New Year's Day 2009

Jacob and I spent New Year's Day at home ALL DAY! This should go down in history, because usually Jacob will go over to the barn for at least a part of the day when we don't have much going on. Plus, I'm usually trying to do silly housework and things that drive Jacob crazy. So we both decided to be lazy, turn off our cell phones (his rings NONSTOP) and just enjoy the day. However, we had been really busy during and just after the holidays and he was going to have to be gone alot the first part of the month, so he wanted to spend time with just us girls! January starts a busy time with our business because all of the county fairs and Ft. Worth take alot of time for us to get cattle clipped and ready to show. It was so cute - he held Georgia mostly all day. They were quite the pair and I got some cute pictures of them together.


2008 was a year that we will never forget...The cattle we sold did very well at the spring majors. In February we found out we were having a baby. Then, we lost a close friend, Charlie Wilson, in April. This summer we took a trip to Mexico with my sister, Johnna, and her husband Sutton (happy now, Johnna - ha!) We painted the interior of our house (adios paneling!!!) I had quite a scare being pregnant and falling down the backporch steps in June - quite a nice & expensive visit to the ER. Lost my grandmother, "Nanny", Mary Swenson. Baby Georgia arrived in September. We sold calves that won Grand and Reserve Grand Steers at State Fair, Grand at Iowa State Fair, and won numerous county fairs in the fall. Plus, Jacob's brother, Jared, decided to come back and help us out beginning in October.

It was a hard year, but also a year that brought Jacob and I the greatest blessing of all, baby Georgia.