Last of Summer Stuff

Summer has come to an end. My kids and husband start school on Monday. I think Lucy is the most excited.

Here are a few highlights I haven't posted yet:

unofficial Relief Society Horseback Ride

I got invited to go on a horseback ride to the community pasture with some quality ladies from Leavitt. Eleven of us met and had a really fun horseback ride. We went up, down, crossed lots of creeks, saw the Montana border and ate lunch.


Across this fence is Montana. We took a few pictures there, had a near horse wreck, dropped someone's camera into a fresh cowpie (that is supposed to be a secret) and then went on our way. A little while later, a helicopter flew down the border line. Good thing we didn't try to sneak across.

This is my horse Cheno. He did great. He did leap across the first few streams. Glad I didn't fall off.

Auction

Buck was the auctioneer for a couple who is downsizing so they had an auction to sell all of their tools in the shop, yard tools, some furniture, and lots of stuff. We spent a whole day helping set up and lay everything out. Then on the day of the auction, Austin was Vanna White and held up each thing that was for sale while Buck auctioned it off. Martha and I ran the office. Sarah was the secretary by the auctioneer. I downloaded a free trial of auction software the night before the auction, but it worked awesome. The books even balanced!!!
Buck (red coat) auctioning, Andy Fuller (family friend in cowboy hat was the assistant auctioneer, Austin (leaning over in the dark blue shirt) picking up the next "treasure" to sell, and Sarah (in the truck) writing down the buyer and the price

Jill got a bidder number and was watching the auction. She turned to talk to her cousin, and Grandpa Buck took it as a bid, so Jill ended up with this special box of items for $2.50. She was kind of mad she had to pay for it, but we had a good laugh about it (toilet seat cover, 2 empty boxes of chocolates, a broken porcelain eagle, stained tupperware bowls, etc).

Tea Party
It is Grandma Nunn's tradition to have a tea party with all of the grandkids every year. They eat cookies, drink juice and tell their goals for the next year.

One of Lucy's goals was to help her Mom make cupcakes (which we actually did today - check). She started a trend and so by the end there were goals to make pancakes and brownies, too.