A trip to Wilcox

  Hello Everyone!!

  Two weeks ago Jaylon was hauling fertilizer from Fertizona in Wilcox to the farm. Wilcox is a small town in the middle of farmland about 45 min. away.  

  I got to ride with Jaylon on one of his trips (thanks to Jaylon's Mom and sisters for watching Kyle :) It was so much fun, it was like a mini date :o)        

           Pulling up to load the truck with fertilizer (sorry these pics are a little fuzzy they were off my phone)

                                                          Driving up to the weigh station

We drove past the Dos Cabesas Mountian 

                                                                                 
                                                                     Spreading the fertilizer

                Last week Jaylon finished the last of the field work!  He won't be in the fields again until probably the end of April to swathe hay.  There is still plenty of things to keep busy doing on the farm until then :)

                                            I love to see the pivots running; and it smells like rain  :o)

                                             The Triticale Hay is really starting to grow!

          We didn't get any snow at our house this winter, but the mountians behind our house got snow.  So at least I could see it in the distance :o)

                              I recently painted my front door red :o)

                   (I can't wait until we start watering our yard and it gets all green again!  :) I plan to start planting and watering stuff here in the next few weeks!

               We are in the middle of windy season, so my tractor wind spinner has been spinning away :o)     (Thanks for the wind spinner Mom, I love it!)

                                                                 
                                       Kyle has been enjoying playing toys out in the sunshine :)

                                                              This owl lives in our pecan trees

HANNAH

January and Febuary Update

Our month of December

  Hello Everyone!!  

Sorry it has been So long since I've posted!!  Here's a few photos of our month of December.....

  Two weeks ago Chris, Jessica and Kezia came for a visit, so we had our Strite family Christmas early while they were here.  We also took some family photos that day :)

All the cute little cousins :)

We had a fun day opening presents, eating yummy food, playing games, and just having fun being together :)

Jaylon reading his little sister Jubilee a book

Jaylon's family's Jersey cow's just recently had little calves!  Aren't they adorable?!

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 The other week when I was driving home from town this herd of cows was along the side of the road

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Lately Jaylon has been busy spreading chicken manure, and spreading oats.

                                                    He also has been busy disking and tilling

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I had to add this cute picture of Kyle, he fell fast asleep while playing with his toys the other day :)

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Last week Jaylon and some of his brothers and friends went snowboarding in the White mountains.

Jaylon jumping (sorry this picture is slightly fuzzy)

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Jaylon took a few pictures of some of the beautiful sunrises we've been having

     Me, Jaylon, and Kyle had fun Christmas day together yesterday.  It was Kyle's first Christmas, it was fun to see him excited about his new toys!  :) I cooked us a big yummy meal of chicken, mashed potatoes, carrots, strawberry cheesecake, and we had some sparkling cider :) We didn't have a white Christmas, but we did get some rain that evening haha :o)

HANNAH

Harvest Party!

  Hello Everyone!!
  Last Friday night we went to our farms annual Harvest Party.  Every fall after harvest is over, Jaylon's boss hosts a Harvest party at a little restaurant called 'Sandies'.  It was alot of fun!  We had really good food, and played lots of fun games!  One of the games was just for the wives, and I won :) We had a really fun evening!!

      Group picture.....These are Jaylon's coworkers and their wives and families, and Jaylons boss and his wife.  Jaylon's coworkers either drive semis or bag corn in the cleaning barn, Jaylon and his boss do all the field work.......Can you spot me, Jaylon and Kyle? ;)

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The past week Jaylon has been busy stacking all the fodder bales that he baled.

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This past weekend when we were shopping at the C-A-L ranch store, Kyle got to ride this rocking horse.  He loved it!  It was so cute!

I had to add this picture because it was so funny!  His half grin is hilarious :o)

Then of course he had to try out the little camo recliner ;)

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HANNAH

Mountian Lion, Bobcat, and a Lynx!

  Hello Everyone!!

  The other day when Jaylon was driving grain cart a Huge mountain lion ran out of the corn field and Jaylon almost hit it with the tractor!  Then a few minutes later a huge bobcat ran out of the field, and then a few more minutes later a lynx ran out of the field!!  Jaylon was quite shocked haha and was wondering what was gonna come running out next!  Jaylon didn't get a chance to take a picture of the mountain lion or bobcat, but he did get some pictures of the lynx...

The Lynx walked right up to the tractor and under the grain buggy!  It acted like it was looking for some shade..

I wish I would have been riding in the tractor with Jaylon to see them all.  Its not everyday you see those three animals in just 30 minutes!!  Usually when I'm riding with Jaylon in the tractor all that runs out of the field is wild pigs and coyotes :o)

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Jaylon has been busy driving grain buggy the past few days.  They've been harvesting the corn here next to our house, so I've been able to run Jaylon out lunch instead of just packing him one :) and then me and Kyle get to ride in the tractor with him ;)

They finished harvesting the last of the corn beside our house.  Now I can see for miles :)

When Jaylons not driving grain buggy, he's baling the corn fodder

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Last week Jaylon's friend (Tim Amalong) invited Jaylon and Justin to go on a flight with him.  He had put a new engine in this plane and had to put three more flying hours on it. Jaylon was Very excited, he loves planes and flying, and he had flown a plane once before..

Jaylon got to fly the plane for the whole flight!  He had a blast :)

                                                                 

Getting ready to take off!

Tim Amalong got some really cool pictures of the fields around our house!

There's our house!  And there's me waving at them ;o)

                

                                 

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Little Kyle is 5 1/2 months old!  Where does the time go!?  It seems like he was born just yesterday......

He loves rolling around, playing with toys, eating banana, and looking at books :o)  He wants to crawl So bad, but he just hasn't quite got it yet :o)  Kyle Loves his feet.  He loves playing with them or just hanging on to them, and he's been trying to pull them up to his mouth to suck on his toes, but its quite a strech haha.  He's managed to get his foot to his mouth a few times though :o)

Here's a cute video of Kyle laughing :o) Kyle loves his Daddy

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HANNAH