Farmer Nate

We have had a great summer up in Eastern Washington with Michelle's family while we wait for Nate's job to start up at the end of August. Dairy work has been Nate's summer occupation. He has done a little of everything on the dairy, from disking the fields to de-horning calves. It has been an eye-opening experience for him but he has had a lot of fun.

He did get a to do a little construction work which he is more accustomed to.

Here is Michelle's younger brother Patrick finishing the concrete slab they poured.

Nate was able to operate some heavy equipment.

The Hadleys plant cow corn on over 500 acres and Nate got to spend his first two weeks in Connell up in the tractor disking the soil so it would be ready to plant. This is some of the fruits of his labor.

This is the tractor that Nate got to know very well over those first two weeks.

Had to throw in a picture with the cows.

This is where the money is made.

Michelle and her cousins little kid at the 4th of July Parade.

Nate was recruited to round up beef cattle in the hills. He didn't quite realize what he was getting himself into. For a guy who's ridden a horse about 4 times in his life he was pretty happy just to have stayed on the horse the whole day. This is some of the terrain he was out riding on. The pictures don't quite do it justice.

For Nate's birthday Michelle and her parents treated him to a festive Mexican dinner with a sombrero and all.

Its A Boy!!

After much anticipation we have finally found out that we are having a baby boy!! We were a little afraid that when we went in for the ultrasound that the baby might be shy and we wouldn't be able to find out the gender. As the picture above shows, our boy was anything but shy. In fact he was showing off. The exact words of the tech doing the ultrasound, "There's one leg, there's the other, and there's a third leg."

Here we have a glimpse of the little guys foot. I think we have a little of both feet in this picture actually. Michelle seems to think that his feet resemble his dads, poor guy.

Here's a profile shot. He was moving all over the place during the ultrasound so we were lucky to get this good of a profile shot. He's got his right arm up along side his face as well.

We feel so blessed to be having a little boy and we're very excited to add him to our little family.