Sunday Gardening

Our garden in full. It's mosquito heaven in here!

This is one of our corn patches. It's huge, taller than me!

Our first cob of corn, not sure if it's quite ready yet but we pulled it off to check.

We picked two bags of beans today, we'll be eating them for days!!!

Yummy food from our garden! We are slowly getting food from our garden there are loads of tomatoes but they need to ripen, we have had broccoli for a few weeks and the potatoes are ready too. The veg tastes so much better than shop bought!

Dakota Stampede Rodeo!

This cowboy was sitting in front of us and i loved his stetson! Note the toothpicks tucked in the back for those impromptu emergencies! ha ha! :D

Saddle Bronc Riding

Action shot of tie down roping

Tie down roping

Cowboy with lasso

Wow, I went to my first ever proper Rodeo on Tuesday night... it was FANTASTIC! I loved every minute of it!
There was Barrel Racing, Steer Wrestling (wrestling steers with horns to the ground), Bull Riding (bucking bulls just like you see in the films!), Bareback Bronc Riding (bucking horses), Saddle Bronc Riding (same again but with a saddle!) Tie Down Roping (involves lassoing the calf to the ground and tying all four feet together) , Team Roping (where there are two cowboys either side of a calf and one has to rope the horns and the oter had to rope the back legs - looks very difficult!) and not forgetting Mutton Busters! This involves small kids hanging onto the neck of a sheep, the main goal: just hang on!! They were by far my favourite, absolutely hilarious!!!

Mmmmmm... yum!

I thought I'd share with you the joy of my Blueberry Crumb Cake and cup of tea for my break during a busy morning of making things! The cake was delicious! :D

Camping at the Missouri.

Prickly Pear Cactus

Sitting Bull Monument

Me & Sonny at the Missouri

The Breakfast Chefs

Here are pictures from our camping adventure to the Missouri River and surrounding area.

Sioux Falls

Hello again... the weeks seem to be flying past and i don't seem to be getting much time to write on here and keep you updated. So here are some photos i should have posted a few weeks ago.

We headed south to Sioux Falls at the end of July for a staff pool party of Sonny's at his bosses house. It was great fun, they have a big pool, baby pool, huge hot tub and a games room. I got to see the main Combined Pool & Spa store - it's huge compare to the one Sonny works in and there are lots more staff compared to just two of them in Aberdeen! The next day we headed into the city and to the Falls which the city is named after. Here are my photos of the Falls.

I'm in the system!

On the way out of Fargo we saw this really cool diner, old style....

I had to go to Fargo, North Dakota last Thursday for a biometrics appointment. This consisted of taking my fingerprints, photograph and a copy of my signature, fun,fun,fun! We had to drive 3 hours there for a 15 min appointment, that's all it took! Hopefully i'll get my work authorisation sometime VERY soon!

It wasn't all bad though as i got to drag Sonny round a huge art store and we speant about 1 and 1/2 hours in Barnes & Noble, the big bookstore. We had lunch in the coolest place i have ever been in, HuHot! It is a Mongolian restaurant where you go round filling your bowl with ingredients; meat first then noodles, veg and finally whichever sauce you want then you stand in line as the cook you bowl full on this huge hot plate in the centre of the restaurant - 'always shuffling to the left' - as the sign says! Then you get your plate full of cooked food back... mmmm, it was very yummy!!

I HATE MOSQUITOES!!!

This is a flood light at Wylie Park, the mosquitoes are so bad! Better that they are drawn to the light rather than drinking our blood! ha ha!

And so the dress was complete...

So, I finally finished my dress, although i was still altering it the day of Dan & Laura's wedding. Needless to say i was running at the last minute as usual... yes i know mum!! Ha ha!
The wedding was at Takoma Park Place which is a place set up for outdoor weddings just on the river although it's a bit close to the road as you can hear the cars passing! It was a really nice day and it was nice to have the excuse to dress up, i think we both scrub up okay!

This pic shows the pattern on the dress better!

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Time passes so fast!

Sorry I haven't put a post up for nearly a whole month! I can't believe how fast time passes. I have been busy trying to master how to work my new ipod - I have Katy on speed dial for help :o) not sure if she is that happy about it though!
I have photos of us from our friends wedding that i will put up by the end of this week and i think there might be some more....