I took these yesterday at our lake.

New House Pictures

We closed last Friday on our house and we are moving in this weekend. This past week we have been cleaning and slowly moving some things in. Of course a lot of the cleaning has been done by my aunt, even during the day when we are at work... :)

As I warned you before, it needs quite a bit of updating. All these pictures were taken last week before we started working on the house. We started this week by ripping off the lovely flowered wallpaper in the bathroom. Hopefully soon we can start painting and replacing the flooring.

New House!

Some of you have probably already heard, but we are buying a house!! The house is in Morton and is located behind my aunt and uncle's house. We weren't really looking for a house yet, but it is a family friend that is selling it so it just kind of worked out.

The house is older and needs quite a bit of updating, but that's what we wanted. Mike is really excited about the two car garage and I'm excited to decorate my own house! I will post some pictures before we start to work on it. There is some lovely hot pink carpet, purple carpet, shiny floral wallpaper, and much more to be excited about! Thank goodness I have a husband and dad that are so good at fixing things! So if anyone wants to rip some wallpaper off, give me a call! We are closing on it in the middle of September!

Mountains..

In case you haven't noticed, I absolutely love the mountains! Every time I visit them, I can't wait to go back again! Even though we visited the Smokies this summer, it's not quite the same as going to the Rockies.

As I have mentioned before, I love to check out the webcams from Glacier National Park in Montana. Throughout the day, you can see the drastic weather changes that take place there. So here are some webcam images that I have captured recently. If you click on the photos, you can see a larger version.

Family and Friends

We went to Mark Twain Lake, which is outside of Hannibal, Missouri, this past weekend for a family reunion. It was Aberle reunion, which is my dad's side of the family. Many of them live in Kansas so the last two reunions we have met in Missouri. It was nice to see everyone again and there's always interesting stories to be heard when we all get together.

Sunday morning we left early and came back home to go to my friend's wedding in Morton. After the wedding we got to see our newest niece, which is Mike's sister's little girl. They live in Kentucky but his sister came up for a couple weeks to visit since her husband is going to be gone for work (he's in the army).

That's it for now....

4th of July

We had a good 4th of July weekend, despite the rain. Saturday night we went to my sister's house for my niece's birthday party and then to the Peoria fireworks. Since my office is right on the Riverfront, we have our own fenced in spot on the deck. They were pretty impressive and the crowds and traffic weren't too bad. Sunday was the Hopedale tractor pulls, and it was a beautiful day to sit outside.

Tractor Pulls

We went to the first tractor pull of the summer yesterday just outside of Mackinaw. It was a such beautiful day! There were 107 antique tractors there; the most I've ever seen at a pull before. The looked so neat all lined up so of course I had to take pictures.