Pictures from Holden

Here are the pictures I promised from our weekend working in Holden. I got a few of them working, but mostly just cute pictures of the kids. Here are some of my favorites.


Cute little Rance. He loves the camera.



Cowgirl Kinley.



Jaylee is getting so big and pretty.




Kinley loved this tire swing, as you can tell from her expression.



Jaylee liked the swing too. Makinzie was so good to push them on it and help keep them entertained.

I love his handsome littel grin.

Rance helping Grandpa cut wires.

Cade trying to pull out a metal post. He did get some of them, but most of them were like 4 feet in the ground so we had to use the tractor.

I thought this was the coolest thing. The chain had been around the tree for so long it is now grown into the trunk.

Cade in his tractor.

We had a lot of fun, but it was a very productive weekend too. We got a lot moved and that lot looks really empty and different now. I'm getting so excited to be able to move to Holden in a few more years.

Land Swap

So here's what happening:
Cade and I have a building lot on Main street in Holden which Cade inherited from his Granpda Hunter. It's a quarter of a block and has lots of big old trees. That's where we were planning on building a house when we move back to Holden. But now Holden town wants to build a new Town Hall and wants it to be on Main Street, but that's really the only piece of land big enough that's not already got a house on it. So they wanted to trade us a piece of land they owned a couple blocks west for that piece of land. At first we were hesitant because that's a good location and it was from the family and the trees are beautiful and huge and we had water meters on it and everything already. But the town offered us a piece of land that is an entire block (so four times bigger than our old piece) and agreed to put a couple water meters on it to match what we already had. We decided we could plant more trees and we liked the idea of having lots more room to build on and have for pasture. Now we are just getting all the contracts set up and making everything official. But this weekend we had to move anything we wanted to keep off the old piece of land before the town starts to build. So we had a lot of work to do: tearing down fences, pulling posts (metal and wooden), taking down the corrals and the loading shoot, and moving all the farm equipment and water troughs. But it turned out to be a fun weekend. My family came over and Jed and Selanie brought the kids so I got out of work by keeping an eye on the kids. Jaylee and Kinley got to sleep over with us Friday night, too. I have some cute pictures of everyone working on Saturday but they'll have to be in another post because I haven't uploaded the pictures from my camera yet. I'll post them soon though.