What a Life!

Yesterday we went up to the farm to celebrate Father’s Day with Steve’s dad and grandfather.

The first fun thing Ben found was the rocking chair. I believe it belonged to Steve’s grandma when she was a kid.

When Steve was a kid, his Aunt LaRhea bought him one of those little toy record players. She had gotten it out again, her husband, Con, had fixed it so it worked, and they gave it to Ben as an early birthday present.

LaRhea and Ben with the record player

Ben loves to dance with music. The little record player didn’t quite last long enough for him to really get going, but he danced a little and everyone enjoyed watching him.

Con watching Ben dance.

Then someone brought out another gift – a book. Here is Ben reading his new book with Daddy and Grandpa Bill.

It was time to go see Pops who has cancer and is in the nursing home. Steve’s dad wanted to go water some cattle first, so we spent some time outside.

Ben loved walking in the gravel and shuffling his feet.

Steve got the little tractor out of the shed and tried to find a serial number on it so he could order parts. Schon spent hours riding on that tractor as a kid and went through a number of sets of wheels and pedals.

Then Ben came over and started looking at the tractor. He stood next to it and looked at it for a while and then decided to climb on. He wasn’t big enough to sit on the seat, but that didn’t matter.

At this point we were all starting to feel pretty hot (it was 90-some degrees outside) so we went over to wait for Grandpa Bill in the shade. Ben and Grandma sat on the steps.

We finally made it to the nursing home. Ben was getting pretty tired and short on patience since had hadn’t had his nap. I had to take about four pictures before I got one I was pleased with.

The four generations – Pops, Grandpa Bill, Steve, and Ben