Wow, time does fly and I haven’t blogged about our personal lives in some time so here is a brief recap of our life from the past few weeks.

We have been working on separating our houses, When we built our house to save money we shared a driveway, well and septic with the Burbank’s. Although it saved us money then for the long term it wasn’t wise so we decided we would place a new septic, well and driveway to our house to separate the 2 houses. Freeing either of our families to sell if God calls us too. (No plans on either side presently but you never know what god will call any of us too.) When they came to drill the well we prayed with the kids that God would allow them to find a good source of water no far down. Our shared well and another well on our property were about 200 feet down and neither gave out a lot of water. God proved himself faithful to answer our prayers when they hit a huge vain of water 90 feet down giving us 30 gallons a minute. He drilled just a few more feet after that for sediment purposes but we are very happy with the well so far. We haven’t hooked it up yet or had the water tested but we will.

Dan has been working on building Jeremy’s dad a house right on our property, well we sold him some property so it is now his. It is great having Dan working right at home. I love it.

Last week the kids and I went to farm days. A highlight each year. It is a free Agriculture show that is hosted at dairy farm each year. The kids love going and see all the animals having a wagon ride and getting $1 horse rides.

Faith has it in her mind she wants an American girl doll. She has been saving her money and trying to earn extra. She asked me if she could do a lawn sale to earn money. I worked with her, (I did most f the work.) and pulled together boxes of stuff I wanted get rid of. I spent $18 to place the add in the paper and we came away with $40 so not really a great return for our labors but oh well. I didn’t have a lot of stuff and most of the stuff I did have wasn’t worth anything. I am always weeding out and don’t like to let STUFF pile up so I didn‘t have much. We did sell most of our stuff.

Our great coffee maker that I love, broke. I called Mr coffee and they no longer made that model. So I wanted to get a good name coffee maker so I bought a Krups. When I took the coffee maker out of the box it was cracked. I called the company and they said they would replace it, well it took them 4 weeks to get me my new one and that one came and doesn’t work right either. They again are going to send us a new one but I will say, “I will never buy another Krups again.”

I did retire from Pampered Chef but when Erika said she was getting married I waned to do something special for her. I offered to give her a pampered bride party and she excepted. So I came out of retirement for her. Crysten got a whole bunch of orders from Curves as well and so by the time I was done, I had sold over $1100 worth products and Erika got $100’s in free products. I was so happy for her. I love doing the shows, it is my favorite part. Seeing people get all this stuff for free, oh I just love a bargain.

Well I could write more but time does not allow. I need to make lunch and then it is off to grocery shop. I haven’t been in 2 weeks and the list is long.