Okay, our day wasn’t that busy. The most exciting news was that Jackson decided to graduate from the Hot Wheels bike to his new John Deere bike. Grandpa and Grandma Ellefson donated to the Hillcrest fundraiser auction and were kind enough to let Seth and I bid, which is how we ended up with the bike. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma!
Tucker decided that he needed a change of pace from his jeep, but he didn’t have much luck with his new choice of transportation.
On Thursday, we went back out to Milnor to pick up the trailer that Seth and his friend Lance had stripped down the day before. Of course, no trip to North Dakota (or anywhere) would be complete without some shooting, so Seth and Jackson brought their guns.
Seth might have been able to get some more shooting in if I had spent more time keeping the boys away from the guns instead of letting them run wild while I took pictures.
Seth and Jackson threw some clays for me, but I think I only hit three of the twenty or so that they threw…Seth, on the other hand, throws three clays up at a time and shoots them all before they hit the ground.
Show-off.
In other news, we have a buyer and should be closing on July 31st, so we rented a storage unit for our belongings while we are in transition. Yesterday, we brought a load of tubs over and one of the lids blew off. Naturally, when we turned around to get it, I was the one who had to get out, climb in the trailer and try to figure out a way to keep it from flying off again. I ended up laying a chain over the top and putting each end of the chain under the tubs in front and behind the offending tub.After that, I was a little crabby, so when the lid started to fly up again I told Seth to pull over so that I could fix it before we lost the lid again. His response: “Oh, it’ll be fine”. To which I responded (in my most crabby voice), “If that lid comes off again I’m going to make you get out and fix it”. Of course, he pulled over right away. He started to open his door (because he really is nice like that), but I thought I would show him and do it myself. I opened my door and got out trying to beat him to the trailer, but my foot got caught in the diaper bag and I fell face first landing with my hands in a patch of thistles causing me to yelp quite loudly. We were in the middle of town, so not only was Seth laughing at me, the people driving past were probably laughing at me too.
I probably shouldn’t have been so bent out of shape about getting that lid in the first place because when we loaded the tubs all I had to do was stand in the trailer while Seth carried them out of the house and when we unloaded them I stood in the trailer again and Seth carried them into the storage unit. Let’s just say, I wasn’t the one working up a sweat.