July, 19th was the day that Aidan officially decided to crawl. She was 6 months and a day. Look out world!

SOLD!

While we were pulling into the parking lot of the funeral home in Moose Jaw, we received a phone call from Laura Sorenson, our realtor, telling us that our house was sold. Just over a week later, when the conditions came off we got our SOLD sign! For the record, we think Laura is the best realtor...Theresa and Lindsay can vouch for that. Laura helped us buy this house and then helped us sell it a year later. She also helped Theresa find their house.

My Sweethearts

James taught Tristan how to pick a flower and give it to mom. A few days later he decided to pick one for Aidan as well. What a sweetheart!! (Everyone needs to guard their flower gardens though because he doesn't understand that he can't simply pick any flower he wants to.) The flower Tristan picked for Aidan looks good on her!!

McKay's

Grandpa and Tristan munching and playing solitaire. A common sight at the farm.

Here they are chatting it up!
Tristan loved the quad. Here with mom...
...and here with dad.
Showing off how cute he is with his new cowboy hat. I love it!

He and Jett playing with the freshly laid gravel. Tristan was in heaven with all those rocks!

At the end of June we had a Hjelte family reunion at Speers, SK. We had a great time. We stayed in the Gold Eagle Lodge in North Battleford. They had a great pool there and a tasty continental breakfast. At the reunion we enjoyed the weiner dogs that were there. Tristan thought it would be neat to drive his truck down a gopher hole. Then he was shocked to find out that he might not be able to get it back. But thanks to his dad he was able get it and play with it again. Needless to say, he didn't do that again!! We went and saw the crooked trees. We had a great time visiting and getting to know family. It was unfortunate that a week later we were in Moose Jaw to attend Aunt Karen Hjelte's funeral. She passed away in her home on July 1st. I am so glad that we were able to have an enjoyable time with her at the reunion. (Karen is the lady on the left in the second row in the wheel chair).

Renos to our home

We renovated our bathroom in prepartion to sell our home. We have some before and after pictures here. As you can see we gutted the entire bathroom except for the ceiling. We sure learned alot during the whole process.

Randoms...of different things that are going on right now!!

A common sight. Tristan is always helping himself to the yogurt (sometimes multiples) out of the fridge. We are always finding the sticky tops that are covered in yogurt all over the floor. A little frustrating when you are trying to sell your house!!

The new sod in the front of our home!! Tristan always grabs his mower that grandma McKay gave him for his first birthday, and mows along with James. The funny thing is, Tristan is afraid of the noise of the mower. So he always has his eye on where the big mower is.

Aidan lounging with dad after church, and lounging in her jumperoo.

Family day at Finning! Theresa, Lindsay and their two kids came with us to James' work place in Red Deer. We toured the HUGE new shop, climbed up on some of the equipment, (James built the truck we are all on. The box was not on it though.), played with sword balloons, played with the excavator simulator, and had some hot dogs to eat.