Did you catch the hint?

In the "Summer Inventory 2" story I left a little hint...I said I was the mother of Dave's little ones, with an 's'.  However, the only pictures you've seen are of our almost 4 year old.  As you can tell from the picture at the top, we just added on another addition to the family...perhaps this could be yet another addition to our summer inventory.  We are happy to introduce "Rock Picker #2." 

See, when I first started working on the farm as a naive new wife, I was introduced to the job of rock picking.  Just as the name suggests, you have to pick all of the rocks out of a multi-acre field so that pasture could be planted.  I quickly discovered this was the worst job on the farm (even worse than shoveling manure) and noted that to my husband and his family.  It was then that I was given my first hint to start adding to the list of grandchildren by being told to start having "rock pickers."  This would eliminate my need to take part in the exciting task of walking around and picking up rocks.  So when I was pregnant the first time, before we knew the gender, our bun in the oven was labeled, "Rock Picker #1."  So fast forward almost four years later, and Rock Picker #1 has welcomed his brother Rock Picker #2 and is already impatient for him to begin playing outside.

So as you can probably guess, things have been very busy.  Our new baby came earlier than we had scheduled with the doctor.  With the nice weather we had, lots of hay had been mowed and Dave would have it all in before our little one came (if he would have waited until his scheduled date...but doesn't that always happen).  The day after we mowed the hay, I woke up in labor, thus putting a kink in the plans to have everything done so we can relax as a family.  Dave did a wonderful job trying to get all of the farm work done, bale over 1,000 bales of hay, see our new little one and me in the hospital, and take care of our oldest.  Therefore, we have slipped on updating the website and I want to personally thank everyone who came to see us at the hospital, who called in order to help out, those that watched our oldest, and those that not only made meals so that my family was eating well even though I wasn't there and Dave was so busy, but also made meals for us to eat when we got home.  I appreciate your help more than you can ever imagine as you gave me great peace of mind and have made my recovery that much easier.  So Dave and I are blessed with two beautiful boys (who look remarkably alike if you were to compare the pictures), our whole family is healthy and well and nothing could make us happier!