Kickin' It Farm Style!

It's that time of year at the Ruffs....time to do a major project either in our house or yard.  This year: a Gigantic Garden! (we gotta feed these kisds!)  We rented a tractor and removed a whole bunch of trees and leveled our back yard.  Here are pictures from our first weekend of work.

Those darn tree stumps are hard to get out.....

....we resorted to using hand shovels!...then we rented a stump grinder...that didn't work....hired a guys with a massive stump grinder...that worked! 

The Ruff Girls: doing some Spring clean-up.  They fastened a large tarp to the back of the mower and drug it around; collecting pin needles.

Dave taught Adam to drive the Tractor.  Adam spent probably 12 hours on this machine!  He has a natural gift, he's all grins!

3 dump trucks full of compost.

That's ME!  Dave taught me how to run the tractor too!  I spent about 45 minutes running it. 

Look at the giant stump I dug up and pulled out!

Gotta end the blog with a little SugarBeeps!!!

Beautiful Breezy Beeps!

Aren't They So Cute?!!

The newest additions to our everchanging small zoo!  This is what happens when Dave takes a day off....he and Adam go buy some critters somewhere!

These aren't just any 'ol rats either....they're "Fancy Rats"....heehee....actually they are very sweet and surprisingly love to be with people.....(what do you think now Laura?!)

Cortana is the one on the left.  Saphira is on the right.  Bonus points for whomever can guess where their names came from.  Hint: Adam named them.

Pushing the Envelope

    So, I was telling my girls that it didn't look lady-like to have notes written on their hands.  This is what Rachel's foot looked like when she came home from school one day last week...the photo needs no explanation....Teenagers!....always pushing the envelope!

On to STATE!

My Destination ImagiNation team placed 1st at our Regional Tournament in the "Triple Take Road Show" Challenge!  They also received the Renaissance Award. Very Awesome!  Now it's off to the State Tournament.
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So Beautiful

Organized Chaos: Tip of the Week #8

Family Business Cards!

Think about it, how many times have you scribbled your families information on a church bulletin or some piece of paper torn from your grocery list you found in your purse?

Now you'll have something nice and neat to hand out to your new aquaintances.

  It says, "We're organized!"......at least on the outside!