My niece and I

First of all I have to thank Jamie for helping me with the title on this layout!! I was having trouble thinking of one. This is my niece and I when she came for her visit this summer. From the time she was a little tiny girl people have commented on how much she looks like me, and so far she still does, at least part of the time. Not exactly like me, as I can see her mother in her too, but its strange to see bits of me in there! LOL I think she is prettier than I am (lucky her! LOL) but its kinda cool how even though I am just her aunt, there are parts of me in her. Of course I look alot like my Mom to, so it actually comes from there, but her hair is like mine...well mine has darkened a lot more than hers is, but at her age, mine was lighter. I think my hair comes from my Dad's side, at least the color, because I think my Grandma had light hair...not that I could remember that, cause as long as I can remember, it was gray! LOL Anyway I really like this photo, at least I do, since I changed the color! My niece is so pretty, and I think you can really see how beautiful she is, on the inside also, in these photo's I took while she was here.

Kit Credit: Satin and Lace by Shadow Scraps. The kit will be in the store at Scrap Lair when it opens!!

I think I need to clarify something here...Yes I love being outside when its nice out....HOWEVER being out side and WORKING outside, are two different things!!! LOL Yesterday the neighbor and DH baled the last of our hay for this year. We got almost 150 bales!!! Course then came the really fun part...NOT....we had to pick them up, and get them into the barn. I don't have the stamina to buck bales a lot, I don't know how guys do it! I remember my brother used to do it every summer all summer with a friend to make some money. Wow, not me!!! I had trouble helping get our 150 into the barn.

Then the wagon we have is a major pain, to back into the barn. The first time DH tried to back it in with the truck, but its the kind that when the tongue moved side to side, the front wheels also turn...kinda hard for me to explain, I'm not to into trailers...anyway its almost impossible to back one. I know, he prob likes his trailer, but really, WHY have one that is such a pain to back???? He says its so you can hook it up to the back of the baler and have it follow it around the field...he also said his dad had it so he could put a pin or something in so when you didn't need it to pivot like that, you could stop it. I told him he needed to do that too!! LOL

So anyway we ended up unhitching it from the truck and pushing it into the barn. I thought for a second that we weren't going to be able to stop it, and it would run into something, but it did stop. The 2nd load DH hooked it up to the loader on his tractor and it was much easier getting it in the barn that way...then the 3rd load, that was fun! It was dark, no lights in the barn yet, as its not finished, and we haven't got the funds for electrical wire yet anyway, so here I am with a flashlight, and the lights on the tractor, and we are trying to get the wagon in the barn, so the dew doesn't settle on the last of the bales. The door that seems plenty wide enough in the daylight, seems really narrow after dark, and the things that are in the barn already like to stick out in the way more...don't ask me why it being dark they like to do this!! LOL We finally got it in there, without hitting anything and got it unhooked from the tractor, however I wasn't about to unload it by flashlight!!! LOL I'm thankful for the hay, but I'm really thankful that that's over for the year!!! Now we have some we can sell, to get money for fence posts. Oh and another thing I am truely thankful for is it wasn't 90 degrees, so heat stroke wasn't a problem!!! Silly me, I was kinda complaining about having to do to much cleaning....I would much rather clean, than buck bales!!! :)

Speaking of cleaning... I guess I better get off here and see if I can manage some more! LOL Have a great day!