Only in South Dakota

Today I was talking with one of my grill cooks and you just have to know her personality to realize how funny this is but she told me a story and I want to share it.

She is one of those cowgirls that will never leave South Dakota and has raised 2 kids and they are off to college (she is about my mom's age) and she was saying how quiet it is around the house but she is very lucky to have her horse named Sunday to keep her company.

So we were talking about how nice the weather is outside and I asked her what she does when it is so nice out, this is what she said: well I go home and ride my horse and by that time I am really tired because I get up at 4am to do chores and then I am at work by 5:30am. So when it is time for her nap she gets a lawn chair and lays down and then ties the horse up to her chair so she can take a nap and the horse can graze. When the horse is done grazing in that one spot she pulls Sherri's chair and goes to another spot.......seriously how many people do you know that do this??? I was laughing so hard because can you imagine sleeping and having a horse pull you around to graze in another spot. Only in South Dakota!

Greg's Graduation

My brother has offically graduated from SDSU. We attended the ceremony on Saturday and it was the largest number of SDSU students graduating (1600 graduated and 1000 walked through). Something they did different this year was the undergraduates had a ceremony at 10am and the graduates where at 2:30pm so that really moved things along.
Then he had family and relatives over to his house one last time and we celebrated until 11pm that night with a keg of beer.

Greg sold his house and has to be out on May 28th and he found a farm with a little under 2 acres that he wanted but the auction was at 10am on SAT (same day as graduation) so my dad and Jon went out and bid on the property and HE GOT IT and then hurried back into town just in time to watch Greg so across the stage. It was a very busy day but well worth it because now Greg is not homeless.

Greg is the second one in the picture

Trevor is very proud of his uncle

Greg and Kelsi

Greg and I

Trevor, Jon, Me, Greg, Dad and Mom

The Lawn Bag

First I want to tell about my new lawn tool that I just bought. The house that we moved into has mature landscaping and most of it has rock around the outside but with all the trees around the leaves all collect in the rocks and it bothers me....so I bought a vacuum for outside use. I used it the other night and it works awesome, you just run it across the rocks and it picks up leaves or anything dead or loose. The best part is that I bought the machine at a rummage sale for only $4 and it works like a charm and now our landscaping looks great.

So back to the story about the lawn bag, once I was done vacuuming up in the rocks Jon was helping me empty the bag into a lawn bag. But he could not open the bag all the way because it was so big so he put it over his head and got it to open. Well in the mean time Trevor is watching all of this and says "I want to do that too" how great is that we are teaching our son to wear a bag on his head except it covered up his whole body.

A Big Boy Bed

I know that most kids get out of their crib around the age of 2 but honestly I did not want Trevor out of his crib until now. I think now he is ready and will appreciate it more so last night we turned his crib into a big boy bed and.........he LOVED it! He was so excited that he could get in and out all by himself because now he is a big boy.

My main concern was if he would roll out during the night so last night was a trial night. Things were fine and then around 2am I woke up to a tump and then a little boy crying and sure enought I opened his door and there he was laying on the floor. He cried and said "mom I fell out of my bed, now what". Once I explained to him he was not in a crib anymore and that he needed to be careful or he would fall out he went right back to sleep. Not bad for a first night.

BEFORE

AFTER

The nice thing about this bed is that that you can also make it into a full sized bed too for when he gets older.