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Gram, Mom, Emmie, Sam, and I went out to eat at 'Coe Creek Cafe' in Elliot, Iowa. They have excellent food! I highly recommend them! Very big servings and the food tastes very good. I got a Club sandwich with fries.

The pigs ;)

Mister Bull drinks a lot of water!!

So here is our VERY messy basement, BEFORE

And here it is AFTER I organized and cleaned it.

Another messy room, BEFORE

BEFROE

AFTER

AFTER

Emmie washed all the downstairs windows and washed the curtains

Cousins

From left to right, Emmie, Taylor Lowis, Brooke (please help me with the spelling, Aunt Shelly??) Lowis, and I

From left to right, Nate, Josh, me, and Emmie at our Persia, IA house, where I grew up.

Nate with his rooster

Cute little Josh :)

Ryan (12-30-99)

Cousins

Left to right, Savannah Lowis, Gabby (Lowis) Wagg, and Emmie

Mommy at 19 (taken on her and Daddy's honeymoon in Arizona)

Wheat Bread

All done! It got huge!

This was an interesting story...

"A Mr. Dalton, a baker, of Baston, in Lincolnshire, on Monday last, won a wager of 50l. by carrying, at different times, 500 sacks of flour, 20 yards, each of which weighed 20 stone. He performed it in the course of seven hours and twenty-five minutes, though the time allowed was twelve hours."

-taken from newspapers.com

Twenty stone weighs 280#. So he carried approximately 70 tons of flour and walked about five miles.

A sad story taken from newspapers.com

Aw...

Precious!

Waiting to be let back into the barn...

For size comparison. :)