Mav and I are so excited as we have another meeting planned with Julie! We are going to Bismarck on September 9th to have another visit! Depending on what we can accomplish, this may or may not be our last meeting. We will keep you posted!!

We went south of town to watch the coal mine for Mav's plant move their dragline from the East side of HWY 49 to the West side. What a huge piece of machinery!!! It moved very slowly and will take days to move into its new position.

Sailing

Greg and Pat sailed down to Beulah this week! Mav and I met them out at Beulah Bay and they took us for a sail. It was so awesome! The wind picked up shortly after we got there so we had really great wind for a sail around the lake. We even helped raise the sails. Sorry Greg-I can't remember the correct terminology! :) We loved being out on the lake and had a great view of the sunset.

Beulah Bay

We headed out to Beulah Bay yesterday with some really good friends. It turned out to be a beautiful day to enjoy the lake! The boys went wakeboarding and Jess and I hung out on the "beach" with the kids.

Mav and I had our home visit yesterday and we both think it went really well! We had a really nice visit and the time flew by. We mostly talked about our relationship and how we relate to one another--all so that Julie can get to know us better. We are awaiting the results from our personality and parental inventory tests before we meet again. That meeting should be really interesting as these tests are read by a psychologist!! Mav and I each took two tests for the personality part: one to describe ourselves and one to describe the other person. We will see how well we did!

Ok, so tomorrow is the "big" day! Julie is coming for a visit! Mav and I are so ready to meet with her again and are anxious and excited at the same time. With this home visit, we are one more step closer to completing our home study. Wish us luck!! :)

I LOVE SHOPPING!!! Steph and I (and Cole) went shopping in Bismarck yesterday. I think we were gone for a total of 12 hours!! We spent a lot of time at Hobby Lobby, Hancock Fabric, JoAnn's, Kohl's, and Menards (not by choice). We were mainly shopping for fabric as we are each going to attempt to make our own upholstered headboard. Mine is going to look similiar to the one above, except that my squares are going to all touch and the border will just be around the outside edges. Mav is going to help us cut the plywood to shape and then the rest is up to us! :)

Mav is so proud of our garden this year, so I thought I would share a picture of it (for those of you who don't know-Mav built this raised rock garden last year). Everything is looking pretty good and again we are going to have an overload of peppers!! We have decided to try and make our own pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, and salsa this year as we will have all the fresh ingredients for them. We are on the hunt for good homemade recipes so share if you have a good one!! :)