A week with the "Sugar Baby"

How sweet it is to be loved by you.... Isn't it just the most precious thing when the little child reaches out and wants held and returns the hug! We are loving the toddler babble... and a few words we do understand! Counting..two,tree... Pictures...momma,dadda, and pats herself, rather than saying "Paige"... Deeyaa, Deeyaa... which is Gramma.... No No, (emphatically)... Pop pop, cause she LOVES popcorn....

Do you want to know how to bring a grown man to his knees? Watch a sugar baby run down the hall with arms wide open!! Oh... we are living it up this week!!

Restin on our Ranch

Well this past week was fair week in Kalispell. A little different than when our kids had animals,though. But, we still like to go through the barns and often run into old neighbors and 4-H/FFA parents and families, along with seeing all those first class, trimmed-up, fair entries. The 3 oldest of Mark Braatens' kids had hogs there. We also watched Sawyer participate in the hog-wrestling competition. That is quite a show! Those kids all come out covered in mud. Three teammates have a time limit to catch their hog, and stuff him, hindend first, into a tub of water! We saw the rodeo all 3 nights, and had fun taking Paige to her first rodeo. Her little head was just a spinning taking in all the new sights. We left before the very LOUD fireworks display, though. Jesse and Brenda came up this weekend with plans to meet some of their friends at the lake for some serious wake-boarding, and then Brenda also had a Baby shower to go to.

With a lot of help from Brenda, we might actually be able to join this hi-tech-communication world.

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