years ago!

Yes, I am now to the age that my children sometimes laugh at my music.

But they are smart.  They know Garth Brooks always deserves respect. :)