My Precious World

So Dave and I talk to lots of people who come visit, tour, and buy products from our farm and we have met some wonderful people from lots of diverse backgrounds, but the same question always pops up when they ask about our lives, "How do you two do it?"  Those who know us know we are constantly going and always busy.  While I like downtime every once in a while, I think Dave would go crazy if he had nothing to do.  Young couples always comment and ask how we have time to have kids when that means I cannot do as much of the manual labor around the farm.  It is hard, much harder on Dave actually as with every pregnancy I spend a couple of months on bedrest.  Which means Dave is not only my husband (who is now waiting on me) and father of our boys, but now he's also the wife and mother, on top of being the farmer, teacher, coach, etc.  During the middle of summer, farming's busiest time, is truly stressful.  But we wouldn't have it any other way.  As I tell people, without my precious worlds (my family), I would miss out on these moments:

"Ethan, get back here. You cannot walk out the door without any clothes on."

"What do you mean I need to put my clothes on...I'm wearing my boots!"

Fallen asleep at the wheel. Though I am not sure why we are sitting on Cookie Monster and Mickey Mouse!

One of those quiet moments Mommy sometimes gets to take advantage of. Though our youngest will usually watch television for a length of about 42 seconds before he is up and running again!

Trying to block Daddy's basketball shot.

Smile for Mommy!

This is the face I always get when I hold a camera up in front of him. And yes, that is mud from splashing himself in the puddles.

Let me tell you, this batch of cookies tasted horrible and were very flat! I can't imagine it had anything to do with Ethan helping me. Must have been completely Mommy's error.

Here's our smile face again after showing me how he dressed himself. His shorts are around his neck and his shirt is on his legs.

As many of you know, it does take about 7-8 pictures before you get the shots you want...