end of summer . .

. . .with our annual Labor Day auction behind us we can say that summer is officially over. We had a great auction – one of the biggest ever! We sold over 5,500 lots/848 tractors in just 3 long /fun days. The weather however felt like the middle of July, I know the food vendors went through over 110 cases of water in just the first day and a half!

   

Barrett took his first tractor ride through the auction arena on a nice shiny red tractor! Lets just say that his Daddy and Grandpa Polk weren’t to happy – ha ha

Barrett also got super spoiled by Grandma Van Beek who took care of him for 3 whole days!

Barrett continues to amaze us each day with the new things that he learns. He has officially started to crawl and loves to buzz around the office or house in his walker. He has tons of funny faces that light Jeff and I up all the time.

We should have a semi-eventful fall too – we have one more trip to Colorado planned (this will be our 3rd trip this year!) a hunting trip to Nebraska, a trip to Grandpa & Grandma Van Beek in South Dakota, and some Sun-time in Florida.

 

Barrett’s 1st tractor ride

enjoy time at home

We sure are enjoying our time at home even though we are staying super busy at work getting ready for our Labor Day Weekend auction. I always love this auction but  I must admit I am kind of sad it is here already because that means summer is over. It seems like we didn’t have much of summer, since we were on the road for most of it. However we did have lots of fun and made lots of good memories.

Barrett and I enjoyed a few days off hanging out with our friend Dana from Iowa.

- Best friends - 

almost ready to crawl

. . . on the road again. . .

well we just got back from being on the road again. We went from Indiana to Iowa to Nebraska to Colorado, to Illinois to Wisconsin and now back home!

Our summer travels are over and Barrett has added a total of 18 states under his belt (IN, IL, MO, MS, TN, IA , NE, MN, CO, SD, WI, WY, KS, OH, KY, MI, TX, LA) plus Mexico. We are super lucky that he don’t mind all the traveling. He continues to keep us smiling and entertained with all his new tricks. He can roll over, scoot backwards, is on the verge of crawling, and eat solids.  We are home for a good while which will be kind of nice, who knows we might be able to get little man into some sort of a routine?!